Our campus theme next year will be "environment." Although it's defined
broadly enough to include all constituencies, it presents the opportunity to
reach about 500 freshmen with a back-door campaign of environmental literacy.
I am soliciting the ECOLOG group for suggestions for pre-college summer reading
with an environmental theme. It would have to be something that would capture
the minds of 17-18 year olds, and should lend itself to discussions that might
allow diverse discipline to have a say.
Barbara Kingsolver's "Prodigal Summer" or Michael Pollan's books came first to
mind. But there must be other things out there that I've missed. Since this
might be of interest to others, please respond to the list.
GPK
George P. Kraemer
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Chair, Environmental Studies Program Purchase College (SUNY)
