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Education  
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See also, "Sustainability"

Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Smith, Gregory A. and Dilafruz R.  Williams, editors. Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and Environment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Sobel, David. "Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education." Orion 14, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): 11-17. Reprinted as Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaimning the Heart in Nature Education, Nature Litearacy Series No. 1 (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1996).

Sobel, David. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities. Nature Literacy Series No. 4. Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 2004.

Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. Back issues online
http://www.uleth.ca/edu/research/ictrd/cjee/

Center for Ecoliteracy. Resources page
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/resources/books-and-journals

Children & Nature Network
http://www.childrenandnature.org/

Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
http://www.sustainabilityed.org/

Cobbscook Community Learning Center. An example of an organization that combines EE, arts, local culture, and activism to serve their community
http://www.thecclc.org/

Community Works Institute. Place-based education for sustainaility
http://www.communityworksinstitute.org/

Dinosaur Fossil Dating
http://www.datehookup.com/content-dinosaur-fossil-dating.htm

Ecological Footprint. Zero Footprint Youth Calculator. School program
http://calc.zerofootprint.net/youth/iEarn/results

Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit
http://www.esdtoolkit.org/

Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP)
http://www.eetap.org/

Environmental Education Resources. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/recycle/educat.htm

EE Link. Resources for Environmental Educators
http://eelink.net/

Energy Education and Worshop Development. U.S. Dept. of Energy site
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/

Environmental Education & Communication organizations worldwide. Click on the map region
http://www.greencom.org/greencom/regions.asp

Evolution Resources From the National Academies
http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/

Exploring the Environment. Online modules for students & teachers (Gr. 5-12).
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/

Geographical Association (UK). Teaching geography on all levels
http://www.geography.org.uk/

GreenCOM. USAID's environmental education & communication site
http://www.greencom.org/index.asp

Ground Water & Drinking Water: An Expert Guide for Kids. Lots of links
http://www.partstap.com/ground-water-and-drinking-water-an-expert-guide-for-kids.aspx

Journal of Environmental Education. Searchable archives
http://www.heldref.org/jenve.php

National Center for Science Education. Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools
http://www.ncseweb.org/default.asp

National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education
Professional development guidelines & resources
http://www.naaee.org/pages/npeee/index.html

New England Environmental Education Alliance
http://www.neeea.org/

North American Association for Environmental Education
Home page: http://www.naaee.org
Resources: http://www.naaee.org/resources/index.php

Ocean Explorer. Education site
http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/

The Outdoor Resource. Conservation Education Network
http://outdoorresource.org/resources/

Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction
http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/place.htm

Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative. Lots of resources
http://www.peecworks.org/

Place-Based Education: Learning to be where we are
http://legacy.lclark.edu/faculty/gasmith/objects/placebaseded.pdf

Place-Based Education Research and Studies: An Annotated Bibliography
http://www.peecworks.org/PEEC/PEEC_Gen/02E46448-007EA7AB.0/Rosenthal%202008%20PBE%20Annotated%20Bibliography.pdf

Promise of Place. Place-based education
http://www.promiseofplace.org/forums/

Restoring Ecological Citizenship
http://mather.ar.utexas.edu/students/cadlab/GrowthForum/2002papers/Light.html

Rodale Institute. Kids education site
http://www.kidsregen.org/

Rural Schools and Community Trust
http://www.ruraledu.org/

Sense of place. Special issue of EE News published by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (PDF file)
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/bureau/education/pdf/EEWinter01.pdf

State Survey: Results of the Third Survey of the Status of EE on the State Level
http://www.naaee.org/about-naaee/affiliates/states-survey-introductory-synthesis

Understanding Evolution for Teachers (learning & teaching evolution)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html

UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27234&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

UNESCO International Directory of Environmental Education Institutions
http://www.unesco.org/education/environment/index.shtml

UNESCO Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/

Vermont Landscape Change learning resources
http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/learn/photo_sets.html

"Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Biological Education: A Call to Action." Robin Wall Kimmerer (PDF file_
http://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/weaving.pdf

