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		Writings Online

		These writings, by Center board and staff members and colleagues whose work we respect, expand on the discussions in this website of the theory and practice of ecological literacy in education. Our Latest Essays Bringing People Back into the Economy by Vandana Shiva Farmer in Chief by Michael Pollan The New Facts of Life by Fritjof Capra Education for Sustainability Beyond a Garden in Every School by Philip Nix The Carbon Connection by David W. Orr The Designer's Challenge by David W. Orr Ecological Design Intelligence by David W. Orr Farmer in Chief by Michael Pollan Farming's Central Role in Alleviating Poverty by Michael Abelman Goldman Prize Speech by Jesús León Santos The Great Turning by Joanna Macy Green School Design: Cost-Effective, Healthy, and Better for Education by Gregory Kats Imagining an Urban Nature Agenda by Robert Gottlieb Meditations on an Apple by Janet Brown The New Facts of Life by Fritjof Capra Solutions that Serve People and the Environment by Zenobia Barlow Taking Back our Food by Miguel A. Altieri Taste by Paul Hawken Three Sisters: An Ancient Garden Trio A discussion with Wendy Johnson by Sara Marcellino Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan Uncertain Peril by Claire Hope Cummings You Are What You Grow: Will This Year's Farm Bill Make Us Fatter and Sicker? by Michael Pollan Rethinking School Lunch Guide The Rethinking School Lunch Guide, the heart of CEL's Rethinking School Lunch program, culminates five years of research in using food systems as a context for education for sustainability. Over 175 pages long, it is a comprehensive resource for exploring and implementing the vision of school lunch as part of an integrated curriculum based on local food systems. The guide provides resources to address the particular concerns of everyone touched by school lunch, including administrators, teachers, food service directors and staff, business managers, farmers, parents, students, and concerned citizens. Thinking outside the Lunchbox This ongoing series of essays, part of the Rethinking School Lunch program, features leading thinkers, educators and policy makers addressing connections between the interdependence of human and ecological communities and a safe, fresh, and nourishing food supply. Brain Food for Kids by Alan Greene The Challenge of Peak Oil by Richard Heinberg A Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters But I Am a Child Who Does by Sandra Steingraber Farming the Future by Kenny Ausubel Feeding Our Future by Michael Ableman Feeding Our Kids the Right Food…and Inspiring Them to Eat It By Pamela Koch Food Fight: The 2007 Farm Bill by Dan Imhoff Food Security - It Takes a Community by Mark Winne Fossil Food: Consuming Our Future by Tom Starrs Hooked on Sugar by Margaret A. Adamek In the Tangle by Wendy Johnson Leadership, Policy, and Change by Janet Brown Long before the First Thanksgiving by Gary Paul Nabhan Looking at the Whole: Toward a Social Ecology of Health by Richard Levins The Many Wonders of Plants by Joan Dye Gussow The Meaning of Food by Claire Hope Cummings Message in a Bottle by Vivien Straus The Nature and Purpose of Education by Maurice Holt Neither Paper Nor Plastic: Eating outside the Box by Dan Imhoff A New Era for Nutrition Education by Marilyn Briggs Penny-wise and Pounds Foolish by Ann Cooper Pleasure and Process: A Recipe for Good Eating by Fred Kirschenmann The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry A Precautionary Tale by Carolyn Raffensperger School Food, Public Policy, and Strategies for Change by Marion Nestle The School in Every Garden by A.G. Kawamura A Slice of Life by Elizabeth Ransom and Troy Duster Sodas in Schools: A Sticky Situation by Melinda Hemmelgarn SpongeBob, Junk Food, and the Federal Trade Commission by Margo Wootan We Are What We Eat by Michael Pollan What in Health Is Going On Here? by Ann M. Evans Wild and Slow: Nourished by Tradition by John C. Mohawk Exemplary Schools and Projects The Art of a Watershed: "The Tenderness of Cranes" River of Words, Berkeley, CA by Sara Marcellino EcoStars Mary E. Silveira School, San Rafael, CA by Jeanne Casella The Edible Schoolyard Martin Luther King Middle School, Berkeley, CA by Michael K. Stone Educating for Sustainability at Marin Academy Marin Academy High School, San Rafael, CA by Michael K. Stone It Changed Everything We Thought We Could Do STRAW: Teachers and Students Restoring a Watershed, Novato, CA by Michael K. Stone Multiple Harvests Laytonville High School, Laytonville, CA by Naomi Lubick A School Community for Children Park School, Mill Valley, CA by Leslie Comnes, with interviews by Jerry Kay Downloadable Essays Creativity and Leadership in Learning Communities (32k pdf) by Fritjof Capra Development and Sustainability (140k pdf) by Fritjof Capra Ecoliteracy: The Challenge for Education in the Next Century (128k pdf) by Fritjof Capra Ecology and Community (384k pdf) by Fritjof Capra Findings from the Evaluation Study of The Edible Schoolyard: Executive Summary (44k pdf) by J. Michael Murphy Let Us Begin with Courage (448k pdf) by Jeannette Armstrong A Sense of Wonder (12k pdf) by David W. Orr Testimony on Environmental Education to Congressional Subcommittee (80k pdf) by Zenobia Barlow Thinking outside the Classroom (100k pdf) Derrick Jensen interviews Zenobia Barlow