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Fighting Covid as Systemic Violence
CJ Trowbridge 10-11-2020 USP 515 Environmental Justice Fighting Covid as Systemic Violence Groups of people are not equal. Groups share unequal burdens which can limit their opportunity and resources while also increasing their exposure to harm. I will explore the unequal air pollution burden imposed on some groups, and the knock-on effects which lead to…
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Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 0)
How to describe how this book fits into the story of Thrawn? So this was the first Thrawn book which was published. I became aware of it after I finished the first Thrawn trilogy. So I’m ironically reading it last, but probably it should come first. There is a special sadness knowing this is the…
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Now that the Earth is turning into Tatooine, how practical is moisture farming?
I wanted to work out a simple proof of concept and cost analysis for how to actually extract a meaningful amount of moisture from the air. This estimate includes the best prices I could find for each component of a reliable system which will continue to work for a period of ten years without maintenance…
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Data: Air Quality and Cooking
I was curious what cooking does to air quality and nuclear radiation. We know that cooking meats releases naturally occurring radioactive materials just like wildfires do. For the curious, I was cooking bulgogi. As you can see, at 1:30 when I started cooking, there was a huge spike in the indoor air pollution in my…
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It *HAS* to be you.
Sorry this will be long and I’m asking something unreasonable of you. First, there was a dude named Alinsky who wrote a book called “Rules for Radicals.” I’m happy to share a copy of the audiobook. It was a simple set of rules for how to build communities. It spawned the field we now…
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USP 514 Session 8 Notes
October 7th Session Eight – Urban Infrastructure NOTE: REQUIRED READING FROM TEXTBOOK EVERY WEEK BEGINNING THIS SESSION This session will focus on the concept and functions of urban infrastructure, and on how infrastructures are designed and managed to deliver water, waste, energy, transportation, building, food, and social services to urban populations. The following questions will guide…
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USP 515 Session 7 Notes
October 5th and 7th Session Seven: Health Justice: Case Study of Covid 19 In this session we will examine how the Covid 19 pandemic has further exposed social and environmental injustices in the United States. We will focus on what students learned through Assignment #1. ASSIGNED READING FOR SESSION SEVEN Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and Covid-19…
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USP 514 Session 7 Notes
October 5th Session Seven: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Plans This session will focus on how urban administrators have developed approaches to promote sustainable development. The following questions will frame our class discussion. What are the SDG’s? The SDGs are a uniform set of goals for sustainable development which evolved out of decades of work…
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USP 514 Assignment 1
ASSIGNMENT #1 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT – DUE OCTOBER 5TH Read and complete the assignment below. Send via email to raquelrp@sfsu.edu no later than October 5th Write “514 Assignment #1″and your name in subject line of the email 1) Ideally you will do this assignment by walking through the geographic area you live in wearing a mask and social distancing.…
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USP493 Session 5 Notes
Intro to Statistical Inference The difference between populations and samples Statistics and parameters Using probability sampling to induce population parameters How to sample Simple random sample Stratified samples Systematic samples Population, sample and sampling distributions Sampling distribution defined – the distribution of all possible samples of size n from a population Population, sample and sampling…