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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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Dispatch from Hawai'i: Supporting the Growing School Garden Movement

School gardens are flourishing on the islands of Hawai'i, with help from the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Alice Lee Tebo
Dispatch from Minneapolis: Rethinking School Lunch

You know you're onto something when temperamental teens are promoting the school lunch.

Alice Lee Tebo
Dispatch from New Mexico: Rethinking School Lunch

The Center for Ecoliteracy inspires a school food reform initiative in New Mexico.

Alice Lee Tebo
Earth's Limits: Why Growth Won't Return - Food

Multiple limiting factors make continuing expansion of the world's food supply, and therefore economic growth, problematic.

Richard Heinberg
Ecoliterate Leaders

How ecoliterate educators and community leaders are creatively tackling food, water, and energy issues.

Ecological Intelligence

Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds.

Daniel Goleman
Ecological Principles

Creating communities that are compatible with nature's processes for sustaining life requires basic ecological knowledge.

Michael K. Stone
Ecology and Community

Nature sustains life by nurturing community.

Fritjof Capra
EcoStars

Creating a sense of place and community enables a suburban elementary school to become environmental stewards.

Jeanne Casella
Ecosystem Restoration

Students work to recover ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

Michael K. Stone
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