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Publisher
Indigenous action media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This film "explores the controversy surrounding the recently proposed ski resort expansion and snowmaking with wastewater on the San Francisco Peaks as Native American tribal officials and spiritual leaders, Forest Service officials, and concerned citizens discuss the issues: sacred lands protection, public health concerns associated with groundbreaking studies on wastewater, economic misconceptions, threats to the environment, global warming and...
Series
Hispanic issues volume Volume 42
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, the author explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This paper discusses habits and their role within the environmental domain. The implications of habitual behavior include the good, the bad, and the ugly. In order to amplify the good, diminish the bad and eliminate the ugly, certain plausible solutions already in hand can be applied to human behaviors in a practical manner that can potentially lead to wider spread environmentally responsible behavior. Approaches can be implemented on a personal level,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Environmental and conservation education programs remain a key component for integrating science and values as our society acts upon conservation practices and ecosystem management goals. Environmental education research consistently supports that students are more apt to pro-environmental behaviors when students participate in positive outdoor experiences, their work in the natural environment is integral to their study, and when they can identify...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this applied professional project is to design and implement an interdisciplinary class for The Klahre House alternative high school students that integrates 3 parts: current environmental issues, how we came to be this way, and visions for the future. There are many underlying and deep-seated attitudes towards natural resources and the Earth that should be explored in conjunction with environmental problems and solutions. The idea...
