Unit 1 – History of Chemicals in the Environment --alchemist, chemist, market economy, advertisements, insecticides, ethyl (leaded) gasoline, public relations, DDT, Union Carbide, pesticides, plastics, additives, non-organic, United Farm Workers, pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning dead zones, fertilizer, algae blooms, globalized markets, consumer product safety, indigenous peoples, persistent organic pollutants, American Chemistry Council. Greenpeace, greenwash, transnational corporations, Bhopal, sustainability, genetically engineered seed, Monsanto, nitrogen-based fertilizer, chemical herbicide, endocrine disruption, agribusiness, Love Canal, toxic waste, Dioxin, carcinogen, environmental justice, petro-chemical industry, environmental racism, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, West Nile Virus, organic agriculture, biodiversity, development, green revolution, genetic engineering, GMOs, horticulturalists,
nitrogen fixing, companion planting
Unit 2 – Rachel Carson -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, DDT, pesticide, balance of nature, malaria
Unit 3 – Rachel Carson -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, DDT, pesticide, carcinogen, malaria Program, thalidomide, Environmental Protection Agency, petrochemical industry, Agri-chemical
Unit 4 – Nuclear Reactor Safety-- Nuclear reactor, radiation, control room operator, meltdown, containment dome, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Unit 5 – Depleted Uranium -- Uranium, depleted uranium, enriched uranium, radioactivity, heavy metal, isotope

Unit 1 – History of Endangered Species -- Hudson Bay Company, whaling, Melville, wilderness, American Progress, slaughter of the bison, passenger pigeons, Charles Wilson Peale, Buffalo Bill, Jacques Cousteau, Greenpeace, overfishing, tropical rainforests, E. O. Wilson, ecosystems, UNEP, palm oil, Spotted Owls, Endangered Species Act, timber industry, non-native invasive species, environmentally responsible, greenwash, mountain gorillas, bushmeat, conservationist’s responsibility, hunting, animal welfare, Gray Wolf, ranching, eagles, DDT, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Indigenous Peoples
Unit 2 – Human/Animal Relations -- Green Belt Movement, Friends of the Earth, biodiversity, ecosystem services, stewardship, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Unit 3 – Northern Rockies Gray Wolf -- Endangered Species Act, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, delisting, management plan. Wyoming Game and Fish, trophy game animals, predatory animals
Unit 4 – Rainforest Biodiversity  -- Biodiversity, tropical rainforest, palm oil plantation, monoculture, Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Palm Oil Action, sustainable production
Unit 5 – Frogs and Atrazine -- Atrazine, Tyrone Hayes, Syngenta, endocrine disrupter, endocrinology, immune function, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), maximum contamination level, Data Quality Act

Lesson 1 –Framing the Debate --global warming, carbon dioxide, fossil fuels, hype, media literacy
Lesson 2 –Global Warming: Fact or Myth? -- age of instrumentation, proxy data, hockey stick graph, IPCC, sponsorship, global warming, ice core data, bore hole pollen data, tree ring data, coral core data, ocean sediment core data, scientific corroboration
Lesson 3 –Discourse or Disinformation? -- discourse, disinformation, editing, bias, scientific uncertainty, credibility, CO2 reservoir, human factors in climate change, climate memory
Lesson 4 –What is Causing Global Warming? -- atmosphere, sun cycles, volcanism, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, CFCs, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides, carbon cycle, carbon sink, carbon sequestration, fossil fuels, industrialization, forcing agent
Lesson 5 –The Consequences of Global Warming -- cyclones, ocean surface temperatures, frequence, intensity vector borne, diseases, malaria, dengue fever, lyme disease, cholera higher temperatures, available water, climate variability. pests and disease sea levels, glaciation, ice sheets, coastal deltas surface temperature, drought, severe precipitation hydrologic cycle, groundwater table, evaporation transportation, glacial retreat, potable water speciation, extinction, reproductive isolation, paleontologist, phenology news analysis, commentary, editorial, bias synergies, positive feedback loops
Lesson 6 –The Precautionary Principle -- costs and benefits, consequences, policy decisions, precautionary principle, resources, mitigation, adaptation
Lesson 7 –Assessing Carbon Footprints-- rail, truck, air, raw materials, metals, plastics, glass, fuel, recycling fertilizer, corn, grass-fed beef, land use, methane, CAFOs cotton, organic, synthetic, insecticides, pesticides, laundering energy use, electricity generation, air conditioning, efficiency digital promise, efficiency, computer systems, planned obsolescence, toxins, waste paper industry, manufacturing process, printing, carbon offsets Live Earth, carbon report, zero-net-impact, audience travel, mass transit, recycle, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, government policies, economic structure, lifestyle, moral implications, reparations, international law, personal responsibility
Lesson 8 –History of Global Warming in Media-- climate change, global warming, skeptics, Louis Agassiz, Svante Arrhenius, greenhouse effect, climate models, Rachel Carson, ecologist, global cooling, Keeling Curve, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide (CO2), fossil fuels, perturbations, anthropogenic, Earth Day, Spaceship Earth, energy policies, EPA, NOAH, ozone hole, Montreal Protocol, IPCC, GCC, James Hansen, Rio Earth Summit, Kyoto Treaty, emissions standards, George W. Bush, Al Gore, consensus, consequences, Michael Crichton, Lieberman-McCain, Hurricane Katrina, An Inconvenient Truth, legislation, “cap and trade,” Copenhagen Climate Summit, public opinion, bias, F.U.D. factor, credibility, critical thinking

