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.
“40 Maps the Explain Food in America”
http://www.vox.com/a/explain-food-america
Lesson 4.2
Philip Ackerman-Leist, Rebuilding the Foodshed, 135–158
Jeremy Rifkin, “Big Bad Beef,” in Reading the Environment, 20–21
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
Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest, 5-18
Peter Singer and Jim Mason, The Way We Eat, 3-55
Optional: Mark Winne, Closing the Food Gap, 21-34
Documentary Films:
The Garden
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.thegardenmovie.com/
Food, Inc.
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/
The World According to Monsanto
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/
Blue Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1a3tjqQiBI
King Corn
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
Fresh
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.freshthemovie.com/
Hungry for Change
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.hungryforchange.tv/
Forks over Knives
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/
Farmageddon
Info on the film and a link to buy it: http://farmageddonmovie.com/
Optional: Earthlings (be warned that this film is quite graphic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuQ-J04eLQ
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.
“Watch this Cocoa Farmer’s Joy as He Tastes Chocolate for the First Time”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamberger/watch-this-cocoa-farmers-joy-as-he-tastes-chocolate-for-the#.jxr13jaQrO
“We Can’t Stomach the Real Cost of Food”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/we-cant-stomach-the-real-cost-of-food/article19768238/
Lesson 4.3
Wendell Berry, “The Pleasures of Eating,” Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating
A. Breeze Harper, Sistah Vegan, 20–41, 80–86
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
These sites summarize some principles of permaculture, though I don’t find them as captivating as Hemenway’s book:
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
Rani Molla, “Can Organic Farming Counteract Carbon Emissions?” Wall Street Journal May 22 2014
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/can-organic-farming-counteract-carbon-emissions-1373/
“Eco-Farming Can Double Food Production in 10 Years, Says New UN Report,” Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, ohchr.org
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10819&LangID=E
Dirt! The Movie
http://www.dirtthemovie.org/
Optional: Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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.
“Food Posters from the Past are Recipes for the Present”
http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-food/food-posters-from-the-past-are-recipes-for-the-present/?page=1
“United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming”
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/united-nations-calls-end-industrialized-farming
“Vegan Eco-HipHop DJ Raps About the OG Lifestyle for Food Justice and Sustainability”
http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/vegan-eco-hiphop-dj-raps-about-og-lifestyle-food-justice-and-sustainability.html
“We Are Delicious”
http://www.crunchybetty.com/we-are-delicious
Lesson 5.1
John Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, 7–25, 62–66
Please see additional text downloads
Mathis Wackernagel and Williams Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, 7–30
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.)
David Orr, “The Carbon Connection,” Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/carbon-connection
Jim Merkel, Radical Simplicity, 2–16
http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/radical_simplicity_chapter_1.html
Marshall, “No Conspiracy Theory – A Small Group of Companies Have Enormous Power over the World,” AlterNet, October 31 2012
http://www.alternet.org/world/no-conspiracy-theory-small-group-companies-have-enormous-power-over-world
Alan Thein Durning, “The Dubious Rewards of Consumption,” in The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption, 129–134
http://www.ru.org/33dubiou.html
The Story of Stuff, produced by the Story of Stuff Project with Annie Leonard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Works of Chris Jordan:
“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
Trailer for the film Midway by Midway Film and Chris Jordan
http://www.midwayfilm.com/index.html
Optional: Thomas Princen, “Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback,” in Confronting Consumption, 103–131
Optional: Jack Manno, “Commoditization: Consumption, Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection,” in Confronting Consumption, 67–99
Optional: Bill McKibben, Deep Economy, 5–45
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.
“A Map of the Carbon Footprint of All 31,000 ZIP Codes in the U.S.”
http://m.fastcoexist.com/3024554/visualized/a-map-of-the-carbon-footprint-of-all-31000-zip-codes-in-the-us
“Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week’s Worth of Their Trash”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/08/gregg_segal_photographs_people_with_a_week_s_worth_of_their_trash_in_his.html
Lesson 6.1
Passages from So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture, edited by Chris Magoc:
“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
“A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness (1647)” by William Bradford, 24–26
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
“Before They Got Thick” by Percy Bigmouth, 20–21
http://brotheraskari.me/2012/11/25/before-they-got-thick-a-tale-of-the-lipan-apache-told-by-percy-bigmouth-1935/
“Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England” by William Cronon, 37–44
Barbara Sproul, Primal Myths:
“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
Virginia Armstrong, I Have Spoken, 1–23 and 34–39
Passages from So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture, edited by Chris Magoc:
“The Untransacted Destiny of the American People (1846)” by William Gilpin, 43–44
“Americans Spread All Over California (1846)” from the Monterey Californian, 45
“Social and Environmental Degradation in the California Gold Country (1890)” by
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 (1864),” 98
“National Park Legislation (1872),” 98–99
“A Voice for Wilderness (1901)” by John Muir, 102–104
“National Park Legislation (1916),” 104–105
“Conservation, Protection, Reclamation, and Irrigation (1901)” by Theodore Roosevelt, 110–113
“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”)
This excerpt also covers some of Singer’s points, though not all the points he makes in the selection I use for this lesson:
http://www.peta.org/about-peta/learn-about-peta/ingrid-newkirk/animal-liberation/
Another piece by Singer that touches on some of the points he makes in this text:
http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer01.htm
Joan Dunayer, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation, 169–177
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
Optional: Anna Peterson, Everyday Ethics and Social Change, 1–25
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.
