Joelle+Woodson

__**Week 1**__

Research Topics Website Links Brief Discussion of the reading:

I found the Capra and Luisi literature for this week to be exceptionally stimulating. Understanding, or at least attempting to, the deeper meaning and relationship between science, tech, society, and ourselves is a vital link that often goes missing when discussing hard science. I like what was said about perception, and how it connects to understanding. In terms of the "pendulum" swing, and how it never quite returns back to its natural position, perhaps we can attribute that to knowledge, values, and understanding--but what really what causes the actual shift? Where is that momentum coming from?

While reading up on Howard T. Odum and how he contributed to creating ecological models using mathematical systems made me hark back to Capra and Luisi and their discussions of the scientific method. It seemed to me that Odum's work was the manifestation of both ecology and the method, perhaps as a part to whole relationship. While most may consider ecology as a "touch and go" type science, or a soft science, it is a science nontheless--a conversation I had in my Sustainability Careers class. Thus, while ecology could be considered soft, or have a more negative connotation, it still does rely upon the scientific method as a means of proof and explanation, and Odum showed that perfectly.

__**Week 4**__ Research Questions and Initial Analysis

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 * __Week 6__**

TAKE HOME FINAL FINAL RESEARCH PAPER AND PRESENTATION Annotations--JW

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