The Failure of Environmental Education – Book Review

The Failure of Environmental Education - Book review by Grist.com http://www.grist.org/list/2011-08-30-teaching-kids-to-love-nature-and-buy-less-stuff

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Teaching Kids to Love Nature (and Buy Less Stuff)

A new book, “The Failure of Environmental Education,” says schools are failing to teach kids how to save the planet. In their eloquent preface to The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It), Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein wistfully recall how freely they roamed an immense wilderness when they were young, only to find, as adults, that the “unexplored places that inspired us so deeply are now mostly gone.”