Day 2    Misconceptions    Earth, Moon, Planets   Time and culture  Solar Sys & Universe Radioactivity  Earth’s Age  Solar Constant   Sunspots  Water and Earth Solar Heating  Heat Capacity    Energy & Latitude  Sundials  Sea Breezes   Carbon Dioxide  Boulder Garden  Urban Geology

Day 2  - Carol MacLennan (camac@mtu.edu)

Suggested Resources

Good introductory treatments on indigenous worldviews,  knowledge,  and ecological thinking:

Berkes, Fikret. 2008. Sacred Ecology. NY: Routledge.

Cajete, Gregory.  2000. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, NM:  Clear Light Publishers.

Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar. 2006.  A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit. 2nd Edition.   Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Useful Web sources on different cultures of time:

“Time: A Native Perspective.” National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution).  Digital recordings of  the native perspective on the concept of time.

“ The Sami Concept of Time.”  University of Texas.  Anthropology.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/sami/dieda/anthro/concept-time.htm

Polynesian Voyaging:

Films:  Wayfinding: A Pacific Odyssey. PBS.

Informative web page: http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/about.html

Polynesian Voyaging Society (Hawai`i’s revival of voyaging)

http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/

Linear Time

Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

Secret Powers of time

Cultural aspects of Time

Time in our lives

The Long Now Clock