Community Literacy Journal

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of the Community Literacy Journal
Special Issue Guest Editor
Anne Mareck, University of Kentucky, Lexington
sustainable-clj@mtu.edu

The peer reviewed Community Literacy Journal invites articles for its Fall 2009 special issue on Sustainability, the Environment, and Community Literacy. Special issue guest editor Anne Mareck of the University of Kentucky, Lexington welcomes manuscripts that explore the interconnections among community literacy, sustainable practices, and cognizance of biospheric situatedness.

Prominent thinkers such as David Orr, Arne Naess, Carolyn Merchant, and others have suggested that in order to create a truly sustainable society our fundamental conception of what it means to live on a planet must evolve. We must develop a “biospheric literacy,” an understanding of ourselves as members of a global biotic community who are entirely dependent upon stable ecosystems for our continued existence. And as Paul Hawken wrote in Blessed Unrest, myriad efforts toward the creation of environmentally sustainable, socially just communities are already underway.
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