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Revision as of 03:58, 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:

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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 Jeffers

Jane Hirschfield

Gary Snyder


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 c2002 McHenry Library Film & Music VT8907


Edward Burtynsky

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