EREAD Archive

Spring 2002

Date	Author	Source	Title
3/27/02	Brad Tyer	Texas Observer	"Department of Ranch Management: Is Texas Parks and Wildlife Giving Up on Public Lands?"
3/27/02		Texas Observer	"Polluter in the Primary?"
3/27/02	Belle Zars	Texas Observer	"Like Water for Golf"
4/3/02	Charles Mann	Atlantic Monthly	"1491"
4/10/02	Bob Burtman	OnEarth	"Silence of the Labs"
4/17/02	Michael Pollan	New York Times	"Behind the Organic-Industrial Complex"
4/17/02	Michael Pollan	New York Times	"Power Steer"
4/24/02	Jared Hardner and Richard Rice	Scientific American	"Rethinking Green Consumerism"
4/24/02	Wendell Berry	Sierra Magazine	"For Love of the Land"
5/8/02	Edward Abbey	One Life at a Time, Please	"Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow"
5/8/02	Edward Abbey	The Journey Home	"God's Plan for the State of Utah: A Revelation"
5/22/02	Barbara Kingsolver	Small Wonder	"Seeing Scarlet"
5/22/02	Barbara Kingsolver	Small Wonder	"Setting Free the Crabs"
5/22/02	Barbara Kingsolver	Small Wonder	"A Forest's Last Stand"
6/5/02	Jonathan M. Harris et al.	A Survey of Sustainable Development	"Forward"
6/5/02	Jonathan M. Harris et al.	A Survey of Sustainable Development	"Volume Introduction"
6/5/02	Jonathan M. Harris et al.	A Survey of Sustainable Development	Part 1 "Economics of Sustainability: The Environmental Dimension" Essays 1 to 5
6/12/02	Malcolm Gillis	Rohm and Haas Conference on Sustainability	"Sustainable Development: Rice University"
6/12/02	Malcolm Gillis	Rohm and Haas Conference on Sustainability	"Sustainable Development: Teaching, Research and Outreach at Rice University"
6/19/02	Herman E. Daly	Invited Address, World Bank, April 30, 2002	"Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies"
6/26/02	David Orr	Ecological Literacy	Chapter 1: "The Problem of Sustainability"
6/26/02	David Orr	Ecological Literacy	Chapter 9: "Education and Sustainability: An Approach"
6/26/02	Douglas Yu et al.	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	"Trade Versus Environment"

Fall 2002

Date	Author	Source	Title
9/4/02	Kent Nelson		"Tides"
9/11/02	Vijay Vaitheeswaran	The Economist	"The Great Race"
9/18/02	Paul Hawken et al.	Natural Capitalism	Chapter 1: "The Next Industrial Revolution"
10/2/02	David Orr	The Nature of Design	Chapter 2: "Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design"
10/9/02	Mitchell Thomashow	Bringing the Biosphere Home	Chapter 1: "The Perceptual Challenge of Global Environmental Change"
10/16/02	Mitchell Thomashow	Bringing the Biosphere Home	Chapter 4: "A Place-Based Perceptual Ecology"
10/23/02	Brad Tyer	Rice Design Alliance's Cite magazine	"Muddy Waters"
11/6/02	James Howard Kunstler	The City in Mind - Meditations on the Urban Condition	"Atlanta: Does Edge City Have a Future?"
11/6/02	James Howard Kunstler	Millennium Ecosystem Assessment	"People & Ecosystems: A Framework for Assessment and Action"
12/4/02	Michael Pollan	New York Times	"An Animal's Place"
12/11/02	Marion Nestle	Food Politics	Conclusion: "The Politics of Food Choice"

