The author argues that much of what has gone wrong with the world is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that alienates us from life in the name of human domination, overemphasizes success and careers, and deadens our sense of wonder at the world.
A network of educational reformers reports on projects that are equipping today's children with the tools of ecological consciousness and systems thinking that will help humankind live more sustainably on the Earth tomorrow.
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an ...
Hard-hitting and often caustic, this set of 13 essays describes the current state of American politics against the backdrop of mounting ecological and social problems, the corrosive influence of money, the corruption of language, and the misuse of terrorism as a political issue.
In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, "Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind," the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find out more about the psyche-world connection? How can I do hands-on work in this area? ...
This work tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement. The story of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College - the first substantially green building to be built on a college campus - encompasses more than the ...
This title helps to meet the challenge of Sustainable Design. 'Daniel Williams' "Sustainable Design" is ...a thoroughly practical call for the design professions to take the next steps toward transformation of the human prospect toward a future that is sustainable and sustaining of the best in human life lived in partnership not domination' - From ...
In this briefing, Stephen Sterling points out that: progress towards a more sustainable future depends on learning, yet most education and learning takes no account of sustainability; progress toward orienting education towards sustainable development since the Agenda 21 agreement has been very slow; and education is largely behind, rather than ...
In a college commencement address a few years ago, poet, philosopher, and farmer Wendell Berry raised a simple but nearly impossible challenge. "Find work, if you can," he said, "that does no damage" to the world or its future. Had he addressed the same students four years before at their high school graduations, saying, "Find a college, if you ...
Roth issues a passionate and hopeful challenge to people of faith and seekers for truth to become aligned with truth, altruism, and action, which is good not only for the soul, but for the well-being of the planet.
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives...It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call ...
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