Wind energy education resources
http://www.awea.org/education/



Energy & Energy Alternatives  
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All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas
http://appgopo.org.uk/index.php

Alternative Energy Sources. Basic introduction with links
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~ptt25660/tran.html

American Solar Energy Association
http://www.ases.org/

American Wind Energy Association
http://www.awea.org/resources/

Asia Alternative Energy Program. World Bank site
http://www.worldbank.org/astae/about.htm

Biomass Energy
http://www.biomasscenter.org/resources.html

Break the Chain and end our dependence on oil. (NRDC site in cooperation with Syriana producer)
http://www.nrdc.org/breakthechain/syriana1.asp

Center for Alternative Technology links page. Europe's leading eco-centre, with information on renewable energy,
environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems.
http://www.cat.org.uk/links/links.tmpl?subdir=links&cart=11012210025869162

Destination Earth. Cartoon short, petroleum industry propaganda from 1956
http://www.archive.org/details/Destinat1956

Energy Bulletin
http://www.energybulletin.net/

Energy Education and Worshop Development. U.S. Dept. of Energy site
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/

Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium
http://www.geoexchange.com/

Methane Hydrate. (See also, "                    ")
Gas Hydrate Info. http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/hydrates/
Gas Hydrate Web Sites. http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/hydrates/external.html
Global Inventory of Natural Gas Hydrate Occurrence. http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/globalhydrate/
Mining Methane. Audio of CBC program. http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/03-04/jan03.html

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/

T. Boone Pickens energy alternatives plan for the USA
http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/

Renewable Energy Sources. Lots of links
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/phys162.html

Worldwatch Institute renewable energy resources
http://www.worldwatch.org/features/renewables/


Environmental Impact Assessment  
[Directory] [Page Directory]

Defining Impact Assessment
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eia/define.html

Environmental Impact Assessment, Index of Web Sites. International Links.
http://www.iaia.org/eialist.html

Environmental Impact Assessment/Strategic Environmental Assessment Databases. UK site
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/EIA/databases/index.htm

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). U.S. EPA site
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/


Environmentalism & Anti-environmentalism  
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Bramwell, Anna. Ecology in the 20th Century: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Dunlap, Riley E. and Angela G. Mertigs, editors. American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1992.

Dunlap, Thomas R. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.

Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future. Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1996.

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming. New York: Viking, 2007.

Helvarg, David. The War Against the Greens: The "Wise-Use" Movement, the New Right, and the Browning of America. Revised and updated. Boulder: Johnson Books, 2004.

Lewis, Martin W. Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.

McCormick, John. Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Ray, Dixy Lee, with Lou Guzzo. Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1993.

Rosebrough, Craig. Buring Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front. New York: Lantern Books, 2004.

Scheffer, Victor B. The Shaping of Environmentalism in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Ages of Gaia Exposed
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e0.html

Caste From the Past: Environmentalism's elistist tinge has roots in the movement's history
http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/03/08/klingle/index.html

Forging Envioronmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments. Online Book Companion
http://www.cceia.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5367


Ethics, Integrity & Philosophy  
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Center for Environmental Philosophy, publishers of the journal Environmental Ethics. Includes an index of the journal
http://www.cep.unt.edu/

"Deep Ecology and Its Social Philosophy: A Critique"
http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/arts/Taylor--DeepEcologyasSocialPhilosophy.pdf

Deep Ecology Platform of the Foundation for Deep Ecology
http://www.deepecology.org/deepplatform.html

Defining We in Environmental advocacy. (Works best when accessed with Internet Explorer)
http://www.actionmedia.org/about/publications/DefiningWe2.pdf

Ecospheric Ethics. An anthology of articles
http://www.ecospherics.net/
http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/links.html

Ethics in Science and  Environmental Politics. An international journal. Access to full-text articles
http://www.int-res.com/journals/esep/

Ethics, Values, and the Environment, conference papers
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/resources/eve/index.html

Green Web. Left Biocentricism
http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/

Scientific Integrity Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

A Survey of selected Internet resources on environmental ethics
http://ethics.acusd.edu/applied/environment/

