Teaching Environmental Literacy: Across Campus and Across the Curriculum

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INDEX acceleration of climate change, 37 active learning, 113–114, 123–124 Adams, Ansel, 74 administrative leadership, xvi–xvii administrative perspective, 171–177 advisory bodies, 12 aerial photographs, 35 a√ection for landscapes, 37 Africa, 51 agricultural revolution, 20 agriculture: deforestation, 31–32; Indiana, 30–34, 36; Taino farmers, 34; ten-year land, 31; weather patterns and ocean currents, 53 air: as an ecosystem service, 19; temperatures , rising global surface, 53, 55 air conditioning, 32 Alaska, 40 alliance with the environment, 19, 22 Amazon Forest, 58 American education system: campus sustainability initiatives, xv; environmental education, 92–93; environmental illiterates , xiv; environmental literacy, xv, 40; environmental or sustainability studies, xv; interdisciplinary study, 93–95; learning environment, xiv–xv analysis of ecological footprint, 44 Applegate, John S., 9, 24–25 Aristotle, 91 Arizona State University, xv artificial world, 72–73 Assadourian, Erik, 39–40, 45, 48 assessment of learning, 124–125 atmospheric chemistry and human activities, xiv, 53 attitudes toward environmental literacy, 112 Auden, W. H., 153 Auer, Matt, 9, 114 automobiles: artificial world, 152; hydrogen fuel cells, 47; number of, 54 Baack, Eric, 23 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 86, 95 Berry, Wendell, 74 biodiversity, 35 biogeochemistry, 21 206 ⭈ Index biomass, 43 Bioneers conference, 176, 200 biophysical limitations, 63–64 biotic changes, 21 Brabson, Ben, 9, 24, 117 Brazil: co√ee production, 52, 59; consumerism , 51; orange juice production, 52; PROALCOOL, 51 Brondizio, Eduardo S., 7, 9 Brundtland Commission, 39 burnout, 162 Cadwallader, Mervyn, 186 California: landscapes, 35; natural history, 74 campus: as ecosystem, 131–134; five senses approach, 143–146 campus conversation, xvii, 3, 12 campus landscapes, 114 campus sustainability initiatives, xv Cancer Alley, 79 Capshew, Jim, 9, 114 carbon dioxide, 43, 45, 53, 55–57, 80 Carbon Reduction Strategy, 45 carbon storage, 32–33 carbon tax, 67 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 12 Carson, Rachel, 72, 78, 85–86, 89–94, 96 Cather, Willa, 74 centers for the reduction of carbon, 45 Century of the Environment, xiii, 4 CFES (Council for Environmental Stewardship ) at Indiana University, 4–7, 10, 12, 169, 179–180 challenges of environmental literacy, 193– 195 China: consumerism, 51; demand for oil, 41; emissions of greenhouse gases, 57, 80; industrialization, 80; urbanization, 51 cities: solar energy, 32; trees, heat balancing properties of, 32 Clay, Keith, 9, 115 Clean Water Act of 1972, 31 climate change: acceleration of, 37; air temperatures, 53, 55; droughts, 53; economy , xiv–xv; El Niño, 53; flooding, 53; forests, 32; fossil fuels, 45; human activities , 20; hurricanes, 53; La Niña, 53; sense of place, 80; social justice, xiv–xv co√ee, 52, 59 cognitive development, 118–120 collapse of fisheries, 53 collective action, 65 Commoner, Barry, 131 communication, 99–106 community engagement, 114 comparing intact ecosystems with modi- fied landscapes, 35 complexity of environmental literacy, 117 Comstock, Anna Botsford, 86 conferences, 176 conscious choices, 66, 83 conservation: of energy, 46; of wildlife, 160 conservation movement, 74 constructed knowing, 124 consumerism: ecological footprint, 50–52, 57, 59; environmental literacy, 59; population , 52–54 consumption of energy: economic energy e≈ciency (EEE), 42–43; economy, 42; gross domestic product (GDP), 41–44; oil, 40; reducing, 43; relationship to environmental degradation, 42–45; trends, 39–40; in United States, 42–43 cooperative learning, 123 core elements of environmental literacy, 17–23 corrective justice, 81–82 costs of economic development, 29 Council for Environmental Stewardship (CFES) at Indiana University, 4–7, 10, 12, 169, 179–180 Cox, J. Robert, 99 critical thinking skills, 18, 112 Curtis Prairie, 155 Czech, Brian, 43 Index ⭈ 207 dams, 159 Darwin, Charles, 153 dead zones, 20, 33 debates, 102–105 decomposition of waste, 19 deep learning, 146–147 deforestation, 30–32 degradation of environment: ecosystem services, 21; environmental regulation, 77–80; land, 36–37; reducing, 43; relationship to consumption, 42–45 demography of teaching environmental literacy, 112 designer ecosystems, 20 destruction of habitat, 21 Developing Ecological Consciousness (Uhl), 95 development: economic development, 29; sustainable development, 39–40 Dewey, John, 185–186 direct service-learning, 137–139 disconnect between humans and the environment, 21, 159 discrimination, 81–82 distribution of human population, 51 distributive justice, 81–82 Dominican Republic, 34 droughts, 53 Earth Day, xiv, 131 ecological consciousness, 19, 125 ecological economists, 63 ecological footprint: consumerism, 50–52, 57, 59; environmental literacy, 18–22, 44, 59–60, 111; population, 20–21, 50–51; student learning, xvi, 114 ecological literacy. See environmental literacy ecological niches, 152 economic...