Mitchell S. Thomashow is a writer, educator, and
environmentalist
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focused on innovations in sustainability and environmental learning.
Thomashow is the author of essays in environmental and education anthologies, including as co-founder of ''
Whole Terrain
''Whole Terrain: Journal of Reflective Environmental Practice'' is an environmentally-themed literary journal that is published approximately once a year by Antioch University New England (ANE). Each volume explores emerging ecological and social ...
: The Journal of Reflective Environmentalism'' and ''Hawk and Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability''.
Thomashow was the chair of the Environmental Studies program at
Antioch University
Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. It is the continuation of Antioch College, which was founded in 1852. Antioch College's first president was politician, abolitionist, and ...
from 1976 to 2006 and the president of
Unity College in Maine from 2006 to 2011. From 2011 to 2015, he was the director of the Presidential Fellows Program at Second Nature, a US-based organization that works with post-secondary institutions on sustainability teaching.
From 2011 to 2018, Thomashow consulted with colleges and universities on both
sustainability
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and environmental studies curriculum and programs. He has held fellowships at Second Nature in Boston and Philanthropy Northwest in Seattle.
Works
*''Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist'' (1996): Based on his experiences teaching at Antioch New England Graduate School, Thomashow explores how an affiliation with environmental concepts changes the way a person thinks about citizenship, faith, agency, and education.
*''Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change'' (2003): Thomashow suggests that place-based natural history is a foundation for broadening spatial and temporal understanding of environmental change, and covers some of the existential challenges of species extinction and climate change. Thomashow also explores the relationship between the local and the global, and suggests ways for a person to develop fidelity to place in a world of transience.
*''The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus'' (2014): Provides campus-wide strategies for implementing organizational change, using sustainability as a foundation; the nine elements are energy, food, materials, governance, investment, wellness, curriculum, interpretation, and aesthetics.
*''Pacific Northwest Changemakers'' (2017): Profiles of eight exemplary, community-based sustainability projects that emphasize social justice.
*''To Know the World'' (2020): A new vision for environmental learning.
External links
Mitchell ThomashowHawk and Handsaw
References
American environmentalists
American philosophers
Living people
American male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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