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Title Ecological literacy : educating our children for a sustainable world / edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow ; foreword by David W. Orr ; preface by Fritjof Capra.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; Berkeley : Produced and distributed by University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  333.7207 STONE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xix, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Bioneers series
Bioneers series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267).
Contents Vision. En'owkin : decision-making as if sustainability mattered / Jeannette C. Armstrong -- Speaking nature's language : principles for sustainability / Fritjof Capra -- Solving for pattern / Wendell Berry -- The power of words / Ernest Callenbach -- Values / Ernest Callenbach -- Fast-food values and slow food values / Alice Waters -- The slow school : an idea whose time has come? / Maurice Holt.
Tradition/place. Indian pedagogy : a look at traditional California Indian teaching techniques / Malcolm Margolin -- Okanagan education for sustainable living : as natural as learning to walk or talk / Jeannette C. Armstrong -- Place and pedagogy / David W. Orr -- Recollection / David W. Orr -- On watershed education / Robert Hass -- Helping children fall in love with the Earth : environmental education and the arts / Pamela Michael -- Finding your own bioregion / Peter Berg.
Relationship. Revolution step-by-step : on building a climate for change / Neil Smith with Leslie Comnes -- Leadership and the learning community / Jeanne Casella with Zenobia Barlow, Sara Marcellino, and Michael K. Stone -- "It changed everything we thought we could do" : the STRAW Project / Michael K. Stone -- Raising whole children is like raising good food : beyond factory farming and factory schooling / Michael Ableman -- Meditations on an apple / Janet Brown.
Action. Dancing with systems / Donella Meadows -- The loupe's secret : looking closely, changing scale / Kerry Ruef -- Tapping the well of urban youth activism : literacy for environmental justice / Dana Lanza -- Sustainability, a new item on the lunch menu / Michael K. Stone -- Rethinking school lunch / Marilyn Briggs -- Changing schools : a systems view / Ann Evans.
Subject Ecology -- Study and teaching.
Environmental education.
Added Author Stone, Michael K.
Barlow, Zenobia.
ISBN 1578051533 paperback alkaline paper
9781578051533 paperback alkaline paper
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