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The Allo PodcastBizarre HDFN Facts and Fascinating Case StudiesBethany and Molly kick off Season 4 with a dive into the weirdest corners of HDFN — from mind-blowing bizarre facts (like babies born with 100% donor blood and drones parachuting blood bags in Africa) to rare case studies featuring anti-Kell + anti-D, the ultra-rare anti-KU and anti-PP1P˩K antibodies, and a mystery about false-positive newborn screens that still has experts stumped.Watch this episode on YouTube Do you have any ideas about why some infants who have received IUTs test (falsely) positive for certain metabolic syndromes in their newborn screens? E-mail us at info@allohopefoundation.orgVi...
2026-01-2748 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: Ethics• Define ethics, anthropocentrism, and utilitarianism • Describe biblical, political philosophical, conservationist, preservationist, and ecological perspectives on the relationship between humans and nature • Identify the degree to which solutions take anthropocentric or utilitarian approaches to solving environmental problems • Critically analyze stakeholders’ environmental ethical perspectives based on their proposed solutions or positions taken in relation to environmental problems.
lecture delivered by O. Vila
Corresponds to Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A. (2014). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Listen via Restorative Natech podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-cutts (or where ever y'all find podcasts)
2021-09-1616 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: Hazards Risks Disasters• Define hazard, risk, social vulnerability, and disaster • Distinguish phases of emergency management • Explain why risk can be thought of as a decision, and why disasters are social phenomena • Demonstrate how social factors influence people's vulnerability to disasters. lecture delivered by O. Vila Corresponds to Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A. (2014). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Listen via Restorative Natech podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-cutts (or where ever y'all find podcasts)
2021-09-0930 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: Institutions• Define common property and institutions • Describe Game Theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Tragedy of the Commons • Identify real-world examples of common's management • Critically analyze real-world and hypothetical examples of commons management in relation to the principles of boundaries, proportionality, collective choice, monitoring, sanctions, conflict resolutions, and autonomy. lecture delivered by O. Vila Corresponds to Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A. (2014). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Listen via Restorative Natech podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-cutts (or where ever y'all find podcasts)
2021-09-0224 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: Markets• Define externality, market failure, transaction costs, monopoly, greenwashing, and green certification • Provide examples or hypothetical scenarios of the market response model, Coase Theorem, and Cap and Trade • Identify real-world examples market-based solutions to environmental problems and policies related to those solutions • Critically analyze the implicit assumptions of real-world market-based solutions to environmental problems, and explain if and in what ways they are misguided lecture delivered by O. Vila Corresponds to Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A. (2014). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Listen via Restorative Natech podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-cutts (or where ever y'all find podcasts)
2021-08-2637 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: PopulationDefine carrying capacity, ecological footprint, zero population growth, birth rate, death rate, fertility rate
Produce examples of how population size, affluence, and technology influence environmental impact.
Synthesize what you learn about population growth and declines to critique solutions to environmental impacts.
Critically analyze solutions to reduce environmental impacts of humans in a way that identifies potential injustices and trade-offs.
lecture delivered by O. Vila Corresponds to Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A. (2014). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons. Listen via Restorative Natech podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-cutts (or where ever...
2021-08-1927 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: Policy Brief OverviewBy completing the policy brief assignment, students will demonstrate the ability to engage in independent learning, synthesize information, and present it in a form that is useful to decision-makers. The research, writing, visualization, and argumentation skills will aid personal and professional efforts toward greater civic engagement on a broad spectrum of current and future policy dilemmas.
2021-08-1618 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with nature303: WelcomeDefine course structure and expectations
2021-08-1240 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with natureHazards and Risk
Define hazard, risk, social vulnerability, and disaster
Distinguish phases of emergency management
Explain why risk can be thought of as a decision, and why disasters are social phenomena
Demonstrate how social factors influence people's vulnerability to disasters.
2021-07-2926 minRestorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with natureEthics
Define ethics, anthropocentrism, and utilitarianism
Describe biblical, political philosophical, conservationist, preservationist, and ecological perspectives on the relationship between humans and nature
Identify the degree to which solutions take anthropocentric or utilitarian approaches to solving environmental problems
Critically analyze stakeholders’ environmental ethical perspectives based on their proposed solutions or positions taken in relation to environmental problems.
2021-07-2912 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with natureInstitutionsDo you hate group projects? You might be experiencing a prisoner's dilemma.
After watching the pre-recorded lecture, completing the guided notes, and attending the in-person class, students should be able to:
Define common property and institutions
Describe Game Theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Tragedy of the Commons
Identify real-world examples of common's management that violate the assumptions of the Tragedy of the Commons
Critically analyze real-world and hypothetical examples of commons management in relation to the principles of boundaries, proportionality, collective choice, monitoring, sanctions, conflict...
2021-02-1620 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with naturePocket Nerd: Roslynn Powell talks about taking tech to the woodsThis bonus track taps the deep knowledge to Roslynn Powell. As a PhD Candidate in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management she is doing amazing research on the emotional labor Black folx do at parks and cultural heritage sites that are working, at long last, to include honest narratives of enslaved people into interpretive work. As a Master's student, Roslynn's work disrupted the assumption that technology necessarily separates people from nature.
2021-02-1056 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with natureMarkets and CommoditiesOlivia shares a Shitt's Creek example to explain coase theorem. Ewwww, David!
Define externality, market failure, transaction costs, monopoly, greenwashing, and green certification
Provide examples or hypothetical scenarios of the market response model, Coase Theorem, and Cap and Trade
Identify real-world examples market-based solutions to environmental problems and policies related to those solutions
Critically analyze the implicit assumptions of real-world market-based solutions to environmental problem s, and explain if and in what ways they are misguided
Corresponds to content in Robbins, P., Hintz, J., & Moore, S. A...
2021-02-0233 min
Restorative Natech: Mini-Lessons that use technology to connect with naturePopulation and ScarcityYou know Thomas Malthus is a problematic figure, but yet Malthusian thought is deeply ingrained in so many environmental science and ecological principles. Olivia lays down the language and concepts associated with Malthusian and neoMalthusian demography and outlines how population-based arguments have been used to reinforce authoritarian control over women and colonized areas of the work. By listening, students will be able to...
Define carrying capacity, ecological footprint, zero population growth, birth rate, death rate, fertility rate.
Produce examples of how population size, affluence, and technology influence environmental impact.
Synthesize what...
2021-01-2323 min