Bibliographies

Freshman Environmental Community Read

Wed, 18 June 2003
Jane Archer <jarcher@panther.bsc.edu>

A few months ago, I asked for suggestions to give our provost in his yearly selection of a "community read" for incoming freshmen.

ASLE list members, of course, responded generously.  Here is a list of the
suggestions that I kept in my frazzled state at that time. Apologies if I've left out anyone's suggestion.

Our efforts to influence the selection succeeded, and incoming freshmen will be reading "The Future of Life" by E.O. Wilson.  Unfortunately, Wilson turned the provost down when he was invited to speak on campus in conjunction with the freshmen activities surrounding the book.  (I should have twisted his arm in Boston. Yeah right!)

The following list is not in any order at all. I've mostly put titles before authors.  Though several titles were suggested by several people, in my harried record-keeping, it seems John Sitter was the only one to recommend the Wilson book.

Thanks for all your help.  --jane

ECO-TEXTS FOR FRESHMEN COMMUNITY READ

The Ecology of Hope, edited by Ted Bernard and Jora Young

Eco-Heroes, Aubrey Wallace

Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner

Desert Solitaire, Abbey

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Naomi Klein

Reason for Hope, Jane Goodall

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Shakespeare's romances: As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest

The Prelude, Wordsworth

Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats

White Noise, Don DeLillo

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

Solar Storms, Linda Hogan

The Future of Life, Edmund O. Wilson (winning entry recommended by John Sitter)

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, Susanne Antonetta

Breathless: An Asthma Journal, Louise Desalvo

The Legacy of Luna,  Julia Butterfly Hill

The River Why, David James Duncan

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and language in a More-Than-Human World, David Abram

A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans, Sylvia A. Earle, Joelle Delbourgo

Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach

The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen

Hope, Human and Wild, Bill McKibben

The Hidden Forest, Jon Luoma

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray

Water Wars, Diane Raines Ward

Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams

Our Stolen Future, Colborn, Dumanoski, and Myers

Jane Archer
Professor of English
Birmingham-Southern College
Birmingham, Alabama 35254
office phone: 205.226.7838
fax: 205.226.4627
http://panther.bsc.edu/~jarcher/