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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="051fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Facing the Change: Citizens Respond to Global Warming</B></FONT><B>  </B><B>   |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Facing the Change: Citizens Respond to G"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="063a0c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="05e97900.jpg" border=0 width="151" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="lives_and_places.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lives and Places: An Invitation to Envir"><U>Lives and Places Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="writing_your_life_in_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing Your Life in Place"><U>Writing Your Life in Place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="resources.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Resources</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Facing the Change: Citizens Respond to G"><U>Return to Facing the Change</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Lives and Places:</B></I></div> <div> <B>An Invitation to Environmental Autobiography</B></div> <div> <I><B>Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Resources</B></div> <div> <I>(A warning/caveat - I haven't updated this list since around 2003, so it's not the most up-to-date - but still should be useful!)</I></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="back_to_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>1</B><A HREF="#1__environmental_autobiography_and" TITLE="Resources"><U><B>. Environmental Autobiography and Memoir</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>2</B><A HREF="#3__biographies_of_environmental_figures" TITLE="Resources"><U><B>. Biographies of Environmental Figures</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>3</B><A HREF="#3__general_writing_and_autobiography" TITLE="Resources"><U><B>. Writing Guides: Autobiography</B></U></A><A HREF="#3__general_writing_and_autobiography" TITLE="Resources"><U><B> and Nature Writing</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>4</B><A HREF="#2__home_and_nature_in_personal" TITLE="Resources"><U><B>. Place and Nature in Personal Development</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>5</B><A HREF="#4__place_based_writing_and_teaching" TITLE="Resources"><U><B>. Place-Based Environmental Education</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="1__environmental_autobiography_and"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>1. Environmental Autobiography and Memoir</B></div> <div> Cisneros, Sandra. <I>The House on Mango Street</I>. New York: Vintage, 1991. (Coming-of-age; Chicago.)</div> <div> Elder, John. <I>Reading the Mountains of Home</I>. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998. (Adult settling-into-place, informed by cultural and environmental history; Vermont.)</div> <div> Goodall, Jane. <I>Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey.</I> New York: Warner, 1999. (Autobiography; England and Africa.)</div> <div> Leopold, Aldo. <I>A Sand County Almanac</I>. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949. (Vignettes of seasonal observation, ethical reflection; Wisconsin and elsewhere.)</div> <div> Lopez, Barry. "Landscape and Narrative," in <I>Crossing Open Ground</I>. New York: Scribner's, 1989. (Philosophical reflection on storytelling; Canada/Alaska.)</div> <div> Masumoto, David Mas. <I>Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on a Family Farm.</I> San Francisco: Harper, 1996. (Modern agricultural year, reflection on family history; California.)</div> <div> Muir, John. <I>The Story of My Boyhood and Youth</I> (1911) and <I>My First Summer in the Sierra</I> (1909) (Autobiography; Scotland, Wisconsin, California.)</div> <div> Payne, Katy. <I>Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants</I>. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. (Observation and reflections on elephant society and threats to it, questioning of scientific methods and "objectivity"; Africa, central New York.)</div> <div> Ray, Janisse. <I>Ecology of a Cracker Childhood</I>. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1999. (Autobiography and natural history; Georgia.)</div> <div> Sanders, Scott Russell. <I>Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World</I>. Boston: Beacon, 1993. (Adult settling-down in a place; southern Indiana, Midwest.)</div> <div> Schaeffer, Jeremy, Sarah Cecil, and Steven J. Holmes, eds. <I>Maine Voices: A Celebration of the People of Maine and the Places They Love.</I> Washington, D.C: The Wilderness Society, 2004; available through Milkweed Editions. (A public writing project that solicited essays from everyday people; Maine.)</div> <div> Tallmadge, John. <I>Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path</I>. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 1997. (Wilderness and academia; throughout the U.S.)</div> <div> Williams, Terry Tempest. <I>Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place</I>. New York: Vintage, 1991. (Family history and environmental change; Utah.)</div> <div> Wordsworth, William. <I>The Prelude.</I> (Keen analysis of perception and meaning in childhood and youth; England.)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#back_to_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="3__biographies_of_environmental_figures"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>2. Biographies of Environmental Figures</B></div> <div> Backes, David. <I>A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson</I>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. </div> <div> Cahalan, James. <I>Edward Abbey: A Life</I>. (2001)</div> <div> Dorman, Robert L. <I>A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913</I> [George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell]</div> <div> Holmes, Steven J. <I>The Young John Muir : An Environmental Biography.