Annotated Bibliography
Baer, Hans A.. Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System. (Lexington Books, 2012).
This book connects capitalistic endeavors with climate change and calls for thinking beyond what has been.
Barringer, Timothy. “Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin." Opening Conversation at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, September 19, 2019.
This speech introduced a museum exhibit featuring John Ruskin as an art critic as well as a note taker of the social, economic, and environmental issues that surround the decisions we have made in how we interact with the environment.
Beatley, Thomas. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2011.
This book looks at the history of why biophilic cities are needed as well as proposes multiple to ways to create said cities.
Bloom, B. S. (Ed.). (1956). Taxonomy of educational objectives, the classification of educational goals. Handbook I: Cognitive domain. New York: McKay.
This book is the seminal work on classifying objectives when teaching students.
Bruhn, Jørgen. “Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Anthropocene Ecological Crisis Across Media and the Arts.” Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media 24, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 5–18. https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.24.1.
This article explores all the ways that ecocriticism has moved into other fields, aside from writing and literature.
Brundtland, Gro Harlem. Introduction of Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future. Oslo, 20 March 1987. http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf
This is a report by the UN that stresses taking care of people as we think about taking care of the environment. It proposes actions in select fields that can be addressed locally, but with an international voice.
Cole, Thomas. The Oxbow, 1835-1836, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed July 14, 2024, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10497.
This painting reveals the a stretch of the Connecticut River after a storm and provides a commentary on the state of pristine landscapes being transformed in the early stages of Industrialization.
Costa, Arthur L. and Kallick, Bena. Five strategies for questioning with intention. ASCD. (Retrieved 7/13/24). September 1, 2015. Vol. 73 No. 1 https://ascd.org/el/articles/five-strategies-for-questioning-with-intention
This online article explains the effectiveness of good questioning, with five strategies explained.
Coughlin, Maura, and Gephart, Emily. Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century art and visual culture. London; New York: Routledge, 2021.
This book connects ecocriticism to other social movements as they are represented visually through art and art mediums.
Chatterjee, Sria. “The arts, environmental justice, and the ecological crisis.” British Art Studies, no. 18, 30 Nov. 2020, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-18/conversation.
This article is a call for art historians to examine the art more critically and looks as the history of ecological issues and their side by side art counterpart movements.
Crutzen, P.J. and Stoermer, E.F. (2000) The “Anthropocene”. Global Change Newsletter, 41, 17.
This article makes a case for the Anthropocene’s beginnings.
Demos, T.J. “Against the Anthropocene,”2017, Brussel, België, 1:40, https://vimeo.com/251618816.
This video argues against the Anthropocene as an epoch by explaining and exploring multiple perspectives.
Ersu, Madeleine d’. “Portland, Oregon, US.” Portland, Oregon, US | Urban Green-blue Grids. Accessed July 28, 2024. https://urbangreenbluegrids.com/projects/portland-oregon-us/#:~:text=Portland%20is%20definitely%20all%20about,Green%20Building%20Council%3B%2067%25%20of.
This webpage spells out the whats, hows, and whys Portland has become “America’s number one environmentally friendly or ‘green’ city”.
Fonseca, Fernando P. and Ramos, Rui. "Walkable Cities" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/27022 (accessed July 14, 2024).
This source defines walkable cities and gives examples.
Glotfelty, C. and Fromm, H. (1996b). The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in literary ecology ed. by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Univ. of Georgia Press.
This book defines ecocriticism and looks at ways to do it and how it has been done.
Goldstein-Rose, S. and Kitchen, V. (2020). The 100% solution: A plan for solving climate change. Melville House.
This book explores ways to solve climate change and proposes methods that should work to keep the Anthropocene from being the death of us.
Goldthorpe, Mark. interviewed by Sally Moss, If the Anthropocene is Violence, What is Nonviolence?, Commonweal, 2018
This interview talks about the violence that was caused as mankind rules the world, in that our actions are violence against each other, the planet, the other species, etc.
Grant, Don, Jorgenson, Andrew and Longhofer, Wesley. “In Chapter 1 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS? The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants” in Super Polluters: Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2020. https://doi-org.yale.idm.oclc.org/10.7312/gran19216
This book chapter dives deep into the role of power plants and our growing need and use of electricity as the major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. IDreamBooks Inc, 2015.
This book gives an account of humans and their spread across the planet, making their mark on every person, place, and thing that they encountered.
Ismail, Hisham Muhamad. “Ecocriticism and Children’s Literature: Dr. Seuss’s the Lorax as an Example.” World Journal of English Language 14, no. 3 (February 23, 2024): 139. https://doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n3p139.
