Resources

Mapping the Terrain:Environmental Thinking and Art Practice
62-370--60-374
Spring 2003/2004

Basic Reference

 Topics
*Topics overlap and are not exclusive of each other

'Artists' and the Environment:

Biotechnology

Deep Ecology

Ecopsychology
Land Ethic (Bioregionalism)
Spiritual Ecology

Ecofeminism
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Justice
Nature/Culture Discourses
Postmodern Science
Social Ecology

Venues

Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh
Conferences
News and Media Communications
U.S.Government

Basic Reference

General Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Online

Gilpin, Alan. Dictionary of Environment and Sustainable Development. Chichester, England and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Allin, Craig W. : Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2000. 3 vols.

Mongillo, John and Linda Zierdt-Warshaw. Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Phoenix, Arizona. Oryx Press, 2000.

Palmer, Joy A., ed. Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Topics

'Artists' and the Environment

'Eco Art'

Becker, Carol. Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformation and the Changing Politics of Art. NY:Rowan & Littlefield Inc, 2002. Includes: Art and Ecology, Chapter 11, 127-135 and GFP Bunny and the Plight of the Posthuman, 137-141.

Blunk, Tim (curator). Toxic Landscapes, 2001. (Puffin Foundation)
Puffin Foundation Ltd is a granting organization for "artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy."

Brookner, Jackie, guest ed. Art and Ecology. Art Journal, 51:2, Summer, 1992 8-99. (20 article special section)

Steinman, Susan Leibovitz. Susan Leibovitz Steinman: Community Based Eco-Artist. (video)April 19, 2002.

History of Art and the Environment

Beardsley John. Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Earthworks in the Landscape. 3rd ed. New York : Abbeville Press, 1998. (The conservative view)

Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain : New Genre Public Art. Seattle, Wash. : Bay Press, 1995.

Raven, Arlene. Art in the Public Interest. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1989.

Tiberghien, Gilles A. Land Art. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c1995.

Art and Technology

Stelarc. Prosthetics, Robotics and Remote Existence: Postevolutionary Strategies. Leonardo, Vol 24 No. 5, 1991. 591-595
Question: Are our bodies obsolete?

Anker, Suzanne and Dorothy Nelkin. The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004.

Current Practices

Felshin, Nina, ed. But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. Seattle, Bay Press, 1995.

Gablik, Suzi. Reenchantment of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Griffin, Susan. Can Imagination Save Us? Thinking About the Future with Beginners Mind. Utne Reader, July/August, 1996, 43-46. (Originally published as "To Love the Marigold: Politics of the Imagination" in Whole Earth, Spring 1996, Issue 89, 60-.

Kaprow, Alan. Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993.Includes: The Real Experiment, Success and Failure When Art Changes, The Education of an Un-artist, Art Which Can't Be Art.

Juniper, Andrew. Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence. Boston; Rutland, Vermont; Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2003.

Lippard, Lucy. Lure of the Local. New York: New Press, 1997.

Readings: Browse the book; Introduction "All Over the Place", Pt. 1, Chapters 1-3, "Sweet Home", "Being in Place", and "On the Move"
and Part 5, Chapter 3, "Entering the Big Picture." Here, Lippard gives pointers for criteria for art related to place. Questions: What is your understanding of place? What does the idea of "places" as stories waiting to be unearthed mean to you? Do you agree with the basis of aesthetics that Lippard puts forth? Should "art" always be visually appealing? In what ways?

Macy, Joanna and Brown, Molly Young. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World. Gabriola Island BC, Canada and Stone Creek CT: New Society Publishers, 1998.

Includes: Communicating Our Concerns and Hopes--Guidelines; The Council of All Beings; The Council of All Beings: The Site Speaks.

Macy, Joanna and Fleming, Pat. The Council of All Beings in Alan Drengson & Yuichi Inoue, The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.

Matlisky, Barbara C. Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretations and Solutions. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art. New York : Rizzoli International, 1992.

