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6 de nov. de 2011 · An environmental-studies professor tries to reinvent his town for a future of scarcity. David Orr, a professor at Oberlin College, is the driving force behind a project to make the city of Oberlin ...
ORR, David W. 1944-PERSONAL: Born 1944, in Des Moines, IA; married; children: two sons. Education: Westminster College, B.A., 1965; Michigan State University ... for creating an Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College that serves as a model of how institutions of higher learning can physically play a role in conservation and resource ...
David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College.He is a founding editor of the journal Solutions, and serves as the executive director of the Oberlin Project, a collaborative effort of the city of Oberlin, Oberlin College, and private and institutional partners to improve the resilience, prosperity ...
9 de oct. de 2019 · David Orr: Oberlin is interesting. Like Boone and Appalachian State, there's a legacy that builds up over the years. And in the case of Oberlin, it was the first college to accept African Americans and women and graduate them. That goes back into the 1830s. That was part of the DNA of the institution.
David Orr Biography. Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies & Politics, Emeritus. He also served as “Counselor to the President” of Oberlin College for ten years. He is the author of eight books, including Dangerous Years: Climate Change and the Long Emergency (Yale, 2016) and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate ...
Abstract. In the early 1990s, Oberlin College professor David Orr coined the term “ecological literacy” (or ecoliteracy) to describe people’s ability to understand the complex natural systems that enable and support life on Earth. It embodied the implicit assumption that if humans were more ecoliterate, then we would be more likely to ...
26 de oct. de 2004 · David Orr. What work do you do? I am disguised as a professor at Oberlin College, but consider myself an Educator, capital E, not an educational technician or bureaucrat, and certainly not one ...
