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Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River divides Zimbabwe and Zambia, in southern Africa. |
Guide to Political News & facts on the world wide web
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"Ecology has been isolated within biology departments as though it had little or nothing to do with the social sciences, the humanities, or the professions. The result is a pervasive anthropocentrism ( human obsessed ) that manifests the roles of humans and their ideas, . . . that assumes nature to be infinite, and human ingenuity to be the ultimate resource." |
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Crucial concepts in ecological science, history and ideas are to remember, understand, and apply:
Your ecological footprint.
Walden "A model of the possible unity" among "personhood, pedagogy, and place."
Natural capital | Accounting for natural assets | Worth of ecosystem services
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Class related links to use in papers.
Carbon as a new currency for our post-industrial world?
Economic cycles in the past and the recent era.
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
The United States Bureau of the Census.
USDA, Plants database of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.What is
social justice and how is it important to us all?
Democracy Now.
Quotations.
Museums.
Grist.Terms to remember, apply, & understand sufficiently to analyze ecological problems.
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, AAAS: Atlas.
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Boston Athenaeum
Research Facilities in Museums on the web.
Public Broadcasting Service–Investigative News.
National Public Radio, NPR.
Inside the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.
US Geological Survey, USGS.
MET Office: Hadley Climate Centre in U.K.
University of California, Library.
University of Texas, Library.
Environmental topics portal for the web.
World Resources Institute, WRI.
Environmental Media Services, EMS, daily news.
The Thoreau Reader web site
US Census Bureau (decennial census data)
White paper (example)
next Foreign Press a small sampling. 
Toronto Star
Environmental links: topical matters
NGOs, non-governmental organizations:
There are over 25 groups listed here with links to their web sites. In the contemporary corporate world dominated by international conglomerates that supersede national interests, using commercial power to undermine traditional sovereignty, non-governmental organizations remain the only means by which a public voice can be raised over the distribution of wealth derived form natural resources, polluting technology and human labor.
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I wish I had said that one goal of continuing education is to motivate "the interior lives of young people" whom Andrew Delbanco suggests are "eager for intellectual and aesthetic excitement, learning to examine old ideas in light of new imperatives."
To me, learning requires as much passion balanced with logic as it does an enduring dedication to correct our errors, revise our biases and reinvent the world to the extent our imaginations grow to appreciate the paradoxes, tragedies, and unexpected discoveries of learning new ideas in old frames.
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Andrew Delbanco, "Scandals of Higher Education." The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2007,pp. 42-47. Quoted on p. 46. |
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