GEOG156

Description

The biggest challenge to addressing climate change is to mobilize and activate scalable solutions for achieving carbon neutrality across all sectors of society.The goal of this course is to learn about, and apply, a quantitative approach to sizing up the technical potential of a range of clean energy and low carbon technologies and practices that can support the necessary transition to a zero-carbon society.Students will explore clean energy solutions applicable for electricity supply, heating and cooling, transportation and more. In parallel, students will investigate climate change mitigation policies and actions being pursued in Massachusetts, in New England, in the U.S., and around the world.Students will also apply their emerging understanding of clean energy solutions to the case of Clark University to examine what Clark might do to achieve carbon neutrality.This course satisfies the Formal Analysis requirement by emphasizing quantitative analysis as a basis for critical reasoning about of the opportunities of various technologies for meeting the clean energy challenge, including symbolic equations used for quantitative assessments and for modeling alternative outcomes.