When I was 17 my world view was changed dramatically by Gary Snyder's book of essays, The Practice of the Wild and David Orr's writing (Ecological Literacy or other books).
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kraemer, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:34 AM > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] summer reading with an ecologic/environmental theme > > > 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) ______________________________ > > ___________________________________ > > -- Tracy Bowerman Graduate Research Assistant Utah State University Logan, UT
