Choices for May 20 11 AM Class

There will be no class Thursday, May 20.  Choose ONE of the activities below.

Guest Lecturer:  Attend the lecture either in the morning or in the evening.  Write down FIVE interesting things you hear or learn.
The World’s Go-To-Guy For Disaster Relief: A Talk With Todd Shea

Thursday, May 2O 11 am – noon MAC 210    OR  Thursday, May 2O 7 pm – 9 pm BE 1110
Come hear humanitarian Todd Shea will speak about his emergency and long-term relief work in Pakistan and Haiti this Thursday.   Todd's promising career as a singer-songwriter was interrupted by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In New York to play at the famous CBGB nightclub - a gig that never happened - instead Todd emptied his musical equipment from his van, drove down to Ground Zero, and said, "How can I help?"    The experience led to the discovery of a new vocation providing logistical support to emergency workers in the aftermaths of disasters. Todd worked in Sri Lanka after the Banda Aceh tsunami, in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and in Pakistan after the October 2005 earthquake there. He has remained in Pakistan and runs a hospital in the remote village of Chikar, but when the January 12, 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, he cut short a U.S. fundraising tour to spend six harrowing weeks there.

Video Listening:  Listen to THREE of the following stories related to pollution.  Come to class with short SUMMARIES of what you hear. 

China’s Noxious Trucks  http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/12/07/world/asia/1194817094688/chinas-noxious-trucks.html
Clinton on Climate Change  http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/05/17/world/americas/1194817109438/clinton-on-climate-change.html
Oil Spill Threatens Wetlands’ Ecosystem  http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/05/01/us/1247467754098/oil-spill-threatens-wetlands-ecosystem.html
 Toxic Waters: Coal in the Water  http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/12/us/1247464506260/toxic-waters-coal-in-the-water.html
New Rules Proposed for Smog Pollutants  http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/01/07/us/1247466441827/new-rules-proposed-for-smog-pollutants.html
China’s Endangered Species   http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/12/03/world/asia/1194817095151/chinas-endangered-species.html