Unit 1 – History of Resources Depletion --commodities, New World resources, fur trade, treaties, Northwest Territory, settlement, exploration, Gold Rush, Redwoods, Enlightenment, property, empire, Manifest Destiny, oil boom, Hoover Dam, drought, medical waste, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, commercial fishing, water footprint, WWF, the American dream, resource wars, Earth Day, Thoreau, conservation ethic, property rights, National Park Service, Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, consumption and  disposal, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, peak oil, alternative energy, Redwood Summer, Green Belt Movement, water privatization, sustainable agriculture, indigenous practices, renewable energy
Unit 2 – Damming the Rivers -- hydroelectric, Tennessee, Valley Authority, Tennessee River, Yosemite Valley, John Muir, Tuolumne River, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River
Unit 3 – Chukchi Sea Oil Drilling -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR), Chukchi Sea, Department of the Interior (DOI), Point Hope,    Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, North Slope, Pacific Environment, National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Royal Dutch Shell, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Oil lease sale, Alyeska
Unit 4 – Exxon Valdez, Oil and Water -- Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound, Alyeska Group
Unit 5 – Cochabamba, Water for Sale -- Privatization, Cochabamba, Aguas de Turnari, International Waters, Bechtel Corporation, La Coordinadora, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

Lesson 1 – What Do You Know?-- Farmers market, organic food, USDA (US Department of Agriculture), TEK (traditional ecological knowledge), BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, genetically modified crop, heirloom crop variety, green revolution, Norman Borlaug, food miles, ethanol, biofuel, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (UNFAO)
Lesson 2 – Creative Visions of the Future -- soylent green, post-apocalyptic, PCB, Clearwater, hybrid vehicle, Green Screen, water council
Lesson 3 – Defining Sustainability-- systems thinking, greenwashing, renewable energy, zero waste, risk management, common wealth, ecosystem health, social justice, environmental justice, low-carbon society
Lesson 4 – Sustainability & Media -- qualitative research, quantitative research, sample, validity
Lesson 5 – Student Media Research Project-- quantitative research, qualitative research, reliability, validity
Lesson 6 – Voices Role-Play -- genetically engineered seed, perennial polyculture, local food network, locavore, climate change, peak oil, biotechnology, agrarian, agribusiness, urban agriculture, community food security, food justice, organic food, conventionally grown crops, food desert, food insecurity, feeding programs, carbon footprint, sustainable development, water privatization, water democracy, water parliament
Lesson 7 – Farming, Community, and Sustainability -- USDA (Department of Agriculture), United Farmworkers (UFW), Farm Aid, commodity crop, community garden, migrant farm worker, community supported agriculture (CSA)
Lesson 8 – Sustainable Economics -- gross domestic product (GDP), index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW), resilience, no-growth economy, market mechanisms, blue economy, solidarity economics, Landless Workers Movement, Solidarity Economy Forum, Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural, United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives , free trade, American Farm Bureau Federation, tariff, Central American Free Trade Agreement, World Trade Organization, agricultural subsidies, free market, commodity market, government price supports, supply management programs, World Trade Organization, regulatory controls
Lesson 9 – Food Security -- community food security, culturally appropriate food, food insecurity, food availability, food access, food utilization, food production costs, biofuels, agricultural subsidies, protectionist policies, crop yields, transnational community networking, Band Aid hunger relief movement, Disaster Risk Management (DRM) approach, community resilience, World Food Prize, Oxfam, US Agency for International Development (USAID), Monsanto, Business Alliance against Chronic Hunger (BAACH), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), agricultural inputs, Millennium Promise
Lesson10 – Sustainable Cultures -- land grant university, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Whatley, crop diversification, crop rotation, cover crop, monoculture, food sovereignty, heirloom seeds, seed saving, GE (genetic engineering), GMO (genetically modified organism), milpa, biodiverse, top-seeded, fungicide, tilth, no-till farming, internment camp, agrotourism, biocultural crops, foodshed, chaquegue (corn drink), tole (cereal), perennial, annualization, pinon (pine nut), land reform, community garden, kalo or taro plant, poi
Lesson 11 – The Value of Water -- greenhouse gas, groundwater, water wars, methyl mercury, dioxin, North American Water Office, stewardship, wastewater reclamation, water utility, infrastructure, private equity, desalination, commodity, water cycle, water privatization
Lesson 12 – Who Owns the Water? -- United Water, Suez Environment, desalination, green technology, potable water, recycled water, waste water management, branding campaign, Dine, Navajo nation, Northeastern Indian Water Rights Settlement Agreement, tribal council, Rajendra Singh, Ghopalpura village, water conservation, water harvesting, recharge, aquifer, Irrigation Drainage Act
Lesson 13 – Consumerism & Sustainability -- International Bottled Water Association, the Story of Stuff Project, consumerism, manufactured demand, product life cycle, downcycle
Lesson 14 – BP Oil and Gulf Fisheries -- British Petroleum (BP), Deepwater Horizon, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), unintended consequences
Lesson 15 – Who Stewards Seeds? -- planting stick, tassel, pollen, pollination method, open-pollinated, cross pollination, cultivar, controlled cross, zea mays, teosinte, outcrop, diclinous, monoecious, anther, silks, ear, kernel, seed research program, hybrid seed, product advancement trial, agronomist, formal seed system, informal seed system, poverty cycle, conventional crop , BT (biotech) crop, genetically engineered crops, crop yield, pesticide, monoculture, livestock chain
Lesson 16 – Green Revolution -- Norman Borlaug, green revolution, population growth, plant breeding, hybrid crops, nitrogen fertilizer, Haber process agricultural inputs, monocrop agriculture, soil depletion, water depletion, genetically modified crops, organic farming, deforestation, peak oil
Lesson 17 – Guiding Our Food Choices -- USDA, nutrition facts label, food guide pyramid, basic four food groups, dietary guidelines, vegan diet, dairy substitutes, federal food production subsidies, federal nutrition recommendations, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), impact assessment, carbon offset, wild-caught seafood, stewardship farming, GMO-free, CSA (community supported agriculture), bioregional diet, food miles, food sovereignty, community food security, fair trade
Lesson 18 – Biofuels  -- biofuel, corn ethanol, commodity, Renewable Fuels Standards, production cap, flex fuel vehicle, soil degradation, Conservation Reserve Program, dead zone, deforestation, ethanol lobby, ethanol subsidy
Lesson 19 – Transitioning to a Sustainable Future -- ecovillage, vegan, biotechnology, GMO crops, biofuels, fair trade, vermiculture, composting, food justice, post-carbon community, water footprint, community supported agriculture (CSA), dryland farming, Habitat for Humanity, vertical farm, locavore, in vitro meat, no-till farming, food security

