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Eco-Literacy
Online Resources
The Center for Ecoliteracy was founded in 1995 by
Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow to foster
the experience and understanding of the natural world.
http://www.ecoliteracy.org
EASE Project: Educating Architects for a Sustainable Environment
Recommendations/strategies/curriculum models
http://www.bsu.edu/cap/work/minicourse
Ecological Design Education Network
Its mission is to promote ecological design in higher education,
facilitate opportunities to test and apply this knowledge
in a professional context, and support a network for exchanging
knowledge of best practices between the academy and the profession.
This provides a good list of alternative design programs
http://www.ecodesign.org/edi/eden/
C. A. Bowers
"Educational Implication of an Ecologically Centered
View of Creativity"
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/Educational-Theory/Contents/44_2_Bowers.asp
Global Possibilities: symposium for a solar future
The Impact of Design Practices on Climate Variability -
How Can Design Education Help Mitigate Climate Change
Including 10 questions: Rethinking Design Education
http://www.spiderweb.org/globalpossibilities/solarfuture/Fdesign/
AIAS Steel City Forum: Going Beyond Green
Student conference on sustainable design
http://www.aiasnatl.org/forum/
Second Nature is dedicated to accelerating a process
of transformation in higher education. We guide and nurture
these institutions in their quest to make sustainability an
integral part of the institution and to help expand their
efforts to make human activity sustainable.
http://www.secondnature.org/home.html
(a good set of on-line articles by various authors under resources
section.)
Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability
Univ. of Oregon student group. Runs annual conference: last
year, about ecoliteracy.
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~hopes/
"What is Education For?"
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC27/Orr.htm
"We are accustomed to thinking of learning as good in
and of itself. But as environmental educator David Orr reminds
us, our education up till now has in some ways created a monster."
IN CONTEXT: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture
Theme Issue: The Learning Revolution, Education Innovations
for Global Citizens
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC27/TOC27.htm
Bioneers
Articles by Orr and Capra
http://www.bioneers.org/track_pages/09environmental_edu.html
Southwestern Ecoliteracy Project
The Project seeks to advance an ecoliterate citizenry capable
of perceiving and responding intelligently to the profound
crises before us. The Project offers educational programs
to professionals, as well as public workshops and talks.
http://www.ecoliteracyproject.org/
Center for Global Environmental Education
-"Yearning to Be Round, A Primer in Ecological Literacy,"
-"The Role of the Expressive Arts in Environmental Education--the
How and Why of Self Expressing Earth"
http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/
http://cgee.hamline.edu/
(home page)
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