The Schumacher Lectures Environmental Literacy: Education as If the Earth Mattered – David Orr
David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics as well as Special Assistant to the President of Oberlin College and executive director of the Oberlin Project.
He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his leading role in the promising new field of ecological design.
David Orr delivered “Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered” on October 31, 1992.
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