Thanks for your comment. I’m hoping the class won’t be too hard. I’m not a hard ass instructor. I want it to be fun and rewarding as well as informative. I think the best way to get students engaged is to have them do things and learn for themselves rather than me give them a monologue. I think the projects will be interesting, but the presentations can be casual as long as they are professional.

I hope the students have fun.

Thanks for the comment. I agree that resource consumption is a serious issue. One benefit of closed loop systems is reducing waste, but also reducing the need for new virgin material. It’s an issue that will play a big role in the course. Are you familiar with the formula – I=PAT? I stands for environmental impact, P stands for population size, A stands for average affluence (which is tied to level of consumption), and T stands for technology. It’s an interesting way to look at the relationship between mankind and the environment.

MONEY=ENERGY=CLIMATE CHANGE,

This is a simple formula which shows how all goods and services are interrelated and highly complex and involve so many issues which in the real world we brush under the carpet or release it into the air.

It is the consumption of natural resources that is the problem as they all cause pollution and damage to the environment in one way or other.
From fossil fuels to land use to uranium and gravel extraction.

I wish you good luck as this issue is close to my heart and so far all authorities seem to have misread the isue and miscalculated it all.