Ideas and Essays
Face Down Hockey
This essay is about how childhood sports serves as an approach to ecological awareness.
| "There is a deeper level of engagement. I play ball to know my place in the landscape, to ground myself in the topographical logistics of my mind and body, to engage with weather, landforms, and watercourses, to enter a state of biospheric awareness and participation that I can’t surpass in any other way." -Mitchell Thomashow |
Wonder, Reciprocity and Response: How Heschel's Depth Theology Provides Guidance for Environmental Challenges
This essay is about why and how Heschel's work is vital for contemporary environmental thought.
| "This as an opportunity to reflect on Heschel, reapply his work to environmental thought, and to think about the various ways Heschel’s work can inspire an environmental ethic for a sustainable future. I chose to organize this essay around Heschel’s evocative aphorisms and passages, using them as a meditative tool, as an interpretive guide, as an experiential orientation." -Mitchell Thomashow |
The Gaian Generation: A New Approach to Environmental Learning
This essay is a speculative attempt to answer the question, "How would schooling change if it were completely overhauled so as to educate students to observe, assess, and interpret environmental change?"
"We live at a time when extraordinary learning resources are available for schools everywhere. We are on the threshold of a deeper planetary awareness, an emerging understanding of biospheric dynamics, a comprehensive “science of integration.” But none of this will occur without challenging the status quo of science education." - Mitchell Thomashow
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