Sustainability
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Authors
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Christian R. Weisser
Christian Weisser is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Berks, where he coordinates both the Professional Writing Program and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. 　Christian is the Editor of Composition Forum, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in rhetoric and composition. Much of his research focuses upon the ecology of writing and environmental rhetoric, and he is the author or editor of half a dozen books and numerous articles on this subject, including Moving Beyond Academic Discourse, Natural Discourse (with Sid Dobrin), and The Locations of Composition (with Christopher Keller). Christian enjoys teaching courses in technical writing, environmental rhetoric, and the discourse of sustainability.
Table of Contents
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1: What are the Foundations of Sustainability?
*Jeremy Caradonna, Sustainability: A History
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
John Muir, The American Forests
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain
David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Chapter 2: How is Sustainability a Political Issue?
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World (Brundtland Report)
Al Gore, Climate of Denial
*JR Thorpe, What Exactly is Ecofeminism?
*Jim Manzi and Peter Wehner, Conservatives and Climate Change
*Roger Scruton, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: a Case for an Environmental Conservativism
*Mark Buchanan, How to Sell Conservatives on Climate Change
Chapter 3: How Do Crises and Disasters Create Challenges for Sustainability?
*Lindsay Abrams, Hurricane Katrina’s Unheeded Lesson: The Climate Refugee Crisis We Still Won’t Address
David Biello, How Did the BP Oil Spill Affect Gulf Coast Wildlife?
*Alison Singer, Fracking: The Solution? Or the Problem?
*Heather Brady, 4 Key Impacts of The Keystone Xl and Dakota Access Pipelines
*Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction
Jared Diamond, The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization
Chapter 4: How is Sustainability Connected to Local and Urban Environment?
Jeffrey Kaplan, The Gospel of Consumption
*Michael Bloomberg and Patricia de Lille, Green Cities: Why Invest in Sustainable Cities?
*Kendra L. Smith, The Cities of the Future Will Be Smart, Sustainable, and Efficient
Amy Westervelt, Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?
*Prince Charles of Wales, On the Future of Food
Fritjof Capra, Ecology and Community
*Peter Poschen and Michael Renner, Green Jobs
*Scott Carlson, Whatever Happened to the Drive for Campus Sustainability?
*Jeff Sutton, Why Social Media and Sustainability Should Go Hand in Hand
Chapter 5: How is Sustainability a Transnational Issue?
The United Nations Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing
*Bill McKibben, A Moral Atmosphere
*Nanette Galloway, Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future
Brendan Smith, The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change
*Kyle Frischkorn, A Blueprint for Genetically Engineering a Super Coral
*Christine Evans-Pughe, Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
*Mark Hay, Five Years After Fukushima, Japan’s Nuclear Debate Is Heating Up
*Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Challenges to Sustainability in Africa
Michael Moyer and Carina Storrs, How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earths Resources
Chapter 6: How are Tourism and Recreation Connected to Sustainability?
*Amanda Williams, Why Sustainable Tourism Should Matter to You
*Wouter Geerts, Overtourism and the Struggle for Sustainable Tourism Development
Bob OBrien, Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability
*Jack Hannah, What Zoo Critics Don’t Understand
*Robyn Migliorini, Is Hunting Sustainable?
Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing
Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
Product Updates
22 new reading selections that include more disciplines and flexibility for teaching about sustainability in your course. For example
- Jack Hanna discusses conservation, education, and animal welfare in “What Zoo Critics Don’t Understand.”
- JR Thorp explores the relationship between environmental damage and the oppression of women around the world in “What Exactly is Ecofeminism?”
- Prince Charles of Wales, a longtime advocate for the environment, speaks “On the Future of Food” and the challenges we face.
A greater variety of topics. Based on feedback from instructors, Sustainability now features more topics to engage your students, including selections on fracking and oil pipelines, technology and sustainability, and ecofeminism. New alternative tables of contents by discipline and theme highlight ways readings can be arranged.
An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations.
Authors
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Christian R. Weisser
Christian Weisser is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Berks, where he coordinates both the Professional Writing Program and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. 　Christian is the Editor of Composition Forum, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in rhetoric and composition. Much of his research focuses upon the ecology of writing and environmental rhetoric, and he is the author or editor of half a dozen books and numerous articles on this subject, including Moving Beyond Academic Discourse, Natural Discourse (with Sid Dobrin), and The Locations of Composition (with Christopher Keller). Christian enjoys teaching courses in technical writing, environmental rhetoric, and the discourse of sustainability.
