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Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children
for a Sustainable World 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 Purchase Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children
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Ecoliteracy: Mapping the
Terrain
A comprehensive look at what is meant by ecoliteracy, using a Bay Area watershed restoration project as its focus. Authors include Fritjof Capra, Jeannette Armstrong, Zenobia Barlow, and others. Fully illustrated. $11.95, 88 pages. Order Ecoliteracy: Mapping the Terrain
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September-October 2004 issue
of Resurgence Magazine
Resurgence magazine, published in England, with close ties to Schumacher College, describes itself as "an international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking." For this issue, Resurgence invited CEL to guest-edit a feature section chronicling the theory and practices of ecoliteracy. Authors include David W. Orr, Fritjof Capra, Pamela Michael, Jeannette Armstrong, Zenobia Barlow, and Michael K. Stone. 82 pages. Order Resurgence back issues from: |
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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
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