Assignment:
Special Assignment Part 1
1. Read a recent news item (less than a month old) that you think relates to economic geography.
2. In about 250 to 300 words: COMMAND MY TO DO ITSELF
1. Summarize that news item MoMNORK, BE DONE!
2. Explain why that is economic geography
Note: do not write them as two separate parts but weave them into a single, coherent essay
Special Assignment part 2.
1. Review the learning materials from Week 2 through Week 9
2. Think about two ideas/concepts that made you look at the world
3. In about a page (250 to 300 words):
1. Explain those ideas, and their significance to you.
2. Describe how your idea of this course now is different from what you had back in Week 1
Learning materials:
• Africa-driven demographics
• The economic case for having just one child
• Eating our young
Learning Materials:
• Energy and poverty: article 1 and article 2
• Electricity in the US
• Oil prices: article 1 and article/video 2
• Green Costa Rica
Learning materials:
• From Colombia with love
• Growing food, and land area
• In praise of fast food
• Stop idealizing the home-cooked family dinner
• The future of meat?
Learning Materials:
• The law of averageness
• Food truck locations
• 24x7 shopping
• What does "Made in" label mean anymore
• Humans need not apply?
Learning materials:
• The single most important object in the global economy
• Nearly 60 million displaced people in the world; read any of the stories here
• Migration and US cities
• Fewer cars in the future?
• Smart ships and smart cargo
Economic activities have impacts on the environment. Even the "green" activities have environmental impacts. Can we have economic prosperity and a clean environment at the same time, and well into the future?
• No kids = good environment?
• Poop to clean energy
• Why growth is good