Lesson 20 –Climate Change, Agriculture & Sustainability--biochar, bioenergy, biogas, biotechnology, carbon pool, carbon sequestration, ClimAID report, deforestation, food security, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, heat stress, manure management, methane capture, mitigation, perennial crop, polyculture, stress tolerant trait, three sisters garden, tillage, value added product, water management
Lesson 21– Bioregional Economy -- agri-tourism, bioregion, Building Bridges, commodity, community supported agriculture (CSA), ecoregion, forest product, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy, high tunnel agriculture, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, natural resource enterprise, relocalized food system, Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council, value-added product, worker cooperativer
Lesson 22– Watershed Stakeholders -- Erie canal, evaporation, hydrofracking, hydrologic cycle, infiltration, irrigation, Marcellus shale, microclimate, precipitation, runoff, slickwater process, stakeholder, surface flow, transpiration, underground flow, uptake, watershed
Lesson 23–Onondaga Lake --biocultural restoration, Clean Water Act, Community Health and Safety Plan, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), groundwater, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, Honeywell International, NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Onondaga Environmental Institute, Onondaga Lake Superfund Site, Onondaga Nation, remediation, watershed
Lesson 24– Hydrofracking, Media & Credibility -- ANGA (American Natural Gas Association), aquifer, Clean Water Act, Energy in Depth, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), exemption, fracking, Gasland, gas lease, groundwater, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, Josh Fox, Marcellus shale, natural gas
Lesson 25– Sustainable Food Security Systems -- agricultural land footprint, agroecosystem, carbon footprint, commodity, community garden, community supported agriculture (CSA), cooperative extension, culturally appropriate food, ecovillage, efficiency of scale, energy descent, entrepreneur, farmers market, food bank, food desert, food justice, food miles, food security, food sovereignty, food stamps, foodshed, hunger relief program, land trust, locavore, market gardener, migrant farmworker, peak oil, raised bed gardening, staple food, urban farm, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Lesson 26– Traditional and Industrial Farminge -- agribusiness, artisanal cheese, biofuel, boutique dairy, Columbian Exchange, concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), conventional farming, crop biodiversity, ethanol, genetic diversity, genetically modified (GMO) seed, heirloom seed, heritage breed, hybrid seed, Iroquois white corn project, locavore, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, open pollinated seed, proprietary trait, Seed Savers Exchange, staple food, three sisters agriculture, traditional ecological knowledge, yield