The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy
http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/


Events  
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Environmental Expert Event Calendar
http://www.environmental-expert.com/events.asp

Humanities & Social Sciences Announcements on H-Net. Conferences, fellowships, and more
http://www.h-net.org/announce/

Writers' Conference & Workshop in Honor of Rachel CarsonEducators
Nature and Environmetnal Writers--College and University Educators
http://www.new-cue.org/

Orion Network Events Calendar. Postings for over 1,000 organizations
http://www.oriongrassroots.org/events/

Wildbranch Workshop in Outdoor, Natural History and Environmental Writing
http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/wildbranch.htm



Evolution & Anti-evolution  
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See also, "Psychology"

"Darwin & Evolution." Special issue of Natural History 114, no. 9 (November 2005).

Forrest, Barbara and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Larson, Edward J. Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Creation & Intelligent Design Watch
http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/

Creationism Legal Cases
http://ncse.com/creationism/legal/creationism-law

Believing in God and Evolution. Teaching evolution at Christian colleges
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/14/evolution

Cosmological Natural Selection. Check out the references
http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection_%28fecund_universes%29

Darwin Correspondence Project. Searchable database
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/

Debate over Evolution. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life site
http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=398

Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Evolution. Resources association with the PBS television series
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/

Evolution Resources From the National Academies
http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/

Expelled (film). National Center for Science Education response site
http://www.expelledexposed.com/

Intelligent Attraction. (A spoof of Intelligent Design.)
http://www.intelligentattraction.com/

Intelligent Design? (Position statements from both sides of the debate)
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/darwinanddesign.html

Issues in Evolution. American Institute of Biological Sciences site
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/index.html

Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. (Court ruled against the school district's effort to promote intelligent design as science)
Wikipedia article about the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District
Full text of the judge's opinion (136 pp.). http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf
Trial documents. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/kitzmiller_v_dover.html

Monkey Trial (PBS American Experience)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/

National Center for Science Education
Home page: http://www.natcenscied.org
Evolution Education: http://ncse.com/evolution
Creationism Controversy: http://ncse.com/creationism

Science, Evolution, and Creationism. National Academy of Sciences report. (Purchase or download)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11876

Talkdesign.org. Responses to the "Intelligent Design" movement
http://www.talkdesign.org/

Understanding Evolution. Tutorials by the University of California (Berkeley) Museum of Paleontology
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Why we need academic freedom...to question Newtonism.
A parody of intelligent design proponents who blame Nazi actions on Darwin
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/why_we_need_academic_freedomto.php


Field Study, Internships & Job Opportunities  
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Please Note: Goddard College has not researched of vetted these opportunities, nor does it endorse any of them.
You are urged to do your own research before signing up with any of them.

Environmental Careers Organization. The Eco Guide to Careers that Make a Difference. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004.

American Museum of Natural History, Grants & Fellowships
http://research.amnh.org/grants/

Charles Darwin Foundation. Volunteer opportunities on the Galapagos Islands.
http://www.darwinfoundation.org/english/pages/interna.php?txtCodiInfo=63

EcoEmploy.com
http://www.ecoemploy.com/

Energy Internships, Fellowships, Scholarships. U.S. Dept. of Energy site
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/education/internships_fellowships.html

EnvironmentalCareer.com
http://www.environmentalcareer.info/index.asp

Environmental Careers Organization
http://www.eco.org/

Environmental Education Jobs. EElinked
http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/eelink-jobs

Environmental Jobs /
http://www.academicinfo.net/environstjobs.html

Environmental Programs and Career Specialties
http://enviroeducation.com/resources/environmental-programs-career-specialites

GoodWork Canada. Environmental jobs
http://www.planetfriendly.net/goodwork.html

Grassroots Jobsource. Orion Society list of jobs and internships
http://jobs.oriongrassroots.org/

Marine Science Internships
http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/marinescience/opportunities/internships.php

National Wildlife Federation Careers Gateway. Jobs, internships, fellowships & volunteer opportunities with NWF
http://www.nwf.org/careergateway/

