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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_non-fiction_books
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_non-fiction_environmental_writers
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_non-fiction_books Wikipedia book list]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_non-fiction_environmental_writers Wikipedia author list]
  
 
E. Abbey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire ''Desert Solitaire'']  
 
E. Abbey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire ''Desert Solitaire'']  
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Robinson Jefers
 
Robinson Jefers
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Gary Snyder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder GST!
 
Gary Snyder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder GST!
  
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Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature
 
Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature
  
Photography
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Ansel Adams
 
Ansel Adams

Revision as of 03:41, 26 September 2007

Although we think of writing and thinking about the environment is mostly done by scientists and scholars, important contributions have also been made by artists, writers, painters and photographers.


Nonfiction:

Wikipedia book list Wikipedia author list

E. Abbey Desert Solitaire

W. Berry, Unsettling America

Mike Davis City of Quartz

McH Stacks HN80.L7 D38 2006 summary excerpt on urban space critique


Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 book by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac


Poetry

Robinson Jefers

Jane Hirschfield


Gary Snyder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder GST!


Film

Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature


Photography

Ansel Adams

The Roots of California photography [videorecording] : the Monterey legacy / a Monterey Museum of Art in association with University of California Santa Cruz Extension - Published Monterey, Calif. : Monterey Museum of Art, c2002 LOC CALL # STATUS Film & Music VT8907 NOT CHECKD OUT Spec Coll VT8907 c.2 LIB USE ONLY Description 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in Note(s) Narrator, Jack Lemmon ; music, John Harris Summary Chronicles the important photographic heritage of the Monterey region and pays tribute to some of the most important men and women in American photography, masters whose creative and technical visions changed the way the world views photographic art. Photographers included are Ansel Adams, Edward, Brett and Cole Weston, Wynn and Edna Bullock, Morley Baer, Henry Gilpin, John Sexton, Richard Garrod, Al Weber, Sonya Noskowiak, Margrethe Mather, among others

Ansel Adams [videorecording] / an Outdoor Channel production ; executive producer, Wade Sherman ; produced & written by Jayne Romyn Published Temecula, Calif. : Outdoor Channel, c2005 Added title Circle of honor (Television program) LOC CALL # STATUS Spec Coll DVD3829 LIB USE ONLY

Edward Burtynsky http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/China/Chapters/Manufacturing.jpg


Course Themes
Ecological and Social Utopias
Literature, Art, and the Environment
Environmental Science and Skeptical Challenges
Activism and Entrepreneurship