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January 3, 2021
Environmental Education Essay List
Click on a title to view an essay Environmental Education: Guiding Our Youth Environmental Educators Are Powerful People Notes On Environmental Education Teaching Methods Empowering Stewards of Nature — Lessons From The Web Of Life Our Youth Must Live Nature’s Story Humans and Nature: Three Perceptions of Reality Interbeing – No Man Is An Island […]
December 29, 2020
Environmental Education: Empowering Our Youth
“For people, their story of the human role in the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.” — Thomas Berry – Dream of the Earth As a […]
Evironmental Education: Guiding Our Youth
“For people, their story of the human role in the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.” — Thomas Berry – Dream of the Earth As a […]
Environmental Educators: Guiding Our Youth
“For people, their story of the human role in the universe is their primary source of intelligibility and value. The deepest crises experienced by any society are those moments of change when the story becomes inadequate for meeting the survival demands of a present situation.” — Thomas Berry – Dream of the Earth As a […]
December 1, 2020
Ecoliteracy : A Window to Life on Earth
“When our central organizing priority becomes the well-being of all life, then what happens through us is the recovery of our world.” -Joanna Macy – Active Hope “The world was not left to us by our parents. It was lent to us by our children.” — An African Proverb “People normally cut […]
August 5, 2020
Nature’s Relationships : Predator and Prey
Our great predators, the wolf, the cougar, the bear, and others teach us about the vital importance of interdependence in Nature. They are top predators because the power of their connecting presence is an evolutionary driver of the diversity of life. Chains of life flourish with the force of predation. The killing of predators by […]
July 13, 2020
What does Climate Change, COVID, and Stewardship Have In Common??
What does climate change, the COVID-19 epidemic, and the stewardship of Nature have in common?? How are these three phrases, and the ideas that they represent, related? You might be interested in this CNN report As a scientist who regularly explores how Nature operates within a world where human activity is a dominant influence, I […]
What does climate change, the COVID-19 epidemic, and the stewardship of Nature have in common??
What does climate change, the COVID-19 epidemic, and the stewardship of Nature have in common?? How arethese three phrases, and the ideas that they represent, related? As a scientist who is passionate about knowing how Nature operates within a world where human activity has had dominant influences, I have asked myself this question on numerous occasions […]
June 1, 2020
Empowering Stewards of Nature — Lessons From The Web Of Life
Empowering Stewards of Nature Lessons From the Web of Life (A Free PDF Study Guide) This book advocates a human worldview that includes a deep consciousness for an interdependent and connected Nature. With this worldview, we are empowering humans to partner with Nature rather than unsuccessfully trying to manipulate and control Nature. Without interdependence and connectivity […]
February 13, 2020
Carl Sagan Discusses Man’s Arrogance About Nature
Mankind cannot live without Nature but Nature can live without mankind. Mankind has compelled his nature upon Nature. Charles Darwin has famously said that “Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.” A quote from […]