“What Are Animals Thinking? (Hint: More than You Suspect)”
http://time.com/3173937/what-are-animals-thinking-hint-more-that-you-suspect/
Lesson 7.2
Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Preamble and excerpt from the chapter “Rights for Nature”
Please see additional text downloads
U.S. Constitution and U.S. Declaration of Independence, excerpts
Please see additional text downloads
Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy, 9–11
Charles Siebert, “Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?” The New York Times, April 23 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/the-rights-of-man-and-beast.html?_r=0
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.
“Domestic Violence and Pets: List of States that Include Pets in Protection Orders”
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
Please see additional text downloads
Chester Environmental Justice video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Opr-uzet7Q
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.
“The Racial Divide in America is this Elemental: Blacks and Whites Actually Breathe Different Air”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/04/asthma-like-so-many-other-factors-in-eric-garners-death-is-correlated-with-race/
“Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate”
http://m.thenation.com/article/192801-what-does-blacklivesmatter-have-do-climate-change
“UN Prepares to Vote on Water as Human Right”
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/un-prepares-to-vote-on-water-as-a-human-right/
Lyrics to Mos Def's “New World Water”
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mosdef/newworldwater.html
Lesson 8.1
Passages from Reading the Environment, edited by Melissa Walker:
Rachel Carson, “A Fable for Tomorrow,” 523–524
http://core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI3222/carson.html
George Mitchell, “Two Children in a Future World,” 525–528
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, 1–28
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)
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.
“Global Weirding Is Here”
http://globalweirding.is/here
Lesson 8.2
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, 68–83, 102–105, 114–115
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
Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy, 9–11
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
Garbage Warrior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnkv_qj1xUc
Optional: William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, 118–156
Optional: Marek Oziewicz, “We Cooperate, or We Die”: Sustainable Coexistence in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents,” Children’s Literature in Education 2009
Additonal 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.
“21 Hours”
http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours
“Is Another Economics Possible?”
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/is-another-economics-possible/?_r=0
Cool Climate Art Contest
http://coolclimate.deviantart.com/
“Born in Mexico City, An Idea to Change the World”
http://storyofstuff.org/blog/born-mexico-city-idea-change-world/
Full List of Assigned Readings from the Book
Abbey, Edward. 1994. “The Serpents of Paradise.” In Reading the Environment, edited by Melissa Walker, 1st ed., 51–56. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Abram, David. 1997. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. 1st Vintage Books Ed. New York: Vintage.
Ackerman-Leist, Philip. 2013. Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Anonymous. 2000. “Give Us Good Goods.” In Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, edited by Lisa M. Benton and John Rennie Short, 21. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Aristotle. (350 BCE) 2014. “History of Animals.” Translated by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. The Internet Classics Archive. Book IX, Part 1. Paragraphs 5–7.
Aristotle. (350 BCE) 2014. “Politics.” Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Internet Classics Archive. Part XII.
Armstrong, Virginia I. 1971. I Have Spoken: American History Through The Voices Of The Indians. Athens, OH: Swallow Press.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. 2001. “Ah Rain!” In Poetry Like Bread, edited by Martín Espada, 54. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press.
Biagi, Shirley. 2011. Media Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media. 10th edition. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Benton, Lisa M., and John Rennie Short, eds. 2000a. “The 1785 Ordnance.” In Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, 60–62. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Benton, Lisa M., and John Rennie Short, eds. 2000b. “National Park Legislation (1864).” In Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, 98. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Benton, Lisa M., and John Rennie Short, eds. 2000c. “National Park Legislation (1872).” In Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, 98–99. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Benton, Lisa M., and John Rennie Short, eds. 2000d. “National Park Legislation (1916).” In Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader, 104–105. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Berry, Wendell. 1995.
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