Anderson+Memo+1

**Project Hopping**
different cities use --similar studies (not necessarily social science) || --How do decisions made in the past shape sustainability today? --How can we improve the sustainability of our cities? || --Climate change --Pollution --Energy crisis || --Technical Option in Architectural History + minor in Architecture --Research Methods last fall || --I am an environmentalist --I am from a developed country so my experiences are different from someone in a developing country. Developing countries are where population growth/city building is more likely to happen. || --Sociology with a focus on sustainability and urban design || --City planning boards || food justice, food production, and food availability --data on how climate change will affect the food supply --participant observation and interviews in Troy (where are people getting their food from?) || --How does the infrastructure of cities affect food justice? --How can we improve food justice? --How will climate change affect the food supply, and what actions could we take to mitigate or lessen the effects of climate change? || --Food deserts --Food supply worries --Concerns about climate change and peak oil and food- related issues || --Technical Option in Architectural History + minor in Architecture --Research Methods + Food, Farms, and Famine last fall || --I am an environmentalist --Food is an important concern to me --I grew up in suburbs and rural areas within a few miles of a grocery store. My experiences are therefore different from someone who grew up in a city. || --Sociology with focuses on sustainability, urban design, and environmental justice || --City planning boards || in environmental clubs at RPI and other colleges --attitudes on environmentalism at RPI and other colleges || --What leads some people to be environmentalists and others not to be? --How can we convince more people to be environmentalists? || --Climate change --Pollution --Peak Oil || --Research Methods last fall --Heavy involvement in RPI environmental clubs || --I belong to many of the environmental groups on campus and therefore would have an inherent bias. || --Anthropology with a focus on cultural practices/ideas surrounding environmentalism || --Organizations working towards more sustainable college campuses || --data on what member colleges have achieved --interviews and participant observation with members of these organizations and college students || --How do social ecologies affect sustainability? --How have inter-college sustainability organizations contributed to environmental culture on campuses? --What social mechanisms needed to make a college more sustainable do these inter-college sustainability organizations change? (and are these changes effective?) || --Climate change --Peak oil --Pollution --Colleges are big institutions and use a lot of energy, water, and other resources || --Research Methods last fall --Heavy involvement in RPI environmental clubs, both of which are doing a sustainability report using AASHE's grading system and one of which is going to PowerShift 2013 --I've gone to PowerShift 2011, PowerShift New York 2012, and am going to PowerShift 2013 this fall --My friend is on the AASHE board of directors, apparently || --I am involved with some of these organizations --I am very critical of organizations working on sustainability --This project would really focus on wealthier nations with colleges that have the resources to think about and care about these issues. || --STS with a focus on social ecology/community and behavior || --Possibly the organizations themselves --Colleges --Any type of board that might want to oversee these organizations ||
 * **Topical Area** ||< **Data Sets** || **Social Theoretical Questions** || **Why now?** || **How prepared?** || **Bias?** || **Fields of work?** || **Funders?** ||
 * Sustainability in cities--** transportation ** ||< --data on how much energy
 * Sustainability in cities--
 * food** ||< --data on food relating to
 * Environmental culture at RPI ||< --student involvement
 * Organizations to help colleges achieve sustainability (focus on projects that recruit and focus on students) || --data on how many colleges and which ones are involved with the organizations