Environmental Reading Group
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The Environmental Reading Group (EREAD), is a weekly faculty/staff/student lunch group for cross-disciplinary conversation about contemporary environmental writings. |
EREAD meets on Wednesdays at noon in the conference room in Anderson Bio Labs. To be notified about readings, dates and locations, email cses@rice.edu.
All readings are PDF files and are available only to Rice University users.
May 14th, 2008
"Picking up the Gun" by Sarah McDonald, Rice undergrad and recipient of the 2008 Greene Prize
May 7th , 2008
"To See the Wizard" from Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning
April 30th, 2008
"Greetings" from Eye of the Albatross by Care Safina 2002
April 23rd, 2008
"The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" and "The Wyoming Range" from Travels in the Greater Yellowstone by Jack Turner 1991
April 16th, 2008
"One Nation Under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all" by Rebecca Solnit from Orion Magazine March/April 2008.
April 9th, 2008
No readings
April 2nd, 2008
"The Maze and Aura" from The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner 1997.
March 26th, 2008
No readings
March 19th, 2008
"A Dying Breed" by Andrew Rice from the New York Times January 27th 2008
March 12th, 2008
"God's Mistress: Half the Stars" a selection of poems from Resurrection Update by James Galvin 1997.
March 5th, 2008
No reading, spring break
February 27th, 2008
"Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: Global food security under climate change" by Josef Schmidhuber and Francesco N. Tubiello
"Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: Global fish production and climate change" by K. M. Brander
"Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture" by John F. Morton
All from the December 2007 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science
February 20th, 2008
“Ecology, Justice, and the End of Development” (including bibliography) from Planet Dialectics by Wolfang Sachs 1999
February 13th, 2008
Global Temperature Trends 2007 #1 Summation by NASA
Global Temperature Trends 2007 #2 Summation by NASA
"Rise in Atmospheric C02 Accelerates as Economy Grows, Natural Carbon Sinks Weaken" from the Carnegie Institution and the National Academy of Sciences, October 22, 2007
February 6th, 2008
Chapters 1 and 2 from Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills 2002 (the same reading!)
January 30th, 2008
Chapters 1 and 2 from Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills 2002
January 23rd, 2008
People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution by William Baxterter 1974
"The Ethics of Respect for Nature" by Paul W. Taylor Environmental Ethics Fall 1981
January 16th, 2008
Introduction and final chapter from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan 2008
Opening chapter from Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon 2007
Excerpt from Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture by Dale Allen Pfeiffer 2006
January 9th, 2008
"Toxic Dreams: A California Town Find Meaning in an Acid Pit" by Jack Hitt in The New Kings of Non-Fiction edited by Ira Glass.
January 2nd, 2008
No reading
December 26th, 2007
No reading
December 19th, 2007
"Natural Capitalism" by Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, and Paul Hawken Harvard Business Review May-June 1999
"A World of Abundance" by William McDonough and Michael Braungart Interfaces May-June 2000
December 12th, 2007
"Is Humanity Fatally Successful?" by William Rees Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis 2002-2003
December 5th, 2007
all from The Economists' Voice June 2007
"A New Agenda for Global Warming" by Joseph Stiglitz
"A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Progocol" by Sheila Olmstead and Robert Stavins
"Climate Change: The Uncetainties, the Certainties and What They Imply About Action" by Thomas Schelling
