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Walden: A Case Study in Virtue and Environmental Ethics by Frank Casale, Ph.D. ExtensionActivities ---Students can research information about a local environmental issue, and present findings to the class. ---Since "Economy" also deals with simplifying life, student can be given the project of simplifying their life for a week. A "pledge" and journal can be kept, a week without fast food, or candy, or video games etc. Journal can record what was done with that time./mondy/slice of life instead. ---Nature Journal. Walden is often mentioned as a great example of nature writing. Students can be assigned a local nature spot, and asked to write a shirt journal entry describing it for the rest of the class.

Walden: A Case Study in Virtue and Environmental Ethics

by Frank Casale, Ph.D.

ExtensionActivities

---Students can research information about a local environmental issue, and present findings to the class.
---Since "Economy" also deals with simplifying life, student can be given the project of simplifying their life for a week. A "pledge" and journal can be kept, a week without fast food, or candy, or video games etc. Journal can record what was done with that time./mondy/slice of life instead.
---Nature Journal. Walden is often mentioned as a great example of nature writing. Students can be assigned a local nature spot, and asked to write a shirt journal entry describing it for the rest of the class.