Sustainability Project

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    Final Report of The Sustainability Project
    (2012) Goddu, Teresa A.; Spires, Derrick; Luis, Gabriela
    The 2011-2012 academic school year marked a series of speakers, courses, road trips, films, and conferences, which together formed the Program in American Studies Sustainability Project. Greater than the contribution of any individual event, the yearlong proceedings heightened the atmosphere of environmental awareness on Vanderbilt’s campus. Our ultimate goal for this year of programming was to create a campus-wide conversation that would embolden Vanderbilt's efforts toward sustainability while deepening our understanding of what we are working toward.
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    Sustainability Project website
    (Vanderbilt University, 2012) Program in American Studies
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    Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
    (2012-02-09) Gleick, Peter
    Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism"
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    Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons
    (2012-03-01) Ostrom, Elinor
    Dr. Elinor Ostrom gave this lecture on the commons and the theory of collective action on March 1, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in economics, which has been awarded since 1969; Ostrom won in 2009. She was known for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons, and for developing -- along with her olleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University -- the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, which enables them to analyze diversely structured markets, hierarchies, common-property regimes and local public economies using a common set of universal components. Dr. Ostrom passed away from pancreatic cancer June 12, 2012.
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    The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly
    (2012-03-29) Bollier, David
    David Bollier gave this lecture on "The Commons" in general, with emphasis on the management of the commons on March 29, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Bollier calls his work “focused on reclaiming the commons, understanding how digital technologies are changing democratic culture, fighting the excesses of intellectual property law, fortifying consumer rights and promoting citizen action.”
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    Final Report of The Sustainability Project: 2012-2013
    (Vanderbilt University. American Studies.Sustainability Project, 2013) Goddu, Teresa A.; Luis, Gabriela
    The 2012-2013 school year marked the final iteration of Sustainability Project programming. We aimed to continue the discourse that began in 2011: to heighten the atmosphere of environmental awareness on Vanderbilt’s campus. The ultimate goal for these two years of programming was to create a campus-wide conversation that would embolden Vanderbilt's efforts toward sustainability while deepening our understanding of what we are working toward.
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    Sustainability Project Events: Overview webpage
    (Vanderbilt University, 2013) Program in American Studies