"Time to Change US Climate Policy" by Robert Hahn and Peter Passell
November 28th, 2007
Chapters 16-21 from Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change by William Calvin 2007
November 21st, 2007
Thanksgiving break - no reading
November 14th, 2007
"Prologue" and "Towers" from Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land by Craig Childs 2002
November 7th, 2007
"GEO-4 – Executive Summary for Journalists" The Global Environment Outlook of the UN (GEO), 25 October 2007
October 31st, 2007
"The Future is Drying Up" by Jon Gertner New York Times October 21st 2007
October 24th, 2007
"The Threat to the Planet: A Review Essay" by Jim Hansen, New York Review of Books July 13, 2006
"Scientific Reticence and Sea Level Rise" by Jim Hansen, Environmental Research Letters 2, April-June 2007
October 17th, 2007
More excerpts from Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country by Greg Gordon, 2003
October 10th, 2007
Excerpts from Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country by Greg Gordon, 2003
October 3rd, 2007
"Multifaceted Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change" by Jouni Paavola et. al, from Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change 2006
"Climate Change Challenge for the Poor--Part I" by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Yale Global September 26, 2007
September 26th
"Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages" from the World Bank and the State Environmental Protection Administration, P. R. China, February 2007
"As China Rises, Pollution Soars" by Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley, International Herald Tribune, August 25, 2007
September 19th, 2007
"Dim Sun: Global warming? Global dimming? What's with the globe, anyway?" by Kip Keen, Grist: Environmental News & Commentary, September 22, 2004
"Strong Present-day Aerosol Cooling Implies a Hot Future" by Meinrat O. Andreae et al., Nature 435:30, June 2005
"Clear Skies Raise Global-warming Estimates" by Quirin Schiermeier, Nature 435:30, June 2005
"Impact of Global Dimming and Brightening on Global Warming" by Martin Wild, et al., Geophysical Research Letters 34, 2007
"One Hundred Days of Climate Action" by David W. Orr, Conservation Biology 21:4, 2007
September 12th, 2007
"Powering the Planet" by Nathan S. Lewis, Engineering and Science, No. 2, 2007
September 5th, 2007
August 29th, 2007
"Tar Sands Fever!" by Dan Woynillowicz, World Watch, September/October 2007
"Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining in U.S." International Herald Tribune August 23, 2007
August 22nd, 2007
"Eyeing Future Wealth, Russians Plant the Flag on the Arctic Seabed, Below the Polar Cap" by C. J. Chivers, New York Times, August 3, 2007
"Cold Rush" by McKenzie Funk, Harper's Magazine, September 2007
August 15th, 2007
"Another Global Warming Icon Comes Under Attack" by S. E. Schwartz et al., Science, July 2007
"The Big Thaw" by Tim Appenzeller, National Geographic, June 2007
August 8th, 2007
"The Joy of Sales Resistance" and "Conservation and Local Economy" from Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell Berry, 1994
August 1st, 2007
Introduction and Part I from Land Circle by Linda Hasselstrom, 2007
July 25th, 2007
"The Importance of Peacock" from The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner, 1996
July 18th, 2007
"Endgame: Meditations on a Diminishing World" by Edward Hoagland, Harper's Magazine, June 2007
July 11th, 2007
July 4th, 2007
Independence Day, no EREAD
June 27th, 2007
Chapter 8, chapters 9 and 10 from Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2007
June 20th, 2007
Chapters 6 and 7 from Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2007
June 13th, 2007
Chapter 4 and chapter 5 from Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2007
June 6th, 2007
"Economic Inequality Predicts Biodiversity Loss" by Gregory Mikkelson et al., Plos One, May 2007
May 30th, 2007
Chapters 2 and 3 from Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2007
May 23rd, 2007