Spring 2003

Date	Author	Source	Title
1/29/03	Richard Nelson	Patriotism and the American Land (Orion Society)	"Patriots for the American Land"
2/5/03	Thomas H. Birch	The Great New Wilderness Debate	"The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons"
2/12/03	Gary Snyder	The Practice of the Wild	"Good, Wild, Sacred"
2/19/03	Dan Flores	Horizontal Yellow	"The Great Despoblado and Other Fantasies of Wilderness"
2/26/03	Rick Bass	The Roadless Yaak	Preface, Introduction, Chapter 2, and Chapter 26
3/5/03	Lawrence Buell	Writing for an Endangered World	Introduction
3/26/03	Carl Safina	Song for the Blue Ocean	Preface and "Yachats"
4/2/03	Malcolm Gillis	Shell Center for Sustainability Inaugural Conference	"Sustainable Development in Poor and Formerly Poor Nations (Gillis)"
4/2/03	Sir Philip Watts	Shell Center for Sustainability Inaugural Conference	"Prudence pays - practical steps to bridge conflicting views on climate change (Watts)"
4/9/03	Zachary A. Smith	The Environmental Policy Paradox	Changing Cultural and Social Beliefs: From Conservation to Environmentalism
4/16/03	Zachary A. Smith	The Environmental Policy Paradox	Preface & "Land Management Issues"
4/23/03	Lily Auliff & Erika McDonald	2003 Environmental Resource Guide	"State of the Environment"
4/30/03	Mary Sojourner	Bonelight	Selections
6/4/03	William Cronon	Orion Magazine	"The Riddle of the Apostle Islands"
6/11/03	Ellen Meloy	The Anthropology of Turquoise	"My Animal Life"

Fall 2003

Spring 2004

Fall 2004

Date	Author	Source	Title
7/07/04	Edward Hoagland	Harper's Magazine	"Small Silences: Listening for the Lessons of Nature"
9/01/04	James Gustave Speth	Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment	"And the World Responds"
9/08/04	James Gustave Speth	Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment	Chapter 8 Chapter 10
9/15/04	Global Scenario Group	Global Scenario Group	"Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead"
9/22/04	William Langewiesche		"The Outlaw Sea"
9/29/04	Craig Childs		" Soul of Nowhere"
10/13/04	Bonnie Azab Powell Fred Block Martha Marks	UC Berkeley News Rockridge Institute Sierra Magazine	Framing the Issues "Reframing the Political Battle: Market Fundamentalism vs Moral Economy" "The Green Old Party: Republicans Conservatives Want to Reclaim the GOP"
10/20/04	Terry Tempest Williams Wendell Berry	The Open Space of Democracy Orion Magazine	"Commencement" "Compromise, Hell!"
10/27/04	Terry Tempest Williams	The Open Space of Democracy Orion Magazine	"Engagement" "Democracy Diary"
11/03/04	Rex Dalton	Nature CNN	"Flores Man" "Scientists Uncover Possible New Species of Human"
11/10/04	Lori Weigel	Public Opinion Strategies	"Lessons Learned Regarding the 'Language of Conservation' from the National Research Program"
11/17/04		Orion Grist.org	Discourse and Dissent: Environmental Blowback Array of Hope: Environmental Readers and Thinkers on What Comes Next
11/24/04	John Nichols	On the Mesa	chapters 1-4
12/01/04	Wangari Maathai Frances Moore Lappe	The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet	"The History of the Green Belt Movement" "Walking to Nairobi"
12/08/04	Eric Schlosser	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal	"On the Range" "Cogs in the Great Machine"

