Future of Food part of Future of Food
Future of Food Gigi Richard (Colorado Mesa University) Heather Karsten (Pennsylvania State University) Steve Vanek (Pennsylvania State University) Karl Zimmerer (Pennsylvania State University') Editor: Timothy Bralower (Pennsylvania State University) Initial Publication Date: January 11, 2018 Cite thisInTeGrate. (2018, January 11). Future of Food. https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/food_supply/index.html
The Future of Food is an introductory-level science course that emphasizes the challenges facing food systems in the 21st century, including issues of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive capacity, and the ...

Module 8: Pests and Integrated Pest Management part of Future of Food
Heather Karsten, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
This module introduces three types of agricultural pests (insects, weeds, and pathogens), integrated pest management, and some of the transgenic crop technologies developed to reduce crop pests.

Module 1: Introduction part of Future of Food
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College; Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In the two introductory modules (1.1 and 1.2) of the course we will introduce the main theme of the course: learning about food systems as systems that combine human social systems, with the natural earth system ...

Module 2: History of Food Systems part of Future of Food
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College; Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
This second module in the Future of Food course provides a historical overview of the emergence and development of food systems until the present. Module 2.1, the first half of this module, describes the transition ...

Capstone Project part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
This educational resource page presents a capstone project for an undergraduate course on renewable energy and environmental sustainability, featuring a systems-thinking assignment where students design a sustainable community using technologies from prior modules, supported by a detailed assessment rubric and peer-reviewed instructional content from the InTeGrate and On the Cutting Edge programs. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

4. Creating Electricity from Light part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University
This module introduces students to the various ways electricity is made from solar radiation. It provides a historical approach following advances over the last two centuries. Students see these technologies in ...

9. Hybrid and Electric Cars part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Randolph Chambers, William & Mary; Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University; Zhen Li, Carleton College
This module reviews the history of the automobile and its varied power sources, culminating in the latest versions of hybrid and electric cars.

5. Passive Designs part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Randolph Chambers, William & Mary; Zhen Li, Carleton College
In this module, we consider how the actual design and placement of buildings can be important considerations for energy efficiency, thereby optimizing winter heating and summer cooling needs. One of the simplest ...

Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities part of Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College; Akin Akinyemi, Florida State University; Cheryl Young, Heritage University; Bakari McClendon, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Dave Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The movement toward sustainable communities has brought into focus the centrality of food in our everyday lives and its myriad social, economic, and environmental connections. The purpose of this module, Food as ...

Unit 8: Thermohaline Circulation part of Modeling Earth Systems
David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College
In this module, students first review some background material on density-driven deep currents in the oceans, and then create a STELLA model of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The model ...