Additional materials that could be added to this lesson

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america

A possible substitute for this piece:

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/facts-on-animal-farming-and-the-environment/
Barry Estabrook, Tomatoland, ix–34

A review with some excerpts from the book:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farming-destroyed-the-tasty-tomato
Al Young, “Seeing Red,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 69
Kevin Bowen, “Gelatin Factory,” in Poetry Like Bread, 68–69

http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-bowen.html

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.thegardenmovie.com/

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1a3tjqQiBI

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.kingcorn.net/

It can be watched here with a subscription: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvMxIEgbsIo
The Future of Food

Trailer, info on the film, and a link to buy it: http://thefutureoffood.com/index.html

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.freshthemovie.com/

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.hungryforchange.tv/

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/

Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://farmageddonmovie.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuQ-J04eLQ

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamberger/watch-this-cocoa-farmers-joy-as-he-tastes-chocolate-for-the#.jxr13jaQrO

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/we-cant-stomach-the-real-cost-of-food/article19768238/

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating

Here is A. Breeze Harper discussing the book, explaining some of her motivations for writing it and touching on some of the concepts discussed in it. This is not a perfect substitute for using the book itself, and this site has an academic tone, but it could be used with some groups of students:

http://sistahvegan.com/sistah-vegan-anthology/
Toby Hemenway, Gaia’s Garden, 21–31, 120–123, 208–212

Here are two videos that offer introductions to some of the ideas from permaculture that Hemenway discusses in his book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3O2REqVTKo

http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_gardening

http://www.permacultureactivist.net/intro/PcIntro.htm
This video is of a talk by Hemenway. It doesn’t introduce many of the basic ideas of permaculture, so it shouldn’t be used on its own to substitute for the text I assign. However, it could be an interesting addition; a fascinating critique of agriculture starts around minute 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/can-organic-farming-counteract-carbon-emissions-1373/

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10819&LangID=E

http://www.dirtthemovie.org/

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-food/food-posters-from-the-past-are-recipes-for-the-present/?page=1

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/united-nations-calls-end-industrialized-farming

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/vegan-eco-hiphop-dj-raps-about-og-lifestyle-food-justice-and-sustainability.html

http://www.crunchybetty.com/we-are-delicious

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Here’s a site that provides an overview of the concept of “ecological footprint” and a number of tools to explore the concept. It would be a great enhancement for Wackernagel and Rees’ book, but if necessary it might also work as a substitute:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_basics_overview/
Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress, 29–65

Here are recordings of lectures by Ronald Wright that correspond to the chapters from this book. See Part 2 and the beginning of Part 3 for the sections equivalent to the passages I use.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2004-cbc-massey-lectures-a-short-history-of-progress-1.2946872
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, 17–37, 92–102

This article offers many of the same ideas as the passages I assign by McDonough and Braungart. While I highly recommend the book itself, this piece could serve as a substitute:

http://www.mcdonough.com/speaking-writing/the-extravagant-gesture/#.VKUGpiczXa8
Rita Turner, “Discourses of Consumption in US-American Culture,” Sustainability 2010

A pdf of this article can be downloaded here:

http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/7/2279

(Look for the link that reads “Download PDF” below the citation information and above the abstract.)

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/carbon-connection

http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/radical_simplicity_chapter_1.html

http://www.alternet.org/world/no-conspiracy-theory-small-group-companies-have-enormous-power-over-world

http://www.ru.org/33dubiou.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

“Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption”

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/intolerable/#cellphones2
“Midway: Message from the Gyre”

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24

http://www.midwayfilm.com/index.html

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://m.fastcoexist.com/3024554/visualized/a-map-of-the-carbon-footprint-of-all-31000-zip-codes-in-the-us

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/08/gregg_segal_photographs_people_with_a_week_s_worth_of_their_trash_in_his.html

“Acoma Pueblo Creation Myth,” 20–22

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/sw/oma/oma06.htm
“Tewa Sky Looms,” 23

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/slideshows/view.aspx?SlideShowID=10&SlideDetailID=75

http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/bradford.html#nine

See Chapter 9, paragraphs 6–8
Passages from Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, edited by Lisa Benton and John Short:

“How Can One Sell the Air” by Chief Seattle, 12

http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/famous_indian_chiefs/chief_seattle/
“A Certaine Indian (1621)” by William Bradford, 19–20

Similar writings by William Bradford, which could be substituted for this selection, can be found here:

http://www.bartleby.com/163/103.html

or

http://www2.fiu.edu/~harveyb/bradfordbig.html

http://brotheraskari.me/2012/11/25/before-they-got-thick-a-tale-of-the-lipan-apache-told-by-percy-bigmouth-1935/

“Making the World,” 245–248

“The Making of Men and Horses,” 252–253

“How the World Was Made,” 253–255

“Creation of the Earth,” 255–257

“The Earth Is Set Up,” 258–260

“The Way of the Indian,” 260–262
This site doesn’t include the exact stories found in Sproul’s text, but it does provide a number of Native American creation myths:

http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamcreation.html

“The Untransacted Destiny of the American People (1846)” by William Gilpin, 43–44

