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Art & Ecology


Art & Ecology

Selected Readings for Teachers



General Ecology

by Don Krug

Allen, J. (1977). Everything to do with nature materials.Philadelphia,PA: J.B. Lippencott Co.

Altshuler, S. ( 1993). Sacred paths and muddy places: Rediscoveringspirit in nature. Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Publishing.

Anderson, B. N. (1990). Ecologue: The environmental catalogue andconsumer's guide for a safe earth. New York: Prentice Hall Press.

Andrews, V. (1990). A passion for the earth: Exploring a new partnershipof man, woman, and nature. San Francisco: Harper.

Athanasiou, T. (1996). Divided planet: The ecology of rich and poor.Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

Berger, J. J. (Ed.) (1990). Environmental restoration. Washington,D.C.:Island Press.

Berry, T. ( 1977). The unsettling of America: Culture and agriculture.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Berry, W. (1981). The gift of good land: Further essays cultural andagricultural. San Francisco: North Point Press.

Berry, W. (1983). Standing by words. San Francisco: North PointPress.

Berry, W. (1995). Another turn of the crank. Washington D.C.:Counterpoint.

Berry, W. (1964). The broken ground. New York: Harcourt, Brace,Jovanovich.

Blankenship, B. & R. (1996). Earthknack: Stone age skills forthe 21st century. Layton, UT: Gibbs-Smith Publishers.

Blew, M. C. (1994). Balsamroot: a Memoir. New York: Penguin.

Bly, R, (1990). The tree will be here for a thousand years.

Bookchin, M. (1989). Remaking society. Montreal and New York:Black Rose Books.

Bookchin, M. (1990). Toward an ecological society. Montreal andBuffalo: Black Rose Books.

Botkin, D. B. (1990). Discordant harmonies: A new ecology for thetwenty first century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Botkin, D. B. (1995). Our natural history: The lessons of Lewis andClark. New York: Gorsset / Putnam.

Brown, V. (1983). Investigating nature through ourdoor projects.Harrisburg,PA: Stackpole Books.

Brox, J. (1995). Here and nowhere else: Late seasons of a farm andit's family. Boston, Ma.: Beacon Press.

Budiansky, S. (1995). Nature's keepers: The new science of naturemanagement. New York: The Free Press.

Bullard, R. D. (Ed.). (1994). Unequal protection: Environmental justiceand communities of color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Caplan, R. (1990). Our earth, ourselves. New York: Bantam Books.

Capra, F. (1982). Turning point: Science, society, and the risingculture. New York: Bantam Books.

Coleman, D. A. (1994). Ecopolitics: Building a green society. NewBrunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Commoner, B. (1990). Making peace with the planet. New York: PantheonBooks.

Commoner, B. (1985). Making peace with the planet. New York:Pantheon.

Cone, J. (1995). A common fate: Endangered salmon and the people ofthe pacific northwest. New York: Holt and Company.

Cowell, A. (1990). The decade of destruction: The crusade to savethe amazon forest. New York: Holt and Company.

Daley, H. & Townsend, K. (Eds.). (1993). Valuing the earth:Economics,ecology, ethics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Devall, B. (1993). Living richly in an age of limits: Using deep ecologyfor an abundant life. Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books

Diehn, G., & Krautwurst, T. (1994). Science crafts for kids. NewYork: Sterling Lark.

Dietrich, W. (1992). The final forest: The battle for the last greattrees of the pacific northwest. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Dobson, A. (1994). Green political thought. New York: Routledge.

Dobson, A. (1996). Conservation and biodiversity. New York:ScientificAmerican Library Press.

Dowie, M. (1995). Losing ground: American environmentalism at theclose of the twentieth century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Drengson, A. & Inoue, Y.(1995). The deep ecology movement: Anintroductory anthology. Berkeley,CA: North Atlantic Books.

Duensing, E. (1990). Talking to fireflies, shrinking the moon. A parentsguide to nature activities. New York: Plume Books.

Duensing, E., & Millmoss, A.B. (1992). Backyard and beyond: Aguide for discovering the outdoors. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.

DuPuis, E. M. & Vandergeest, P. (Eds.). (1996). Creating thecountryside:The politics of rural and environmental discourse. Boston,MA: TempleUniversity Press.

Durning, A. (1992). How much is enough: The consumer society and thefuture of the earth. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Easterbrook, G. ( 1995). A moment on earth: The coming age ofenvironmentaloptimism. New York: Penguin Books.

Easwaran, E. (1989). The compassionate universe: The power of theindividual to heal the environment. Berkely,CA: Nilgri Press.