Spring 2005

Date	Author	Source	Title
1/19/05	Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus	The Breakthrough Institute	"The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World"
1/26/05	Bill Moyer Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid	Alternet	"Battlefield Earth" "Arctic Refuge Science Letter" "Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony"
2/02/05	Colin Woodard		"Ocean's End: Travels through Endangered Seas"
2/09/05	Jared Diamond Joseph A. Tainter	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed The Oxford Companion to Archaeology	"Prologue" "Theories of the Collapse of States"
2/16/05	Jared Diamond	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	Chapter 6: "The Viking Prelude and Fugues"
2/23/05	Peter DeMenocal Lawrence Millman Audrey Schulman Rebecca Clarren	Orion	"After Tomorrow" "The Delphic Fungus" "A Chemical Catalyst" "The Village That Shopping Carts Built"
3/02/05	Jared Diamond	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	Chapter 5: "The Maya Collapses"
3/16/05	Jared Diamond	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	Chapter 9: "Opposite Paths to Success" Chapter 16: "The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today?"
3/23/05	Rebecca Solnit Bill McKibben Eric T. Freyfogle	Orion	"Now Showing:Democracy" "On Not Quite Getting It" "The Culture of Owning"
3/30/05	Ken Ward	Grist Online Magazine, March 17, 2005 Grist Online Magazine, March 14, 2005 Grist Online Magazine, March 15, 2005 Grist Online Magazine, March 16, 2005 Grist Online Magazine, March 17, 2005 Grist Online Magazine, March 18, 2005 Land Trust Alliance, March 18, 2005	"Murder by Numbers: Environmental Funders Share Blame for Movement's Weak Pulse" "Ken Ward: Response to 'Death,' Part I" Ken Ward: Response to 'Death,' Part II Ken Ward: Response to 'Death,' Part III Ken Ward: Response to 'Death,' Part IV Ken Ward: Response to 'Death,' Part V Land Easements Update
4/06/005	Colloquium featuring Lars Lerup, Dean of Architecture and author of forthcoming book, Toxic Ecology: At the Limit of the Entrepreneurial City Supplementary information on the colloquium is available here.
4/13/05	James Howard Kunstler Scott Burns Jim Motavalli	Rolling Stone, March 24, 2005 Houston Chronicle, March 26, 2005 EMagazine, March 20, 2005	"The Long Emergency" "More Efficient Use Could End Oil Dependence" "The High Cost of Free Parking"
4/20/05	Peter Matthiessen	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land	"In the Great Country"
4/27/05			Politics of Regulation Posters
5/04/05	Sandra Steingraber	Orion	"The Pirates of Illiopolis"
5/11/05	Michel Crichton Environmental Defense	State of Fear	Selections "Seperating Fact from Fiction in Crichton's 'State of Fear'"
5/18/05	Douglas J. Crawford-Brown Union of Concerned Scientists	The Chronicle of Higher Education	"Forging a Place for Environmental Studies" "Crichton's Thriller State of Fear: Separating Fact from Fiction"
6/04/05	Michel Gelobter, et al Adrienne Maree Brown	Grist Online Grist Online	"Standing on Whose Shoulders? Why Race and Class Matter to the Environmental Movement" "Rainbow Warrior: Dramatizing the 'death' of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else"
6/15/05	Susanne Antonetta	Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir	"Trailing Clouds"
6/29/05	Stewart Brand	Technology Review	"Environmental Heresies"
7/06/05	Jon Christensen	Conservation in Practice	"Are We Consuming Too Much?"
7/13/05	Ronald Wright	A Short History of Progress	"Gaugin's Questions"
7/20/05	Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert	The New Yorker, April 25, 2005 The New Yorker, May 2, 2005 The New Yorker, May 9, 2005	"The Climate of Man--I: Disappearing islands, thawing permafrost. How the earth is changing." "The Climate of Man--II: The Curse of Akkad" "The Climate of Man--III: What can be done?"

