David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries ...

The author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current ...

Ecological Literacy asks how the discovery of finiteness affects the content and substance of education. Given the limits of the earth, what should people know and how should they learn it?

But this is not a doomsday book.

'Design on the Edge' tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement.

" Appropriately, the book ends on themes of charity, wilderness, and the rights of children. Astute yet broadly appealing, The Nature of Design combines theory, practicality, and a call to action.

The book offers a withering critique of the failings of the Bush administration, supplemented by new essays that look at the national-level dominance of the Republican Party and examine the fallacy that the evangelical right represents a ...

Das College konzentriert sich auf eine interaktive, erlebnisorientierte Ausbildung, um praktische Fähigkeiten und vorausschauendes Denken zu entwickeln, die für die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts erforderlich sind.

But the text will appeal to readers who, confronted with natural beauty, seek to understand how that beauty occurs.