Week 7 – Listening to Earth’s Vital Signs
Readings
- Developing Ecological Consciousness – Chapter 4: Gauging the Health of Earth
- Letter From Maggie
Further Exploration
- Horseshoe Crab in the Web of Life
- Coral Reefs
- Plastics in the Ocean
- Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center
- Extraordinary Birds
- Seven Simple Actions to Help Birds
- Birds are Linked to Our Happiness
- How Biden is Reversing Trump’s Assault on the Environment
- Short Video about Whistling Language
Week 8 – Planetary Destabilization
Readings
- Developing Ecological Consciousness – Chapter 4: Facing up to the Unraveling of the Biosphere
Further Exploration
- Greta Thunberg on the Climate Delusion (published Oct 8, 2022)
- 20 Ways You Can Reduce Your Reliance on Fossil Fuels
- President Biden Action Fact Sheet
- Glyphosate Safety Debate
- Biography: Sandra Steingraber
- Breast Milk could carry harmful chemicals, but Breastfeeding is Still the Healthiest Food Source for Babies
- The World is Stuck with Plastics it Can’t Recycle
Week 9 – Living the Questions ~ Discovering the Causes of Earth Breakdown
Reading
- Developing Ecological Consciousness – Chapter 6: Living the Questions
Further Exploration
- Overcoming Consumerism
- The Story of Stuff
- TED Talk: Happy Planet Index
- All that Performative Environmentalism Adds UpLinks to an external site.
- Earth Overshoot Day
Week 10 – Silencing
Readings
Further Exploration
- Yes! Magazine
- Coronavirus and Climate Change
- Coronavirus and Global Supply Chain Disruption: A Wake Up Call for Climate Policy
- Coronavirus Capitalism
- An AMAZING website showing WEALTH to scale
- Grist
- A Poem: “Keeping Quiet”
- TEDTalk: Alanna Shaikh: Coronavirus is Our Futur
- Natural Gas Drilling in PAL
- The Lie We Live
- Did Deforestation Contribute to Zika’s Spread?
Week 11 – Becoming Fully Human
Readings
- Developing Ecological Consciousness – Chapter 7: The Old Story: Economism and Separation
Further Exploration
- Economism or Planetism?
- Sacred Economics with David Eisenstein
- Life is Easy: Why do we make it so hard?
- Saying No to Corporations with Sandra Steingrabber
- UpCycling: The Landfill Harmonic
- 2020 World Happiness Report (focused on Environments: Social, Urban and Nature
- David Brooks Opinion Column The Moral Meaning of the Plague
- The Guardian Article It’s Time To Change the World.pdf
- Renting a Friend in TokyoLinks to an external site.