DOCUMENT RESUME ED 193 100 SO 012 722 AUTHOR Elwood, Ann TITLE A Sourcebock fcr Energy and the Way We Live. Courses by Newspaper. INSTITUTION California Oniv., San Diego. Oniv. Extension. SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, D.C. PUB CATE 80 NOTE 73p.: For related documents, see SO 012 723-724. AVAILABLE FRCM Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, 3627 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 ($2.95 plus $0.75 postage and handling) EDFS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Adult Educaticn: Books: *Energy: Energy Conservation: *Environmental Education: Films: Higher Education: Learning Activities; Newspapers: Organizations (Groups): Postsecondary Educaticn: Resource Materials: Social Studies: Solar Radiation: Teaching Guides: Teaching Methcds: United States History: Units of Study: World Problems IDENTIFIERS Courses by Newspaper: *Energy Consumption: Energy CrisiS ABSTRACT The guide presents teaching suggestions and lists resources to to used with the twelfth Course by Newspaper, "Energy and the Way We Live." Courses by Newspaper is a program presenting college-level courses to the public through the cooperation of newspapers and participating colleges. Other components of this course are the Article Booklet (SO 012 723) and the Reader/Study Guide (SO 012 724) . The guide is divided into four sections. Section I describes hcw to use this course, including a list of national participatinc organizations, and a statement of objectives and needed planning. Section II offers teaching suggestions for 15 lesscns focusing on cur energetic lifestyle, the energy crisis, the history of energy use, waste, recent energy patterns, use in other countries, international politics relating to energy, nuclear and solar energy, synthetic fuels, and future choices and tradeoffs. Each lesson includes suggesticns for background readings from the Reader/Study Guide, periodicals, and books, as well as discussion questions and activity suggestions. The activities make heavy use of experts as speakers and films, but also include making an ongoing rating chart, a questionnaire, and an energy index: debating: and making comparisons. Section III presents an annotated list of national crlanizaticns and their publications, while Section IV annotates the films suggested in the lessons. 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Energy and the Way WeLive by Ann Elwood Courses by Newspaper A project of University Extension University of California, San Diego Funded by the National Endowmentfor the Humanities Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company San Francisco IEl 2 PREFACE This book of resource materials and suggestions is designed for use with the twelfth Course by News- paper,Energy and the Way WeLive, as well as with a National Issues Forum of the same title developed by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges. Other components in the Course by Newspaper are fifteen newspaper articles, a Reader, and a Study Guide. A Calendar of Issues, an introductory film narrated by Bill Moyers, and suggestions for partici- pation inEnergy and the Way We Live: A National Issues Forumare also available. In addition, begin- ning in January, 1980, National Public Radio's seven-part series of half-hour documentaries, en- titled "Energy and the Way We Live," will be broad- cast by member stations. A Listener's Guide will be available. Audio-cassettes utilizing these programs are also being developed. Everything in this book is planned to help program organizers, educators, and civic and group leaders develop community forums based on the Course by Newspaper (CbN) and National Issues Forum topics forEnergy and the Way We Live. The CbN project is generously funded and sup- ported by the National Endowment for the Humani- ties. It is directed by George A. Coiburn, project director, and Jane L. Scheiber, editorial director. The annotated film list was researched underthe oirection of Nadine Covert of the Educational Film Library Association. Ann Elwood A SOURCE BOOK FOR ENERGY AND THE WAY WE LIVE A Courses by Newspaper Publication Published by Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company 3627 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 e 1979 by the Regents of the University of California All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-87835-091-8 2 3 4 5 3 21 0 9 3 CONTENTS CORRELATION: Energy and the Way We Live: A National issues Forum Calendar with Courses by Newspaper Topics 4 SECTION ONE How to Use the Courses by Newspaper Topics 5 Introduction 5 Topic Outline 5 Using the Topics to Plan Programs 6 The Courses by Newspaper Program 6 Energy and the Way We Live: A National Issues Forum 7 National Public Radio: Energy and the Way We Live 8 Who Else Is Involved? 