Environmental Studies 12602:
The Planetary Consequences of Human Diet

Gidon Eshel
401 Hinds
Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences
5734 S. Ellis Ave.
The Univ. of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: (773) 702-0440
Home: (773) 955-4058
Email:geshel@uchicago.edu





  • Class Time: Tu/Th, 3:00-4:20
  • Class Location: 101 Hinds Geophysical Sciences Bldg., 5734 S. Ellis Ave.
  • TA: Julia Barzyk (Email:jsf1@uchicago.edu; Phone: 5-6697; Office: 581 Hinds)
  • Reading Meterial
  • The basic Idea (Non-Syllabus)
  • Class 1: Introduction, in either PDF or PowerPoint formats
  • Class 2: Vegeterianism and Related Topics in PowerPoint format
  • Class 3: Subsidies and Related Topics, in either html or PowerPoint formats
  • Class 4: Water adn Soil Erosion, in either html or PowerPoint formats
  • Waht Should One Eat!?
  • Linear Programming
  • Homework 1
  • Final Project
  • a great article by Michael Pollan (The New York Times, 10/12/2003)
  • and another great article by Patrcik Martins ( The New York Times, 11/24/2003)