Contents: Art : nature or counternature / Wolfgang Becker -- Foundations are boring, ecology is uncool and artists are nuts / B. Stephan Baldin -- Body, nature and art / Gernot Böhme -- Unity? Man? Nature? Reality? / Jackie Brookner --The unity of man and nature : between desire and reality / Heike Strelow -- Artists pages : Anna Mendieta, Ulrike Arnold, Romano Bertuzzi, Madeleine Dietz, Alba D'Urbano, Kirsten Geisler, Qiu Shi-Hua, Georgina Starr, Chrysanne Stathacos -- Art between science and nature / Marga I.M. Bijvoet -- A conversation "future nostalgia"? / Olaf Nicolai and Frank Eckart -- Artists as explorers of reality / Heike Strelow -- Artists pages : Robert Smithson, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Henrik Håkansson, Eve Andrée Laramée, Olaf Nicolai, Bettina Pousttchi, Igor Sacharow-Ross, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Alan Sonfist -- The alteration of landscape over the centuries / Christian Ludwig Krause und/and Gottfried Langer -- The transformation of landscape / Rolf Peter Sieferle -- Nature in the social context : how to deal with nature and culture / Heike Strelow -- Artists pages : Joseph Beuys, Volker Andresen, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, herman de vries, Georg Dietzler, Caroline Dlugos, Tita Giese, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Hermann Prigann, Nils-Udo, Lois Weinberger & Markus Heltschl.

Oakes, Baile, ed. Sculpting With The Environment. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

Artists: Robert Adzema, Othello Anderson,Thomas Berry (Cultural Historian), Fritjof Capra (Physicist/Systems Theorist), Mel Chin, Betsy Damon, Agnes Denes, Michel Oka Doner, Peter Erskine, Suzie Gablik (Critic/Writer), Reiko Goto, Juan Geuer (Truth Seeker Company), Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Donna Henes, Douglas Hollis, Nancy Holt, Lynne Hull, Patricia Johanson, Any Lipkis, Joanna Macy, William Jackson Maxwell. Dominique Mazeaud, Viet Ngo, Baile Oakes, Jody Pinto, Peter Richards, Charles Ross, Fern Shaffer, Buster Simpson, Alan Sonfist, James Turrell, Mierle Ukeles, Tom Van Sant, Vijali, Sherry Wiggins, Phyllis Yampolsky.

Includes short, but important essays: Suzi Gablik, The Ecological Imperative and Fritjof Capra, The New Vision of Reality.

Pollan, Michael. "Precautionary Principal" in The New York Times Magazine , "The Year in Ideas: An Encyclopedia of Innovations, Conceptual Leaps, Harebrained Schemes, Cultural Tremors and Hindsight Reckonings that made a difference in 2001," December 9, 2001, 92.

Storm, Jonathan, Phildelphia Inquirer. Host Countries Wary of 'Survivor' Logistics in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Dec 17, 2002, Sooner edition, B-8. Dateline: Ko Tarutao, Thailand.

Varda, Agnes. Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse /The Gleaners and I. ): Ciné Tamaris and Zeitgeist Video [New York, N.Y.] : Zeitgeist Video, 2002, 2000. 1 videocassette (82 min.). Inspired by Jean Francois Millet's famous painting "The Gleaners", the artist interviews the gleaners of today (those who gather and reuse food from the fields and the street).

Literature, Poetry and Fiction

Anderson, Chris. A Forest of Voices: Reading and Writing the Environment. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing, 1995.

Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. New York: Elizabeth Sifton Books; Viking. 1987.

Dr. Seuss. The Lorax

Duncan, David James. The River Why. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1983.

Book description from amazon.com: "Since its publication by Sierra Club Books nearly two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as the most-read fiction about fly-fishing of our era. Duncan's protagonist, Gus Orviston, is an irreverent young flyfisherman--a vibrant character who makes us laugh easily and feel deeply, and who speaks with startling truth about the way we live. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. The River Why is a tale that gives a contemporary voice to the concerns and hopes of all living things on this beautiful, watery planet. It is the story of one man's search for meaning, for love, and for a sane way to live."

