Assigned readings to do before June 18: 

• Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis, “Defining the Anthropocene.” Nature 519 (12 March 2015): 171-180. 
• “The Anthropocene.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
• Sverker Sörlin. “Environmental Humanities: Why Should Biologists Interested in the Environment Take the Humanities Seriously?” BioScience 62. 9 (1 September 2012): 788–789.
• Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Humanities 6 (2015), 159-165.
• Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey. “Ecosystem Service-Based Approaches for Status Assessment of Anthropocene Riverscapes." Rivers of the Anthropocene, ed. Jason Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitzki, Michel Meybeck. California: University of California Press, 2017. 
• “Why Public Engagement Matters.” Webpage of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). https://www.aaas.org/pes/what-public-engagement
• “How Do we Define Public History?” Webpage of the National Council on Public History. http://ncph.org/what-is-public-history/about-the-field/
• John W. Fitzpatrick and Nathan Senner. “Shorebirds, the World’s Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction.” New York Times Sunday Review. 2018. https://nyti.ms/2HW2Vb2
• John McPhee, “They’re in the River.” The New Yorker. April 10, 2000. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/04/10/theyre-in-the-river

Assigned readings to do before June 19:

• Emily A. Holt and Scott W. Miller. “Bioindicators: Using Organisms to Measure Environmental Impacts.” Nature Education Knowledge 3(10): 8.

Assigned readings to do before June 20:

• Anon. “A Day in the Ma’sh.” Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 22 (1881): 343-352.
• Amitav Ghosh. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. [Read first section, “Stories,” pp. 3-84.]
• Beth Kephart. Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
•  Fredric Quivik. “Abundance, Dependence, and Trauma at Philadelphia’s Point Breeze Petroleum Refinery: A Mirror on the History of Pennsylvania’s Oil Inductry.” The Pennsylvania Magazine for History and Biography. 139.3 (October 2015): 265-292.

Assigned readings to complete before June 21:

• Andrea Grover, Radical Seafaring, Radical Seafaring, 2016
• Liz Wells, Land Matters, Introduction, 2011
• Rebecca Solnit, Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Blue of Distance, 2005
• The Woman Who Harvested a Wheat Field Off Wall Street, New York Times, Karrie Jacobs, June 14, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/t-magazine/agnes-denes-art.html
• Don McKay, Deactivated West 100, Otherwise Than Place, 2005

• Philadelphia Energy Solutions: A giant polluter looms over the lives — and health — of its neighbors:https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2018/02/20/philadelphia-energy-solutions-a-giant-polluter-looms-over-the-lives-and-health-of-its-neighbors/
• IPCC AR5 – Physical Science Basis for Climate Change – Summary for Policymakers: http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf
• Devil’s Bargain – We already have planet-cooling technology. The problem is, it’s killing us: https://grist.org/article/geoengineering-climate-change-air-pollution-save-planet/
• Not required, but useful resources:
  
  • Our Nations Air Report: https://gispub.epa.gov/air/trendsreport/2017/#nonattainment_areas
  • EPA: Toxic Release Inventory for Philadelphia https://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_factsheet.factsheet?&pstate=PA&pcity=Philadelphia&pyear=2016&pParent=TRI&pDataSet=TRIQ1
  • Philadelphia Facility Emissions (Philadelphia Air Management Services): http://www.phila.gov/health/pdfs/airmanagement/2016_Emissions.pdf

Assigned readings to do before June 26:

• Danielle Kreeger, Jennifer Adkins, Priscilla Cole, Ray Najjar, David Velinsky, Paula Conolly, John Kraeuter. “Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary: Three Case Studies in Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning.” Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, PDE Report No. 10-01. 1-117 pp.
• Jane A. Leggett. “Evolving Assessments of Human and Natural Causes to Climate Change.” Congressional Research Service Report. 7-5700. http://www.crs.gov R45086. February 2018.

Assigned readings to do before June 27:

• Amy Laura Cahn. “On Retiring Blight as Policy and Making Eastwick Whole.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 49 (2014): 449-492.
• Ann Whiston Sparn/ “Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice, and City Planning and Design.” Landscape Research. 30.3 (July 2005): 395-413.
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore. “Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning.”Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Method of Activist Scholarship, ed. Charles R. Hale. California: University of California Press, 2008. 31-61.

Assigned readings to complete before June 28:

• Liz Wells, Land Matters, A North American Place, 2011.
• Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey, Poetry and the Moon, 2012
• The Art at the End of the World, New York Times, Heidi Julavits, July 7, 2017 
• Optional
  
• Peter Turchi, Maps of the Imagination, A Wide Landscape of Snows, 2004.
• John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons, A River View, 1886.
• California’s Drought Has a Distinct Sound, Leath Tonino, Outside, Sep 11, 2015