GEO 350
PERSPECTIVES ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES

INSTRUCTIONAL LINKS

NATIONAL CONSERVATION TIME LINE
THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (from Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, 1907)
An article from 1908 from The Atlantic Monthly on conservation: "The conservation of our natural resources."
Deep Ecology -- an introduction to its viewpoint
An interview with Barry Commoner
Garret Hardin on the "Tragedy of the Commons"
- An update on the Tragedy of the Commons
HERE is an "Ecological Footprint" example. HERE is a an interview with Bill Rees, the originator of the eco-footprint concept -- the interview is at the bottom of the page on the "Lifeboat Show" and the quiz they refer to is given at the at the start of this paragraph. [Note: Rees' interview starts just after 6:00 minutes of the show.]
The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Issues in Congress and voting records:
- League of Conservation Voters (LCV). Check the environmental voting record of your federal representatives and the environmental issues before Congress in 1998.
- Public Interest Research Group. An analysis of 1998 federal voting records on environmental and other issues.
- Contrast the LCV views of federal votes with that of the League of Private Property Voters (a Wise Use affiliate):
The Wise Use Movement:
In general:
- Environmental organizations in Wisconsin.
- The Evolution of Conservation (from The Library of Congress)
- Other science and environmental education links can be found in the "External Links" page of the Geography-Geology Department as well as throughout these //HyperTextBook//^© pages.
Commons:
Privatization of fish stocks
New England lobster industry

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GEO 350 PERSPECTIVES ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES

INSTRUCTIONAL LINKS

GEO 350
PERSPECTIVES ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES