Environmental Action on Global Warming

Below you'll find links to various websites that provide helpful background in political philosophy and environmental studies..

Note: This list is under construction: more resources will be added!

Philosophy

• Philosophical Dictionary

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Reading Guidelines for Locke, Rousseau and Benhabib (Word document)
• Locke, Second Treatise of Government
• Rousseau, The Social Contract

Environmental Studies

• Sightline
  • This Place on Earth, 2002 Update
• Climate Solutions
• An Inconvenient Truth film website
• EarthAware (ecofootprint freeware program download available here)
• Redefining Progress
• Environmental Citizenship: The Goodenough Primer
• Environmental Health News
• Pew Center On Climate Change: "Climate Change 101"
  • The Science and Impacts (PDF: 759K)
  • State Action (PDF: 1.15M)
  • Technological Solutions (PDF: 632K)
• Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Peoples (Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute Report)
• Grist Magazine: "How To Talk to a Climate Skeptic"

News and Popular Resources

• Slate Green Challenge: "Your eight-week carbon diet"
• Blue Man Group Video on You Tube (OK, not academic, but still political in the broad sense!)