Preface and chapter 1 from Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2007
May 16th, 2007
Excerpts (introduction, chapter 3, afterword) from Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, 2007
May 9th, 2007
"Restoration" by Paul Hawken, excerpt from Blessed Unrest, 2007 New York: Virginia Press
"The Thoreau Problem" by Rebecca Solnit, Orion Magazine, May|June 2007
May 2nd, 2007
"The Ecology of Work" by Curtis White, Orion Magazine , May|June 2007
"To Remake the World" by Paul Hawken, Orion Magazine, May|June 2007
April 25th, 2007
"Jungle Law" by William Langewiesch, Vanity Fair, May 2007
April 18th, 2007
"Dreams of a Jade Forest" by Wade David, excerpt from Shadows in the Sun, 1998
April 4th, 2007
"What's So Funny?" by Tim Dickinson, Outside Magazine, April 2007
March 28th, 2007
"Raccoon" and "Cat and Mouse" by Craig Childs, excerpt from Crossing Paths, 1997
March 21st, 2007
"Beyond Hope" by Derrick Jensen, Orion Magazine, May|June 2006
"The Idols of Environmentalism" by Curtis White, Orion Magazine, March|April 2007
March 14th, 2007
"Eating Better than Organic" by John Cloud, Time Magazine, March 2, 2007
"The Ecological Fishprint of Nations: Measuring Humanity's Impact on Marine Ecosystems" by John Talbert et al., Redifing Progress: The Nature of Economics, 2006
February 21st, 2007
"Agiabampo to Lubec " excerpt from Swimming in Circles, by Paul Molyneaux, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007
"Economic Efficiency in Fisheries and Aquaculture" by Paul Molyneaux, International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, Vol. 1 No.1
February 13th, 2007
Mr. Green by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, January 22, 2007
February 6th, 2007
Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan, New York Times, January 28, 2007
January 30th, 2007
Selected Readings from The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds by James Hamilton, 1992
January 23rd, 2007
Executive Summary from Livestock's Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Options
Chapter 7 from Livestock's Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Option
January 16th, 2007
"Portraits in Carbon" by Todd Neff, World Watch, January|February 2007
"Swift Boating, Stealth Budgeting, Unitary Executives" by James Hansen, World Watch, November|December 2006
December 12th, 2006
Selected Readings from Design on the Edge by David Orr, MIT Press, 2006
December 5th, 2006
Articles related to EREADer Jeremy Caves' presentation
"Conservation Esthetic" by Aldo Leopold, excerpt from A Sand County Almanac, Oxford University Press, 1949
"Standing Up for this World" by Mary O'Brien, Orion, September|October 2004
"Protecting National Forest Wilderness After the Wilderness Act" by Dave Foreman, Wild Earth, Spring|Summer 2004
November 28th , 2006
"A Meditation on Building" by David Orr, excerpt from Design on the Edge: The Making of High Performance Building, MIT Press, 2006
November 21st , 2006
"The Flora and Fauna of Las Vegas" by Ellen Meloy, excerpt from Raven's Exile: a season of the Green River, University of Arizona Press, 1994
"Las Vegas Versus Nature" by Mike Davis, excerpt from Dead Cities, The New Press, 2002
November 14th , 2006
"A Quirk in the Law" by William deBuys, Orion, November|December 2006
"Voices from the Gas Fields" by Rebecca Clarren, Orion, November|December 2006
"The Coalition That Could" by Rebecca Clarren, Orion, November|December 2006
November 7th , 2006
"Drugging the Waters" by Elizabeth Royte, OnEarth, Fall 2006
"The Owl, Spotted" by Alison Hawthorne Deming, OnEarth, Fall 2006
"Will Evangelicals Help Save The Earth?" by Bill McKibben, OnEarth, Fall 2006
"A Thirst We Can't Quech" by Jacques Leslie, OnEarth, Fall 2006
October 31st, 2006
"Chapter 5: the present impasse and steps forward" by Andrew Dessler*, excerpt from The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to Debate, Cambridge University Press, 2006
*CSES Colloquium speaker, November 2nd, noon, Duncan Hall 3092, lunch provided. RSVP cses@rice.edu
