Bibliographies

Environmental Writing From a Journalism Perspective

Sat Oct 20, 2001
From: "Chiaviello, Anthony" <chiaviello@DT.UH.EDU>
To: ASLE_CCCC@LISTSERV.UMKC.EDU

Hi, Folks,
Here are the suggestions for textbooks in response to my query about offering a course in environmental writing, from a journalism perspective.  Responses petered out last week, so here is what came in. Thanks to all who made these suggestions; I'll be checking them out this week.   -TC

THE ECOLOGY OF HOPE by Ted Bernard and Jora Young

MASS MEDIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT: AMERICA'S GREEN CRUSADES by Mark Neuzil and William Kovarick

The Lure of the Local: sense of place in a multicentered society.  Lucy R.
Lippard.  (A thoughtful, carefully conceived and well-written nonfiction piece that is instructive without being a textbook.)  New York: The New Press, 1997.  ISBN: 1-56584-248-0.  $23 retail.

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Sandra Steingraber's Living Downstream

Muir's Our National Parks

Golley's An Environmental Primer. (Offers non-science folks a well rounded view of environmental concepts and terms.)

The Nature of Cities,  Bennett and Teague, eds. (A collection of ecocriticism that is highly readable and seems appropriate for student living and working in an urban setting.)

The Land Remembers, by Ben Logan. (The story of a farm and its people [a
novel and categorized as fiction, but really a fact-based memoir])  A special 25th anniversary edition has been issued as a quality (trade?) paperback.  In brief, it's a series of related vignettes that illustrate how a Wisconsin farm family lives and works in partnership with the land.

Imagining Home: Writing about the Midwest, Vinz and Tammaro, eds. (A collection of pieces that works nicely in this part of the country and helps students to think creatively and critically about the places they inhabit. [You'll also find two other books using the same title, Imagining Home; one is about race and gender, the other about the African diaspora]).

Media and the Environment (it's a wee old), edited by Craig LaMay and Everette Dennis. Island Press

Killingsworth & Palmer's Ecospeak... (Southern IL P, I think), has sections you might find useful.

Greenwash: The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism (Jed Greer, K. Bruno)

Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash (Brian
Tokar)

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
(Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

Michael Frome's Green Ink, from U of Utah P.

Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
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Houston, TX 77002-0001
713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979
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