Module 5: Soils and Nutrients
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll
The purpose of this module is to give you as a learner a basic grounding in the nature of soils and soil nutrients. Module 5.1 provides the foundation for understanding soils, soil nutrients, and their connection ...

9. Hybrid and Electric Cars
Randolph Chambers, College of William and Mary
This module reviews the history of the automobile and its varied power sources, culminating in the latest versions of hybrid and electric cars.

Justice, Power, and Activism: What the Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Teach Us About Resilience and Democracy
Jason Lambacher, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
This activity is a set of student-centered exercises that enable students to learn about the individual stories of Goldman environmental prize winners, the activism and organizing that grounds their work, and the underlying political and social contexts from which their struggles emerge. The lesson inspires critical reflection about justice, power, and democracy in green politics, and encourages ways to make personal connections to activism and environmental work.

Measuring Water Resources
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Eric Small, University of Colorado at Boulder; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Measuring water resources such as groundwater and snowpack is challenging, but the advent of satellite gravity measurements and hydrologic GPS applications can augment traditional methods. This module gives ...

Capstone Project: Urban Water Portfolio
Students will use the skills and knowledge they have developed throughout the course to develop a water portfolio for the future for a given water-critical city. They will need to estimate the city's water ...

Section 2: Physical Hydrology Summary and Overview
In this section: Module 3: Rivers and Watersheds Module 4: Flood and Drought Module 5: Dam it All Module 6: Groundwater Hydrology This section outlines the distribution of water on land and its organization into ...

Module 5: Dam It All
Demian Saffer and Michael Arthur, Pennsylvania State University
In this module we explore the benefits and consequences of construction and removal of large dams, both in the United States and globally, including a discussion of case studies along the Yangtze and Nile rivers.

Module 8.1: Cities in Peril: Dealing with Water Scarcity
Demian Saffer and Michael Arthur, Pennsylvania State University and Patrick Belmont, Utah State University
In this first part of Module 8, we will focus on current strategies for addressing water scarcity. In part, these strategies have arisen within the confines of water laws that have shaped the history of water ...

Module 9: Water and Politics
Michael Arthur and Demian Saffer, Pennsylvania State University
In this module, we will entertain several examples of international "water wars," referring to conflicts that occur within or between countries as the result of failed treaties and agreements, water ...

Module 8.2: Future climate change, population growth, and water issues
Patrick Belmont, Utah State University
What does the future hold? How, when and where might the legacy of our past decisions cause us severe problems in the future? What new problems might we anticipate as a result of climate change and population ...