Place Studies

Tag: sustainability

  • The Environmental Humanities Reading Group

    The Environmental Humanities Reading Group

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    Rachel Chou
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    The Environmental Humanities Reading Group acts as a support group, a voluntary seminar, a cool kids club, whatever you want to call it, that brings faculty from various departments together with a common interest in holding intellectual discussions concerning the environment. The Environmental Humanities Reading Group presents that there is an equal role that Humanists…

  • Place Studies Summer Projects: Genuine Progress Indicator

    Place Studies Summer Projects: Genuine Progress Indicator

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    Rachel Chou
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    This summer, Zach Moon worked on the creation of a Genuine Progress Index for Pennsylvania, the first of it’s kind. A Genuine Progress Index, or GPI for short, is a metric used to measure the health of a nations economy. While it is similar to the more commonly known GDP (Growth Domestic Product), the GDI…