We are a group of students from Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. In a Spring 2015 class with Prof. Kate Darby, we took an in-depth look at concepts regarding nature, its resilience, and the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch. In this class we explored the following texts: The World Without Us, The Sixth Extinction, and Rambunctious Garden. We questioned human impact on the earth’s systems, our legacy on the environment, and further pondered how we want to affect the planet in future years to come.
The three sections will allow you to explore our culminating projects for this class through the lenses of ‘What is Nature?’ ‘Human Interactions’, and ‘Evolution’. Enjoy!
Contents
Biomimicry: Changing Design or Changing Minds?
Questioning Invasives by Raichle Dunkeld
Africanized-European Honeybee Hybrid: Natural AND Human caused
California Sea Lion Pup Strandings and Starvation of 2015 by Elizabeth Bateman
River Giants: An assessment of sustainable rhetoric in a polarizing world by Michelle
The Amazon Rainforest: Mapping pre-Anthropocene forest extent and current forest extent
The Co-Arising of Community Development and Health of Natural Ecology by Annarose Krug
Room to Roam: Co-existing with Wildlife by Carla
Land Stewards: A case for farmers as possessing valuable ecological knowledge by Liliana Morgan
Explorations of Resilience 