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  • 1.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-11-2009 15:16

    Greetings MED and ONEites,

    Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course.  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

    o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

    o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

    o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

    o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

    o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

    o   Ideas on other films I could include?

    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

    Best regards,

    Bruce

     

    FILMS:

    ·         Affluenza

    ·         Barak

    ·         The Corporation

    ·         Drowned Out

    ·         Earth on the Edge

    ·         End of Suburbia

    ·         An Inconvenient Truth

    ·         The Future of Food

    ·         Kilowat Out

    ·         The Next Industrial Revolution

    ·         The Power of One

    ·         Silent Spring

    ###

    ·         The 11th Hour

    ·         Blue Vinyl

    ·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    ·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    ·         Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    ·         Escape from Affluenza

    ·         Flow

    ·         Heat

    ·         Journey to Planet Earth

    ·         Natural Connections

    ·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    ·         Planet in Peril

    ·         So Right So Smart

    ·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    ·         Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    ·         Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    ·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    ·         Waste = Food

    ·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

    ·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail


  • 2.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-12-2009 10:58
    Bruce,
    thanks for the list.  I urge you to add:  Darwin's Nightmare.
    Best wishes,
    ART
     
    Art Whatley, Ph.D.
    Professor of Organization Change and Program Chair,
    MA Program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development
    College of Professional Studies
    Hawaii Pacific University
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96734
    Ph: 808-566-2490
    Cell:  808-228-4314
    Fax: 808-544-0247
    artwhatley@yahoo.com

    "All education is environmental education."   David Orr
     


    From: Bruce Clemens <bclemens@WNEC.EDU>
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:16:22 AM
    Subject: Use of movies in class...

    Greetings MED and ONEites,

    Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course..  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

    o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

    o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

    o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

    o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

    o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

    o   Ideas on other films I could include?

    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

    Best regards,

    Bruce

     

    FILMS:

    ·         Affluenza

    ·         Barak

    ·         The Corporation

    ·         Drowned Out

    ·         Earth on the Edge

    ·         End of Suburbia

    ·         An Inconvenient Truth

    ·         The Future of Food

    ·         Kilowat Out

    ·         The Next Industrial Revolution

    ·         The Power of One

    ·         Silent Spring

    ###

    ·         The 11th Hour

    ·         Blue Vinyl

    ·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    ·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    ·         Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    ·         Escape from Affluenza

    ·         Flow

    ·         Heat

    ·         Journey to Planet Earth

    ·         Natural Connections

    ·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    ·         Planet in Peril

    ·         So Right So Smart

    ·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    ·         Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    ·         Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    ·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    ·         Waste = Food

    ·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

    ·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail


  • 3.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-12-2009 13:05
    Bruce,
     
    Another great, very well-documented movie is
     
    The world according to Monsanto.
     
     
    Very thoroughly documented --- I have used it very successfully in the classroom
     
    best,
    Emmanuel Raufflet
    HEC Montréal 
    ----- Message d'origine -----
     
    Envoyé : 12 juillet 2009 10:58
    Objet : Re: Use of movies in class...

    Bruce,
    thanks for the list.  I urge you to add:  Darwin's Nightmare.
    Best wishes,
    ART
     
    Art Whatley, Ph.D.
    Professor of Organization Change and Program Chair,
    MA Program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development
    College of Professional Studies
    Hawaii Pacific University
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96734
    Ph: 808-566-2490
    Cell:  808-228-4314
    Fax: 808-544-0247
    artwhatley@yahoo.com

    "All education is environmental education."   David Orr
     


    From: Bruce Clemens <bclemens@WNEC.EDU>
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:16:22 AM
    Subject: Use of movies in class...

    Greetings MED and ONEites,

    Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course..  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

    o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

    o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

    o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

    o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

    o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

    o   Ideas on other films I could include?

