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Is "Smart" the new "Green"?

Watching and listening to "the discourse" on environmentalism in the popular press has been fascinating over the last five years. The sheer number of descriptors used to try to "brand" environmentalism for the 21st century seem to...

Published 04-15-2009 10:16 AM by Jay Roberts

Filed under: Environmental Education, climate change

Education, Climate Change, and Obama's Failure of Imagination

OK, so we get it...don't we? Climate change is human-induced and the increasing amounts of greenhouse gases we are putting into the atmosphere have a direct effect on global temperatures. This has serious and long term consequences for all life on...

Published 04-02-2009 2:37 PM by Jay Roberts

Filed under: Environmental Education, Environmental Education- Outdoor Education, ethics, climate change

Race, class, climate change, and outdoor education

A recent post on climate change and race ( http://tinyurl.com/b6fzp7 ) brings up an issue that really needs to be on the forefront of outdoor and environmental education moving forward. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change will become...

Published 03-13-2009 10:00 AM by Jay Roberts

Filed under: Environmental Education, outdoor education, climate change

Is Wilderness a Useful Environmental Ideal Anymore?

I recently came across Brian Merchant’s blog about 7 classic American “Green” works of literature here: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/read-american-environmental-classics.html . In the list: Walden by HD Thoreau, Silent...

Published 02-19-2009 10:07 AM by Jay Roberts

Filed under: Environmental Education, outdoor education, Wilderness

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Is "Smart" the new "Green"?

Education, Climate Change, and Obama's Failure of Imagination

Race, class, climate change, and outdoor education

Is Wilderness a Useful Environmental Ideal Anymore?