This article supports the role that the book The Lorax has in being a way for kids to be exposed to ecocriticism.
Laine, T.H. and Lindberg, R. S.. (2020). Designing engaging games for Education: A systematic literature review on game motivators and design principles. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13(4), 804–821. https://doi.org/10.1109/tlt.2020.3018503
This article examines the benefits of gamification in the classroom.
Laliena, Daniel, and Rosa Tabernero Sala. “Picture books and Reader Training in the 21st Century. an Ecocritical Reading of Canonical Works of Children’s Literature.” Frontiers in Education 8 (November 7, 2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1304027.
This article explains the importance of ecocritical picture books for kids and gives many examples to use in the classroom. It also explains the science behind the importance and benefits of picture books.
Lewis, Simon L. and Maslin, Mark A. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. Yale University Press, 2018.
This book defines and examines, as a phenomenon, the Anthropocene, delving into the history of human species, agriculture, the industrial revolution, and globalization for the sake of identifying a beginning of said time period, while still maintaining that we have evolved into this time period.
“Make a Video Game in Minutes Not Months.” Make a Video Game in Minutes Not Months. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.gamify.com/what-is-gamification.
This website illuminates the ways to make a good video game and tells why games engage people.
McKnight, Alima. “Sustainability is the Name of the Game!” (Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, 2023). https://theteachersinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/McKnight-A-Unit.pdf
This curriculum unit helps students learn about climate change and sustainability via a digital board game.
Morse, Olivia. “Biophilic Cities: Good for Both Environmental Health and Human Health.” (USC Viterbi School of Engineering, October 10, 2021). https://illumin.usc.edu/biophilic-cities-good-for-both-environmental-health-and-human-health/.
This article talks about the benefits of biophilic cities, especially in relation to health and happiness.
“Office of Sustainability: Homepage.” City of Philadelphia. Accessed July 28, 2024. https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-sustainability/.
This city run webpage explains the role that the Office of Sustainability has in Philadelphia.
“Overview.” The High Line, May 13, 2024. Accessed July 21, 2024. https://www.thehighline.org/about/.
This website is all about the High Line and includes the history and purpose as well as current programs and events.
“Planning and Sustainability (BPS).” Portland.gov. Accessed July 28, 2024. https://www.portland.gov/bps.
This municipal government webpage explains all the ways Portland is continuing its pledge to be a sustainable city.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, Leeds, 1816, Watercolor, scraping out and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.2704.
This painting is a critique on the progress that modernization brings, clearly exaggerating the “positive” aspects of crowded and forced urbanization.
Sealey-Huggins Leon. "The climate crisis is a racist crisis: Structural racism, inequality and climate change," in The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence, ed. Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Beth Kamunge (Place of Publication: Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov 15, 2018), 99.
This chapter talks about how race and class lead to and affects the treatment of current marginalized groups when it comes to climate change.
Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark: as is now acted at His Highness the Duke of York's Theatre, (London: Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and at the Blue Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1676), 3.1.29.
This play has a great line that points to the need to do something about the things that attack us.
Waddington, Rod. CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
This photo shows Singapore’s biophilic park called Gardens by the Bay.
“What Is a Biophilic City? Draft.” Biophilic Cities. Accessed July 21, 2024. https://www.biophiliccities.org/what-is-a-biophilic-city-draft.
This webpage defines “biophilic city” and gives 12 great examples of what biophilic cities do/ need in order to be successful.
Wheeler, S. M. and Rosan, C. D. (2021). Reimagining Sustainable Cities Strategies for designing Greener, healthier, more equitable communities. University of California Press.
This book makes the case that any city can become a sustainable city if the stakeholders, particularly municipalities, make changes. Researched strategies that would change the world for the better in terms of equitable solutions to the climate crisis on the local level. It suggests involvement by community stakeholders, but puts the onus on the government to pass legislation.
Working Group on the ‘Anthropocene.’ Subcommission on quaternary stratigraphy. (n.d.-b). http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups/anthropocene/
This formal report explains the scientific community’s official stance on the Anthropocene. The results of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy decision on the proposal: “that a Crawfordian Stage/Age and Anthropocene Series/Epoch should be part of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart (ICC), with its base at a level representing 1952 CE, marking a sharp upturn in plutonium levels as the primary marker and more generally aligned with the historical phase of the mid-twentieth century ‘Great Acceleration’.”
https://www.anthropocene.info/index_php.html
This website is a storehouse of information on the Anthropocene, including a timeline and suggestions for sustainability. Many writers use this site as a basis for information as it was the first and remains the best of its kind.
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