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Appendix A:
Endnotes

Introduction

1. See chapter 7, "International Leadership," report of the President's Council on Sustainable Development Sustainable America: A New Consensus for Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy Environment for the Future (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996).

Chapter 1

1.Paul H. Ray, "American Attitudes Toward Ecological Sustainability: A Report to the President's Council on Sustainable Development" (San Rafael, Calif.: The Fetzer Institute and The Institute for Noetic Sciences, 1995).

2. Roper Starch, "Sustainable Development: The New American Dream," commissioned by S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (March 1996).

3. Carol Leonetti and Jim Moravalli, "Seriously Green," E, The Environmental Magazine VI, 4 (August 1995): 39.

4. Lester R. Brown, Nicholas Lenssen, and Hal Kane, Vital Signs 1995 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 80.

5. Statistics and information on recycling and retail outlets are drawn from Irene Franck and David Brownstone, The Green Encyclopedia (New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992), p. 259; National Science and Technology Council, Bridge to a Sustainable Future: National Environmental Technology Strategy (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), p. 17; and World Resources Institute, The 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993), p. 10.

6. President's Council on Sustainable Development, "President's Council on Sustainable Development Presidential Award Winners," factsheet (Washington, D.C.: 7 March 1996).

7. Ibid.

8. Darleen K. Stoner, Taking Action: An Educator's Guide to Involving Students in Environmental Action Projects (Bethesda, Md.: Project Wild -- Let's Talk Kilowatt Hours!, 1995).

9. Information on surveys of the public's understanding of environmental issues was drawn from "Goals and Priority Action Projects: Environmental Education about Fish and Wildlife Conservation" (Troy, Ohio: North American Association for Environmental Education, 1994), p. 2; "National Forum on Nonpoint Source Pollution, Water: Taking a New Tack on Nonpoint Water Pollution" (Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society and The Conservation Fund, 1995), p. 11; and Susan Cohen, "The Warm Zone," The Washington Post Magazine July 16, 1995: 16.

10. Ray, "American Attitudes Toward Ecological Sustainability."

11. Jody Waters, "Learning for a Sustainable Future," Global Education Project, 1994, p. 4.

12. Statistics on population, air quality, and deforestation were drawn from the following sources: U.N. Population Division, Demographic Indicators 1950-2025 (1992 revision) database; World Resources Institute (WRI), U.N. Environment Programme, and U.N. Development Programme, World Resources 1994-1995 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 27, 131; and WRI, The 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac, p. 48.

13. Toni Nelson, "Americans Reassessing High Consumption," World Watch 8, 6 (March/April 1996): 7.

14. For an in-depth discussion of the issue of changes in beliefs and patterns of living, see Ross McCouney, "Sustainable Values' in Noel J. Brown and Pierre Quiblier, Ethics and Agenda 21 (New York: United Nations, 1994), pp. 13-26.

Chapter 2

1. See Mary Paden, "Education for Environmental Sustainability," Access 125 (October 1994): 3-5.

Chapter 3

1. Holly Brough, "Environmental Studies: Is It Academic?," World Watch, 5, 1 (January/February, 1992): 30.

2. Educator John Disinger notes that data from research studies consistently indicate that behavioral change does not follow automatically from exposure to knowledge and conceptual skills, but that problem-solving skills applied to real-world issues are needed as well. Disinger, "National Environmental Education Report to Congress," unpublished draft report (National Environmental Education Advisory Council, 10 March 1993), p. 29.

3. "Environmental Studies: Is It Academic?," p. 28.

4. World Resources Institute, Teachers Guide to World Resources (Washington, D.C., 1994).

5. Group Project by the Youth of Louisville, Kentucky, We Got the Whole World in Our Hands: A Youth Interpretation of Agenda 21 (Louisville, 1993). Also see Daniel Sitarz, ed., Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Boulder, Colo.: Earth Press, 1993).

6. National Center for Educational Statistics, Digest of Educational Statistics 1992 (Washington, D.C., 1994), p. 13.

7. Randy Champeau et al., A Summary of the Status and Needs of Environmental Education in Wisconsin K-12 Schools, report presented at the 24th annual conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education, Portland, Maine, September 1995.

