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22 days

1. Overview, grading assignments
   • Basic Skills Evaluation
   • Energy Source, Range, and Goal: An overview of renewable energy inc global warming and peak oil
   • Class redesign, metering
   • Assignments: Read "Power to the people" "The Hive"
2. Concept of heat and energy
   • Energy calculation lab
   • Introduction to Wikis
   • Assignments: "Entropy and the second law"
3. Using Energy Wisely: Efficiency and Factor 10
   • Assignments: Natural Capitalism exerpt, "If it's Not Efficient it's Not Beautiful," Lovins article, Lonnie article, Lovins cartoon
4. The Sun as an Energy Source
   • Work on projects
   • Assignments: Lovins or Mcdonough Atlantic monthly article or Other Homes and Garbage
5. A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Technology
   • Basic Electricty Lab
   • Misc energy conversions
   • Assignments: Mollison article, IRENEW schedule, peruse IRENEW Web site
6. IRENEW Expo Saturday and Sunday
   • Assignments: Interview an IRENEW Expo speaker and either write up a summary of the interview (1-3 pages), do a digital media presentation of the interview (3-10 minutes), or do an oral report in class. (5-10 minutes). Extra 25 points if you do an interview suitable for PODCAST or broadcast on radio.
7. Photovoltaics: the Magic of electricity from the sun
   • Solar Thermal Electricity
   • Solar Powered Classroom/VI Curves
   • Home scale system design
   • Assigments: Lonnie's article, Richard Komp, HP article on how PVs are made
8. Heat from the Sun: Solar Thermal Processes
   • Solar Hot Water lab
   • Assignments: Home Power Magazine assignment due tomorrow
9. The Politics of Energy: World, National, State and Local Energy Policy
   • Assignments: Lovins Cartoon
10. Energy Flow in Buildings/Daylighting/LEED
    • Assignments: Natural Capitalism excerpt, Lonnie article, IAMU Web site or other building case study Web site, daylighting article, browse the cool daylighting collaborative Web site
11. Building Energy Calculations
    • Building energy modeling
    • Assignments: Building energy flow made simple; Peruse Web for high performance building case studies (http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/database/results.cfm?search=all)
12. Wind Energy
    • Bill Todoroff, Hazen Lamere
    • Wind power lab/blade carving
    • Assignment: British Wind Energy Association article, Other Homes and Garbage on wind, OR policy article on large scale wind
13. Engineering economics
    • Work on Projects
    • Assignment: Natural Capitalism chapter 6
14. Energy from flowing water: Hydro, Tidal, Wave, Current
    • Energy Case Study – Oakland Mills
    • Guest Don Pitman
    • Assignment: Other Homes and Garbage water section
15. Bioenergy Pathways
    • Assignment: Browse web for info on the carbohydrate economy, also called the bioeconomy
16. Something fresh on your table every day: Energy and Agriculture
    • misc energy conversions
    • Assignment: Coleman article, Anna Eddy Solvivia article/Web site (or audio clip from Bioneers)
17. Field Trip
18. Energy, Transportation, and the design of human settlements
    • Biodiesel Demo/Josh
    • Film: Soleri's cities
    • Assignment: Ecocities excerpt
19. Project work day
20. What kind of world do we want to create?
    • The Problems: Global warming/peak oil (selling Fords vs solar powered economy – the negative vs the positive spin
    • The Solar Economy
    • Ecocities
    • Hydrogen economy
    • Social, cultural political implications
    • Soleri film
    • Assignments:
      • Lovins: "Myths about Hydrogen"
      • Power from the People Excerpt
      • Village Homes article
      • Ecocities vision
      • Greyberg vs Greendale
      • Lonnie community scale solutions article
21. Project work day
22. Project presentations