Ehrenfield, D. (1993). Beginning again: People and nature in the newmillennium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ehrlich, P. & Holdren, J. P. (Eds.). (1988). The cassandraconference:Resources and the human predicament. College Station: Texas A&MUniversity Press.

Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1991). Healing the planet: Strategiesfor resolving the environmental crisis. New York: Addison-Wesley PublishingCo.

Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1981). Extinction: The causes andconsequencesof the disappearance of species. New York: Ballantine Books.

Ehrlich, P. & Ehrlich, A. (1991). Healing the planet: Strategiesfor resolving the environmental crisis. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Ehrlich, P., Ehrlich A. ,& Daly, G. (1995). The stork and theplow: The equity answer to the human dilemma. New York: Putnams.

Ehrlich, P. R. (1986). The machinery of nature. New York: Simonand Schuster.

Ehrlich, P., & Ehrlich, A. (1987). Earth. New York: F. Watts.

Engel, R. & Engel, J. G. (1990). Ethics of environment anddevelopment.Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press.

Erlich, P. & Ornstein, R. (1990). New world, new mind: Movingtoward conscious evolution. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Freyfogle, E. T. (1993). Justice and the earth: Images for our planetarysurvival. New York: The Free Press.

Garbarino, J. (1992). Toward a sustainable society: An economic, social,and environmental agenda for our children's future. Chicago, IL: NoblePress.

Garbarino, J. (1992). Toward a sustainable society. Chicago: TheNoble Press.

Gay, K. (1994). Pollution and the powerless: The environmental justicemovement. New York: Franklin Watts.

Gibbons, W. (1986). Keeping all the pieces: Perspectives on naturalhistory and the environment. New York: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Glanz, J. (1995). Saving our soil: Solutions for sustaining earth'svital resource. Boulder, CO: Johnson Printing.

Goldbeck, N. (1995). Choose to reuse. Woodstock, New York: CeresPress.

Gorder, C. (1991). Green earth resource guide. Temple, AZ: BluebirdPublishing.

Gottleib, R. (1988). A life on its own: The politics and power ofwater. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Gottlieb, R. (1993). Facing the spring: The transformation of theAmerican environmental movement. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Goudie, A. (1990). The human impact on the natural environment.Cambridge,MA: The MIT Press.

Green, N.S. (1995). Raising curious kids. New York: Crown TradePaperbacks.

Grumbine, R. E. (1992). Ghost bears: Exploring the biodiversitycrisis.Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Hanson, V. D. (1996). Fields without dreams: Defending the agrarianidea. New York: Free Press.

Harker, D. F. & Natter, E. U. (1995). Where we live: A citizensguide to conducting a community environmental inventory. Washington:Island Press.

Harns, V. (Ed.). (1994). Almanac of the environment. New York:G.P. Putnams's Sons.

Harris, T. (1991). Death in the marsh. Washington, D.C.: IslandPress.

Harrison, R. P. ( 1992). Forests: The shadow of civilization.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hart, J. F. (1991). The land that feeds us: The story of an Americanfamily. New York and London: W.W. Norton.

Harte, J. (1993). The green fuse: An ecological odyssey. Berkeley:University of California Press.

Hasselstrom, L. (1991). Land circle: Writings collected from theland.Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.

Head, S., & Heinzman, R. (Eds.). (1990). Lessons of the rainforest.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Hecht, S. & Cockburn, A. (1990). The fate of the forest: Developers,destroyers, and defenders of the Amazon. Great Britain: Penguin Group.

Hollender, J. (1995). How to make the world a better place. NewYork: W.W. Norton and Co.

Hollender, J. (1990). How to make the world a better place. NewYork: Wm. Morrow and Co.

Hough, M. (1990). Out of place: Restoring identity to the regionallandscape. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Houle, M. (1995). The prairie keepers: Secrets of the grasslands.Readin, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Jackson, W. (1987). Altars of unknown stone: Science and earth. NewYork: Northpoint Press.

Jackson, W., Berry, W., & Coleman, B.,(Eds.). (1984). Meetingthe expectations of the land: Essays in sustainable agriculture andstewardship.San Francisco: North Point Press.

Jaffe, M. (1994). And no birds sing: The story of an ecological disasterin a tropical paradise. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Jensen, D. (Ed.). (1995). Listening to the land: Conversations aboutnature, culture and eros. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Jerome, J. (1989). Stone Work: Reflections on serious play and otheraspects of life. Hanover and London: University Press of New England.

Joyce, C. (1994). Earthly goods: Medicine hunting in the rainforest.Boston and New York: Little Brown and Co.

