Education - Gaia
See also, "Sustainability"
Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. Smith, Gregory A. and Dilafruz R. Williams, editors. Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and Environment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Sobel, David. "Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education." Orion 14, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): 11-17. Reprinted as Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaimning the Heart in Nature Education, Nature Litearacy Series No. 1 (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1996). Sobel, David. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities. Nature Literacy Series No. 4. Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 2004. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. Back issues online http://www.uleth.ca/edu/research/ictrd/cjee/ Center for Ecoliteracy. Resources page http://www.ecoliteracy.org/resources/books-and-journals Children & Nature Network http://www.childrenandnature.org/ Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education http://www.sustainabilityed.org/ Cobbscook Community Learning Center. An example of an organization that combines EE, arts, local culture, and activism to serve their community http://www.thecclc.org/ Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit http://www.esdtoolkit.org/ Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) http://www.eetap.org/ Environmental Education Resources. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/recycle/educat.htm EE Link. Resources for Environmental Educators http://eelink.net/ Environmental Education & Communication organizations worldwide. Click on the map region http://www.greencom.org/greencom/regions.asp Evolution Resources From the National Academies http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/ Exploring the Environment. Online modules for students & teachers (Gr. 5-12). http://www.cotf.edu/ete/ Geographical Association (UK). Teaching geography on all levels http://www.geography.org.uk/ GreenCOM. USAID's environmental education & communication site http://www.greencom.org/index.asp Ground Water & Drinking Water: An Expert Guide for Kids. Lots of links http://www.partstap.com/ground-water-and-drinking-water-an-expert-guide-for-kids.aspx Journal of Environmental Education. Searchable archives http://www.heldref.org/jenve.php National Center for Science Education. Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools http://www.ncseweb.org/default.asp National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education Professional development guidelines & resources http://www.naaee.org/pages/npeee/index.html New England Environmental Education Alliance http://www.neeea.org/ North American Association for Environmental Education Home page: http://www.naaee.org Resources: http://www.naaee.org/resources/index.php Ocean Explorer. Education site http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ The Outdoor Resource. Conservation Education Network http://outdoorresource.org/resources/ Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/place.htm Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative. Lots of resources http://www.peecworks.org/ Place-Based Education: Learning to be where we are http://legacy.lclark.edu/faculty/gasmith/objects/placebaseded.pdf Place-Based Education Research and Studies: An Annotated Bibliography http://www.peecworks.org/PEEC/PEEC_Gen/02E46448-007EA7AB.0/Rosenthal%202008%20PBE%20Annotated%20Bibliography.pdf Promise of Place. Place-based education http://www.promiseofplace.org/forums/ Restoring Ecological Citizenship http://mather.ar.utexas.edu/students/cadlab/GrowthForum/2002papers/Light.html Rodale Institute. Kids education site http://www.kidsregen.org/ Rural Schools and Community Trust http://www.ruraledu.org/ Sense of place. Special issue of EE News published by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (PDF file) http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/bureau/education/pdf/EEWinter01.pdf State Survey: Results of the Third Survey of the Status of EE on the State Level http://www.naaee.org/about-naaee/affiliates/states-survey-introductory-synthesis Understanding Evolution for Teachers (learning & teaching evolution) http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27234&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO International Directory of Environmental Education Institutions http://www.unesco.org/education/environment/index.shtml UNESCO Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/ Vermont Landscape Change learning resources http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/learn/photo_sets.html "Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Biological Education: A Call to Action." Robin Wall Kimmerer (PDF file_ http://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/weaving.pdf Wind energy education resources http://www.awea.org/education/ Alternative Energy Sources. Basic introduction with links http://www.cc.utah.edu/~ptt25660/tran.html American Solar Energy Association http://www.ases.org/ American Wind Energy Association http://www.awea.org/resources/ Asia Alternative Energy Program. World Bank site http://www.worldbank.org/astae/about.htm Biomass Energy http://www.biomasscenter.org/resources.html Break the Chain and end our dependence on oil. (NRDC site in cooperation with Syriana producer) http://www.nrdc.org/breakthechain/syriana1.asp Center for Alternative Technology links page. Europe's leading eco-centre, with information on renewable energy, environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems. http://www.cat.org.uk/links/links.tmpl?subdir=links&cart=11012210025869162 Destination Earth. Cartoon short, petroleum industry propaganda from 1956 http://www.archive.org/details/Destinat1956 Energy Bulletin http://www.energybulletin.net/ Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium http://www.geoexchange.com/ Methane Hydrate. (See also, " ") Gas Hydrate Info. http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/hydrates/ Gas Hydrate Web Sites. http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/hydrates/external.html Global Inventory of Natural Gas Hydrate Occurrence. http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/globalhydrate/ Mining Methane. Audio of CBC program. http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/03-04/jan03.html National Renewable Energy Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/ T. Boone Pickens energy alternatives plan for the USA http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/ Renewable Energy Sources. Lots of links http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/phys162.html Worldwatch Institute renewable energy resources http://www.worldwatch.org/features/renewables/ Defining Impact Assessment http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eia/define.html Environmental Impact Assessment, Index of Web Sites. International Links. http://www.iaia.org/eialist.html Environmental Impact Assessment/Strategic Environmental Assessment Databases. UK site http://www.art.man.ac.uk/EIA/databases/index.htm National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). U.S. EPA site http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ Bramwell, Anna. Ecology in the 20th Century: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Dunlap, Riley E. and Angela G. Mertigs, editors. American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1992. Dunlap, Thomas R. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future. Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1996. Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993. Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming. New York: Viking, 2007. Helvarg, David. The War Against the Greens: The "Wise-Use" Movement, the New Right, and the Browning of America. Revised and updated. Boulder: Johnson Books, 2004. Lewis, Martin W. Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. McCormick, John. Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York: Routledge, 1992. Ray, Dixy Lee, with Lou Guzzo. Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1993. Rosebrough, Craig. Buring Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. New York: Lantern Books, 2004. Scheffer, Victor B. The Shaping of Environmentalism in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. Ages of Gaia Exposed http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e0.html Caste From the Past: Environmentalism's elistist tinge has roots in the movement's history http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/03/08/klingle/index.html Forging Envioronmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments. Online Book Companion http://www.cceia.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5367 Center for Environmental Philosophy, publishers of the journal Environmental Ethics. Includes an index of the journal http://www.cep.unt.edu/ "Deep Ecology and Its Social Philosophy: A Critique" http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/arts/Taylor--DeepEcologyasSocialPhilosophy.pdf Deep Ecology Platform of the Foundation for Deep Ecology http://www.deepecology.org/deepplatform.html Defining We in Environmental advocacy. (Works best when accessed with Internet Explorer) http://www.actionmedia.org/about/publications/DefiningWe2.pdf Ecospheric Ethics. An anthology of articles http://www.ecospherics.net/ http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/links.html Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. An international journal. Access to full-text articles http://www.int-res.com/journals/esep/ Ethics, Values, and the Environment, conference papers http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/resources/eve/index.html Green Web. Left Biocentricism http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/ Scientific Integrity Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html A Survey of selected Internet resources on environmental ethics http://ethics.acusd.edu/applied/environment/ The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/ Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. May 24-June3, 2012. Oregon Script deadline July 1, 2011 http://pages.uoregon.edu/ecodrama/?page_id=2 Environmental Expert Event Calendar http://www.environmental-expert.com/events.asp Humanities & Social Sciences Announcements on H-Net. Conferences, fellowships, and more http://www.h-net.org/announce/ Writers' Conference & Workshop in Honor of Rachel CarsonEducators Nature and Environmetnal Writers--College and University Educators http://www.new-cue.org/ Our Changing Oceans conference. January 19-21, 2011, Washington, D.C. http://www.ncseonline.org/conference/oceans/ Orion Network Events Calendar. Postings for over 1,000 organizations http://www.oriongrassroots.org/events/ Wildbranch Workshop in Outdoor, Natural History and Environmental Writing http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/wildbranch.htm See also, "Psychology"
"Darwin & Evolution." Special issue of Natural History 114, no. 9 (November 2005). Forrest, Barbara and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Larson, Edward J. Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997. Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. New York: Knopf, 1992. Creation & Intelligent Design Watch http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/ Creationism Legal Cases http://ncse.com/creationism/legal/creationism-law Believing in God and Evolution. Teaching evolution at Christian colleges http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/14/evolution Cosmological Natural Selection. Check out the references http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection_%28fecund_universes%29 Darwin Correspondence Project. Searchable database http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/ Debate over Evolution. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life site http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=398 Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ Evolution. Resources association with the PBS television series http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/ Evolution Resources From the National Academies http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/ Expelled (film). National Center for Science Education response site http://www.expelledexposed.com/ Intelligent Attraction. (A spoof of Intelligent Design.) http://www.intelligentattraction.com/ Intelligent Design? (Position statements from both sides of the debate) http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/darwinanddesign.html Issues in Evolution. American Institute of Biological Sciences site http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/index.html Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. (Court ruled against the school district's effort to promote intelligent design as science) Wikipedia article about the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District Full text of the judge's opinion (136 pp.). http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf Trial documents. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover.html Monkey Trial (PBS American Experience) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/ National Center for Science Education Home page: http://www.natcenscied.org Evolution Education: http://ncse.com/evolution Creationism Controversy: http://ncse.com/creationism Science, Evolution, and Creationism. National Academy of Sciences report. (Purchase or download) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11876 Talkdesign.org. Responses to the "Intelligent Design" movement http://www.talkdesign.org/ Understanding Evolution. Tutorials by the University of California (Berkeley) Museum of Paleontology http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ Why we need academic freedom...to question Newtonism. A parody of intelligent design proponents who blame Nazi actions on Darwin http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/why_we_need_academic_freedomto.php Environmental Careers Organization. The Eco Guide to Careers that Make a Difference. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004. American Museum of Natural History, Grants & Fellowships http://research.amnh.org/grants/ Charles Darwin Foundation. Volunteer opportunities on the Galapagos Islands. http://www.darwinfoundation.org/english/pages/interna.php?txtCodiInfo=63 Environmental Education Jobs Database. A service of the North American Association for Environmental Education http://eelink.net/eejobsdatabase.html EnvironmentalCareer.com http://www.environmentalcareer.info/index.asp Environmental Careers Organization http://www.eco.org/ Environmental Jobs http://www.enviroeducation.com/careers-jobs/ Environmental Jobs http://www.academicinfo.net/environstjobs.html EcoEmploy.com http://www.ecoemploy.com/ GoodWork Canada. Environmental jobs http://www.planetfriendly.net/goodwork.html Grassroots Jobsource. Orion Society list of jobs and internships http://jobs.oriongrassroots.org/ Green Corps Environmental Leadership Training Program. (one-year full-time paid positions) http://www.greencorps.org/training.asp?id2=19458 Marine Science Internships http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/marinescience/opportunities/internships.php National Wildlife Federation Careers Gateway. Jobs, internships, fellowships & volunteer opportunities with NWF http://www.nwf.org/careergateway/ National Association of Environmental Professionals Career Center Student Internships: http://www.naep.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=92320&orgId=naep Jobs: http://www.jobtarget.com/c/search_results.cfm?site_id=141 Nature Conservancy http://nature.org/careers/ FrowFood. Volunteer on farms. http://www.growfood.org/ Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland Volunteers: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/volunteer.html Interships: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/internships.html School for Field Studies http://www.fieldstudies.org/ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship Opportunities http://www.serc.si.edu/internship/ Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study http://www.si.edu/ofg/internopp.htm Bouse, Derek. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Ingram, David. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Devon: University of Exeter Press, 2000. Mitman, Gregg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Newman, Kim. Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Neuzil, Mark and William Novarik. Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1996. Nature in Popular Culture http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/ce/popular.html Chase, Alston. In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial times to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Davis, Richard C., editor. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. Two Volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1983. Langston, Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Little, Charles E. The Dying of The Trees: The Pandemic in America's Forests. New York: Viking, 1995. Perlin, John. A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 500-Year Forest Foundation. A model for the private protection of old-growth forest on the state level http://www.500yearforestfdn.org/ Articles on Canadian Topics in Journal of Forest History. Bibliography http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/jfhca.html Forest.org Forest Conservation Portal http://forests.org/ Cathedral Grove. An international perspective on timbering in British Columbia. http://www.cathedralgrove.se/text/01-Cathedral-Grove.htm Environmental Protection Information Center. Forests of Northwest California http://www.wildcalifornia.org/index.shtml Forest History Society Archives. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/archguid.html Bibliography. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/biblio.html Forest History Today magazine, back issues. http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/FHT/index.html Oral History. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/ohiguide.html Forestry Images: Firest Health, Natureal Resources & Siliculture Images http://www.forestryimages.org/ Forest Industry Links--Canada http://www.sfms.com/links.htm Forest History Today. Back issues online. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Publications/fht.html Forestry in Myanmar (Burma). Ministry site http://www.myanmar.com/Ministry/Forest/ Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics http://www.fseee.org/index.html Gifford Pinchot Task Force http://www.gptaskforce.org/ Harvard Forest http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/index.html Native Forest Council http://www.forestcouncil.org/ New England Forests Through Time. (Harvard Forest dioramas) http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/museum/dioramas.html Peeling Back the Bark. Blog of the Forest History Society http://www.peelingbackthebark.org/ Rainforests Rainforests. http://www.ran.org/info_center/ Rainforest Portal. http://www.rainforestportal.org/ World Rainforest Information Portal. http://www.rainforestweb.org/ Southwest Forests. http://www.fguardians.org/southwesternforests.htm Tree Sitting. See "Social Change & Activism" Urban Forests. PBS television series & related resources http://www.lpb.org/programs/forest/ http://www.lpb.org/programs/forestseries/ U.S. Forest Service http://www.fs.fed.us/ World Forest Center Home: http://www.worldforestry.org/ Resources: http://wfi.worldforestry.org/info-resources-index.htm Lovelock, James. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: Norton, 1988. Lovelock, James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979 Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston, editors. Scientists on Gaia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. The Ages of Gaia Exposed http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e0.html Detailed Biography of James Lovelock http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/lovedeten.htm The Gaia Hypothesis. http://www.planetecologie.org/ENCYCLOPEDIE/Pionniers/lovelock.htm Gaia - The Living Earth http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gaia/Gaia.htm If you find broken links, please tell us about them.
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