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Environmental Studies in secondary schools is by nature interdisciplinary. Our focus is clearly religion and ecology, but we have come to see that we need to work in-tandem with colleagues in other disciplines as well. In light of that you will find resources here for Religion and Ecology, Environmental Literature and Nature Writers (English), The New Cosmology, the Sciences, Eco-Philosophy and Activism, Sustainability, and History.
Religion and Ecology Websites
Forum on Religion and Ecology
This site is the grandmother of all religion and ecology sites. Housed as a section of Harvard’s Environmental Studies mega-site, this website has enormous resources. Annotated bibliographies, engaged projects, textual resources, introductory articles exist for all the religions. There are links to syllabi, teaching aids, grants, and documents that track the involvement of religions in environmental actions. True to the Forum’s agenda that religions are necessary but not sufficient solutions to the environmental crisis a host of links exist for the Forum’s "dialogue partners" in environmental ethics, science, public policy, and economics. Some of these sections are already up and others are to be posted shortly. Time spent working in the Forum site is well worth your time.
Alternatives for Simple Living
Daedalus Magazine – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
An issue of the journal was dedicated to Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? Articles were written by scholars in a variety of fields. Through grants all the articles are available for reprinting off the internet. Collectively or individually they are great resources for the secondary school classroom
Earthlight Magazine
Earth Literacy Web
Sacred Earth Network
Nature Writers and the Environmental Imagination
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
ASLE promotes the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world.
Orion Magazine
One of the best of the environmental magazines – every library should subscribe
River of Words
The River of Words Project is an international environmental poetry and art contest designed to nurture respect and understanding of the natural world by encouraging children to learn their "ecological address" and to describe through poetry and art their own "place in space."
World As Home
An excellent resource that divides North America in geographic or place based zones. Resources for both secondary and middle school
New Cosmology–The Universe Story –Epic of Evolution
Center for Ecozoic Studies
Center for the Story of the Universe
(Brian Swimme’s website)
The Great Story
Green Spirit
Association for Creation Spirituality in the United Kingdom
Excellent sets of articles on the Universe Story
The Shape of Life
PBS- 8 Part Documentary on the rise of the animal kingdom
The Universe Story
Patricia Gordon’s outline of the Berry/Swimme Universe Story
The Universe Story – on-line course – University of San Francisco
General Environmental Websites
Environmental News Service
The Environment News Service (ENS) is the first and only daily international newswire service dedicated to late breaking environmental news. ENS has been publishing electronically since 1989. ENS stories cover important environmental developments, often months before other news services.
ENS is accessed by more than 5.6 million readers per month, as audited by Thoughtport Authority. Major network editors, broadcast professionals and mainstream publishers utilize ENS for the most up-to-the-minute facts about the constantly changing area of environmental developments.
If you or your organization produces news or information, please forward that information to the ENS editorial desk at ens@envirolink.org.
www.envirolink.org/environews
National Audubon Society
The mission of the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.
The Nature Conservancy
TNC is a national nonprofit organization, involved in land conservation and wildlife issues.
One World
The world’s biggest and best collection of multimedia material — that’s text, graphics, audio and video — on development, the environment and human rights on the Web. It’s also a partnership of many of the world’s leading development agencies and charities.
Our Planet (UNEP)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP’s mandate is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
www.unep.org
http://www.ourplanet.com/
Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is a nonprofit, member-supported public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions: legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.
The Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society is a conservation group dedicated to preserving America’s public lands.
Wright Center for Science Education
Located at Tufts University in Boston the Wright Center is devoted to on-going science education for school educators. From their website - "The Wright Center is dedicated to the creation and sharing of novel instructional techniques and interdisciplinary resources for pre-college teachers. Through its fellowships, workshops, seminars, and a variety of public-outreach activities, the Center provides leadership in the training and retraining of science teachers to use innovative methods to stimulate young minds."
Environmental Websites by General Subject
Climate Change
PBS – Bill Moyers "Earth on the Edge"
An excellent classroom resource that is both global and national in scope. Many resources for teachers and educators.
Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
Developed by the Atmospheric Research and Information Centre, the Encyclopedia contains a wealth of information in over 400 topics on atmospheric issues including: Acid Rain, Air Quality, Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, Sustainability and Weather.
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Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
World Resources Institute
The mission of World Resources Institute (WRI) is to move human society to live in ways that protect the Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
Water
The Encyclopedia of Water
Seacology
The Seacology Foundation is the world's premier non-profit, non-governmental organization whose sole and unique purpose is to preserve the environments and cultures of islands throughout the globe.
Eco-philosophy and Environmental Activism
Alternatives for Simple Living
Center for a New American Dream
Sacred Earth Network
Satyana Institute
Whidbey Institute
Environmental History
Global
American Society for Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History seeks understanding of the human experience of the environment from the perspectives of history, liberal arts, and sciences. The Society encourages cross-disciplinary dialogue on every aspect of the present and past relationship of humankind to the natural world.
H- Net
a gateway to information concerning past human interactions with nature. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians.
The Environment in United States History
Environmental History – Explore the Field –
A web site based at the University of California for national, regional, and local sources on environmental history. Great material on American environmental history and looking at environmental history on the web
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Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History
Excellent site sponsored by the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The site features a series of articles on the nature in American history written by scholars in the field. Not only are the short articles interesting and informative, but each lesson has extensive links to web resources of the highest caliber. Really excellent material.
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