Joaquin Miller, 46–49

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For (1854)” by Henry David Thoreau, 74–79
“My First Summer in the Sierra (1868)” by John Muir, 80–83
“The Land of Little Rain (1903)” by Mary Austin, 92–95
“The Destructiveness of Man (1864)” by George Perkins Marsh, 136–139
Optional: Andrea Wulf, Founding Gardeners, 3–34
Optional: John Sears, Sacred Places, 3–30
Passages from Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, edited by Lisa Benton and John Short:

“Moving West (1797)” by Daniel Boone, 59–60

“The 1785 Ordnance,” 60–62

“The Oregon Trail (1849)” by Francis Parkman, Jr., 62–63

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/OREGON/otrail01.html
“Letters Home (1863–1865)” by Gro Svendsen, 64–66
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1894)” by Frederick Jackson Turner, 75–77

“Essay on American Scenery (1835)” by Thomas Cole, 87–90

https://www.csun.edu/~ta3584/Cole.htm

See “The Frontier” paragraphs 1–8

“National Park Legislation (1872),” 98–99

“A Voice for Wilderness (1901)” by John Muir, 102–104

“National Park Legislation (1916),” 104–105

“Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation” by H. W. Brands, 113–116

“The Birth of Conservation” by Gifford Pinchot, 116–118
Optional: Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring, 47–70
Optional: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 5–42 (or entire novel)


Lesson 7.1
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, 1–23

This passage covers a number of Singer’s points:

http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/alm.html

(You may want to assign as far as “Goals for the Movement”)

http://www.peta.org/about-peta/learn-about-peta/ingrid-newkirk/animal-liberation/

http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer01.htm

This text is really essential for challenging and broadening students’ thinking, and I strongly recommend that you use it. Students’ reactions to this book form an important and central part of discussion in this lesson and deeply influence later lessons as well. I’ve included a link to an interview with Joan Dunayer in order to provide some online access to her work, but this interview does not introduce and explain many of the vital concepts that Dunayer explains in the book, and really shouldn’t be substituted.

http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Interviews/Animal%20Equality%20Language%20and%20Liberation_%20The%20Joan%20Dunayer%20Interview.htm
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: “The Land Ethic,” 237–246
Christopher Stone, Should Trees Have Standing, 1–31

A very short review and summary of Stone’s main point:

https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=49+Tul.+L.+Rev.+265&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=32d063dcac4dc06c47e4a9ca01e44e16
Federico García Lorca, “New York,” in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, 110–112
Kevin Bowen, “Gelatin Factory,” in Poetry Like Bread, 68–69

http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-bowen.html

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://time.com/3173937/what-are-animals-thinking-hint-more-that-you-suspect/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man-and-beast.html?_r=0

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

https://www.animallaw.info/article/domestic-violence-and-pets-list-states-include-pets-protection-orders

(If you use this text be sure to have students ask critical questions about these laws and consider whether they are enough, and whether they really focus on the rights of nonhuman animals.)


Lesson 7.3
Patrick Hossay, Unsustainable: A Primer for Global Environmental Justice, 1–41
Robert Bullard, “Anatomy of Environmental Racism,” in Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, 223–231
Some good resource on environmental racism and environmental justice can be found here:

http://www.ejnet.org/ej/

This site provides definitions, background, and an interview with Robert Bullard.
Will Heford, “That God Made,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 216–217
Juan Felipe Herrera, “Earth Chorus,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 30–32

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Opr-uzet7Q

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/04/asthma-like-so-many-other-factors-in-eric-garners-death-is-correlated-with-race/

http://m.thenation.com/article/192801-what-does-blacklivesmatter-have-do-climate-change

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/un-prepares-to-vote-on-water-as-a-human-right/

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mosdef/newworldwater.html

http://core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI3222/carson.html

An excerpt from the book can be found here, though this excerpt doesn’t get at some of the central insights that come in later pages of the section I use:

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/151545092/ecotopia#excerpt
Films:

The Day After Tomorrow

WALL-E

Mad Max 2

Idiocracy

Soylent Green

Optional: Snowpiercer (this film may be too violent for some students, use your judgment in choosing whether to assign it)

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

http://globalweirding.is/here

This article offers some of the same ideas as the passages I assign by McDonough and Braungart. While I highly recommend the book itself, this piece might serve as a substitute:

http://www.mcdonough.com/speaking-writing/buildings-like-trees-cities-like-forests/#.VKUGXSczXa8
Passage from Reading the Environment, edited by Melissa Walker:

“Change the Way We Think: Actions Will Follow” by Bill McKibben, 567–571

Here are two videos that offer introductions to some of the ideas from permaculture that Hemenway discusses in his book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3O2REqVTKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnkv_qj1xUc

These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons.

“21 Hours”

http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/is-another-economics-possible/?_r=0

http://coolclimate.deviantart.com/

http://storyofstuff.org/blog/born-mexico-city-idea-change-world/