September 2008

Topic: Why we vote: The brain in the voting booth

• Packard, Erika (February 2008). The brain in the voting booth. Monitor on Psychology. Volume 39, No. 2.  http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb08/brain.html

• Munsey, C. Why do we vote? Monitor on Psychology. Volume 39, No. 6 June 2008 http://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/06/vote.html

July 2008

Topic: Eco-Anxiety: Emotions and Climate Change II

• Macy, J., & Brown, M.Y. (1998). Coming back to life: practices to reconnect our lives, our world. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. Pages 25-37

• Kidner, D. (2007) Depression and the natural world: Towards a critical ecology of psychological distress. The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 19. 123-146.
•  Boyd, E. B. (May 2008) Green Is the New Frazzled: How to save the world without losing your mind. Common Ground, 54-56.
• Williams, A. (June 15, 2008). That buzz in your ear may be green noise. The New York Times.
  

June 2008

Topic: Eco-Anxiety: Emotions and Climate Change

• Macy, J., & Brown, M.Y. (1998). Coming back to life: practices to reconnect our lives, our world. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. Pages 25-37

• Kidner, D. (2007) Depression and the natural world: Towards a critical ecology of psychological distress. The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 19. 123-146.
•  Boyd, E. B. (May 2008) Green Is the New Frazzled: How to save the world without losing your mind. Common Ground, 54-56.

May 2008

Topic:  Fostering sustainable behavior at a community level

• McKenzie-Mohr, D. & Smith, W. (1999). Fostering sustainable behavior. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. (Chapter One p. 1-17 & Quick Reference p.150-160.)

April 2008

Topic:  Applying a stage model of behavior change to environmentally-related behaviors

• Prochaska, J. O., Norcross, J. C. & DiClemente, C.C. (1994) Changing for good. Avon Books. 38-50.
• Ray, Janisse (September/October 2007) Altar Call for True Believers. Orion. 58-63.

March 2008

• Stern, Paul C. (2000). “Psychology and the Science of Human-Environment Interactions.” in American Psychologist, 55.  523-530.  
  

February 2008

Topic:  Environmental Identity

• Kempton, W. & Holland, D. C. (2003). “Identity and sustained environmental practice.” in S. Clayton and S. Opotow (Eds.). Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

December 2007

Topic: “Stages of Green” Part 3 – Sustainability leadership and decision making

• Ferdig, M. A. (2007). Sustainability Leadership: Co-Creating a sustainable future.  Journal of Change Management 7, 25-35.
• Snowden, D. J. & Boone, M. E. (2007). A leader’s framework for decision making.  Harvard Business Review 85, 69-76.
  
  

November 2007

• Thomashow, Mitchell (1995).  Ecological Identity.  MIT Press.  Pages 152-154.
• Prochaska, J. O., Norcross, J. C. & DiClemente, C.C. (1994).  Changing for Good.  Avon Books.  Pages 38-50.
  

October 2007

• Ray, Janisse. "Altar Call for True Believers." Orion. September/October 2007.  58-63.  
  Ray challenges members of the so-called enviro “choir” to “raise the bar” for their own sustainable lifestyle and work practices. 

• Noethe, Jeffrey.  Moving Toward Sustainable Values: Adapting and Applying the Transtheorectical Model.  Transcript and slide show of presentation at the Psychology-Ecology-Sustainability Conference, Lewis & Clark College, Portland Oregon.  June 8, 2007. 
  Noethe provides an accessible introduction to a “stage of change” model used in metal health and substance abuse work.  The stage of change model describes how individuals pass through a predictable series of stages when making fundamental behavior or values shifts and also how best to match people with information, support, or action steps as they progress through the stages. 
  

September 2007

• White, Curtis.  "The Ecology of Work."

• Macy, Joanna and Molly Young Brown.  “The Greatest Danger: Apatheia, the deadening of the mind and heart.”  Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World.  (1998 Gabriola Island, BC, Canada:  New Society Publishers).

• White, Curtis.  The Idols of Environmentalism.  (from August discussion)
• Opotow, Susan & Amara Brook.  "Identity and Exclusion in Rangeland Conflict."  Identity and the Natural Environment (from August discussion).

August 2007

• White, Curtis.  The Idols of Environmentalism.
• Opotow, Susan & Amara Brook.  "Identity and Exclusion in Rangeland Conflict."  Identity and the Natural Environment (2003 MIT Press).
  

July 2007

•  Chase, Steve.  Creative Maladjustment: Activism as a way to heal self, society and planet (keynote).
  

• Doherty, Thomas.  Renewing the Promise of Ecopsychology (opening plenary).
• Roy, Dick.  Declaration of Interdependence (opening plenary).
  

June 2007

• Conn, Sarah A.  "Living in the Earth: Ecopsychology, Health, and Psychotherapy."  The Humanistic Psychologist 26: 1-3 (1998), p 179-198.

May 2007

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign- Landscape and Human Health Laboratory (LHHL).

• Faber Taylor, A. & Kuo, F.E. (2006).  Is contact with nature important for healthy child development?  State of the evidence.  In Spencer, C. & Blades, M. (Eds.), Children and Their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

• Kuo, Frances & and Taylor, Andrea F. (2004).  A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a National Study. American Journal of Public Health, 94. 1580-1586.

• (Optional) Louv, Richard (2005). Last child in the woods. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
  
  

 April 2007

• April's discussion focused on previous readings that had not been discussed.

• (Optional) Britain A. Scott & Sue Koger’s “Teaching Psychology for Sustainability,”  a website created by Britain A. Scott, Ph.D. and Susan M. Koger, Ph.D.
  
  

March 2007

• Winter, Deborah Du Nann (2000). "Some Big Ideas for Some Big Problems." American Psychologist 55, 516–522.
  This article provides a useful introduction to the first wave of ecopsychology thinking, viewed through the lens of established psychotherapy theories: neoanalytic, behavioral, social, and cognitive.
  

• Brook, Amara (Spring 2001) "What is Conservation Psychology?" Population & Environmental Psychology Bulletin, 27, 2.
  This short piece provides a view into scholarly struggles to agree on a satisfactory “name” for psychological initiatives regarding the environment and offers another example of the distinctions between Ecopsychology, environmental psychology, and conservation psychology.
  

• Snyder, G. (2000) The practice of the wild. San Francisco, North Point Press. (Chapters 1 & 2: The Etiquette of Freedom & The Place, The Region & the Commons.)
  This is collection of beautifully written essays provides an introduction to basic ecological and bioregional principles as well as mediations on language and personal meaning derived from nature experiences. This book is widely available and worth adding to your library.
  

February 2007