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"The Unknown Citizen"

 

INTG-402       Citizenship: Green Initiatives
Reading List

Blue: Readings from American Earth, ed. McKibben, Penguin Books, 2008.
Black: Readings from University Reader packet.

All readings listed in approximate order assigned.
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Auden, W. H. "The Unknown Citizen," Another Time, Random House, 1940.

Oliver, Mary. "The Summer Day," pp. 737-8.

Loeb, Paul. "Introduction," The Soul of  a Citizen, St. Martin's Griffin, 1999, pp. 1-13.  ISBN 10- 0312204353.

Loeb, Paul. "Making our Lives Count," The Soul of  a Citizen, St. Martin's Griffin, 1999, pp. 14-33.  ISBN 10- 0312204353.

Hawken, Paul. "To Remake the World," Orion, May/Jun 2007, pp. 60-63.

Abbey, Edward. "Down the River," Desert Solitaire, Ballantine, 1968, pp. 188-245. ISBN 0345326490.

Cullinan, Cormac. "If Nature Had Rights," Orion, Jan/Feb 2008, pp. 26-31.

Durning, Alan. "Asking How Much is Enough," ch. 9, State of the World 1991, Norton, 1991, pp. 153-169. ISBN 0393307336.

Kaplan, Jeffrey. "The Gospel of Consumption," Orion, May/Jun 2008, pp. 38-47.

Berry, Wendell. "Faustian Economics," Harper's, May 2008, pp. 35-42.

Wachtel, Paul. "The Unperceived Realities of the Consumer Life," The Poverty of Affluence, New Society, 1989, ch. 3, pp. 31-55.  ISBN 0865711518.

Schumacher, E. F. "Peace and Permanence," ch. 2, Small is Beautiful, Harper-Collins, 1973, pp. 23-41.  ISBN 0060916303.

Schumacher, E. F. "Buddhist Economics," ch. 4, Small is Beautiful, Harper-Collins, 1973, pp. 56-66.  ISBN 0060916303.

Daly, Herman. "The Steady-State Economy: Alternative to Growthmania," ch. 9, Steady-State Economics, 2nd ed., Island Press, 1991, pp. 180-194. ISBN 155963071X.

Berry, Wendell. "The Death of the Rural Community," The Ecologist, May/Jun 1999, pp. 183-185.

Berry, Wendell. "The Prejudice Against Country People," The Progressive, April 2002, pp. 21-24.

Berry, Wendell. "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character," The Unsettling of America, Sierra Club Books, 1977, pp. 17-26.  ISBN 0871568772.

Berry, Wendell. "The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture," The Unsettling of America, Sierra Club Books, 1977, pp. 27-38.  ISBN 0871568772.

Berry, Wendell. "The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture," The Unsettling of America, Sierra Club Books, 1977, pp. 39-50.  ISBN 0871568772.

Daly, Herman. "When Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes," Ecological Economics, July 2000, vol. 34, pp. 1-3.

Jones, Dena. "Crimes Unseen," Orion, Jul/Aug 2004, pp. 60-67.

Schlosser, Eric. "Cogs in the Great Machine," Fast Food Nation, Harper Perennial, 2005, pp. 148-166.  ISBN 10 – 0060838582.

Schlosser, Eric. "The Most Dangerous Job," Fast Food Nation, Harper Perennial, 2005, pp. 168-190.  ISBN 10 – 0060838582.

Reece, Erik. "Moving Mountains," Orion, Jan/Feb 2006, pp. ??

Kunstler, James Howard. "Making Other Arrangements," Orion, Jan/Feb 2007, pp. ??

Lovins, Amory B. "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" pp. 559-569.

 

 

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