The Environmental Studies Program, ENST 25300;
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences, GEOS 25300:

The Planetary Footprint of Farming:
A Field/Classroom Course in the Berkshire Hills
of Western Massachusetts/East-Central New York


Instructors:

Gidon Eshel:	(773) 702-0440	Email	Home Page
Pam Martin:	(773) 834-5245	Email	Home Page
The Hawthorne
Valley Farm staff:	(518) 672-7500	Email	Home Page

Important Logistical Details:

• class time while in Chicago: Fall 2005 quarter, Thursday, 3pm
• class location while in Chicago: Hinds Geophysical Sciences Building (5734 S. Ellis Ave.), first floor classroom
• first (organizational) meeting: 3pm, Thursday October 13th 2005
• field trip: December 11th to December 21st, 2005

• a brief description
• a longish description (in PDF format)
• a list of lectures (in PDF format)
• the farm
• another biodynamic farm in CA
• a biodynamic farm serving Hyde Park
• biodynamic farming I and II , Rudolf Steiner
• large-Scale Biodynamic Production in the Developing World
• photos of the region: set 1   set 2   set 3   set 4   set 5   set 6   set 7   set 8   set 9
• Lecture Number 1: Natural Cycles
• Reading and Additional Material About Natural Cycles
  • a very nice web page
  • Galloway, J. N. and E. B. Cowling, 2002: Reactive nitrogen and the world: 200 Years of Change. Ambio, 31(2), 64-71.
  • Vitousek, P. M., S. Hattenschwiler, L. Olander and S Allison, 2002: Nitrogen and Nature. Ambio, 31(2), 97-101.
  • chapter 12 of Schhlesinger, W. H., 1997: Biogeochemistry and Analysis of Global Change, Academic, 588 pp.
  • some monthly-mean atmospheric temperature profiles
  • some instanteneous atmospheric temperature profiles
• a few pictures from the first field course (December 2005)
• and a few more pictures from the first field course (December 2005)