Reminder, current events journal entry #2 due Monday, April 13.  Extra credit opportunity, Merchants of Doubt, now playing in select Portland theaters:  view and complete a one-page response.

Homework included FIVE passage /response entries from the introduction to This Changes Everything:  Capitalism and the Climate.  In addition, add THREE big questions that come out of the reading for you; TWO shocking facts; and the ONE most compelling argument she makes in the selection.

Don't forget, our first current even journal is due MONDAY - two entries for the week of 3/30-4/3

EXTERNALITIES - cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit; the consequence that is experienced by unrelated third parties.

OPPORTUNITY COSTS  - a benefit, profit or value of something that must be given up to achieve something else; the value of the next best alternative which is mutually exclusive from the first choice.  This is closely tied with the concept of scarcity - that there are limited amounts of resources (raw materials, time, happiness) and that we must choose; but at a cost.


1.  how does this simulation work/not work as a market model?
2.  in real life, what are the externalities of this "game"?
3.  opportunity costs?

for the reading:  complete a passage response journal of at least FIVE entries (passage/your response)

Media Sources Along the Spectrum

More Right Wing

http://www.nationalreview.com/ The National Review

http://www.washingtontimes.com/ The Washington Times

http://www.foxnews.com/ Fox News

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ The Washington Post

More Centrist

http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times (requires log in, or enter via LHS)

http://www.reuters.com/ Reuters, news feed

http://www.ap.org/  Associated Press, news feed

http://www.theguardian.com/us The Guardian, Great Britain

http://america.aljazeera.com/ Al Jazeera America

http://www.afp.com/ Agence France Press

More Left Wing

http://www.democracynow.org/ Democracy Now

http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet

http://www.commondreams.org/ Common Dreams

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/  The Intercept

Regional or issue focused

http://af.reuters.com/  Reuters Africa

http://www.merip.org/  Middle East Research and Information Project

http://www.enn.com/ environmental news network

http://www.ips.org/institutional/ “voice to the voiceless”

http://newamericamedia.org/ news, search by ethnicity

http://womensenews.org/ women

http://www.edgeofsports.com/ progressive sports

TPP materials HERE

For Monday:  What is the most important lesson we can learn from NAFTA?  If you want access to the articles we had around the room, see them here.  This writing should be about a page in length.

Have the following questions answered for Friday:

NAFTA DEBRIEF QUESTIONS:

1. List what you think would be likely to increase or grow as a result of NAFTA +/-?
2. How do you think NAFTA has affected you personally?
3. On the day NAFTA took effect, January 1, 1994, the Zapatistas, an armed group made up of largely poor and indigenous farmers in the Mexican state of Chiapas, launched a rebellion against the Mexican government.  Why might they have chosen that date to begin their uprising?