Education  -  Gaia


Education  
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/



Energy & Energy Alternatives  

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/


Environmental Impact Assessment  


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/


Environmentalism & Anti-environmentalism  


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


Ethics, Integrity & Philosophy  


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/


Events  


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



Evolution & Anti-evolution  

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


Field Study, Internships & Job Opportunities  


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


Film & Media Studies  


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



Forests  


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 


Gaia Hypothesis  


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



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