Fall 2005

Date	Author	Source	Title
8/31/05	James R. Miller	TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, August, 2005	"Biodiversity conservation and the extinction of experience."
9/07/05	David Pimentel, Paul Hepperly, James Hanson, David Douds, and Rita Seidel Marian Burros	Bioscience, July, 2005 The New York Times, August 24, 2005	"Environmental, Energetic, and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems." "Fresh Gets Invited to the Cool Table."
9/14/05	David W. Orr Nicole Haynes McCoy and Sheldon Atwood David W. Orr	Conservation Biology , December, 2004 Conservation Biology,August 2005 Conservation Biology,August 2005	"Orr's Law " "Flaws in Orr's Laws (and the Paradigm that Produced Them): An Abbreviated Response" "Free Marketeers on the Edge: a Response to McCoy and Atwood"
9/21/05	Bill McKibben Liz Featherstone Matthew Kahn	Grist Magazine, September 7th, 2005 Grist Magazine, September 8th, 2005 Tufts University, March, 2003	"Meet the New Loss: Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come" "Race to the Bottom: Slow Katrina evacuation fits pattern of injustice during crises" "The Death Toll from Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions"
9/28/05	Jared Diamond n/a Libby Quaid Rick Bass	Nature, August 18th, 2005 Omaha World-Herald, September 10th, 2005 Associated Press , September 12th, 2005 Orion Magazine, July/August 2005	"Re-wilding North America" "Hold the elephants; Great Plains has no need to be "re-wilded" with lions and cheetahs" "U.S. Department of Agriculture Killed One Million More Animals in 2004 than in 2003" "Wolf Palette "
10/05/05	Matthew E. Kahn John Asafu-Adjaye	Tufts University August, 2005 Contemporary Economic Policy, 2003	"Green Cities: Environmental Challenges Posed by Urban Growth " "Biodiversity Loss and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis"
10/12/05	Barry Lopez Kieran Suckling Bob Lando	Granta Center of biological diversity, 2005 Daily Republic, October 2005	"Waiting for salmon" "Pombo's anti-endangered species bill leaked again" "Revised dpecies act erodes consensus"
10/19/05	Nicole Freris and Klemens Laschefski Tina Butler Rherr Butler	Ecologist, July-August 2001 mongabay.com, April 17th, 2005 mongabay.com, April 19th, 2005	"Seeing the wood from the trees" "Asphalt and soya dreams: two oceans, two countries and the transoceanica" "Another look at global rainforest conservation: are rainforests still in need of saving?"
10/26/05	Osha Gray Davidson Dan Gunderson   Dan Olson   Adam Tanner	Grist Magazine, October 11, 2005 Minnesota Public Radio, October 10, 2005 Minnesota Public Radio, October 13, 2005 Reuters, September 26, 2005	"Hung out to dry: post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other US waterways " "Minnesota's waters becoming more polluted" "Urban runoff a toxic brew" "Montana faces eternal clean-up of toxic lake"
11/02/05	James Howard Kunstler	The long emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century	"Sleepwalking into the future"
11/16/05	Linda Greenhouse Andrew Sipocz Amanda Griscom	New York Times, October 12, 2005 National wetlands newsletter, July-August 2005 Grist magazine, November 12, 2005	"Supreme court takes up 2 cases challenging powers of US regulators to protect wetlands" "The Galveston Bay wetlands crisis" "They blinded me with pseudo science: the Bush administration is jettisoning real scientists in favor of yes-men"
11/30/05	Mark Dowie   Jane Perlez and Kirk Johnson	Orion, November-December 2005 The New York Times, October 24, 2005 and October 25, 2005	"Conservation Refugees: when protecting nature means kicking people out" "Behind gold's glitter, torn lands and pointed questions" "Tangled strands in fight over Peru gold mine"
12/07/05	David Bayles	Notes on a shared landscape: making sense of the american west	Selections
12/14/05	Bill McKibben	Harper's magazine , December 2005	"The great leap, scenes from China's industrial revolution"

Spring 2006

Date	Author	Source	Title
1/11/06	David Orr Undersigned David Henderson David M. Johns Fred Van Dyke David Orr	Conservation biology, December 2005	"Armageddon versus extinction" "Conservation theory for conservation biologists; a reply to David Orr" "Evangelicals are conservationists" "Orr and Armageddon; building a coalition" The other connectivity; reaching beyond the choir" "Between heaven and Earth; evangelical engagement in conservationism" "A response"
1/18/06	David Goodstein	Out of gas, the end of the age of oil	Selections
1/25/06	A.Minteer and James P. Collins	Conservation biology, December 2005	"Ecological ethics: building a new tool kit for ecologists and biodiversity managers"
2/01/06	Jeremy Lloyd	The sun, December 2005	"Earth first! cofounder Dave foreman on being a true conservative "
2/08/06	Bill McKibben	Wandering home	Selections
2/15/06	Michelle Nujhuis	Orion, November-December 2005	Between hoofprints: it isn't easy to find common ground on the west's rangelands"
2/22/06	Erik Reece	Orion January-February 2006	"Moving mountains; The struggle for justice in the coal fileds of Appalachia"
3/01/06	Froma Harrop Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	The Houston Chronicle, February 26th, 2006   Crimes against Nature	"Needed:technology that buries our carbon dioxide" Wish upon a star: sell Disney the Grand Canyon"   Selections
3/08/06	Doug Peacock	Walking it off	"The bombing range"
3/27/06	Maurie J. Cohen Robert J. Brulle and J. Craig Jenkins Lynnette Zelezny and Megan Bailey	Organization & Environment, Vol. 19, No. 1	"The death of environmentalism: introduction to the Symposium" "Spinning our way to sustainability" "A call for women to lead a different environmental movement"
4/05/06	Jim Robbins Michael Lanza National Park Service Mike Stark	Scientific American, June 2004 Backpacker, February 2006 Yellowstone #298 rev. 11/1005 The billings gazette	"Lessons from the WOLF " "Still buzzing" "When bison leave the park" "935 Yellowstone bison rounded up this year"
4/12/06	George Pyle	Raising less corn, more hell: the case for the independent farm and against industrial food	Selections
4/19/06	Joe Sherman	Gasp! the swift and terrible beauty of air	Selections
4/26/06	Joe Nick Patoski John W. Gonzales	The Texas observer, April 2006 The Houston Chronicle, October 2005	"Park and parcel: the underfunded Texas Parks and Wildlife Department struggles to sell itself" "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"
5/03/06	Paula Bock	The Seattle Times, April 21, 2006	"Oceans of waste"
5/10/06	Derric Jensen Alex Steffan	Orion, May-June 2006 World Changing Essays, April 21, 2006	"Beyond hope"   "On Earth Day"
5/16/06	Robert Michael Pyle Sandra Steingraber Michelle Nijhuis	Orion, May-June 2006	"The happiness gene" "A hormonal message" "Making connections"
5/23/06	Michael Pollan Steven Shapin	The omnivore's dilemma (in Mother Jones Magazine) The New Yorker, MAy 15, 2006	"No bar code"   "Paradise sold"
5/30/06	Amanda Griscom Little Alex steffan	Grist Magazine, May 19, 2006	"The sway of the World: Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real" "Interview:David Guggenheim and an inconvenient truth "

