TY - BOOK AU - Orr,David W. TI - Ecological literacy: education and the transition to a postmodern world SN - 0791408736 (alk. paper) AV - LB41 .O77 1992 U1 - 375/.0083 20 PY - 1992/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives KW - Environmental education KW - Human ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The problem of sustainability--Two meanings of sustainability--A tale of two systems: sustainability in international perspective--Fragments of strategy--Ecological literacy--The liberal arts, the campus, and the biosphere: an alternative to Bloom's vision of education--A prerequisite to the great books of Allan Bloom: a syllabus for ecological literacy--Place and pedagogy--Education and sustainability: an approach--What is education for?--Is environmental education an oxymoron? Having failed to manage ourselves, we will now manage the planet? An opinion from the back forty--What good is a rigorous research agenda if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? (apologies to Thoreau)--Food alchemy and sustainable agriculture ER -