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Please read this book, President Obama - [12 Mar 2009]
Rather than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, as most educational administrators are doing, David Orr actually thinks, and thinks deeply, and gives readers, families and educators the most insightful perspective on using education to remedy and ...
doing, David Orr actually thinks, and thinks deeply, and gives readers, families and educators...
www.amazon.com/review/R2TQENDCGZJW...
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Truth to power--WHere Obama is coming from - [17 Feb 2009]
David W. Orrs work ties education and ecological social justice together. The new Obama ecological initiative has been influenced directly as well as indirectly by writers such as Orr, Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry. It is compelling work and Earth in...
initiative has been influenced directly as well as indirectly by writers such as Orr...
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Good primer for environmental advocates - [20 Mar 2008]
Reading this book gave me a great peace of mind. I'm an environmental scientist, but I wanted to inspire people to reconnect with the world around them before focusing on objective science (which Orr claims, and I agree, is not really objective, but an...
to inspire people to reconnect with the world around them before focusing on objective ...
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect - [09 Jan 2007]
David Orr exquisitely puts into words a need for an environmental ethos in the classroom. As a high school teacher, I have long-intuited his insights about how to bring daily connections to students about the natural world that we inhabit. He is deeply...
As a high school teacher, I have long-intuited his insights about how to bring daily connections...
www.amazon.com/review/R1RMHAZR7...
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Everyone should read this book! - [04 Oct 2005]
This is a very important book that should be read by all politicians, educators, and citizens of Earth. David Orr gives clear examples and ideas for making the radical changes we need to undo some of the damage that we have done to the planet. You will...
of Earth. David Orr gives clear examples and ideas for making the radical changes we need...
www.amazon.com/review/R370688GOKUJSR...
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a great book in all respects - [03 Oct 2005]
first off, as promised by the reseller, the book was in great condition. as for the contents of the book, it's a fantastic read if you are interested in the root of the sustainability movement. that is to say the foundations and meaning of our educational...
of the book, it's a fantastic read if you are interested in the root of the sustainability...
www.amazon.com/review/RY76B5XFZ...
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The Inclusion of Ecology Studies Needed In All Education - [12 May 2005]
David W. Orr is chair of the environmental studies program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is most often credited with coining the word "ecoliteracy" (similar to the renown biologist Garrett Hardin's "ecolacy") to describe the very important study and ...
is most often credited with coining the word "ecoliteracy" (similar to the renown biologist...
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To change the world, we have to change our minds - [30 Jan 2005]
I once saw a lecture by James Randi, the skeptic and amateur magician who likes to debunk "miracles" and other mumbo jumbo. He was discouraged on this night, and he relayed his thoughts on how to save rationalism in a seeming advancing tide of superstition...
"miracles" and other mumbo jumbo. He was discouraged on this night, and he relayed his thoughts...
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A Design for "Ecological Transformation" - [01 Jun 2004]
David Orr presents an intellectual schematic for bringing "Earth in Mind" into the forefront of Human Conscousness. The Essential Theme running through this incisive and thoughtful book might best be summarized through the author's words: "Commercial ...
of Human Conscousness. The Essential Theme running through this incisive and thoughtful ...
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The Single Most Important Book on Education - [15 Mar 2004]
That the world we now live in is unsustainable goes without saying. Our skyrocketing population puts enormous pressure on the productive and absorptive capacities of the land, outstripping the natural carrying capacity of the planet by some twenty percent...
puts enormous pressure on the productive and absorptive capacities of the land, outstripping...
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