Fall 2006

Date	Author	Source	Title
9/05/06	Peter H. Raven	Presented at the Natural History Museum London, England 22 May 2003 Science, August 2002	"Environmental challenge"   "Presidential address: science, sustainability, and the human prospect"
9/12/06	Craig Holdrege	Orion, July-August, 2006	"The question science won't ask"
9/19/06	Alice Waters Eric Schlosser Liza Featherstone Felicia Mello	The Nation September 11, 2006	"Slow food nation" "One thing to do about food: a forum" "Mean or green?" "Hard labor"
9/26/06	J. clarence (Terry) Davies Rick Weiss Eric Berger Connie Cone Sexton	Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars Washington Post Houston Chronicle The Arizona Republic	"Managing the effects of nanotechnology" "Stricter nanotechnology laws are urged" "Rice studies the big picture on tiny nanoparticles" "Nanotech nightmare?"
10/03/06	Holmes Rolston III	Environmental philosophy: from animal rights to radical ecology	"Challenges in environmental ethics"
10/10/06	Chris Clarke	Earth Island Journal, autumn 2006	"The battered border: immigration policy sacrifices Arizona's wilderness" "Blue desert"
10/17/06	Michael Pollan	Omnivore's Dilema	Excerpts "The farm" and "The feedlot"
10/24/06	Diane Brady Michael Pollan Daniel Akst Nicki Britton	Business week online New York Times New York Times Houston Chronicle	"The organic Myth" "The vegetable-industrial complex" "Big farms will keep spinach on the table" "Where's the healthiest beef? in the pasture"
10/31/06	Andrew Dessler, CSES colloquium speaker	The science and politics of global climate change: a guide to debate	Chapter 5 "The present impasse and steps forward"
11/02/06	Colloquium Andrew Dessler	The science and politics of global climate change: a guide to debate
11/07/06	Elizabeth Royte Alison Hawthorne Deming Bill McKibben Jacques Leslie	OnEarth, Fall 2006	"Drugging the waters" "The owl, spotted" "Will evangelicals help save the Earth?" "A thirst we can't quench"
11/14/06	William deBusy Rebecca Clarren Rebecca Clarren	Orion November-December 2006	"A quirk in the law" "Voices from the gas fields" "The coalition that could"
11/21/06	Ellen Meloy Mike Davis	Raven's exile: a season of the green river Dead Cities	"The flora and fauna of Las Vegas" "Las Vegas versus Nature"
11/28/06	David Orr	Design on the edge: the making of high performance building	"A meditation on building"
12/05/06	Aldo Leopold Mary O'Brien Dave Foreman	A sand county almanac Orion Wild Earth	"Conservation esthetic" "Standing up for this world" "Protecting national forest wilderness after the wilderness act"
12/12/06	David Orr	Design on the edge:The Making of High Performance Building	Selected readings

