Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Blog Post #1


            I decided to take Green Politics this semester because I hope to gain a better understanding of the green political movement both on a national and international level.  During my first semester of freshman year at USC, I took Poli121: Green Explorations and was able to gain some insight into what green values are.  I therefore hope to expand upon this knowledge and learn how these values are translated into the political world. 
            What interests me about green politics is that it really recognizes the importance of the environment and is willing to give environmental issues the attention that they need.  I am also intrigued by the non-hierarchical structure that is often incorporated in green politics.  When I think of politics, I often think of hierarchy so it’s refreshing to learn that a political system exists that makes an effort to step away from the traditional hierarchical design structure.
            In this course, I hope to explore what is really means to be “green”.  I am especially excited to participate on one of the project teams of Sustainable Carolina and I feel that this experience will really help expand upon my own ideas of what I believe to be “green”.  More specifically, I am excited to learn about the green political thought topics that we will be studying in class because I do not know much about any of the topics but I think that they all sound very interesting.  

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