A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few chapters there were a number of interesting facts. I culled a few from Earth in Mind for a past Five Friday Facts and noted [...]
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Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design
September 30th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Coal, David Orr, Food, Population Growth, Science, Waste 
No Comments »Book Review: Sustainability on Campus
July 21st, 2011 Eric Wilson Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change is a series of vignettes from institutions of higher education around the US. Co-edited by Peggy Barlett, professor of anthropology at Emory University and Geoffery Chase, Dean of Undergraduate Studies (formerly) at Northern Arizona University, the compilation includes chapters from 16 schools, with one each from Barlett [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, Curriculum, David Orr, Economy, Emory, Environment, Food No Comments »The Third (and Final?) Environmental Movement
April 17th, 2011 Eric Wilson I recently read the following quotation, “the problem with history is that it repeats itself.” Although I cannot recall who said it, the point is that we need to learn from the past, not just repeat it. In a recent discussion with a co-worker, I started to think about the ebb and flow of environmental [...]
Book Review: David Orr’s Earth in Mind
March 24th, 2011 Eric Wilson Originally published in 1994 during what could possibly be considered the second of three environmental movements to date, David Orr’s Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect sets forth a new agenda for education vis-a-vis the environment. While I started the book last summer (and thought I had lost the library copy [...]
Posted in Behavior, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, David Orr, Environment, Richard Louv No Comments »The Double Edged Sword of Growth and Development
March 14th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution A few months back our Five Friday Facts came by way of a 60 Minutes story on Brazil (see the video clip below). Many of the facts touted Brazil’s progress in the area of clean energy. One that did not make the cut was the following fact, “Ninety percent of the roads in the country are still [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Behavior, China, Conservation, Economics, Education, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Policy, Real Estate, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Africa, Brazil, David Orr, Denver, Environment, Opinionator, Pollution, Public Transit, Smart Growth 1 Comment »Five Friday Facts: Earth in Mind Edition
January 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last summer I started reading David Orr’s Earth in Mind. While I still have 40 pages to go (I lost a copy from the library), I plan on finishing it soon and writing a review. Originally published in 1994, it contains some points that are fairly shocking and some of which are rather disturbing. With [...]
Environmental vs. Sustainability Education: Shifting the Focus
August 29th, 2010 Eric Wilson The environmental education movement in this country has been around for quite some time. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the first Earth Day 40 years ago were both important factors in bringing environmental education to the fore. My personal journey is not nearly as long. Nearly ten years ago I worked for a school district [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Colorado, Curriculum, David Orr, Environment, Jobs No Comments »Hydrogen Clean Energy Project at Emory University
August 8th, 2010 Eric Wilson In the summer edition of Emory Magazine, there was an intriguing article about chemists using solar power to turn “hydrogen into clean fuel.” One of the major issues with using hydrogen as a fuel source, is that it needs to be separated from water, which requires energy. However, since the first law of thermodynamics (also [...]