Spring 2007

Date	Author	Source	Title
1/16/07	Todd Neff James Hansen	World Watch January-February 2007 and November-December 2006	"Portraits in carbon" "Swift boating, stealth budgeting, unitary executives"
1/23/07	LEAD and FAO	Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options	Executive summary and Chapter 7
1/30/07	James Hamilton	The great deep: the sea and its thresholds	Selected readings
2/06/07	Michael Pollan	New York Times January 28, 2007	"Unhappy meals"
2/13/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	The New Yorker January, 2007	"Mr. Green"
2/21/07	Paul Molyneaux	Swimming in circles International journal of transdisciplinary research vol.1 no.1	"Agiabampo to Lubec"   "Economic efficiency in fisheries and aquaculture"
3/14/07	John Cloud John Talbert et al	Time Magazine, March 2, 2007 Redifing progress: the nature of economics, 2006	"Eating better than organic" "The ecological fishprint of nations: measuring humanity's impact on marine ecosystems"
3/21/07	Derrick Jensen Curtis White	Orion Magazine May-June 2006 and March-April 2007	"Beyond hope" The idols of environmentalism"
3/28/07	Craig Childs	Crossing paths	"Raccoon" and "Cat and mouse"
4/04/07	Tim Dickinson	Outside magazine April 2007	"What's so funny?"
4/18/07	Wade David	Shadows in the Sun	"Dreams of a jade forest"
4/25/07	William Langewiesch	Vanity Fair, May, 2007	"Jungle law"
5/02/07	Curtis White Paul Hawken	Orion Magazine, May-June 2007	"The ecology of work" "To remake the world"
5/09/07	Paul Hawken	Blessed Unrest	"Restoration"
5/16/07	Bill McKibben	Deep economy	Excerpt
5/23/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	Field notes from a catastrophe	Preface and Chapter 1
5/30/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	Field notes from a catastrophe	Chapters 2 and 3
6/06/07	Gregory Mikkelson et al	Plos One, May 2007	"Economic inequality predicts biodiversity loss"
6/13/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	Field notes from a catastrophe	Chapters 4 and 5
6/20/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	Field notes from a catastrophe	Chapters 6 and 7
6/27/07	Elizabeth Kolbert	Field notes from a catastrophe	Chapters 8, 9 and 10
7/18/07	Edward Hoagland	Harper's Magazine, June 2007	"Endgame: meditations on a diminishing world"
7/25/07	Jack Turner	The abstract wild	"The importance of peacock"