Katz, D. & Chapin, M. (Eds.) Tales form the jungle: A rainforestreader. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks.

Kelly, P. (1994). Thinking Green! Essays on environmentalism, feminism,and nonviolence. Berkely, CA: Parallax.

Kennedy, C. (1981). Exploring wildlife communities with children.New York: Girl Scouts of America.

Kirkby, J., O'Keefe, P., & Timberlake, L. (Eds.) (1995). Theearthscanreader in sustainable development. London: Earthscan Publications.

La Bastille, A. (1990). Mama Poc: An ecologists account of the extinctionof a species. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Langston, N. (1995). Forest dreams, forest nightmares: The paradoxof old growth in the inland west. Seattle and London: University ofWashington Press.

Lazlo, E. (1994). The choice: Evolution or extinction. New York:G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Leakey, R. (1995). The sixth extinction: Patterns of life and thefuture of humankind. New York: Doubleday.

Least, H.W. (1991). Prairy Earth: A deep map. Boston: HoughtonMifflin.

Lee, M. (1995). Earth first: Environmental apocalypse. Syracuse:Syracuse University Press.

Lewis, C. A. (1996). Green nature, human nature: The meaning of plantsin our lives. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Lewis, M. W. (1992). Green delusions: An environmentalist critiqueof radical environmentalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Lopez, B. (1978). Of wolves and man. New York: Scribner

Lopez, B. (1979). River notes: The dance of herons. Kansas City:Andrews and McMeel Inc.

Lopez, B. (1988). Crossing open ground. New York:Scribner.

Lopez, B. (1990). The rediscovery of America. Lexington, KY:UniversityPress of Kentucky.

Lovelock, J. E. (1991). Healing Gaia: Practical medicine for theplanet.New York: Harmony Books.

Manning, R. (1995). Grassland: The history, biology, politics, andpromise of the American prairie. New York: Penguin.

Matilsky, B. (1992). Fragile Ecology.

Mc Cuen, G. E. (1991). Ending war against earth. Hudson: WI: GaryMc Cuen Publications.

Mc Cuen, G. E. (1993). Ecocide and genocide: The rainforests and nativepeoples. Hudson:WI: Gary Mc Cuen Publications.

McCaulewy, D. (Ed.). (1996). Minding nature: The philosophers ofecology.New York: The Guilford Press.

McKibben, B. (1989). The end of nature. New York: Random House.

McPhee, J. (1971). Encounters with the archdruid. New York: Farrar,Straus & Giroux.

McPhee, J. (1985). Table of contents. New York: Farrar, Straus,and Giroux.

McPhee, J. (1990). The control of nature. New York: NoondayPress.

McPhee, J. (1993). Coming into the country. New York: Farrar,Straus, & Giroux.

Meadows, D., Meadows, D., & Randers, J. (1992). Beyond the limits:Confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future. WhiteRiver Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co.

Merchant, C. (1992). Radical Ecology.

Merchant, C. (1995). Earthcare: Women and the environment. NewYork: Routledge.

Metzger, M. & Whittaker, C. (1991). This planet is mine: Teachingenvironmental awareness and appreciation to children. New York: Simonand Schuster.

Mills, S. (1995). In service to the wild: Restoring and reinhabitingdamaged land. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, W.J.T. (Ed.). (1994). Landscape and power. Chicago andLondon: University of Chicago Press.

Mohrhardt, D. & Schinkel, R. E. (1991). Suburban nature guides.Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books.

Morrison, R. (1995). Ecological democracy. Boston: South EndPress.

Naar, J. (1990). Design for a livable planet. New York: Harperand Row.

Naess, A. (1989). Ecology, community and lifestyle. Boston: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Nash, R. F. (1989). The rights of nature: A history of environmentalethics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

North, R. (1995). Life on a modern planet: A manifesto for progress.Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Oakes, B. (1996). Sculpting with the Environment.

Oelschlaeger, M. (1991). The idea of wilderness: From prehistory tothe age of ecology. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Oelschlaeger, M. (1992). The wilderness condition: Essays on environmentand civilization. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Oelschlaeger. M. (1994). Caring for creation: An ecumenical approachto the environmental crisis. New Haven and London: Yale UniversityPress.

Oppenheimer, M., & Boyle, R. H. (1990). Dead heat: The race againstthe greenhouse effect. New York: Basic Books.

Peter, R. L. & Lovejoy, T. E. (Eds.). (1992). Global warming andbiological diversity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Phillips, K. (1994). Tracking the vanishing frogs: An ecological mystery.New York: Penguin Books.

Pick, M. (1991). How to save your neighborhood, city or town.San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Piel, G. (1992). Only one world: Our own to make and to keep.New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.

