Jack Hassard

Silent Springs of Past

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 22, 2007 | Environment

Today is Earthday, 2007. On today’s CBS News Sunday Morning Program, one of the feature stories was The Legacy of “Silent Spring.” We all now know that Rachel Carson, the author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring...

The Green Year?

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 21, 2007 | Environment

Tomorrow is the year 2007 Earth Day, which started in 1970. Could the year 2007 be the Green Year, the tipping year in which government and industry embraced the importance of environmental sustainability just as the public is...

How to teach science education courses real good?

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 15, 2007 | Teacher Education

Science methods courses ought to be just as interesting and exciting as the best high school geology or physics class. How to teach science education courses to achieve this goal is the subject of this weblog entry. We’ve...

Goldilocks Climates: Do You Live in One?

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 3, 2007 | Environment

In today’s NYTimes, Andrew C. Revkin, the outstanding science reporter and writer, published an article entitled Wealth and Poverty, Drought and Flood: Reports from 4 Fronts in the War on Warming. In it he compares and...

US Supreme Court to EPA: Regulate Emissions

Posted by Jack Hassard | Apr 2, 2007 | Environment, Issues

The US Supreme Court ruled (5 – 4) that the EPA must regulate emissions from cars, and also took the EPA to task for giving lame reasons why it should NOT regulate emissions. The decision rendered in the case MASSACHUSETTS...