Psychology 318

<p align="center"><img src="psy318_r2_c2.gif" align="top" width="422" height="55"> </p> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="2" width="75%"> <tr> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="home318.htm" target="_blank">Psy318 Home</a></td> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="syllabus318.htm" target="_blank">Syllabus</a></td> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="assign318.htm" target="_blank">Assignments</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="dates318.htm" target="_blank">Daily Schedule</a></td> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="http://news.cn.edu/losborne/Default.htm" target="_blank">Instructor</a></td> <td align="center"> <p align="center"><a href="links318.htm" target="_blank">Links</a></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <p><b><font color="#333366" size="5" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">What in the World is Ecological Psychology?</font></b></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><img src="../images/LaConte_Hike_4.jpg" width="226" height="339"></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="2">"I went to the woods </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">because I wished to live deliberately, </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">to front only the essential facts of life, and see</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2"> if I could not learn what it had to teach, </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">and not, when I came to die, </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">discover that I had not lived.  </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">I wanted to live deep and </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">suck all the marrow of life..."</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">--Henery David Thoreau</font> <p align="center"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2"><font size="1">A rare stand of healthy hardwood trees at the top of Mt. LaConte, March 2000 (Photograph copyright 2001 by Guy L Osborne)</font></td> </tr> </table> <p><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> In Ecological Psychology, we explore the interconnections of behavior and our social and natural ecosystems.</font> <p><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Some of the questions we will address:</font> <p><span style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900"> </font></span></span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></font><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Who am I? What are my psychological connections with the Earth Community?</font> <p><span style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Times New Roman">·</font> </font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900">  </font></span></span><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Why do I think and act in ways that harm the Earth, my one and only habitat?</font> <p><span style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900"> </font></span></span><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></font><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">What are the connections between exploiting the Earth and racism, sexism, classism, militarism, and violence?</font> <p><span style="font-weight: normal"><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="Times New Roman" color="#009900">  </font></span></span><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">How can I more effectively foster sustainable, environmentally responsible behavior in myself, my community, and society?</font> <pre><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i><font color="#009900">The planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join in the fight to make the world habitable and humane.</font></i></font></pre> <pre><font color="#009900" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">--David W. Orr, <u>Earth in Mind</u></font></pre> </div>