Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution--as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions. Chapter 1: The Whole Thing Is Connected We can continue the enclosure of the commons, begun so long ago the privatization and commodification of nature or we can recognize the fundamental truth that we are all connected and that there is nothing private about how we treat the Earth, or each other. Chapter 2: Grounding Our Teaching Grounding our students in their communities doesn t just connect them to nature; it also connects them to the ways their communities have been battered by powerful interests, and how race and class have shaped those communities. Chapter 3: Facing Climate Chaos Articles in this chapter will help students recognize the significance of the climate crisis and see that the people being hit the hardest are the ones least responsible. Through various activities students consider root causes of the crisis in order to critically think about the deep social changes we will need to respond fairly and decisively. Chapter 4: Burning the Future Burning the Future has a metaphorical ring, but it s no metaphor it s literally true: We are burning the future. This chapter deals with the overall issue of fossil fuels and then is divided into three sections: coal, oil, and natural gas and fracking. Yes, we are burning the future. But nothing is inevitable. This is a key lesson from history, and from the activities included in this chapter. Chapter 5: Teaching in a Toxic World Articles in this chapter describe how toxic trespass happens in far too many ways in our lives here and around the world. Because of the intimate nature of the toxic trespass, students first reaction may be self-protection or individual consumer choices, rather than collective action. This chapter provides abundant evidence that people are taking collective action. Chapter 6: Food, Farming, and the Earth Food embodies many of the ecological problems and social injustices highlighted throughout the book. And similarly, it calls out for activism that recognizes the interconnectedness of these issues.

A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching About the Environmental Crisis

Science & Math

Linda Christensen

David Suzuki

Winona LaDuke

Bill Bigelow

Ann Pelo

Bob Peterson

Larry Miller

bill-mckibben

Tim Swinehart

Van Jones

Vandana Shiva

Amy Lindahl

Hardy Thames

Jeff Goodell

Robert Kunzig

Sandra Steingraber

Tony Marks-Block

Earth Sciences

Rethinking Schools

Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development

Routledge

Making Peace withthe Earth

Reference

Fernwood Publishing

Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, Alternatives to Economic Globalization is the defining document of the antiglobalization movement. It presents both a sober critique of globalization as well as practical, thoughtful alternatives.
The authors assert ten core requirements for democratic societies, including equality, basic human rights, local decision making, and ecological sustainability, and demonstrate how globalization undermines each. Offering specific strategies for reining in corporate domination, they address alternative systems for energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing; ideas for weakening or dismantling the WTO, World Bank, and IMF; and rebuilding economies that are responsive to human needs.

Alternatives to Economic Globalization

Business & Money

John Cavanagh

Jerry Mander

Edward Goldsmith

Sarah Anderson

Debi Barker

Maude Barlow

Walden Bello

Robin Broad

Tony Clarke

Randy Hayes

Colin Hines

Andrew Kimbrell

David Korten

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Sara Larrain

Simon Retallack

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Lori Wallach

Economics

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Oneness vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

Kartikey Shiva

Chelsea Green Publishing

Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land and Food Wars

Nature & Ecology

Spinifex Press

Seed Sovereignty, Food Security

Agricultural Sciences

Vandana ShivaÂ s book shows how Western powers, following in the footsteps of Columbus, are using patenting and genetic engineering to re-colonize the Third World. Denying the value of indigenous knowledge developed over many generations, the West is attempting to colonize life itself. The author argues that we must struggle to protect biological and cultural diversity, and that this will best be brought about by our developing and supporting self-organized communities based on decentralization, local democratic control of resources, social justice and peace. Biopiracy brings a fresh perspective to the current debate on the patenting of life forms and genetic engineeering, from one of the Third WorldÂ s most respected voices.

Biopiracy

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Green Books Ltd

Ecofeminism (Critique Influence Change)

Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is at once practical and philosophical. Do women involved in environmental movements see a link between patriarchy and ecological degradation? What are the links between global militarism and the destruction of nature? In exploring such questions, the authors criticize prevailing theories and develop an intellectually rigorous ecofeminist perspective rooted in the needs of everyday life. They argue for the acceptance of limits, the rejection of the commoditization of needs, and a commitment to a new ethics.

Ecofeminism

Politics & Social Sciences

Maria Mies

Women's Studies

Zed Books

The Nature of Nature

Biological Sciences

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