Quotation by William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency Chief Administrator

"Using one discipline to address the environment isn't going to work.  You have to use them all."  ---William D. Ruckelshaus, first Environmental Protection Agency chief Administrator, 1970-1973, also 1983-85, speaking to "Living on Earth," broadcast through Public Radio International

Reviews of the Book

"Until the publication . . . of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, those searching for an overview of the field had few texts to which they might turn .... "

-Rochelle Johnson in Thoreau Society Bulletin for Fall 2008

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Remarks by the Publisher:

"A comprehensive guide to environmental literacy."

 

Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

Events

- Professor James Engell to teach a DuPont Seminar at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, on Environmental issues and the humanities ...
- Professor Glenn Adelson to attend the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) meeting ...

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Brent Ranalli PDF Print E-mail
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Associate, The Cadmus Group, Inc.

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Brent Ranalli is an environmental policy consultant and an independent scholar with wide-ranging interests. He studied history at Harvard and environmental policy at the Central European University in Budapest. Early experience as an educator included a year of classroom teaching at the high school level and a year on staff at Eagle Eye Institute, an environmental education nonprofit. Since 2001 Mr. Ranalli has worked at the intersection of science and policy at The Cadmus Group, Inc., an employee-owned environmental consulting firm.

 

As a writer and speaker, Brent Ranalli’s offerings span environment, economics, history, religion, and ethics. An account of his travels in Eastern Europe, exploring ecovillages and examining prospects for rural development in the region, was published as “Hungary for Organics” in News from Below. Other writings, including an exploration of parallels between the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ancient Athenian invasion of Sicily, have been featured at TheGlobalist.com.

 

 

Mr. Ranalli is a contributor to the forthcoming U.S. Government and the Environment: A Reference Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO). He delivered a talk on Thoreau, the Environment, and the American Indian at the Thoreau Society’s 2010 annual meeting, and is scheduled to speak on topics in history of science and religion at upcoming meetings of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association and the American Historical Association. He is a founding member of the Massachusetts Academy of Science.