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A voice for Earth : American writers respond to the Earth Charter / edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and A. James Wohlpart ; editorial assistant, Brandon P. Hollingshead.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earth Charter (1997).
- Earth Charter.
- Human ecology.
- Environmental protection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Peter Blaze Corcoran is a professor of environmental studies and environmental education and director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is editor of "The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World." A. James Wohlpart is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University; he serves as the associate director of the center.
- Contents:
- Imagination into principle
- Crafting principles for the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller
- The Earth Charter
- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter
- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming
- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker
- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp
- Lake Conestee / John Lane
- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass
- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders
- Who / Robert Michael Pyle
- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching
- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy
- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray
- Imagination and principle into a new ethic
- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman
- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25310-0
- 9786613253101
- 0-8203-4276-9
- OCLC:
- 759160186
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