Environmental Philosophy

Mr. Rockwell & Mr. Schildge

A Paperless Course

Welcome

Required Texts:

Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror by David Orr

Syllabus:

Week 1-4

Week 4-8

etc.

Course Links:

Summarizing Primary Sources Assignment

"Into The Wild" Worksheet

"The Century of The Self"- BBC Documentary

Hetch Hetchy Debate

Outside Links:

Ansel Adams at Hetch Hetchy from NY Times

Dumb as We Wanna Be- Clean Energy and Congress by Thomas Friedman at NY Times

Where Have All the Joiners Gone? by Bill McKibben

Satish Kumar explains the meaning of Deep Ecology

 

The Earth