Sustainability : a reader for writers

Summary: "A reader focused on the timely and vital subject of sustainability. It includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific readings that go beyond inward-looking nature-writing anthologies currently on the market. Developed for the first-year composition market, the reader also provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills to participate in the public conversations about the compelling issues surrounding the environmental, economic and social sustainability of their world. The readings provide global perspectives, diverse voices, unexpected sources, and varying levels of difficulty"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780199947508 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0199947503 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxviii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Us: How We Live With Each Other and With the World. Rachel Carson. "The Obligation to Endure" from Silent Spring -- Aldo Leopold. "Thinking Like a Mountain." from Sand County Almanac -- Jared Diamond. "The World as Polder: What Does it Mean to Us Today." from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed -- Garrett Hardin. "Tragedy of the Commons." Science -- 2. Trash: The Costs of Throwing "Stuff" Away. Annie Leonard. "The Story of Stuff: Electronics." Story of Stuff Project -- Annie Leonard. "The Story of Stuff: Bottled Water." Story of Stuff Project -- Chris Caroll. "High Tech Trash." National Geographic Magazine -- Luke Cole. "We Speak for Ourselves: The Struggle of Kettleman City." from From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement -- Emily Fontaine. "Where Did Our Clothes Come From?" Le Quaintrelle blog -- Lucy Siegle. "Why it's time to end our love affair with cheap fashion." The Observer -- Gay Hawkins. "Worm Stories." from The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish --