Daily Archives: February 28, 2016

A Prelude to Environment and Health in the Fall 2016

In the fall 2016 semester, I will be teaching Environment and Health (SOCI 335), which examines how sociologists help to illuminate the relationship between environmental burdens and human health.  How communities mobilize around these issues is a very important component of the course.  Here’s a current example of incredible importance in St Louis, and helps to raise many questions that we try to answer in the class:

St. Louis is on the brink of crisis.A massive underground trash fire is burning perilously close to homes — and toxic nuclear waste.So why isn’t the EPA doing anything? #MicCheckNow

Posted by Mic on Thursday, February 18, 2016