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Spring 2002 Readings

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 Readings

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 Readings

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 Readings

9/3/03	Mark Rosegrant, Ximing Cai, Sarah Cline	Environment Magazine	Will the World Run Dry? Global Water and Food Security
9/10/03	Cheryl Hogue	Chemical and Engineering News	Rocket-Fueled River
9/17/03	Carl Safina	Wild Earth (Winter 2002-03)	Launching a Sea Ethic
9/17/03	Sandra Postel	Natural History (May 2003)	Hydro Dynamics
9/17/03	Bill McKibben	New York Review (September 25, 2003)	Our Thirsty Future
9/24/03	Jan Reid	Texas Montly (January 2003)	The End of the River
9/24/03	Mitchell Mathis	Water for Texas: Beyond 2000	WATER IN THE LOWER RIO GRANDE BORDER REGION: A BINATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
10/1/03	Robert Glennon	Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters	Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 6
10/8/03	Elizabeth Grossman	Watershed: The Undamming of America	Chapter 5, Chapter 9, Chapter 10
10/15/03	Charles Bowden	Killing the Hidden Waters	Chapter 1: The Lay of the Land
10/22/03	Carl Safina	Song for the Blue Ocean	Golden State
10/29/03	Sandra Postel & Brian Richter	Rivers for Life	Chapter 1: Where Have All the Rivers Gone?
11/5/03	Peter Gleick	The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources	Chapter 1: The Soft Path for Water
11/12/03	Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke	Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water	Chapter 1: Red Alert, Chapter 2: Dying of Thirst
11/19/03	Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke	Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water	Chapter 6: Emergent Water Cartel
11/19/03	Natural Resource Defense Council	Bottled Water Pure Drink or Pure Hype?	Chapter 1
11/26/03	Douglas Jehl	Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-hungry World	Alchemy or Salvation? Desalting the Sea
11/26/03	Sandra Postel	Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?	Chapter 5: A Faustian Bargain
12/3/03	Sandra Postel and Brian Richter	Rivers for Life	Chapter 2: How Much Water Does a River Need?
12/10/03	Ellen Meloy	Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River	Selections

Spring 2004 Readings

1/21/04	David Orr	Orion Magazine	Law of the Land
1/28/04	Dr. Vicki L. Colvin	Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN)	Testimony in regard to "Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003"
1/28/04	ETC Group	Occasional Paper Series	Size Matters! The Case for a Global Moratorium
1/28/04	Ron Dagani	Chemical & Engineering News	NANOMATERIALS: SAFE OR UNSAFE?
2/4/04	Mitchell Thomashow	Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist	Chapter 6: Educating for Ecological Literacy
2/11/04	Mitchell Thomashow	Bringing the Biosphere Home	Chapter 1: The Perceptual Challenge of Global Environmental Change (pdf)
2/18/04	Mitchell Thomashow	Orion Magazine (Autumn 2001)	A Biospheric Natural History
2/18/04	Barry Lopez	Orion Magazine (Autumn 2001)	The Naturalist
2/25/04	Barry Lopez	Crossing Open Ground	Landscape and Narrative
2/25/04	Barry Lopez	Crossing Open Ground	The Passing Wisdom of Birds
2/25/04	Barry Lopez	High Country News (Vol. 30 No. 17, September 14, 1998)	We are shaped by the sound of wind, the slant of sunlight
3/17/04	Rebecca Solnit	As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art	The Camera: Unsettling the West: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
3/17/04	Barry Lopez	About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory	Learning to See
3/24/04	Theodore Roosevelt IV	The Westminster Town Hall Forum, Minneapolis, Minnesota	Regaining the Common Ground: The Land Ethic & the Radical Center
3/31/04	David Levine	Dean's Opening Lecture at St. John's College in Santa Fe, Friday, August 30, 2002	"At the Very Center of the Plenitude:" Goethe's Grand Attempt to Overcome the 18th Century"
4/7/04	Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	Rolling Stone	"Crimes Against Nature"
4/21/04	Hanno Sandvik	Conservation Biology, Vol. 13, No.2 (April 1999)	"On Human Population Growth, Natural Selection, and the Tragedy of the Commons"
4/21/04	Garrett Hardin	SCIENCE, VOL. 162 (13 DECEMBER 1968)	"The Tragedy of the Commons"
4/21/04	Bruce Wallace	The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 77, No.2 (June 2002)	"Where is the Thomas Henry Huxley of Environmentalists"
5/5/04	Gary Paul Nabhan	Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry	selected chapters
5/12/04	Interview with Robert Michael Pyle, Terre Satterfield, and Scott Slovic	What's Nature Worth	Packing Information in the Form of Story: Viewing Narrative from the Perspective of Science
5/12/04	Robert Michael Pyle	What's Nature Worth	The Extinction of Experience and Spark-Infested Waters
5/19/04	Ofelia Zepeda	What's Nature Worth	Making Stories Out of Everything
5/19/04	Alison Deming	What's Nature Worth	Story As Common Ground

Fall 2004 Readings

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 Readings

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 from 12:00 to 1:00 in Duncan Hall Room 3092. Lunch provided to all who RSVP to cses@rice.edu by 5:00 Monda, April 4. 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 Readings

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	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 from 12:00 to 1:00 in Duncan Hall Room 3092. Lunch provided to all who RSVP to cses@rice.edu by 5:00 Monda, April 4. 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"

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