Fall 2007

Date	Author	Source	Title
8/01/07	Linda Hasselstrom	Land Circle	Introduction and part I
8/08/07	Wendell Berry	Sex, economy, freedom, and community	"The joy of sales resistance" "Conservation and local economy"
8/15/07	S.E. Schwartz et al. Tim Appenzeller	Science, July 2007 National Geographic, June 2007	"Another global warming icon comes under attack" "The big thaw"
8/22/07	C.J. Chivers McKenzie Funk	New York Times, August 3, 2007 Harper's Magazine, September 2007	"Eyeing future wealth, russian plant the flag on the Artic seabed, below the polar cap" "Cold rush"
8/29/07	Dan Woynillowicz John M. Broder	World Watch, September/October 2007 International Herald Tribune, August 23, 2007	"Tar sands fever!"   "Rule to expand mountaintop coal mining in US"
9/05/07	Michelle Nijhuis	High Country News, August 20, 2007	"Bonfire of the superweeds"
9/12/07	Nathan S. Lewis	Engineering and Science, No. 2, 2007	"Powering the planet"
9/19/07	Kip Keen   Meinrat O. Andreae et al Quirin Schiermeier Martin Wild et al Davir W. Orr	Grist: environmental news and commentary Nature 435:30, June 2005 Nature 435:30, June 2005 Geophysical Research Letters 34, 2007 Conservation Biology 214, 2007	"Dim Sun: global warming? Global dimming? What's with the globe, anyway?" "Strong Present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future" "Clear skies raise global warming estimates" "Impact of global dimmming and brightening on global warming" "One hundred days of climate action"
9/26/07	World Bank and the State Environmental Protection Administration Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley	P.R. China, February, 2007 International Herald Tribune, August 25, 2007	"Cost of pollution in china:economic estimates of phisical damages" "As China rises, pollution soars"
10/3/07	Jouni Paavola et al Chandra-shekhar Dasgupta	Fairness in adaptation to climate change, 2006 Yale global, September 26, 2007	"Multifaceted justice in adaptation to climate change" "Climate change callenge for the poor" part I
10/10/07	Greg Gordon	Landscape of Desire: identity and nature in Utah's Canyon Country	Excerpts
10/17/07	Greg Gordon	Landscape of Desire: identity and nature in Utah's Canyon Country	Excerpts
10/24/07	Jim Hansen Jim Hansen	New York Review of Books, July 13, 2006 Environmental Research letters 2, April-June 2007	"The threat to the Planet: a review essay" Scientific reticence and sea level rise"
10/31/07	Jon Gertner	New York Times, October 21, 2007	"The future is drying up "
11/07/07	GEO	The Global Environment Outlook of the UN October 25, 2007	GEO-4- Executive summary for journalists"
11/14/07	Craig Childs	Soul of nowhere: traversing grace in a rugged land	"Prologue" and "Towers"
11/28/07	William Calvin	Global Fever: how to treat climate change	Chapters 16-21
12/05/07	Joseph Stiglitz Sheila Olmstead and Robert Stavins Thomas Schelling Robert Hahn and Peter Passell	The Economists' Voice June, 2007	"A new agenda for global warming " "A meaningful second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol" "Climate change: the uncertainties, the certainties and what they imply about action" Time to change US climate policy"
12/12/07	William Rees	Journal of Business administration and policy analysis	"Is humanity fatally successful?"
12/19/07	Amory B. Lovins et al William McDonough and Michael Braungart	Harvard business review may-June 1999 Interfaces May- June 2000	"Natural capitalism"   "A world of abundance"

Spring 2008

Date	Author	Source	Title
1/09/08	Jack Hitt (edited by Ira Glass)	The New Kings of Non-Fiction	"Toxic Dreams: A California Town Find Meaning in an Acid Pit"
1/16/08	Michael Pollan   Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon   Dale Allen Pfeiffer	In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Plenty: one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture	Introduction and final chapter   Opening chapter   Excerpt
1/23/08	William Baxterter Paul w. Taylor	People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution Environmental Ethics	Excerpt   "The ethics of respect for nature"
1/30/08	Stephanie Mills	Epicurean Simplicity	Chapters 1 and 2
2/06/08	Stephanie Mills	Epicurean Simplicity	Chapters 1 and 2
2/13/08	NASA NASA Carnegie Institution and National Academy of Sciences		"Global Temperature Trends 2007 #1" "Global Temperature Trends 2007 #2" "Rise in Atmospheric CO2 Accelerates as Economy Grows, Natural Carbon Sinks Weaken"
2/20/08	Wolfang Sachs	Planet Dialectics	'Ecology, Justice, and the End of Development"
2/27/08	Josef Schmidhuber and Francesco N. Tubiello K.M. Brander John F. Morton	Proceedings of the National Academies of Science December 2007 edition	"Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: Global food security under climate change" "Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: Global fish production and climate change" "Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature: The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture"
3/12/08	James Galvin	Resurrection Updates	"God's Mistress: Half the Stars"
3/19/08	Andrew Rice	New York Times January, 27th, 2008	"A dying breed"
4/02/08	Jack Turner	The Abstract Wild	"The maze and aura"
4/16/08	Rebecca Solnit	Orion March/April 2008	"One Nation under elvis: an environmentalism for us all"
4/23/08	Jack Turner	Travels in the Greater Yellowstone	"The greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" "The Wyoming Range"
4/30/08	Care Safina	Eye of the Albartoss	"Greetings"
5/07/08	Richard Manning	Against the Grain: how agriculture has hijacked civilization	"To see the Wizard"
5/14/08	Sarah McDonald	Rice Undergrad and recipent of the 2008 Greene Prize	"Picking up the gun"

