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Center for Ecoliteracy Essays

Through its newsletter and website, the Center for Ecoliteracy offers concise essays presenting the perspectives of leading thinkers, educators, and policy makers. Contributors probe the connections including links between school food and combating childhood obesity, environmental issues and public policy, the interdependence of human and ecological communities, and education for sustainability.

Many of these essays have been written specifically for the Center. New essays are added regularly.

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Lisa Bennett - Spreading Ecoliteracy from Berkeley to Bhutan
Lisa Bennett

How and why ecoliteracy is catching on, both near and very far away.

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Jigmi Y. Thinley - Gross National Happiness
Honorable Jigmi Y. Thinley

Gross National Happiness: Bhutan's strategy for sustainability.

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Michael K. Stone - Excerpt from Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability
Michael K. Stone

An excerpt from the introductory chapter of the CEL book Smart by Nature.

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A Precautionary Tale

The "precautionary principle" means acting to avoid potential harm even before harmfulness has been proven.

Carolyn Raffensperger
A School Community for Children

The most important factor in turning one good school into a great school was a strong school community.

Jerry Kay
A Slice of Life

Experiential learning is an effective strategy for the worldwide crisis of nutrition-related health problems.

Elizabeth Ransom
Beyond a Garden in Every School

School gardens should be thought of as the center of the school, and not just another program or place.

Philip Nix
Brain Food for Kids

Children's behavior, intelligence, and performance are significantly affected by the quantity and quality of what they eat.

Alan Greene
Bringing People Back into the Economy

The renewable energy of ecology, sharing, solidarity, and compassion must counter the destructive energy of greed creating scarcity at every level.

Vandana Shiva
But I Am a Child Who Does

The author’s children, growing up with locally grown food and without television, prefer fresh vegetables to junk food.

Sandra Steingraber
Ecological Design Intelligence

Ecological design aims toward the awareness that health, healing, wholeness, and the holy are one and indivisible.

David W. Orr
Ecological Intelligence

Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds.

Daniel Goleman
Ecology and Community

Nature sustains life by nurturing community.

Fritjof Capra
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