Search For A Common Language Environmental Writing And Education / edited and with an introduction by Melody Graulich and Paul Crumbley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graulich, Melody, 1951-

Contributor:

Crumbley, Paul, 1952-

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences--Poetry.

Environmental sciences.

Environmental education.

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Place of Publication:

Utah State University, University Libraries 2005

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press Logan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

a A stellar group of writers, scientists, and educators illuminate the intersections between environmental science, creative writing, and education, considering ways to strengthen communication between differing fields with common interests. The contributing authors include Ken Brewer, Dan Flores, Hartmut Grassl, Carolyn Tanner Irish, Ted Kerasote, William Kittredge, Ellen Meloy, Louis Owens, Jennifer Price, Robert Michael Pyle, Kent C. Ryden, Annick Smith, Craig B. Stanford, Susan J. Tweit, and Keith Wilson.

Contents:

Introduction / Paul Crumbley, Melody Graulich

Preliminary reflections on matters environmental / Carolyn Tanner Irish

Painted lady / Ken Brewer

Who lost the limberlost? Education in a mis-placed age / Robert Michael Pyle

The silliest debate / Ken Brewer

Cousins: what the great apes tell us about human origins / Craig B. Stanford

Why dogs stopped flying / Ken Brewer

How science and the public can lead to better decision making in earth system management / Hartmut Grassl

Martha / Ken Brewer

What is the L.A. River? / Jennifer Price

The river blind / Ken Brewer

The unexpected environmentalist: building a centrist coalition / Ted Kerasote

Dermatophagoides / Ken Brewer

At cloudy pass: the need of being versed in human things / Louis Owens

Trying not to lie / Ken Brewer

Tuttle road: landscape as environmental text / Kent C. Ryden

The Tarantula Hawk / Ken Brewer

Begin with a river / Annick Smith

How to train a horse to burn / Ken Brewer

The natural west / Dan Flores

Sheep / Ken Brewer

Separation anxiety: the perilous alienation of humans from the wild / Ellen Meloy

Largest living organism on earth / Ken Brewer

Going south / William Kittredge

Now the sun has come to earth / Ken Brewer

The Pleiades / Susan J. Tweit

Scarlet Penstemon / Ken Brewer

Poetry reading at the Tanner Conference / Keith Wilson

Common cause in common voice / Robert Michael Pyle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202).

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613283405

9781283283403

1283283409

9780874215144

0874215145

OCLC:

476107825