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Ecological Literacy





  The Center for Ecoliteracy has created or assisted in the production of the following publications:

 

Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment
With a foreword by bestselling author Michael Pollan

Big Ideas offers:

  • Key concepts drawn from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks for Science Literacy
  • Essential questions to engage students
  • A rich assortment of sample activities

In a style that is both positive and accessible, Big Ideas helps students and educators explore questions, such as: Where does our food come from and how it is produced? How does culture shape our food choices and behavior? What is the relationship between food choices and health? And what are the links between our food and the environment?

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Purchase Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment from Acorn Naturalists

 

 

 

 

Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
edited by CEL senior editor Michael K. Stone and executive director Zenobia Barlow

This book presents the Center's conceptual foundations, from ancient wisdom to contemporary science. It chronicles some of the most exciting work that the Center has supported over the last decade, diverse projects that have creatively put those concepts into practice. Authors include Wendell Berry, Alice Waters, David W. Orr, Fritjof Capra, Donella Meadows, and Malcolm Margolin. Ecological Literacy is the third volume in the Bioneers Book Series published by Sierra Club Books and distributed by University of California Press. $16.95, 279 pages.

Download the preface by Fritjof Capra (125k pdf)
Download the foreword by David W. Orr (125k pdf)

Purchase Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World from:
Bioneers Book Store

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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
by David Sobel

Place-Based Education reports the good news that place-based education is taking hold on campuses from Berkeley, California to Littleton, New Hampshire. Sobel maps the directions this revolution in education is taking, and describes key strategies for educators wanting to implement it in their schools. CEL helped underwrite this book, part of the Orion Society's Nature Literacy Series. $8.00, 109 pages.

Order Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities from:
Orion Books


 

 

 

 

 

 

     
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