Environmental letters is starting up again! What is environmental letters, you ask? It is a super low-key discussion group, in which we read delightful, thought-provoking and informative things, and then we get together and talk about them. There may be tea and even the occasional snack in involved. This is not meant to be stressful, so if you don’t get around to all (or any) of the readings, please feel free to still show up. However, the readings are (hopefully) really interesting, so we encourage to you to take a look at them! Meeting times, locations and weekly readings will be emailed out over the EAC-Open List.
Please feel free to come to any of these informal get-togethers, and enjoy some of these past readings in the meantime!
Week 1
Uncommon Ground by: William Cronon
Leaves of Grass by: Walt Whitman
Ecologue by: Virgil
Week 2
Two excerpts from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy:
Week 3
Excerpt from The Future of Nostalgia by: Svetlana Boym
A Guide to a Renamed City by: Joseph Brodsky
How City Planners Hurt Cities by: Jane Jacobs
The Metropolis and Mental Life by: Georg Simmel
Week 4
A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails by: Donald Hall
Week 5
Whale Meat by: Nancy Shoemaker
ESPP 10- Food and Sustainability
“Be Receptive to the Good Earth”: Health,
Nature, and Labor in Countercultural
Back-to-the-Land Settlements by: Ryan H. Edgington
The Apple Tree by: L H. Bailey
Reconciling agricultural productivity and
environmental integrity: a grand challenge
for agriculture by: G Philip Robertson and Scott M Swinton
Week 6
Biophilia by: E.O. Wilson
Week 7
Man and the Natural World by: Keith Thomas
New England
Walden by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I Lived For by: Thoreau
Trees
The Giving Tree by: Shel Silverstein
A Wind-Storm in the Forest by: John Muir
Excerpt from The Wild Trees by: John Preston
Optimism?
Towards the New Ruralism by: Garret Dash Nelson
Demanding Attention? by: Spring Greeney