October 24th, 2006
"The Organic Myth" by Diane Brady, Business Week Online, October 16, 2006
"The Vegetable-Industrial Complex " by Michael Pollan, New York Times , October 15, 2006
"Big Farms Will Keep Spinach on the Table" by Daniel Akst, New York Times, October 15, 2006
"Where's the healthiest beef? In the pasture" by Nicki Britton, Houston Chronicle, October 17, 2006
October 17th, 2006
"The Farm " by Michael Pollan, excerpt from Omnivore's Dilemma, 2006
"The Feedlot " by Michael Pollan, excerpt from Omnivore's Dilemma, 2006
October 10th, 2006
"The Battered Border: Immigration policy sacrifices Arizona's wilderness " by Chris Clarke, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2006
"Blue Desert " by Charles Bowden
October 3rd, 2006
"Challenges in Environmental Ethics " by Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, 2003
September 26th, 2006
"Managing the Effects of Nanotechnology " by J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Stricter Nanotechnology Laws Are Urged" by Rick Weiss, Washington Post, January 11, 2006
"Rice studies the big picture on tiny nanoparticles " by , Houston Chronicle, September 19, 2006
"Nanotech Nightmare?" by Connie Cone Sexton, The Arizona Republic, September 19, 2006
September 19th, 2006
"Slow Food Nation " by Alice Waters, The Nation, September 11, 2006
"One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum" by Eric Schlosser, The Nation, September 11, 2006
"Mean or Green?" by Liza Featherstone, The Nation, September 11, 2006
"Hard Labor" by Felicia Mello, The Nation, September 11, 2006
September 12th, 2006
"The Question Science Won't Ask" by Craig Holdrege, Orion, July/August 2006
September 5th, 2006
"Environmental Challenge" by Peter H. Raven, May 22nd, 2003
"Presidential Address: Science, Sustainability, and the Human Prospect" by Peter H. Raven, Science, August, 2002
May 30th, 2006
"The Sway of the World: Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real" by Amanda Griscom Little, Grist Magazine, May 19th, 2006.
"Interview: David Guggenheim and an Inconvenient Truth" by Alex Steffan, World Changing Essays, May 4th, 2006.
May 23rd, 2006
"No Bar Code" excerpt from "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan, Mother Jones Magazine, May/June, 2006
"Paradise Sold" by Steven Shapin, The New Yorker , May 15th, 200
May 16th, 2006
"The Happiness Gene" by Robert Michael Pyle, Orion, May/June, 2006
"A Hormonal Message" by Sandra Steingraber, Orion, May/June, 2006
"Making Connections" by Michelle Nijhuis, Orion, May/June, 2006
May 10th, 2006
"Beyond Hope" by Derrick Jensen, Orion, May/June, 2006
"On Earth Day" by Alex Steffan, WorldChangingEssays, April 21st, 2006
May 3rd, 2006
"Oceans of Waste" by Paula Bock, The Seattle Times, April 21st, 2006
April 26th, 2006
"Park and Parcel: The underfunded Texas Parks and Wildlife Department struggles to sell itself" by Joe Nick Patoski, The Texas Observer, April, 2006
`REST-OF-MY-LIFE RESTORATION PROJECT' / Houston businessman John Poindexter considers renewing his controversial offer to buy part of Big Bend Ranch State Park / A LEGACY IN LAND’ by John W. Gonzales, The Houston Chronicle, October, 2005
April 19th, 2006
Selections from "Gasp! The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air" by Joe Sherman, 2004
April 12th, 2006
Selections from "Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food" by George Pyle, 2005
April 5th, 2006
"Lessons from the WOLF" by Jim Robbins, Scientific American, June 2004.
"Still Buzzing" by Michael Lanza, Backpacker, February 2006.
"When Bison Leave the Park" brochure from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior
"935 Yellowstone bison rounded up this year" by Mike Stark, billingsgazettedotcom, February 16th, 2006
March 27th, 2006
"The Death of Environmentalism: Introduction to the Symposium" by Maurie J. Cohen, March 2006.
"Spinning our way to Sustainability?" by Robert J. Brulle and J. Craig Jenkins, March 2006.