    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

    Best regards,

    Bruce

     

    FILMS:

    ·         Affluenza

    ·         Barak

    ·         The Corporation

    ·         Drowned Out

    ·         Earth on the Edge

    ·         End of Suburbia

    ·         An Inconvenient Truth

    ·         The Future of Food

    ·         Kilowat Out

    ·         The Next Industrial Revolution

    ·         The Power of One

    ·         Silent Spring

    ###

    ·         The 11th Hour

    ·         Blue Vinyl

    ·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    ·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    ·         Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    ·         Escape from Affluenza

    ·         Flow

    ·         Heat

    ·         Journey to Planet Earth

    ·         Natural Connections

    ·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    ·         Planet in Peril

    ·         So Right So Smart

    ·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    ·         Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    ·         Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    ·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    ·         Waste = Food

    ·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

    ·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail


  • 4.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-12-2009 16:25
    This sounds very good to me. I would make this an individual exercise of 15%. A team of two could work well too.
    Manufactured Landscapes is very striking. I couldn't see it on the list.
    Greetings,
    Yonca

    ________________________________________
    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Clemens [bclemens@WNEC.EDU]
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:16 PM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Use of movies in class…

    Greetings MED and ONEites,
    Please excuse the cross postings. I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course. I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films. After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions. Student presentations would include clips of the film.
    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting. In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each. I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own. Here are my questions:
    o Has anyone tried a similar approach? If so, what lessons have you learned?
    o Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?
    o I was planning to do this on an individual basis. Should I consider doing it on a team basis?
    o How should I assign the films to individuals? Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?
    o Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort? I am considering from 5 to 15%.
    o Ideas on other films I could include?
    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration. I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.
    Best regards,
    Bruce

    FILMS:

    · Affluenza

    · Barak

    · The Corporation

    · Drowned Out

    · Earth on the Edge

    · End of Suburbia

    · An Inconvenient Truth

    · The Future of Food

    · Kilowat Out

    · The Next Industrial Revolution

    · The Power of One

    · Silent Spring

    ###

    · The 11th Hour

    · Blue Vinyl

    · Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    · e2 (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    · Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    · Escape from Affluenza

    · Flow

    · Heat

    · Journey to Planet Earth

    · Natural Connections

    · The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    · Planet in Peril

    · So Right So Smart

    · The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    · Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    · Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    · Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    · Waste = Food

    · Who Killed the Electric Car?

    · Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu<mailto:bclemens@wnec.edu>
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail


  • 5.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-13-2009 08:56
    Thanks for the list Bruce.

    Another film that I have used a lot in my Business & Society course is "Advertising and the End of the World." Its focus is on critiquing advertising on many grounds, but it spends a fair amount of time on the idea that advertising has degraded our ability to focus on solving long term problems (because of its emphasis on short term gratification), using the environment as a primary example. It was made in the mid-late 1990s, so it is getting a bit dated, but if you have a section on consumers or marketing it is an interesting piece.

    BTW, for anyone who has not seen it, I urge you to check out one that Bruce listed, "The Next Industrial Revolution" on the work of William McDonough and Michael Braunghart. It is truly an inspiring film on what is possible through green design.

    Gordon


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Yonca Demir" <ydemir@BILGI.EDU.TR>
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:24:37 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
    Subject: Re: Use of movies in class…

    This sounds very good to me. I would make this an individual exercise of 15%. A team of two could work well too.
    Manufactured Landscapes is very striking. I couldn't see it on the list.
    Greetings,
    Yonca

    ________________________________________
    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Clemens [bclemens@WNEC.EDU]
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:16 PM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Use of movies in class…

    Greetings MED and ONEites,
    Please excuse the cross postings. I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course. I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films. After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions. Student presentations would include clips of the film.
    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting. In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each. I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own. Here are my questions:
    o Has anyone tried a similar approach? If so, what lessons have you learned?
    o Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?
    o I was planning to do this on an individual basis. Should I consider doing it on a team basis?
    o How should I assign the films to individuals? Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?
    o Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort? I am considering from 5 to 15%.
    o Ideas on other films I could include?
    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration. I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.
    Best regards,
    Bruce

    FILMS:

    · Affluenza

    · Barak

    · The Corporation

    · Drowned Out

    · Earth on the Edge

    · End of Suburbia

    · An Inconvenient Truth

    · The Future of Food

    · Kilowat Out

    · The Next Industrial Revolution

    · The Power of One

    · Silent Spring

    ###

    · The 11th Hour

    · Blue Vinyl

    · Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    · e2 (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    · Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    · Escape from Affluenza

    · Flow

    · Heat

    · Journey to Planet Earth

    · Natural Connections

    · The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    · Planet in Peril

    · So Right So Smart

    · The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    · Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    · Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    · Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    · Waste = Food

    · Who Killed the Electric Car?

    · Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu<mailto:bclemens@wnec.edu>
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail


  • 6.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-13-2009 10:40

    Addicted to Plastic from Bullfrog films would be a good fit with your list.  It looks at the history of plastic, pollution, toxicity and some solutions.

    http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/atp.html

     

     

    Something slightly different from a full documentary would be:

    A documentary that is in its final edits includes Your Environmental Road Trip. 

    Three people in a hybrid SUV covering all fifty states interviewed somewhere around 800 sustainability champions.   There are around fifty short clips on their website.  They have a lot of fun along the way and students can relate to them as the documentary's creators are in their mid 20s.  The clips can be used in-class as short snippets to support other material.

     

    http://www.yert.com/

     

    The edited documentary is expected to be out by year's end.

    Best Regards,

    Robert Sroufe, Ph.D.

    Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness

    Industrial Ecologist

    Supply Chain/Information Systems Department

    John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business

    600 Forbes Avenue

    Pittsburgh, PA 15282

    (412) 396-1909

    (412) 396-4764 (fax)

    P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

     

     

     

     

    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [mailto:ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Art Whatley
    Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:58 AM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: Use of movies in class...

     

    Bruce,
    thanks for the list.  I urge you to add:  Darwin's Nightmare.
    Best wishes,
    ART

     

    Art Whatley, Ph.D.
    Professor of Organization Change and Program Chair,
    MA Program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development
    College of Professional Studies
    Hawaii Pacific University
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96734
    Ph: 808-566-2490

    Cell:  808-228-4314
    Fax: 808-544-0247
    artwhatley@yahoo.com


    "All education is environmental education."   David Orr

     

     

     

    From: Bruce Clemens <bclemens@WNEC.EDU>
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:16:22 AM
    Subject: Use of movies in class...

    Greetings MED and ONEites,

    Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course..  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

    o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

    o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

    o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

    o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

    o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

    o   Ideas on other films I could include?

    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

    Best regards,

    Bruce

     

    FILMS:

    ·         Affluenza

    ·         Barak

    ·         The Corporation

    ·         Drowned Out

    ·         Earth on the Edge

    ·         End of Suburbia

    ·         An Inconvenient Truth

    ·         The Future of Food

    ·         Kilowat Out

    ·         The Next Industrial Revolution

    ·         The Power of One

    ·         Silent Spring

    ###

    ·         The 11th Hour

    ·         Blue Vinyl

    ·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    ·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    ·         Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    ·         Escape from Affluenza

    ·         Flow

    ·         Heat

    ·         Journey to Planet Earth

    ·         Natural Connections

    ·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    ·         Planet in Peril

    ·         So Right So Smart

    ·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    ·         Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    ·         Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    ·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    ·         Waste = Food

    ·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

    ·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
    103 Churchill Hall
    Western New England College
    1215 Wilbraham Road
    Springfield MA 01119
    Phone: 413-782-1500
    Fax: 413-796-2068
    bclemens@wnec.edu
    Campus mailbox number: C5433

    Please consider your environmental responsibilities before printing this e-mail



  • 7.  Use of movies in class…

    Posted 07-13-2009 13:37
    Nice list !

    On consumerism there is this amazing documentary by the BBC : the century of the self
    http://apprendre2point0.ning.com/video/945551:Video:27273
    This only the first part of this 4 part awarded doc. available on the BBC site.


    B.R.
    Luc


    2009/7/13 Robert Sroufe <sroufer@comcast.net>

    Addicted to Plastic from Bullfrog films would be a good fit with your list.  It looks at the history of plastic, pollution, toxicity and some solutions.

    http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/atp.html

     

     

    Something slightly different from a full documentary would be:

    A documentary that is in its final edits includes Your Environmental Road Trip. 