Table of Contents
Introduction for Students
Chapter 1: What are the Foundations of Sustainability?
*Jeremy Caradonna, Sustainability: A History
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
John Muir, The American Forests
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain
David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
Chapter 2: How is Sustainability a Political Issue?
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World (Brundtland Report)
Al Gore, Climate of Denial
*JR Thorpe, What Exactly is Ecofeminism?
*Jim Manzi and Peter Wehner, Conservatives and Climate Change
*Roger Scruton, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: a Case for an Environmental Conservativism
*Mark Buchanan, How to Sell Conservatives on Climate Change
Chapter 3: How Do Crises and Disasters Create Challenges for Sustainability?
*Lindsay Abrams, Hurricane Katrina’s Unheeded Lesson: The Climate Refugee Crisis We Still Won’t Address
David Biello, How Did the BP Oil Spill Affect Gulf Coast Wildlife?
*Alison Singer, Fracking: The Solution? Or the Problem?
*Heather Brady, 4 Key Impacts of The Keystone Xl and Dakota Access Pipelines
*Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction
Jared Diamond, The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization
Chapter 4: How is Sustainability Connected to Local and Urban Environment?
Jeffrey Kaplan, The Gospel of Consumption
*Michael Bloomberg and Patricia de Lille, Green Cities: Why Invest in Sustainable Cities?
*Kendra L. Smith, The Cities of the Future Will Be Smart, Sustainable, and Efficient
Amy Westervelt, Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?
*Prince Charles of Wales, On the Future of Food
Fritjof Capra, Ecology and Community
*Peter Poschen and Michael Renner, Green Jobs
*Scott Carlson, Whatever Happened to the Drive for Campus Sustainability?
*Jeff Sutton, Why Social Media and Sustainability Should Go Hand in Hand
Chapter 5: How is Sustainability a Transnational Issue?
The United Nations Panel on Global Sustainability, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing
*Bill McKibben, A Moral Atmosphere
*Nanette Galloway, Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future
Brendan Smith, The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change
*Kyle Frischkorn, A Blueprint for Genetically Engineering a Super Coral
*Christine Evans-Pughe, Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
*Mark Hay, Five Years After Fukushima, Japan’s Nuclear Debate Is Heating Up
*Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Challenges to Sustainability in Africa
Michael Moyer and Carina Storrs, How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earths Resources
Chapter 6: How are Tourism and Recreation Connected to Sustainability?
*Amanda Williams, Why Sustainable Tourism Should Matter to You
*Wouter Geerts, Overtourism and the Struggle for Sustainable Tourism Development
Bob OBrien, Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability
*Jack Hannah, What Zoo Critics Don’t Understand
*Robyn Migliorini, Is Hunting Sustainable?
Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing
Sentence Guides for Academic Writers
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles
Product Updates
22 new reading selections that include more disciplines and flexibility for teaching about sustainability in your course. For example
- Jack Hanna discusses conservation, education, and animal welfare in “What Zoo Critics Don’t Understand.”
- JR Thorp explores the relationship between environmental damage and the oppression of women around the world in “What Exactly is Ecofeminism?”
- Prince Charles of Wales, a longtime advocate for the environment, speaks “On the Future of Food” and the challenges we face.
A greater variety of topics. Based on feedback from instructors, Sustainability now features more topics to engage your students, including selections on fracking and oil pipelines, technology and sustainability, and ecofeminism. New alternative tables of contents by discipline and theme highlight ways readings can be arranged.
An appendix, "Sentence Guides for Academic Writers." This section helps with an essential skill: working with and responding to others’ ideas. This practical module helps students develop an academic writing voice by giving them sentence guides, or templates, to follow in a variety of composing situations.
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Sustainability explores questions around the central concept of sustainability: What are its foundations and politics? How do crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to local and transnational environments? How is sustainability connected to tourism and recreation? Readings by a range of ecologists, urban planners, philosophers, geographers, reporters, artists, and ordinary citizens take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
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Sustainability explores questions around the central concept of sustainability: What are its foundations and politics? How do crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to local and transnational environments? How is sustainability connected to tourism and recreation? Readings by a range of ecologists, urban planners, philosophers, geographers, reporters, artists, and ordinary citizens take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each reflecting Bedford’s trademark care and quality. An editorial board of a dozen compositionists at schools with courses focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. Each reader collects thoughtfully chosen selections sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 pieces—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students from all majors make sustained inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as money, food, border crossings, music, humor, subcultures, happiness, monsters, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, with each chapter focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
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