Category Archives: education

Where I come from, they know how to sing

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

If I had a near-death experience, I bet it would sound like this: These are students at Goshen College, my alma mater, a private college of about a thousand in northern Indiana.

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Teaching about climate change

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

With the eyes of the world on Copenhagen this week, it’s a good time to spotlight resources for teaching about climate change. I mean educating in the broadest sense—spreading the word about climate change and what to do about it, … Continue reading →

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Women, farming, and climate change

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Last spring First Lady Michelle Obama and local schoolkids started an organic farm at the White House. Okay, they called a garden, but let’s not quibble. Like millions of women farmers around the world, the First Lady was breaking ground … Continue reading →

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Biomimicry: “We are surrounded by genius”

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

If I could reveal anything that is hidden from us, at least in modern cultures, it would be…that we live in a competent universe, that we are part of a brilliant planet, and that we are surrounded by genius. Janine … Continue reading →

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“From future threat to present emergency”: Boulder panel on climate change

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

At a panel on climate change this morning at Chautauqua’s rather pompously named “Grand Convergence,” Bill McKibben joined five of Boulder’s brightest minds on climate change to strategize together about energy use, global warming, and what ordinary people can do … Continue reading →

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What every student should know about the environment

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

How do we educate for emergency? Millions of students are headed back to school this week. My teaching starts too; I am en route to Arizona for the opening colloquium of the semester in a low-residency program, sitting in a … Continue reading →

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Animism in the academy

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The conference ended a couple of days ago, and I’m off in a few minutes to catch a train for a day trip to an open-air museum in another part of Holland, but I want to catch up the conference … Continue reading →

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