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__** Thursday 8/29/13 First Day of Class **__
 * I will collect your summer assignment at the start of class.
 * Have a binder (1.5"-2") and bring to class every day (I have a few used binders if you really need one)
 * **__COVER YOUR BOOK__** and bring it to class every day. I have to be strict about the books being covered. Hopefully you got one in decent shape but they seem to be of pretty poor quality and begin to fall apart with regular use.
 * **Safety Contract** - to be issued in class. Please read, sign and have signed by an adult at home and **return** to me on **Tuesday 9/3**
 * **Safety Quiz - Tuesday 9/3**. The quiz was written by the same company that developed the contract so just read over the contract and you should do fine. If you receive a score below 60, the quiz must be retaken until a passing grade is achieved.

This is our wikispace for this class. I will do my very best to have all of your assignments posted here under the appropriate chapter or topic. Please take a few minutes to get familiar with this site. Maybe bookmark it on your home computer.

Assignments will be due the next class or day, unless otherwise stated. The date listed is the assigned day to do the work and it is due the following class period.

I will ask you regularly to print documents and bring them to class. If you don't have a printer at home, you can print in the computer loft. Be sure to get this done before you go home so you have time to get your work done.


 * Tuesday 8/29/13 HW **
 * 1.** Read and study Safety Contract for Safety Quiz on Tuesday 9/3. Sign and have signed by an adult at home and **return** to me in class on Tuesday 9/3.

 (In-Class Activity 3, Ch 2: Handout) **2.** Consider the three character descriptions below and answer the following questions. Which of these individuals, if any, is an “environmentalist?” Why do you think so? Who has done the most to reduce environmental degradation? What does this imply about environmentalism?
 * Marco is an environmental studies major at a local College. He is active in the two campus student environmental organizations, and is trying to set up a recycling center on campus. He has been saving up his income from working at a bookstore to take a two week ecotourism trip to Costa Rica after graduation.
 * Kia is a stock analyst. She has a 40 minute commute each way to her job in the city. She carpools with one other person in a Chevy Suburban. She makes a decent salary, and every year sends donations to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and several local environmental groups. She always recycles cans, bottles and newspapers, and as a vegetarian tries to buy organic foods when possible.
 * Satish is an engineer at a pulp and paper mill. He can often be heard grumbling about the environmental regulations his plant faces, and the government agents who come in to inspect. He recently won an award for figuring out a way to divert waste heat from the plants power generation system to assist in drying out the paper as is goes though the system. This saves the company about $50,000 per year, mostly in reduced energy costs and fees for avoided heat pollution in the local river. Several years ago he won a similar award for finding that some of the pulp waste could be used to fertilize orchards.