About Me
- Name: CBEMN
- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Blog was initiated as part of the inaugural "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" workshop, held at SMU on May 12, 2010. This is part of the Teacher Scholar programme for 2010-2011. If you have any posts, curriculum, ideas or inspired content that you would like to include, please send it to Dr. Cathy Conrad, the 2010-2011 Teaching Scholar, Associate Professor of the Department of Geography. I look forward to moderating this site and linking useful and relevant information. I hope you find it useful!
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- Suggested reading mentioned in Today's Class:
- Stop Global Warming
- Mark this on your calendar
- Thursday, January 11, 2007
- Bushmeat on the Menu
- Why won't the Canadian Government put an end to bo...
- Garbage in the Ocean: What should we do?
- Tourism meets marine management
- Introduction to Ocean Use and Management
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This presentation could be used as “learning about the ocean” for our action assignment, correct?
Absolutely.
Cathy
As far as I know it's free.
Cathy
What if we have attended lectures or public discussions on oceans in the past...or bottom trawling protests? Do those count for the assignment?
Harry Thurston's speech was great! He gave various quotes from famous English writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Rachel Carson. He also spoke about how the salt water marshes are able to re-new themselves, are a buffer from the sea and are filters of pollution. Thurston expressed a want and hope for people to see the beauty in nature, to really try and understand/comprehend it. If everyone shared the love he does for salt water marshes towards all aspects of life it would be interesting to see where our world would be at today…it is hard to say! Thurston also gave a brief speech about the concern for the rising sea level in Nova Scotia from global warming and the effects it has towards nature and the salt water marshes. One quote that he gave that I really like was from Emerson: “the world is mind precipitated”.