Developing Ecological Consciousness offers an ecology-based, wonder-filled initiation to the Universe and the Planet Earth. It examines the ways in which humans are damaging the Earth and their own bodies and spirits. The book presents paradigms, values, and tools essential for both planetary and personal transformation.
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The book's greatest potential may be as an innovative textbook for the professor of introductory ecology who wants to motivate students to internalize the web of life into their psyches. (Environment )
Meant as both a textbook and as a general reader, this book effectively marries scientific content with a conviction that the way to solve environmental and social problems comes not from legislation or technology, but from humankind's awakened and caring hearts. Recommended. (F. T. Kuserk )
Christopher Uhl, professor of biology at the Pennsylvania State University, has written an intriguing book that tackles perhaps the most fundamental issues of our times, specifically, how to achieve sustainable societies that integrate, as opposed to alienate, the ecological world upon which we depend. Whether or not the reader agrees with Uhl's individual points or not is immaterial. It is the connections drawn throughout the book which, like ecology, make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. (Cochrane, Mark A. Conservation Biology )
Anyone who reads Christopher Uhl's writing will come away with something of value, but two groups will benefit most: people who already appreciate the environment, but want inspiration to take the next step toward sustainable living; and teachers and parents who want to reframe today's environmental issues in a way that reaches their students/children at the gut level. (Steve Lachman )
A magnificently weaved cloth of not only what a sustainable world might look like, but also how we might get there. Buy yourself this book as a holiday present for all the good work you are doing out there on campuses across this country. Put your feet up, get comfortable, and savor the wisdom of one of our colleagues. Your work will be affirmed, your insights broadened, your connection to the great work ahead inspired. (Terry Link )
A remarkably useful contribution to the literature on the crisis in human relations with Earth and the whole debate over creating sustainability. Developing Ecological Consciousness is a book for the college classroom and for community groups of all kinds. It is a useful resource in terms of its information content, which is provided in sensible amounts for the layperson to take in. But this information is seen as feeding into an experiential process. That is the whole mission of the book: to help us form new contours in the landscape of our greatest asset—our consciousness. This book can be used to support the journeys of all individuals who are venturing onto the path of building a sustainable world. Christopher Uhl has a beautiful style of writing and writes with a quality of deep authenticity that is very refreshing. (Earthlight )
Developing Ecological Consciousness powerfully blends information, insight, and inspiration. (Friends Journal )
[Uhl] combines ecological information with anecdotes from his personal life, and employs a narrative style that is quick to read and easily accessible. (Ecology )
If you only read one book about sustainability, make it Developing Ecological Consciousness by Chris Uhl. This readable and inspiring book has remarkable scope, literally from the Big Bang to the practice of loving kindness. It also ranges from well-grounded science clearly explained to philosophy and personal reflection. (Trends )
Meant as both a textbook and as a general reader, this book effectively marries scientific content with a conviction that the way to solve environmental and social problems comes not from legislation or technology, but from humankind's awakened and caring hearts. Recommended. (F. T. Kuserk )
Christopher Uhl, professor of biology at the Pennsylvania State University, has written an intriguing book that tackles perhaps the most fundamental issues of our times, specifically, how to achieve sustainable societies that integrate, as opposed to alienate, the ecological world upon which we depend. Whether or not the reader agrees with Uhl's individual points or not is immaterial. It is the connections drawn throughout the book which, like ecology, make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. (Cochrane, Mark A. Conservation Biology )
Anyone who reads Christopher Uhl's writing will come away with something of value, but two groups will benefit most: people who already appreciate the environment, but want inspiration to take the next step toward sustainable living; and teachers and parents who want to reframe today's environmental issues in a way that reaches their students/children at the gut level. (Steve Lachman )
A magnificently weaved cloth of not only what a sustainable world might look like, but also how we might get there. Buy yourself this book as a holiday present for all the good work you are doing out there on campuses across this country. Put your feet up, get comfortable, and savor the wisdom of one of our colleagues. Your work will be affirmed, your insights broadened, your connection to the great work ahead inspired. (Terry Link )
A remarkably useful contribution to the literature on the crisis in human relations with Earth and the whole debate over creating sustainability. Developing Ecological Consciousness is a book for the college classroom and for community groups of all kinds. It is a useful resource in terms of its information content, which is provided in sensible amounts for the layperson to take in. But this information is seen as feeding into an experiential process. That is the whole mission of the book: to help us form new contours in the landscape of our greatest asset—our consciousness. This book can be used to support the journeys of all individuals who are venturing onto the path of building a sustainable world. Christopher Uhl has a beautiful style of writing and writes with a quality of deep authenticity that is very refreshing. (Earthlight )
Developing Ecological Consciousness powerfully blends information, insight, and inspiration. (Friends Journal )
[Uhl] combines ecological information with anecdotes from his personal life, and employs a narrative style that is quick to read and easily accessible. (Ecology )
If you only read one book about sustainability, make it Developing Ecological Consciousness by Chris Uhl. This readable and inspiring book has remarkable scope, literally from the Big Bang to the practice of loving kindness. It also ranges from well-grounded science clearly explained to philosophy and personal reflection. (Trends )
About the Author
Christopher Uhl is chairman of the graduate program in ecology at the Pennsylvania State University, and has written for scientific journals and magazines such as Natural History, Garden, and The Ecologist. His website is www.chrisuhl.net.
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a book for all,
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This review is from: Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Paperback)
From a multitude of perspectives (student, teacher, communicator, lover of the environment), this book speaks to the reader not only on a knowledge-based, fact-oriented level, but also (and possibly more importantly) to the most basic and essential needs of humanity. These needs include compassion, understanding, sustainability, and harmony and through the book, are translated into a sense of awakening, comprehension, hope, and tools to shape a universal ideal for a world in which we all hope to live. If there were ever to be a "required life text", I can only hope that this would be it.
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A hidden gem,
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This review is from: Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Paperback)
This book is an exceptional book covering not just ecology as a science but also the need for humans to awaken to earth's beauty, its Being, and our relationship to it. The book is not a radical environmental one where humans must go back to tribal living, but a very thought out and even carrying book. It belongs on the shelf of humanistic and transpersonal students as well as integral philosophers. The only bad thing about the book is that it is so unknown.
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Great reading to help connect and understand mother earth,
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This review is from: Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths to a Sustainable Future (Paperback)
Great reading to help connect and understand mother earth...
and not only mother earth but everything. The book offers information, reflections and activities that will help the reader appreciate everything that is around them...and I mean everything...from the stars in the sky to the cells in your body.
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