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

"Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, [twelve-year-old] Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives."

Merwin, W.S. Unchopping a Tree from Chris Anderson and Lex Runciman, eds, A Forest of Voices: Conversations in Ecology, Mayfield, Pub., 1990.

Millman, Dan. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives. California: H. J. Kramer; New World Library, 1980, 1984.

Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and the Spirit. New York:Bantam/Turner, 1992.

Quinn, Daniel. My Ishmael: A Sequel. New York: Bantam, 1997, 1998.

Pinkola-Estes, Clarissa. Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About Creativity. [2 sound cassettes]. Boulder, CO: Sounds True Recordings, 1991.

Stephenson, Neal. Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller. New York: Bantam, 1988.

Williams, Terry Tempest. In the Shadow of Extinction. The New York Times, February 2, 2003. (Late edition, East Coast).

Written on Groundhog's Day; reflecting on the North American prarie dog and how the elimination of one species effects others.

Works by other literary activists:

Edward Abbey (Abbey's Road, The Monkey Wrench Gang and others)

Wendell Berry

Barbara Kingsolver (The Prodigal Summer and other works)

Doris Lessing

Barry Lopez

Joyce Carol Oates (Against Nature and other works)

Marge Piercy (He She and It: A Novel; Woman on the Edge of Time)

Starhawk

Terry Tempest Williams

Biotechnology

Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston: South End Press, 1997.

Pollan, Michael. Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World. New York: Random House, 2001.

Pollan, Michael. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education. (1st edition). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.

Harvest of fear [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Jon Palfreman ; a Frontline and Nova coproduction with the Palfreman Film Group Inc. in association with the BBC. WGBH Educational Foundation ; distributed by PBS Video, 2001.

" 'A Frontline/NOVA special presentation.' Narrator, Will Lyman.' In "Harvest of Fear," Frontline and Nova explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology."

The Visual Arts, Biotechnology and Controversy


Anker, Suzanne and Dorothy Nelkin. The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004.

Becker, Carol. GFP Bunny and the Plight of the Posthuman in Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformation and the Changing Politics of Art. NY:Rowan & Littlefield Inc, 2002, 137-141.

Paradise Now: Artists explore humankind's next frontier: The genetic revolution.

Heiferman, Marvin and Carole Kismaric. Picturing the Genetic Revolution Now. Saratoga Springs, NY : Tang Museum, Skidmore College ; New York, NY, 2001.

Eduardo Kac
Work and biographical information of artist Eduardo Kac and the archived webcast of the symposium "Art, Science and Free Speech: The Work of Eduardo Kac."

Marta Menezes from Nature? Ars Electronica Festival 2000

Genomic Art

How to Understand Genetic Information - And Why?

Nemitz, Barbara. trans plant: Living Vegetation in Contemporary Art. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000.

Leonardo On-Line Art and Genetics Bibliography

ORGANISM: making art with living systems

Deep Ecology

When you think of the word radical, keep in mind some words taken from Alice Walker: "...violence is not radical enough. Love is more radical...."

Atkisson, Alan. Introduction to Deep Ecology: Deep Ecology is a new way ot think about our relationship to the Earth - and thinking is a prelude to action: An Interview with Michael E. Zimmerman. (from In Context: A Quarterly of Human Sustainable Culture and Global Climate Change, Summer, 1989).

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century [sound recordings] Ukiah, CA : New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network, c1999.From the weekly public radio series "New Dimensions." An in-depth exploration on the state of the planet and what we can do about it via a 13-week radio series of one-hour programs exploring contemporary ecological consciousness and the Deep Ecology movement.

Devall, Bill and Sessions, George. Deep Ecology (in James Sterba, Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995)

Drensgson, Alan. Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement: And Overview, 1999.

Drengson, Alan and Inoue, Yuichi. The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.

EarthFirst! Worldwide

Harding, Stephan. What is Deep Ecology? (from Resurgance Magazine Online)

Harris, Adrian. The Green Fuse for Environmental Philosophy, Deep Ecology, Social Ecology, Eco-feminism, Earth-centered Spirituality. Last revised, December 2003.

LaChapell, Dolores. Ritual is Essential in Alan Drengson and Yuichi Inoue, The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.

Consider here, some of the author's main ideas: Ritual is a way to experience and express respect, provides communication at all levels including human to non-human communication, provides us with a tool to think "logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture," and uniquely provides the opportunity "of neither opposing nature nor trying to be in communion with nature, but finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture."

Leopold, Aldo. The Land Ethic and Thinking Like a Mountain (in James P. Sterba, Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.)

Macy, Joanna and Brown, Molly Young. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World. Gabriola Island BC, Canada and Stone Creek CT: New Society Publishers, 1998.

Includes: Communicating Our Concerns and Hopes--Guidelines; The Council of All Beings; The Council of All Beings: The Site Speaks.

Northwest Earth Institute. Discussion Course on Deep Ecology. Portland: Oregon: Northwest Earth Institute, 1998.

Northwest Earth Institute. Discussion Course on Voluntary Simplicity. Portland: Oregeon: Northwest Earth Institute, 2003.

Ecopsychology

Drengson, Alan. Ecophilosophy, Ecosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement: An Overview, 1999.
http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/DrengEcophil.html

Moore, Thomas. Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. New York: Harperperennial, 1994.

Northwest Earth Institute. Ecopsychology in Discussion Course on Deep Ecology & Related Topics. Protland, Oregon, 1998, Section 5, V1-16. Includes: "Greening of Psychology" by Theodore Roszak and excerpts from "The Voice of the Earth (Patrick Miller), "A Few Beautifully Made Things (Suzi Gablik), "When the Earth Hurts,Who Responds?" (Sarah A. Conn), "Earth in Mind" (David Orr).

Land Ethic

"A Bioregional Quiz" from Northwest Earth Institute. Discussion Course on Deep Ecology. Portland: Oregon: Northwest Earth Institute, 1998.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There. Illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1949

Leopold. Aldo. "The Land Ethic" in James P. Sterba, Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications, 1st edition, 1995.

Spiritual Ecology

Van Biema, David. "The Legacy of Abraham," Time, New York: Sep 30, 2002. Vol. 160, Iss. 14; 64-.

In the wake of 9/11 this article examines the story of Abraham from Christian, Jewish and Muslim perspective with some commentary on the significance of Isaac and Ishmael.

McFague, Sallie. Models of God : Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.

Thich Nhat Hahn. The Art of Mindful Living. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True, 1991. Two cassette tapes. Recordings from a five-day retreat lead by Buddhist monk, activist and Nobel Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh on being aware in our everyday lives. Includes meditation on a piece of paper, car driving meditation, telephone meditation and hugging meditation.

Spiritwalk Teachers: Thich Nhat Hanh. Spiritwalk. Spiritwalk Foundation. September 26, 2001. Http://www.spiritwalk.org/thichnhathanh.htm.

Fox, Matthew and Sheldrake, Rupert. The Sacred Universe. [audio recording]. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True Recordings, 1993.
A physicist and a priest examine the divine force that shapes our existence

Starhawk's Activism Resources Page

The University of Creation Spirituality (Oakland, California)

Ecofeminism

Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact. New York: Harry N. Abram, Inc., 1994

Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London; New York: Routledge, 1993.

Sturgeon, Noel. Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. New York and London: Routledge, 1997

Warren, Karen J. The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism in James P. Sterba ed. Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Zimmerman, Michael E. Feminism, Deep Ecology and Environmental Ethics in Alan Drengson and Yuichi Inoue, The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.

An essay on the critical importance of ecofeminism as a partner in the deep ecology and reform environmentalism movements. The author quotes a number of ecofeminists. Includes a good definition of patriarchy (from Marilyn French, Beyond Power: Women, Men and Morality, New York: Summit Books, 1985)

Environmental Ethics

Botzler, Richard G. and Susan J. Armstrong. Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence. 2nd edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Ecoforestry Institute. Ecoforestry Statement of Philosophy in Alan Drengson and Yuichi Inoue, The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1995.Appendix.

Sterba, James P., ed. Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.

An excellent introduction to environmental ethics. Includes: The Land Ethic/ Thinking Like a Mountain (Aldo Leopold); Deep Ecology (Bill Devall and George Sessions); The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism (Karen J. Warren); What is Social Ecology (Murray Bookchin)

Sterba, James P., ed. Earth Ethics: Introductory Readings on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2000, 1995.

Environmental Justice

Shiva, Vandana. Poverty and Globalization. BBC Reith Lectures 2000. Lecture 5.
Read the print version, see video or listen to audio.

Chief Seattle's Message in Joanna Macy and Moly Young Brown, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our World, New Society Publishers, 1998. Appendix A.

Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston: South End Press, 1997.

Short animation about the environmental and ethical problems surrounding factory farming.

Di Chiro, Giovanna. Sustaining the Urban Forest and Creating Landscapes of Hope: An Interview with Cinder Hypki and Bryant "Spoon" Smith in the Environmental Justice Reader, Joni Adamson, et.al., University of Arizona Press, 2002, 284-287.

Yakoana: Voice of Indigenous Peoples. Under Your Nose Productions/ Anh D. Crutcher. New York: Parabola Video, 1997.

Participants in the First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples on Territory, Environment and Development discuss their concerns about environment, development and the survival of their cultures in anticipation of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro.

Ereira, Alan. From the Heart of the World the Elder Brothers' Warning. New York: Mystic Fire Video, 1991. A BBC TV production in association with the Goldsmith Foundation.

"Deep in the mountains of Colombia, the Kogi tribe (Kagaba Indians), descendents of an ancient Tairona priesthood, "call themselves the Elder Brothers of the human race, and are convinced that we, the Younger Brothers, will soon destroy the balance of life on Earth. They believe that the only hope is for us to change our ways, and have set out to teach us what they know about the balance of mankind, nature and the spiritual world."

See also an article by the author reflecting on a revisit to the Kogi Indians aftermaking the film in "Back to the Heart of Lightness",The Ecologist Vol 31 No.6 July/August, 2001, 34-38.

Nature/Culture Discourses

Overview

Merchant, Carolyn. Ecology. Key Concepts in Critical Theory Series. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1994.

Includes Introduction to main academic ecological discourses

Aesthetics and History

Cronon, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.

Read: The Trouble With Wilderness Or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

Ecofeminism

Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact. New York: Harry N. Abram, Inc., 1994

Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London; New York: Routledge, 1993.

Sturgeon, Noel. Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. New York and London: Routledge, 1997

Postmodern Science

Capra, Fritjof. Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with Remarkable People. New York: Simon and Shuster. 1988.

Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Doubleday, 1996. Includes: Deep Ecology: A New Paradigm (Chapter 1).

Capra, Fritjof. "The New Vision of Reality" in Baile Oakes, Sculpting the Environment, p 5-7 reprinted from Elmwood Quarterly, Fall, 1992.

Mindwalk [videorecording]. Atlas Production Company in association with Mindwalk Productions; Lintschinger/Cohen production. Film by Berndt Capra; screenplay by Floyd Byars & Fritjof Capra ; produced by Adrianna AJ Cohen ; directed by Bernt Capra. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, 1992.

Three dissimilar people - a poet, a physicist and a politician - converse while vacationing at Mont. St. Michel. Based on the book The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra ; story by Bernt Capra. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991. Credits: Director of photography, Karl Kases ; film editor, Jean Claude Piroui ; music, Philip Glass. Cast Stars: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard

From Fritjof Capra's The Turning Point (Chapter 8)

"The first obvious difference between machines and organisms is the fact that machines are constructed, whereas organisms grow. This fundamental difference means that understanding organisms must be process-oriented... Whereas the activities of a machine are determined by its structure, the relation is reversed in organisms - organic structure is determined by processes."

Fox, Matthew and Sheldrake, Rupert. The Sacred Universe. [audio recording]. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True Recordings, 1993.

A physicist and a priest examine the divine force that shapes our existence.

The Hundreth Monkey (Ken Keyes)

Sheldrake Online (Rupert Sheldrake)

Social Ecology

Bookchin, Murray. What is Social Ecology? in James P. Sterba, Earth Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights and Practical Applications, 1st edition, 1995.

Bookchin, Murray and Foreman, Dave. Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman. Boston, Mass.: South End Press, 1991. (Edited with an Introduction by Steve Chase. Foreword by David Levine).

Institute for Social Ecology

Harris, Adrian. Social Ecology

from "The Green Fuse for environmental philosophy, deep ecology, social ecology, eco-feminism, earth-centered spirituality". Last revised: December 2003

treesong.org. Social Ecology

A "personal" interpretation by Treesong of Illinois of the philosophy of social ecology." Includes a brief introduction to social ecology; discusses the ideas of First Nature and Second Nature and some key terms and concepts.

Venues

Carnegie Mellon

Earth
A campus student-run environmental organization

Environmental Health and Safety

Green Design Initiative

Green Practices
News and links related to green practices on campus. Includes the "Green Scene," a publication of EPC.

Environmental Practices Committee
Indira Nair, Vice-Provost for Education; Professor Engineering and Public Policy

Joel Tarr, Richard S. Caliguiri Professor of Urban and Environmental History and Policy, Department of History

Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry

Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research

Studio For Creative Inquiry Projects

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project

3 Rivers 2nd Nature

Persephone Project and the Art Gardens of Pittsburgh (Stephanie Flom et.al.)

Magic Penny Gardens: An Interview with Stephanie Flom (AHN News)

Have Space Will Garden (Pittsburgh Magazine)

 

Pittsburgh

Books

Davis, Devra Lee. When Smoke Ran Like Water : Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York : Basic Books, 2002.

Contents: Where I come from -- The phantom epidemic -- How to become a statistic -- How the game is played -- Zones of incomprehension -- The new sisterhood of breast cancer -- Save the males -- Earthquakes and spouting bowls -- A grand experiment -- Defiant figures.

Muller, Edward K. The Legacy of the Industrial Rivers, Pittsburgh History, Summer 1989.

Tarr, Joel, ed. Devastation and Renewal : An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region Publication info: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.

Contents: Introduction : Some thoughts about the Pittsburgh environment / Joel A. Tarr -- The interaction of natural and built environments in the Pittsburgh landscape / Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr -- River city / Edward K. Muller -- Critical decisions in Pittsburgh water and wastewater treatment / Joel A. Tarr and Terry F. Yosie -- Acid mine drainage and Pittsburgh's water quality / Nicholas Casner -- How, when, and for whom was smoke a problem in Pittsburgh? / Angela Gugliotta -- Revisiting Donora, Pennsylvania's 1948 air pollution disaster / Lynn Page Snyder -- Strategies for clean air : the Pittsburgh and Allegheny county smoke control movements, 1940-1960 / Sherie R. Mershon and Joel A. Tarr -- Slag in the park / Andrew S. McElwaine -- Beyond celebration : Pittsburgh and its region in the environmental era--notes by a participant observer / Samuel P. Hays.

Tarr, Joel. "Searching for a Sink for an Industrial Waste" in Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History. Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Links

Botanical Gardens

News and Media Communications

Conferences

 

U.S. Government