    Three people in a hybrid SUV covering all fifty states interviewed somewhere around 800 sustainability champions.   There are around fifty short clips on their website.  They have a lot of fun along the way and students can relate to them as the documentary's creators are in their mid 20s.  The clips can be used in-class as short snippets to support other material.

     

    http://www.yert.com/

     

    The edited documentary is expected to be out by year's end.

    Best Regards,

    Robert Sroufe, Ph.D.

    Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness

    Industrial Ecologist

    Supply Chain/Information Systems Department

    John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business

    600 Forbes Avenue

    Pittsburgh, PA 15282

    (412) 396-1909

    (412) 396-4764 (fax)

    P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

     

     

     

     

    From: Organizations and the Natural Environment Discussion [mailto:ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Art Whatley
    Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:58 AM

    Subject: Re: Use of movies in class...

     

    Bruce,
    thanks for the list.  I urge you to add:  Darwin's Nightmare.
    Best wishes,
    ART

     

    Art Whatley, Ph.D.
    Professor of Organization Change and Program Chair,
    MA Program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development
    College of Professional Studies
    Hawaii Pacific University
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96734
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    From: Bruce Clemens <bclemens@WNEC.EDU>
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:16:22 AM
    Subject: Use of movies in class...

    Greetings MED and ONEites,

    Please excuse the cross postings.  I would appreciate your opinions on effective ways to incorporate movies into my new MAN 225 Sustainable Enterprise Management course..  I want to provide students opportunities to watch sustainability oriented films.  After viewing the films, students would deliver a one to five page paper discussing the film; the lessons that they learned; and how they could use the lessons in the film to make personal decisions.  Student presentations would include clips of the film.

    I have a list of more than 30 films that I will attach at the end of this posting.    In addition to improving writing and presentation skills, the objective would be to provide the entire class to some level of understanding of the 31 films without having to watch each.  I hope it will provide the proper incentives for them to watch those they find interesting on their own.  Here are my questions:

    o   Has anyone tried a similar approach?  If so, what lessons have you learned?

    o   Anyone have ideas how to grade the write-ups and presentations?

    o   I was planning to do this on an individual basis.  Should I consider doing it on a team basis?

    o   How should I assign the films to individuals?  Should I let students choose or at least indicate their preferences?

    o   Any opinions on the % of the grade I should assign for this effort?  I am considering from 5 to 15%.

    o   Ideas on other films I could include?

    Thank you again for the typical ONE-L and MED collegial collaboration.  I would be happy to share my final design with anyone interested.

    Best regards,

    Bruce

     

    FILMS:

    ·         Affluenza

    ·         Barak

    ·         The Corporation

    ·         Drowned Out

    ·         Earth on the Edge

    ·         End of Suburbia

    ·         An Inconvenient Truth

    ·         The Future of Food

    ·         Kilowat Out

    ·         The Next Industrial Revolution

    ·         The Power of One

    ·         Silent Spring

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    ·         The 11th Hour

    ·         Blue Vinyl

    ·         Designing the New World: Turning Crisis Into Potential (http://www.designingthenewworld.com/

    ·         e2  (http://www.design-e2.com/ Watch some episodes at (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/pbs/)

    ·         Earth on the Edge (http://www.pbs.org/earthonedge/)

    ·         Escape from Affluenza

    ·         Flow

    ·         Heat

    ·         Journey to Planet Earth

    ·         Natural Connections

    ·         The People Paradox (World in the Balance series)

    ·         Planet in Peril

    ·         So Right So Smart

    ·         The Story of Stuff (http://www.storyofstuff.com/)

    ·         Strange Days on Planet Earth (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/aboutproject/)

    ·         Thirst (http://www.thirstthemovie.org/summary.html)

    ·         Trashed (http://www.trashedmovie.com/)

    ·         Waste = Food

    ·         Who Killed the Electric Car?

    ·         Wired: A Day in the Life of Energy (http://www.greentreks.org/documentaries/wired/wired.asp)

    A World of Waste

    --
    Bruce Clemens PhD PE
    Management Department
    School of Business
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    Western New England College
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    Springfield MA 01119
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