Science, Technology & Humanities II

Michael R. Moore
112 Walker Arts & Humanities

Summer '08 Office Hours
Mon., Tues., and Wed.
11:00 a.m.-noon
& by appointment
mmoore@mtu.edu
(906) 487-1197
Course links
BioEnergy Lists: Terra Preta (Biochar)

"We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. Most of us cannot imagine the wheat beyond the bread, or the farmer beyond the wheat, or the farm beyond the farmer, or the history beyond the farm.

"Most people cannot imagine the forest and the forest economy that produced their houses and furniture and paper; or the landscapes, the streams, and the weather that fill their pitchers and bathtubs and swimming pools with water. Most people appear to assume that when they have paid their money for these things they have entirely met their obligations." —Wendell Berry

Course Texts

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN-10: 0060852550 [www]

Horton, Lynn R. Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America. University Press of Colorado, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0870818724 [www]

Oliver, Mary. What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems. Da Capo Press, 2003.
ISBN-10: 0306812061 [www]

Steffen, Alex. Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century. [www]
ISBN-10: 0810930951

Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. ISBN-10: 1565125223 [www]

Ellen, Roy. “Introduction”: Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2(2006): 1-22.

Kay, Jeanne. “Human Dominion over Nature in the Hebrew Bible.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2 (1989): 214–32.

Microbial Communities: From Life Apart to Life Together.
American Academy of Microbiology, 2003.