Literature and the Environment: Online Resources

"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.

Thoreau on the moose by Paul Theroux (Los Angeles Times 14 September 2008)

Estes Park, Colorado-eWelcome Center

The John Muir Exhibit (The Sierra Club)

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

Wall Arch Collapses (4 August 2008, nps.gov)

Utahs famous Wall Arch collapses; no visitor injuries (The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 August 2008)

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

"Author Pieces Togther Natural Mosaic" (Review of Terry Tempest Williams' new book Finding Beauty In A Broken World. NPR. 22 November 2008)

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver's 2008 Commencement Address at Duke University

"The Trickster Heads East" Defenders Magazine Summer 2008 (Defenders of Wildlife)

Web Sites Related to The Skidmore North Woods

Campus Environment Committee

Sustainable Skidmore

"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

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)

The Journal of Ecocriticism: A New Journal of Nature, Sociey and Literature

Hawk and Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability (a publication of Unity College in Maine)

Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy

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)

Sierra Club Radio (A half-hour podcast of environmentally related stories from the Sierra Club)

Living Planet (Podcast stories on nature and the environment from the global perspective; produced by Deutsche Welle)

Living on Earth ("Sound journalism for the planet" from Public Radio International)

NPR Environmental News Reports

Wild Sanctuary Soundscape World Map (download)

Web Sites Related to Environmentalism and Activism

The Sierra Club

The Nature Conservancy

ADK: The Adirondack Mountain Club

Climate Crisis: An Inconvenient Truth Web site

The 11th Hour (A Film by Leonardo DiCaprio)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Step It Up

We can solve the climate crisis

350: Global Warming. Global Action. Global Future.