"A Call For Women to Lead a Different Environmental Movement" by Lynnette Zelezny and Megan Bailey, March 2006
March 8th, 2006
"The Bombing Range" from Walking It Off, by Doug Peacock
March 1st, 2006
"Needed: Technology that buries our carbon dixoide" by Froma Harrop, The Houston Chronicle, February 26th, 2006
"Wish upon a star: Sell Disney the Grand Canyon" by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, The Houston Chronicle, February 26th, 2006
Selections from "Crimes Against Nature" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Harper Collins, 2004
February 22nd, 2006
"Moving Mountains; The struggle for justice in the coal fields of Appalachia" by Erik Reece, Orion, January/February 2006
February 15th, 2006
"Between Hoofprints: It isn't easy to find common ground on the West's rangelands" by Michelle Nujhuis, Orion, November/December 2005
February 8th, 2006
Selections from "Wandering Home" by Bill McKibben, Crown Publishers, New York, 2005
February 1st, 2006
"Earth First! Cofounder Dave Foreman on Being a True Conservative" by Jeremy Lloyd, The Sun, December 2005
January 25th, 2006
"Ecological Ethics: Building a New Tool Kit for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers" by Ben A. Minteer and James P. Collins, Conservation Biology, December 2005
January 18th, 2006
Selections from "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil" by David Goodstein, W. W. Norton and Company, 2004
January 11th, 2006
"Armageddon Versus Extinction" by David Orr, Conservation Biology, April 2005
"Conservation Theory for Conservation Biologists; A Reply to David Orr" by various undersigned, Conservation Biology, December 2005
"Evangelicals are Conservationists" by David Henderson, Conservation Biology, December 2005
"Orr and Armageddon; Building a Coalition" by David M. Johns, Conservation Biology, December 2005
"The Other Connectivity; Reaching Beyond the Choir" by David M. Johns, Conservation Biology, December 2005
"Between Heaven and Earth; Evangelical Engagement in Conservatism" by Fred Van Dyke, Conservation Biology, December 2005
"A Response" by David Orr, Conservation Biology, December 2005
December 14th, 2005
"The Great Leap, Scenes from China's Industrial Revolution" by Bill McKibben, Harper's Magazine, December 2005
December 7th, 2005
Selections from "Notes on a Shared Landscape: Making Sense of the American West" by David Bayles, Image Continum Press, 2005
November 30th, 2005
"Conservation Refugees: When Protecting Nature Means Kicking People Out" Mark Dowie, Orion, November/December, 2005
"Behind Gold's Glitter, Torn Lands and Pointed Questions" Jane Perlez and Kirk Johnson, The New York Times, October 24th, 2005 and "Tangled Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine" Jane Perlez and Lowell Bergman, The New York Times, October 25th, 2005
November 16th, 2005
"Supreme Court Takes Up 2 Cases Challenging Powers of US Regulators to Protect Wetlands " Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, October 12, 2005
"The Galveston Bay Wetlands Crisis " Andrew Sipocz, National Wetlands Newsletter, July/August, 2005
"They Blinded Me with Pseudo Science: The Bush administration is jettisoning real scientists in favor of yes-men " Amanda Griscom, Grist Magazine, November 12, 2005
November 2nd, 2005
"Sleepwalking Into the Future" From "The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century" James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005
October 26th, 2005
"Hung Out to Dry: Post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other U.S. waterways" Osha Gray Davidson, Grist Magazine , October 11, 2005
"Minnesota's waters becoming more polluted" Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio , October 10, 2005
"Urban runoff a toxic brew" Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio, October 13, 2005
"Montana Faces Eternal Clean-Up of Toxic Lake" Adam Tanner, Reuters, September 26, 2005
October 19th, 2005
"Seeing the Wood from the Trees " Nicole Freris and Klemens Laschefski, Ecologist, July/August 2001
"Asphalt and Soya Dreams: Two Oceans, Two Countries and the Transoceanica " Tina Butler, mongabay.com, April 17, 2005
"Another look at global rainforest conservation: Are rainforests still in need of saving? " Rhett Butler, mongabay.com, April 19, 2005
October 12th, 2005
"Waiting for Salmon" Barry Lopez, Granta
"Pombo's Anti-Endangered Species
Bill Leaked Again" Center for Biological Diversity, 2005
"Revised Species Act Erodes Consensus" Bob Lando, Daily Republic, October 2005
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