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The Doctoral Students Council is holding elections to the OpenCUNY Governance Committee. OpenCUNY users can vote by following this link, where you login in and select up to four candidates to join the OpenCUNY Coordinator in developing the terms of participation.

I began my relationship with OpenCUNY two years ago when I created this site for my research. I also created another site to be a public HUB for members of the Nature Ecology Society Network. At times I have pushed the boundaries of what is possible via the OpenCUNY / free wordpress platform such as memory, media upload and template limitations; while at other times I have been completely impressed by pre-exisiting functionality that met or exceeded my needs, such as the Event Registration form functionality. As a frequent aOpenCUNY user and advocate, I have many grounded ideas to increase its usability and public profile.

I welcome the opportunity to build upon th efforts of the early OpenCUNY pioneers by supporting, guiding and advocating for its strategic development.

If you are an OpenCUNY user, cast your vote here!

Sincerely,

Shawndel Fraser

Vote Shawndel into the OpenCUNY Committee!

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Timeline of American Environmentalism and Car Culture

A work in progress, I created this timeline as a research aid and data storage tool. It lists what I understand to be key events in the development of American environmentalism, car culture and related policy, and of course some of the ads you will find on this blog. It is my hope that the ads will serve as cultural and visual markers whereby it is made more apparent they way the auto industry engages with the environmental movement by confusing consumer perceptions of nature and the role of automobiles in environmental degradation.

As the discourse unfolds and my research deepens, I will continue to populate this timeline with various media. It will serve as an a [linear] companion to this blog. It also foreshadows the additional software containing supplemental information that I will include at a later date. My hope is to provide you with multiple ways of engaging with this historical information, my literature base and visual data so as to sparking interesting conversation between us.

Any mistakes on this timeline are completely unintentional. If you happen to note a glaring omission or mistake, please do let me know. If you have a reliable or helpful source that you think I should refer to, please do not hesitate to send me the information to thinkfeelgrow@gmail.com.

Onward!

Myths of Nature in post-WWII National Geographic Car Advertisements by Shwandel N. Fraser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Toyota Lifts a Local Economy

Myths of Nature in post-WWII National Geographic Car Advertisements by Shwandel N. Fraser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.