9 Advance Planning 9 For College Instructors 10 National Public Radio Member Stations 11 SECTION TWO Program Suggestions 12 SECTION THREE Resources 33 Part One: List of Organizations, Agencies, and Groups 33 Part Two: State Humanities Committees 49 SECTION FOUR An Annotated Film List 52 4 CORRELATION: Calendar of Issues for National Issues Forum with Courses by Newspaper Topics AND THE WAY WE WE This chart correlates Section Tivo of the Source Book with the National Issues Forum Calendar of Issues in order to give community forum leaders ready reference to program resources and suggestions directly tied to topics. In several instances, the CbN topics are relevant to more than one Forum Issue. National Issues Forum Pages in Dates CbNTopics CalendarofIssues Source Book FebruaryThe Developing Energy Crisis: A Long Tradition 1-16 The Sources of Concern: Crisis or 1. Our Energetic Lifestyle 13 -14 Problem? 2. "Cry Havoc" or "Cry Wolf"? The Nature of the "Energy Crisis" 14-15 17-23 The Search for Solutions 2. "Cry Havoc" or "Cry Wolf"? The Nature of the "Energy Crisis" 14-15 24March Growth Through Energy: The 3. Substitutes for Human Muscle: Past Crises 15-16 American Past 4. Multiplying Energy: 19th and 20th Century Developments 16-17 March Energy: What Matters Most? 2-8 Energy and the Good Life I. Our Energetic Lifestyle 13-14 5.Plenty and Profligacy: Energy and Growth in America 17-18 6. Prelude to Crisis 19-20 9-15 Energy: Patterns of Living and 1. Our Energetic Lifestyle 13-14 Working 5. Plenty and Profligacy: Energy and Growth in America 17-18 16-22 Energy and Our Political and 2. "Cry Havoc" or "Cry Wolf?" The Nature of the Economic Institutions "Energy Crisis.' 14-15 5. Plenty and Profligacy: Energy and Growth in America 17-18 6. Prelude to Crisis 19-20 7. Other People, Other Patterns of Energy Use 20-21 8. The International Politics of Energy 21-22 23-29 Energy ... With Justice Far All i. Our Energetic Lifestyle 13-14 8. The International Politics of Energy 21-22 9. The Global Lifeboat: Energy and the Third World 23-24 April Finding the Path to an Uncertain Future March 30 Energy: Decisio- and Tradeoffs 8. The International Politics of Energy 21-22 April 5 10. Conventional Fuels in Transition 24-25 11. Nuclear Energy: A Faustian Bargain? 25-26 15, Choosing Our Future: Choices and Tradeoffs 31-32 6-12 Energy Self-Sufficiency and Global 8. The International Politics of Energy 21-22 Interdependence 9. The Global Lifehoat: Energy and the Third World 23-24 13-19 Future Options and Hard Choices 10. Conventional Fuels in Transition 24-25 11. Nuclear Energy: A Faustian Bargain? 25-26 12. Solar Energy and "Appropriate Technologies" 27-28 13. Making Our Own: Synthetic Fuels 28-29 14. More Through Less: Effective Energy Use 29-30 15. Choosing Our Future: Choices and Tradeoffs 31-32 4 5 SECTION ONE How to Use the Courses byNewspaper Topics Introduction Topic Outline A dedicated jogger transports her 125-pound body The following is a list of topics that can be used for in her 3000-pound automobile two miles to her favo- weekly or monthly meetings on energy. Tney are rite track, where she runs twelve quarter-mile circles based on Courses by Newspaper's Winter/Spring, before getting into her car again and driving home. 1980, program, Energy and the Way We Lire. Many The nct energy expenditurc: one quart of gasoline of them correlate with the issues of Energy and the and 300 calories. The jogger is an energy spender. Way We Live: A National Issues Forum. (See pp. 4 So are we all. Every living creature is. and 7). In the United States, we have until recently lived Part One: The Current Energy Dilemma in an El Dorado of energy, which has allowed us to burn it without thoughtto be spendthrifts, not just 1. Our Energetic Lifetsyle spenders. How do the lifestyles of vaeous groups of Amer- But lately we have been humbled: by the accident icans affect the way they use energy? at Three Mile Island, which caused a crisis of confi- 2. "Cry Havoc" or "Cry Wolf"? The Nature of the dence in nuclear power, znd by the shortage of petro- "Energy Crisis" leum, which is causing us to suffer gas lines and liv- How did we get into this fix? And how real is the ing quarters that are uncomfortably warm or cold. "crisis"? How did we get into this fix? Is it just that we're greedy? Or is the mobility that a car affords an un- Part Two: "Lessons" from the Past: Problems, Solu- alienable right of a free-wheeling American, and the tions, and More Problems current squeeze on energy supplies somc kind of 3.