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Center for Ecoliteracy Essays

Through its newsletter and website, the Center for Ecoliteracy offers concise essays presenting the perspectives of leading thinkers, educators, and policy makers. Contributors probe the connections including links between school food and combating childhood obesity, environmental issues and public policy, the interdependence of human and ecological communities, and education for sustainability.

Many of these essays have been written specifically for the Center. New essays are added regularly.

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Franics_Morre_Lappe_After Boston, Eyes-Wide-Open Hope?
Frances Moore Lappé

How do we know the difference between head-in-the-sand hope and eyes-wide-open hope? One is a killer; the other, a life-giver.

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An Abiding Ocean of Love: A Conversation with Artist Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan
Lisa Bennett

Reconnecting with our reverent love for the incomprehensibly beautiful miracle of our world.

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Not Your Ordinary First-grade Ocean Project
Lisa Bennett

First-grader students learn deep and lasting lessons about nature and themselves through this unusual ocean project.

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You Can't Do Just One Thing: A Conversation with Richard Heinberg

Noted author, educator, and energy researcher Richard Heinberg discusses the systems view of life: "It's like seeing in 3-D and in color."

Michael K. Stone
Richard Heinberg
You Are What You Grow: Will This Year's Farm Bill Make Us Fatter and Sicker?

The Farm Bill significantly affects food, farming, land use, school meals, biodiversity, family farms, and farm workers in the U.S.

Michael Pollan
Wild and Slow: Nourished by Tradition

Degenerative diseases like diabetes can be reduced by shifting from refined carbohydrate diets to traditional wild foods.

John C. Mohawk
When the Building Is the Teacher

Beyond "green": a discussion with architect John Dale about the many ways that campus, teaching, and learning complement each other.

Carolie Sly
John Dale
Michael K. Stone
What in Health Is Going on Here?

School programs addressing childhood nutrition and health require state and national policy and legislative solutions.

Ann M. Evans
What Comes after Diversity, Globalism, and Sustainability?

How all the themes can come together and make really meaningful education for 21st-century learners.

Lisa Bennett
We Are What We Eat

If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is "corn."

Michael Pollan
Voters Tax Selves for Farm-to-School Produce

Eight years of efforts by parent activists illustrates the value of building community support for change in school food.

Michael K. Stone
Vote for Measure J!

Why community-wide support of school food reform is crucial, by the cochair of the victorious 2012 bond measure campaign in Oakland.

Ruth Woodruff
Unhappy Meals

How whole foods came to be treated not as complex ecologies, but as mere delivery systems for "nutrients."

Michael Pollan
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