8. Tufts University, Environmental Programs (Medford, Mass., 1994), pp. 2-3.

9. Group Project to produce a report sponsored by Second Nature, Secretariat of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, and the Public Linkage, Dialogue, and Education Task Force, Workshop on the Principles of Sustainability in Higher Education, (Essex, MA, February 24-27, 1995), p. 17.

10. Diane MacEachern, Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth (New York: Dell Publishing, 1990), p. 138.

11. "Environmental Studies: Is It Academic?," pp. 32-33.

12. Campus Earth Summit, Blueprint for a Green Campus: The Campus Earth Summit Initiatives for Higher Education (New Haven, 1995).

Chapter 4

1. C.E. Roth, 1978.

2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994), p. 68.

3. P.A. Wright, G.W. Mullins, and M. Watson, "Market Segmentation of Interpretive Participants at National Park Sites' (San Diego: San Diego State University, 1988); cited by John Disinger, "National Environmental Education Report to Congress' (National Environmental Education Advisory Council, 10 March 1993), p. 19.

4. The Roper Organization, America's Watching, Public Attitudes Toward Television, poll commissioned by the Network Television Association and the National Association of Broadcasters (New York, 1995), p. 17.

5. Ten percent rejected the idea of sustainability, and 29 percent were unsure. Paul H. Ray, "American Attitudes Toward Ecological Sustainability: A Report to the President's Council on Sustainable Development" (San Rafael, Calif.: The Fetzer Institute and The Institute for Noetic Sciences, 1995).

6. The Roper Organization, "America's Environmental GPA," commissioned by S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (November 1991); and the Roper Organization, "Teen America's Environmental GPA," commissioned by S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (November 1992).

7. Ibid.

8. Keating, Michael, Agenda 21 for Change (Geneva, Switzerland: Center for Our Common Future, 1993), p. 47.

9. Stephen Viederman, The Economics of Sustainability: Challenges (New York, 1994).

10. America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages! (National Center on Education and the Economy, 1990).

11. The Forgotten Half (William T. Grant Foundation, 1988).

12. Environmental Business Journal, as quoted in John Disinger, Ed McCrea, Kathy McGlauflin, and Deborah Simmons, "Environmental Education: A Discussion Paper," unpublished draft (North American Association for Environmental Education, 11 April 1995), p. 2. Also see Environmental Careers Organization, The New Complete Guide to Environmental Careers (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993).

13. World Resources Institute, The 1994 Information Please Environmental Almanac (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993), p. 33.

14. Second Nature and Secretariat of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, Center for Environmental Management, Tufts University, "Workshop on the Principles of Sustainability in Higher Education", Essex, Massachusetts, 24-27 February 1995, p. 5.

Chapter 5

1. Environmental Education Associates, Inc., A State-by-State Overview of Environmental Education Standards (Washington, D.C., 1993).

2. National Environmental Education Advisory Council, unpublished draft report to Congress, 7 August 1993.

3. Patricia Scruggs, Seeds of Change: State Efforts Leading the Way Toward Sustainability, a report from the Sustainability Roundtable Information Forum, a project of the Tides Foundation, written for the Regional Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development (Kentucky, 1995), p.4.

4. Ibid.

5. Lynnell Hancock et al., "The Haves and the Have-Nots," Newsweek, 27 February 1995: 51-52.

6. U.S. Department of Education, Interagency Technology Task Force, Technology Learning Challenge (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1995), p. 2.

7. Software Publishers Association, Software Publishers Association Market Report (1994-95 school year), Education Section (Washington, D.C., 1995), p. 105.

8. "The Haves and the Have-Nots'

9. Andrew Pollack, "A Cyberspace Front in a Multicultural War," New York Times, 6 August 1996: front page business section.

10. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1995).

11. David B. Rockland, "Where Are the Gaps in Environmental Education?" EPA Journal August 1995: 12-13.

12. Ashley Eimers, "Educator Profile," Journal of Multicultural Environmental Education 2, 1 (Spring 1995): 15

Chapter 6

1. Belden and Russonello and Lake Research, Balancing the Environment and the Economy to Preserve Quality of Life (Washington, D.C.: Communications Consortium, 1995).

2. John O'Connor et al., Monitoring Environmental Progress (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1995).

3. Ibid, p ix.
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