I've just finished Elizabeth Royte's Garbage Land. I thought she did a great job of explaining the need to recycle, which recycling efforts are most worthwhile, and how various materials are recycled. There is enough of an "ich!" factor to intrigue college freshmen, and includes lots of personal experiences of the author in her quest to follow her garbage to its ultimate destinations.
Have fun choosing! Barbara (Kitti) Reynolds On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Kraemer, George < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our campus theme next year will be "environment." Although it's defined > broadly enough to include all constituencies, it presents the opportunity to > reach about 500 freshmen with a back-door campaign of environmental > literacy. > > I am soliciting the ECOLOG group for suggestions for pre-college summer > reading with an environmental theme. It would have to be something that > would capture the minds of 17-18 year olds, and should lend itself to > discussions that might allow diverse discipline to have a say. > > Barbara Kingsolver's "Prodigal Summer" or Michael Pollan's books came > first to mind. But there must be other things out there that I've missed. > Since this might be of interest to others, please respond to the list. > > GPK > George P. Kraemer > Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology > Chair, Environmental Studies Program Purchase College (SUNY) > > -- Dr. Barbara C. Reynolds Department of Environmental Studies University of North Carolina at Asheville Asheville, NC 28804 (828) 232-5048 phone (828) 251-6041 fax
