Monday's (03/05/07) Project Discussion
Here are some of the work we need to do for Monday's project discussion.
I think that our project and discussion needs some anchoring and direction. As a means of trying to accomplish this task, I will submit a few papers to Dr. Katti, which he may post on Blackboard. The papers describe the calculation methods and what they represent in each scenario (city vs country). Hopefully, you will all read these and from that point we can figure out the factors what we will be using in our project.
For Monday’s project discussion we need to fully (or in large part) figure out as a group, the factors for calculating the ecological footprint of our area. This brings me to my next point, we need to settle on the area whose footprint we are calculating. As I have come to understand, we were going to calculate the footprint of the Fresno's metropolitan area, including Clovis. In addition, we can also calculate the footprint of CSU Fresno to see if its growth correlates to the grow of the city. The other option to juice up our paper is to figure out the footprint of agriculture in the out laying area. We can than compare this footprint to the metropolitan footprint to see how changing from one type of land use, ag to urbanization compares.
So once again, Monday’s project discussion should focus on listing the factor we need and the possible sources from which we can obtain them.
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...and we're going to use Sonoma's (or some other city) ecological footprint as a template for ours.
I've uploaded all the papers you emailed me, Jose, to Blackboard. They are in a folder titled Footprinting Fresno within Course Documents.
I have also uploaded a paper for discussion accompanying Monday's guest presentation.
Does Sonoma have demographics similar to Fresno? Maybe we should take a field trip and investigate. I hear the wine tasting tours are great way to see the area.
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