Fall 2008

Date	Author	Source	Title
08/06/08	Alan Weisman	The world without us	"Hot legacy"
08/13/08	Baron Wormser	The road washes out in spring	Excerpt (first 40 pages)
08/20/08	Natasha Loder et al.	Conservation Magazine	"The problem of what to eat"
08/27/08	Mike Davis	Planet of Slums	"The urban climacteric"
09/03/08	James Gustave Speth	The bridge at the edge of the world	Excerpts: "Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 2 "
09/10/08	Tom Vanderbilt	Traffic	Excerpts: "Prologue, Chapter 6 and 7"
09/17/08	NOAA, FEMA and American Red Cross	Hurricanes: Unleashing Nature's fury	Guide
09/24/08	Edward Abby	Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness	"Polemic: industrial turism and the national parks"
10/01/08	Cornelia Dean	The New York Times	"After Hurricane Ike, Finding the Coastline Rearranged , Again"
10/08/08	Sherry Simpson	The accidental explorer: wayfinding in Alaska	"Introduction" and "A nuisance to myself and others"
10/15/08	Jon Gertner	The New York Times	"Capitalism to the rescue: how green was the Valley"
10/22/08	Robert D. Kaplan	An empire wilderness. Travels into America's future	"A desert culture"
10/29/08	Dave Mann	The Texas Observer	"Separate but toxic"
11/05/08	Herman Daly	The Oil Drum	"Towards a steady-state economy"
11/12/08	Philip and Alice Shabecoff	Poisoned profits: The toxic assault on our children	"Introduction" and chapters one, two, and three
11/20/08	James Duncan	My story as told by water	"Valmiki's palm"
12/03/08	Charles Bowden Ann Zwinger	Counting sheep. 20 ways of seeing desert bighorn Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan	"The heat treatment"   "Of white-winged doves and desert bighorns"
12/17/08	Richard Shelton Ken Lamberton	Wilderness and razor wire. A naturalist's observations form prison	"Foreword"   First four chapters

Spring 2009

Date	Author	Source	Title
01/07/09	Ken Lamerton	Wilderness and razor wire. A naturalist's observations form prison	Excerpts
01/14/09	Jim Blackburn	The book of Texas bays	Chapter 8: "Galveston Island"
01/21/09	Charles Bowden	Frog Mountain Blues	Excerpts
01/28/09	Michael Pollen	The New York Times	"Farmer in Chief "
02/04/09	Alan Lightman	The Diagnosis	"On the subway "
02/11/09	James Gustave Speth	Yale Environment 360	"Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics"
02/18/09	John Bradley (editor)	Learning to Glow	Excerpts
02/25/09	Thomas Homer-Dixon	World Watch Magazine	"Our Panarchic Future"
03/11/09	Thomas Homer-Dixon	World Watch Magazine	"Our Panarchic Future"
03/18/09	James Lawrence Powell	Dead Pool	Excerpts
03/25/09	Barry Lopez	The rediscovery of North America	The whole book
04/08/09	Gary Paul Nabhan	Singing the turtles to sea	Excerpts
04/15/09	Dick Dorworth	Night driving	Excerpts

Fall 2009

Date	Author	Source	Title
07/17/09	Dmitri Orlov	Culture Change	"Definancialisation, deglobalisation, relocalisation"
07/28/09	Shelly Smithson	The Nation	"Radioactive revival in New Mexico "
08/04/09	Alison Hawthorne Deming	The Edges of the Civilized World	Prologue and Chapter 1
08/11/09	Richard Nelson	The island within	Chapter 1 "The face in a raindrop "
08/26/09	Charles Bergman	Red Delta	Excerpts
09/02/09	William deBuys and Joan Myers	Salt Dreams	Excerpts
09/23/09	John Stainbeck	The log of the Sea of Cortez	Excerpts
10/07/09	Charles Bowden	Blue Desert	Excerpts
10/14/09	Michael Moss   Susan Saulny	The New York Times The New York Times	"E. coli path shows flaws in beef inspection" "Welcome to our town. Wish we weren't here "
10/21/09	Amy Irvine	Trespass	Excerpts
11/04/09	Mark Tredinnick	The Blue Plateau	Excerpts
11/11/09	David Ferris	Sierra Club	"Message in a Bottle"
11/18/09	Carl Safina	Eye of the Albatross	Excerpts
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