National Association of Environmental Professionals Career Center
Student Internships: http://www.naep.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=92320&orgId=naep
Jobs: http://www.jobtarget.com/c/search_results.cfm?site_id=141

Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/careers/

GrowFood. Volunteer on farms.
http://www.growfood.org/

Oceans Reseaerch Internships
http://www.oceans-research.com/marinescienceinternships/mosselbaysouthafrica.html

Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland
Volunteers: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/volunteer.html
Interships: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/internships.html

School for Field Studies
http://www.fieldstudies.org/

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship Opportunities
http://www.serc.si.edu/internship/

Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study
http://www.si.edu/ofg/internopp.htm

Vermont Internship Program. Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility
http://vbsr.org/intern_program/

World Wildlife Fund
Internships: http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/careers/internships.html
Jobs: http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/careers/jobs.html


Film & Media Studies  
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Bouse, Derek. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Ingram, David. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Devon: University of Exeter Press, 2000.

Mitman, Gregg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Newman, Kim. Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.

Neuzil, Mark and William Novarik. Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1996.

Nature in Popular Culture
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/ce/popular.html

Eco-Cinema blog
http://www.ecocinema.blogspot.com/


Forests  
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Chase, Alston. In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial times to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Davis, Richard C., editor. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. Two Volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

Langston, Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.

Little, Charles E. The Dying of The Trees: The Pandemic in America's Forests. New York: Viking, 1995.

Perlin, John. A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

500-Year Forest Foundation. A model for the private protection of old-growth forest on the state level
http://www.500yearforestfdn.org/

American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery by Doublas W. MacCleery. Full text (PDF).
http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/Issues/amforests.html

Articles on Canadian Topics in Journal of Forest History. Bibliography
http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/jfhca.html

Forest.org Forest Conservation Portal
http://forests.org/

Cathedral Grove. An international perspective on timbering in British Columbia.
http://www.cathedralgrove.se/text/01-Cathedral-Grove.htm

Environmental Protection Information Center. Forests of Northwest California
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/index.shtml

Forest History Society
Archives. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/archguid.html
Bibliography. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/biblio.html
Forest History Today magazine, back issues. http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/FHT/index.html
Oral History. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/ohiguide.html

Forestry Images: Firest Health, Natureal Resources & Siliculture Images
http://www.forestryimages.org/

Forest Industry Links--Canada
http://www.sfms.com/links.htm

Forest History Today. Back issues online.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Publications/fht.html

Forestry in Myanmar (Burma). Ministry site
http://www.myanmar.com/Ministry/Forest/

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
http://www.fseee.org/index.html

Gifford Pinchot Task Force
http://www.gptaskforce.org/

Harvard Forest
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/index.html

Native Forest Council
http://www.forestcouncil.org/

New England Forests Through Time. (Harvard Forest dioramas)
http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/museum/dioramas.html

Peeling Back the Bark. Blog of the Forest History Society
http://www.peelingbackthebark.org/

Rainforests
Rainforests. http://www.ran.org/info_center/
Rainforest Portal. http://www.rainforestportal.org/
World Rainforest Information Portal. http://www.rainforestweb.org/

Southwest Forests.
http://www.fguardians.org/southwesternforests.htm

Tree Sitting. See "Social Change & Activism"

Urban Forests. PBS television series & related resources
http://www.lpb.org/programs/forest/
http://www.lpb.org/programs/forestseries/

U.S. Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/

World Forest Center
Home: http://www.worldforestry.org/
Resources: http://wfi.worldforestry.org/info-resources-index.htm


Gaia Hypothesis  
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Lovelock, James. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: Norton, 1988.

Lovelock, James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979

Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston, editors. Scientists on Gaia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.

The Ages of Gaia Exposed
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/e0.html

Detailed Biography of James Lovelock
http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/lovedeten.htm

The Gaia Hypothesis. http://www.planetecologie.org/ENCYCLOPEDIE/Pionniers/lovelock.htm

Gaia - The Living Earth
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gaia/Gaia.htm



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Edited by Ralph H. Lutts with the assistance of the students and faculty of Goddard College
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