5 journal entries, one for each link below. 4 paragraphs for each entry.

.  Each entry should be 4 paragraphs.  The entries can discuss an idea in the readings for that week, or an ethical question that you have been thinking about for some time, or an environmental issue that you have read about in the press or for another course, or you can explore ideas that occurred to you while on a hike or a camping trip, or you can respond to a point made by other students in class or in their journals.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-449-end-of-nature-spring-2002/readings/lecture10.pdf

http://www.idph.net/conteudos/ebooks/republic.pdf

http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/chapter_5.html

http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/chapter_6.html

http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/chapter_7.html