</I> Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.  </div> <div> Keller. Evelyn Fox. <I>A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock</I> (1983, 1993)</div> <div> Lear, Linda J. <I>Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature</I>. New York : Henry Holt, 1997. </div> <div> Meine, Kurt. <I>Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work</I>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. </div> <div> Meine, Curt, ed. <I>Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision</I>. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.  </div> <div> Spaulding, Jonathan. <I>Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography</I>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.  </div> <div> Turner, Frederick. <I>Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours</I>.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#back_to_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="3__general_writing_and_autobiography"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>3. Writing Guides: Autobiography and Nature Writing</B></div> <div> Albert, Susan Wittig. <I>Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul's Story</I>. New York: Putnam, 1997. (Primarily for women; includes attention to home, place.)</div> <div> Goldberg, Natalie. <I>Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within</I>. Boston: Shambhala, 1986. </div> <div> McEwen, Christian, and Mark Statman, eds. <I>The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing.</I> New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2000.</div> <div> Petersen, David. <I>Writing Naturally: A Down-to-earth Guide to Nature Writing.</I> Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2001.</div> <div> Wakefield, Dan. <I>A Story of Your Life: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography</I>. Boston: Beacon, 1990.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#back_to_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="2__home_and_nature_in_personal"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>4. Place and Nature in Personal Development</B></div> <div> <I>*For more recent work in this area, go to </I><A HREF="http://www.conservationpsychology.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.conservationpsychology.org/"><U><I>http://www.conservationpsychology.org</I></U></A><I>/</I></div> <div> Chawla, Louise. "Life Paths into Effective Environmental Action." <I>Journal of Environmental Education </I>31, no. 1 (1999): 15-26.</div> <div> -----. "Significant Life Experiences Revisited: A Review of Research on the Sources of Environmental Sensitivity." <I>Journal of Environmental Education</I> 29, no. 3 (1998): 11-21.</div> <div> -----. <I>In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory.</I> Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.</div> <div> Devall, Bill. <I>Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology</I>. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1988. </div> <div> Holmes, Steven J. "Theoretical Frameworks for Environmental Biography: Toward an Object Relations Approach," appendix C of <I>The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography</I>. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1999. </div> <div> Marcus, Clare Cooper. <I>House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home</I>. Berkeley, Calif.: Conari, 1995.</div> <div> Nabhan, Gary Paul, and Stephen Trimble. <I>The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. </I>Boston: Beacon, 1994.</div> <div> Roszak, Theodore, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds. <I>Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. </I>San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.</div> <div> Searles, Harold F. <I>The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and Schizophrenia</I>. New York: International Universities Press, 1960.</div> <div> Thomashow, Mitchell. <I>Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change.</I> Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.</div> <div> Thomashow, Mitchell<I>. Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist</I>. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#back_to_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="4__place_based_writing_and_teaching"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>5. Place-Based Environmental Education</B></div> <div> Corcoran, Peter Blaze. "Environmental Autobiography in Undergraduate Educational Studies," in <I>Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, and the Environment</I>, pp. 179-188. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.</div> <div> Elder, John, ed. <I>Stories in the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology</I>. Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society, 1998.</div> <div> Leslie, Clare Walker, and Charles E. Roth. <I>Nature Journaling: Learning to Observe and Connect with the World Around You.</I> Pownal, VT: Storey Books, 1998.  </div> <div> Leslie, Clare Walker, John Tallmadge, and Tom Wessels. <I>Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching</I>. Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society, 1999. (Tallmadge's essay is on writing.)</div> <div> Sobel, David. <I>Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education.</I> Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society, 1996.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#back_to_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <div>   <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=5572568; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_partition=60; var sc_click_stat=1; var sc_security="1deecfbf"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="myspace view counter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/myspace/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/5572568/0/1deecfbf/0/" alt="myspace view counter" ></a></div></noscript>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>