| Ch. 12 The Environment | ||
| Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/earth/05tier.html | |
| New York Times article about Rachel Carson, her writing, and the concerns that she expresses in Silent Spring. | ||
| • | [text] http://reason.com/archives/2002/06/12/silent-spring-at-40 | |
| Article describing the various flaws in Carson’s Silent Spring and why its message has not aged well. | ||
| • | [website] http://www.rachelcarson.org/ | |
| Official website dedicated to Rachel Carson. | ||
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature | ||
| • | [text] http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html | |
| William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” a poetic meditation on nature and death that directly influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature. | ||
| Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic | ||
| • | [video] http://vimeo.com/8669977 | |
| Abridged documentary of Aldo Leopold’s life and his influence on the conservation movement. | ||
| Lewis Thomas, Natural Man | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/obituaries/lewis-thomas-whose-essays-clarified-the-mysteries-of-biology-is-dead-at-80.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | |
| New York Times article about the life and writing of Lewis Thomas. | ||
| Bill McKibben, from The End of Nature | ||
| • | [website] http://www.billmckibben.com/ | |
| Official website dedicated to Bill McKibben. | ||
| • | [text] http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N19/nature.19a.html | |
| MIT Newspaper (The Tech) article about the problems of artificial nature illustrated in The End of Nature. | ||
| The Clan of One-Breasted Women | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97350121 | |
| NPR news report on Terry Tempest Williams and her environmental writing. | ||
| Joy Williams, Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp | ||
| • | [photo gallery] https://www.loewshotels.com/ventana-canyon/photos-videos | |
| Photographs of the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ, illustrate the sort of nature landscaping that Williams mocks. | ||
| E. O. Wilson, from The Future of Life | ||
| • | [video] http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth.html | |
| E.O. Wilson makes a plea for saving insect life in order to save all life on earth. | ||
| Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid | ||
| • | [audio & images] http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetryhopkins/hopkins_inveract.shtml | |
| A reading of Inversnaid with an accompanying image slideshow. | ||
| Robert Crumb, A Short History of America (cartoon) | ||
| • | [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ym5n-ZZWUs | |
| Animated version of Robert Crumb’s cartoon. | ||
| Royal Dutch/Shell, Let’s Go (advertisement) | ||
| • | [website] http://arcticready.com/social/gallery | |
| Official gallery of images in the “Let’s Go” ad campaign. | ||
| Peter Menzel, from Hungry Planet (photo essay) | ||
| • | [audio & video] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952 | |
| Web page with details about the photos in Hungry Planet as well as audio clips taken from an interview with Peter Menzel. | ||
| The Naturalist in the Supermarket | ||
| • | [video] http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view.html | |
| Michael Pollan encourages listeners to take “a plant’s-eye view” on the world to change our relationship with the natural world. | ||
| • | [video] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/p118td/the-colbert-report-michael-pollan | |
| Michael Pollan talks about corn and The Omnivore’s Dilemma. | ||
| • | [video] http://www.cc.com/video-clips/eon7i2/the-colbert-report-michael-pollan | |
| Michael Pollan speaks out against processed food. | ||
| The Locavore Myth | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112105594 | |
| James McWilliams, Michael Pollan, and Brian Halwell debate the advantages/disadvantages of the local food movement. | ||
| Nicolette Hahn Niman, The Carnivore’s Dilemma | ||
| • | [text] http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/vegetarians-rebuttal-to-the-carnivores-dilemma.html | |
| “Vegetarian’s rebuttal to The Carnivore’s Dilemma.” | ||
| A Good Food Manifesto for America | ||
| • | [video] http://vimeo.com/7528071 | |
| Will Allen talks about agricultural solutions to bring food into urban food deserts. (Refers to Michael Pollan’s talk that preceded his: http://vimeo.com/7528069 ) | ||
| • | [website] http://www.growingpower.org/blog/ | |
| Blog featuring information about Growing Power Inc., its mission, and its founder. Includes a video of Will Allen. (Video also available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpTWQWx1MQ&feature=player_embedded) | ||
| A.J. Jacobs, Farm to Table: How Our Restaurant Gets Its Food to Your Plate | ||
| • | [website] http://www.ajjacobs.com/content/writing.asp | |
| Website documenting A.J. Jacobs’s other writings. | ||
| Michael Specter, from Test-Tube Burgers | ||
| • | [audio & text] http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat | |
| Recording of Michael Specter’s interview over the ideas expressed in Test-Tube Burgers. Some additional explanations about the subject are provided. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/13/110613mama_mail1 | |
| Letter responding to Michael Specter’s article. Published in The New Yorker on May 13, 2011. | ||