Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Discuss climate change and global warming.
Description: Frontline examines the Earth changes predicted by climate change scientists. Two hour program with links to many specific issues we face. Questions from first 12 minutes “Watching the World Change.”
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems. Discuss climate change and global warming.
Description: Human activity is exceeding the planetary “boundaries” in important and dangerous ways. Changing to this pattern and adhering to the innate capacity of the planet to “clean up after us” will lead to sustainable development.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems. Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems.
Description: News from New Jersey but the problems are the same nationwide. Pollution needs to be addressed regionally, and beyond. Diseases associated with ozone and other costs are discussed.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Compare the first-wave and second-wave of environmental interest groups.
Many schools are not healthy or efficient; they made be the exact opposite. Global Green is hoping to change that with your help.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems. Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems. Compare the first-wave and second-wave of environmental interest groups.
Description: News footage from this seminal event in the environmental movement recounts the discovery and the ultimately successful effort by residents for justice. The Super Fund program, the tenuous link between pollution and disease, and the continuing problems at Love Canal are included.
Learning Objective: Compare the first-wave and second-wave of environmental interest groups. Assess the impact of the environmental movement.
Description: Video includes interviews and shows river clean-up efforts and some of the surprising “trash” hauled away.
Learning Objective: Assess the impact of the environmental movement. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems.
Description: An industrialist dedicated to sustainable production is asking for business to do more.
Do you think that Paul Hawken is correct that business is the only institution large enough to reduce human’s environmental impact?
Audio
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems.
Description: Water from the tap may be legal to deliver, but not safe to drink. Safe Drinking Water limits are too lax and missing too many contaminants.
Learning Objective: Assess the impact of the environmental movement. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems.
Description: Students in this Vermont school spend one day in the woods “playing,” but instructors watching them describe how this is closer to real life problem solving.
Agriculture’s Environmental Impact
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Review the different sociological perspectives on environmental problems. Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems.
Description: Lawmakers don’t want commentary about agricultural practices and environmental damage in the dietary guidelines published in 2015. They added non-binding directives to the President Obama expressing “concern” about this addition and telling the administration to ignore those recommendations if put forward by the experts serving on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Discuss climate change and global warming. Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems.
Description: Interview with the economist who in 2007 headed the International Commission on Climate Change, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Oct. 10, 2007.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems. Discuss climate change and global warming. Compare the first-wave and second-wave of environmental interest groups.
Description: Calculate your individual ecological footprint and see how many planets we would require if all the world’s people lived the same lifestyle as you. Individuals have limited power in reducing consumption unless the systems and institutions of their nation change too.
Learning Objective: Summarize federal and state responses to environmental problems. Assess the impact of the environmental movement.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences article warning about the prevalence of greenwashing.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between human activity and environmental problems.
Description: About 80 percent of water use is for agriculture and current practices are depleting groundwater. Food companies should help change these practices, and some, like Unilever, are already doing so.