Resources


Reseach and Writing Resources

The Skidmore College Honor Code Statement

Academic Integrity Checklist

The Skidmore Guide To Writing

The Writing Center

The Charlotte M. Lanzit Center for Computers & Writing

The Lucy Scribner Library

 

Technology Tools

Movable Type Blog Log-in

Phorum Class Discussion Board

Knowledge Media Laboratory KEEP ToolKit

Word Cloud Maker (Tag Crowd)

 

Evaluating Websites

"Help With. . . Internet" from the Scribner Library.

Evaluating Web Resources from the Worlfgram Memorial Library, Widener University

 

Web Sites Related to "Literature and the Environment"

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)

ASLE Connect (Reports and Podcasts from the Summer 2007 ASLE convention)

Ecology Hall of Fame: A Project of EcoTopia/USA

Orion Magazine

The Way North. A Hypertext by Joel Weishaus

Creek Running North: A web log by nature and science writer Chris Clarke

Anna Mills on Nature Writing (blog)

Nature Stories (Podcast stories from the Nature Conservancy)

The King James Version Bible. The Electronic Text Center. The Unversity of Virginia

The Bible, Revised Standard Version

George Herbert. Luminarium.

The Web of American Transcendentalism

Henry David Thoreau, The American Transcendentalism Web

The Thoreau Reader: The works of Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

Walden by Henry David Thoreau--A Web Study Text

Walden, Thoreau and the Environment: The Walden Woods Project, The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

The Thoreau Society

"Walden Warming": Following in Thoreau's footsteps, Massachusetts researchers are creating the most complete picture yet of global warming's impact on the biology of a US region" by T. Edward Nickens. National Wildlife. Oct/Nov 2007, vol. 45 no. 6.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Transcendentalism Web

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Estes Park, Colorado-eWelcome Center

Excerpts from the Works of Aldo Leopold

Abbey's Web (dedicated to the life, works and values of author Edward Abbey)

Edward Abbey: Cactus Chronicles-- Long lost letters from the buzzard in the dead tree (Orion Magazine)

Arches National Park

The Wilderness Society: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act

The Glen Canyon Institute

Terry Tempest Williams: Coyote Clan

An Open Letter to Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska by Terry Tempest Williams

billmckibben.com--Bill McKibben Web Site

"Climate of Denial," by Bill McKibben

"Not Quite Getting It," by Bill McKibben

"A Deeper Shade of Green." Bill McKibben. National Geographic Magazine. August 2006.

Bill McKibben's Conservation Commencement Keynote Adress, Student Conservation Association, Charlestown, NH, August 2006.

The North Woods of Skidmore College (Campus Environment Committee)

"Whose woods these were." A short history of the North Woods. Kathryn Gallien. Scope Winter 2001.

"Whose woods these are." Kathryn Gallien. Scope Spring 2001.

Skidmore North Woods Trails

North Woods stewards help preserve, protect Skidmore's natural buffer (News from Skidmore, 7/11/2007)

College taking new steps to protect sensitive area (News from Skidmore, 8/24/2007)

College moves to protect North Woods, hears neighbors' concerns (News from Skidmore, 8/29/07)

The Spirit in Nature Sanctuary, Skidmore College and Trail Map

Environmental Studies at Skidmore

Lights Out! Energy initiative to fund scholarships

Wild Sanctuary Soundscape World Map (download)

NPR Environmental News Reports

The Nature Conservancy

Living on Earth: Sound Journalism for the Planet, NPR

Climate Crisis: An Inconvenient Truth Web site

The 11th Hour (A Film by Leonardo DiCaprio)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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