Lauren Betzen

Nutshell Supplemental Reading Report

Book:  Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Author: Kate Brown

Final Transmittal Memo

Darren Donate

Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure. Sacrifice Zones discusses the grassroot efforts against oppressive authoritative structures that routinely pollute low-income communities.

Author: Steve Lerner

Amanda Ford

5 Minute Nutshell on Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us

 Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, is a beautifully written book that explores the wonders and beauty of the ocean world, and how far the human race has come from their primitive connection to it. The book is divided into three parts:

I – Mother Sea

II – The Restless Sea

III – Man and the Sea About Him

Final Transmittal Memo

Michelle Gurule

Overview: Guthman holds a PhD in Geography from UC Berkley and works for the Community Studies Department of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she works with organizations that aim to address food-and-environment related inequalities. Weighing In fights against the notion that, “if people just ate better food and made better individual choice, then obesity and health issues connected to food would be eradicated.”

Abygail Gutierrez

Nutshell Supplemental Reading Report

Climate Refugees by Collectif Argos

Climate Refugees is a collection of journalistic endeavors notating the global environmental crises and the effects that it has on people across the world, most notably the way in which they are displaced from their homes.

Maxime Lenglin

Nutshell Supplemental Reading Report

Ecofeminist philosophy, A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters

Author: Karen J. Warren, 2000

Stacy Lunsford

Nutshell Supplemental Reading Report

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Author: Cheryl Strayed

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is a beautifully written memoir by a twenty-two-year-old woman who thought she had lost everything. This book explores the death of a most beloved mother, addiction, pain, grief and a decision that would alter the author’s life forever. This memoir is divided up into five parts. Within each part is approximately 3-5 chapters.

Rhea Ramakrishnan

Supplemental Reading Nutshell Report:

Beyond Katrina

Natasha Trethewey’s memoir, Beyond Katrina, is a book about the excavation of memory. The poet Natasha Trethewey tells the story of how the people along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including her brother and grandmother remember Hurricane Katrina and how the narratives we create of the events in our lives shape our responses to future events.

Class Discussion Questions on Writing the Goodlife Ch. 5 & Conclusion

In Ch. 5 of Writing the Goodlife, Priscilla Solis Ybarra examines the work of the poet, playwright, and essayist, Cherrie Moraga. I was particularly struck by Moraga’s portrayal of a fictional character in her play Heroes and Saints who is born without a body because her mother had unknowingly worked in poisoned fields during her pregnancy.