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Earth Day, 2023: A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND HANDBOOK HELPING READERS FORM EDUCATED OPINIONS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WE FACE TODAY
Wheat Ridge, CO — April 18, 2023. In celebration of Earth Day 2023, we are proud to release Planting an Idea: Critical and Creative Thinking About Environmental Issues by Jerry Apps and Natasha Kassulke. This unique handbook helps readers combine the processes of critical and creative thinking to become more informed and motivated citizens on a variety of environmental issues. It is designed to provide readers young and old with the tools to examine and develop opinions, based on substance and not mere emotion, while better understanding the role that creative thinking can play in developing solutions.
Apps and Kassulke take the reader through an exploration of critical and creative thinking, providing a foundation for these skills—a foundation that can be used in all manner of public discourse. They then provide a brief history of the environmental movement, followed by a deep examination of various environmental issues, ranging from climate change to land use to clean air and water. In each section, Apps and Kassulke show how the processes of critical and creative thinking can be used to evaluate the issues and define potential actions and solutions.
As Richard Knight, Professor Emeritus of Wildlife Conservation at Colorado State University says about the book, “Decidedly not esoteric, we now have a guide to understanding the environmental issues of our time, but we also have a pragmatic text that shows how to evaluate and act on these threats. Planting an Idea shows us how to live on our home planet and have a future. We all need to read, and apply, this book to our lives!”
Planting an Idea allows readers to better understand their positions, while also developing the tools they need to provide evidence that is accurate and reliable to back up their opinions and understand and empathize with other perspectives along the way. This is an essential handbook for navigating pressing and important matters, written in a practical and accessible manner. At a time when environmental concerns are more urgent than ever before, readers will all benefit from this book, empowered by their new ways of thinking about the issues.
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