8 episodes

Food and the Built Environment, Winter 2012 Claire Napawan

- Science

This lunchbag lecture course on food and the built environment will include urban agriculture, community gardens, resource management, homesteading, sustainability, green infrastructure, urban farms, tacosheds, community-supported agriculture, night soil, calories, waste and more.

- MAR 9, 2012
- video
The Environmental Designer's Role

The Environmental Designer's Role

Lecture 9: Professor Napawan continues her lecture on communal food production in urban gardens, the first part of which was Lecture 7 given on 2/24/12.
- 37 min
- MAR 2, 2012
- video
What Exactly Are We Attempting to Sustain?

What Exactly Are We Attempting to Sustain?

Lecture 8: Guest speaker Adam Prince, who focuses on urban food production, discusses urban agriculture, transcultural exchange and community building.
- 52 min
- FEB 24, 2012
- video
Communal Gardening for Food Production

Communal Gardening for Food Production

Lecture 7: Professor Napawan gives a primer on communal food production in urban gardens, which is on the scale somewhere between "empty lot" gardens and "boutique" yet commercial farms.
- 46 min
- FEB 17, 2012
- video
Urban Agriculture and Landscape Architects

Urban Agriculture and Landscape Architects

Lecture 6: Ellen Burke discusses the interaction between aesthetics and necessity.
- 41 min
- FEB 10, 2012
- video
The Complexities of Local Food

The Complexities of Local Food

Lecture 5: UC Davis' Ryan Galt discusses the concepts of food miles, greenhouse gas emissions and the complexities of local food.
- 46 min
- FEB 3, 2012
- video
Discussion of the Film "Food, Inc." by Robert Kenner

Discussion of the Film "Food, Inc." by Robert Kenner

Lecture 4: Professor Napawan introduces Robert Kenner's film.
- 46 min