Ponting, C. (1992). A green history of the world. New York: St.Martin's Press.

Porritt, J. (1990). Where on earth are we going? London: BBCBooks.

Raeburn, P. (1995). The last harvest: The genetic gamble that threatensto destroy american agriculture. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Reiser, M. (1986). Cadillac desert: The American west and it'sdisappearingwater. New York: Penguin.

Rifkin, J. & Rifkin, C. G. (1992). Voting green. New York:Simon and Schuster.

Rifkin, J. (1980). Entropy: Into the greenhouse world. New York:Bantam.

Rifkin, J. (1991). Biosphere politics: A cultural odyssey from themiddle ages to the new age. San Francisco: Harper.

Rissler, J. & Mellon, M. (1996). The ecological risks of engineeredcrops. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Rittner, D. (1992). Ecolinking: Everyone's guide to online environmentalinformation. Berkley: Peachpit Press.

Robertson, G., Mash, M., & Tickner, L.(Eds.) (1996). Future natural:Nature, science, culture. London and New York: Routledge.

Roszak, T. (1992). The voice of the earth: An exploration ofecopsychology.New York and London: Simon and Schuster.

Roszak, T., Gomes, M., & Kanner, A. (Eds.) (1995). Ecopsychology:Restoring the earth , healing the mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club.

Rothenberg, D. (1995). Wild ideas. Minneapolis: University ofMinnesota Press.

Rubin, C. T. (1994). The green crusade: rethinking the roots ofenvironmentalism.New York: Free Press.

Sanders, S. R. (1987). The paradise of bombs. Boston: BeaconPress.

Seamon, D., & Mugerauer, R. (Eds.). (1985). Dwelling, place, andenvironment. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sessions, G. (Ed.). (1995). Deep ecology for the 21st Century.Boston and London: Shambhala.

Shabecoff, P. ( 1996). A new name for peace: Internationalenvironmentalism,sustainable development and democracy. Hanover and London: UniversityPress of New England.

Sitarz, D. (Ed.). (1993). Agenda 21: The earth summit strategy tosave our planet. Boulder, CO: Earth Press.

Solbrig, O. T. & Solbrig, D. (1994). So shall you reap: Farmingand crops in human affairs. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Somerville, R. C. (1996). The forgiving air: Understanding environmentalchange. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Steger, W. & Bowermaster, J. (1990). Saving the earth: A citizen'sguide to environmental action. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Stewart, K. (1996). A space on the side of the road: Cultural poeticsin an "other" society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress.

Stone, Christopher. (1993). The gnat is older than man: Globalenvironmentand human agenda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Strong, D. (1995). Crazy mountains: Learning from wilderness to weightechnology. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Thomashow, M. (1995). Ecological identity: Becoming a reflectiveenvironmentalist.Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Tilsworth, D. J. (1991). Raising an earth friendly child. Fairbanks,AL: Raven Press.

Timberlake, L. (1987). Only one earth.

Tobias, M, & Cowan, G. (Eds.) (1996). The soul of nature: Celebratingthe spirit of the earth. New York: Penguin.

Vanderweer, J. & Perfecto, I. (1995). Breakfast of diversity:The truth about rainforest destruction. Monroe, OR.: Subterranean Co.

Walker, L. C. (1990). Forests: A naturalists guide to trees and forestecology. New York: Wiley Nature Editions.

Walker, S.(Ed). (1993). Changing community. St. Paul: Gray WolfPress.

Watkins, T. H. & Byrnes, P. (Eds.) (1995). The world of wilderness:Essays on the power and purpose of wild country. Niwot, CO: Robert RinehartPublishers.

Weigel, V. B. (1995). Earth cancer. Westport, CT and London:Praeger.

Weiner, J. (1990). The next one hundred years: Shaping the fate ofour living earth. New York: Bantam Books.

Whelan, T. (Ed.) (1991). Nature tourism: Managing for theenvironment. Washinton, D.C.: Island Press.

Wilkinson, Charles F. (1992). The eagle bird: Mapping a new west.New York: Vintage Books.

Williams, T. T. (1994). An unspoken hunger: Stories from the field.New York: Pantheon Books.

Williams, T. T. (1991). Refuge: An unnatural history of family andplace. New York: Pantheon.

Wilson, Edward. (1992). The diversity of life. Cambridge, MA.:Belknap Press.

Worster, D. (1993). The wealth of nature: Environmental history andthe ecological imagination. New York and Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress.

Zakin, S. (1993). Coyotes and town dogs: Earth first and theenvironmental movement. New York: Viking.







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