Special Editors’ Introduction: Sustainable Communities and Environmental Communication in Higher Education

Veronica House; Catherine Lasswell; Rebecca Dickson

doi:10.59236/rjv16i1pp3-13

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2016 Open Access

Special Editors’ Introduction: Sustainable Communities and Environmental Communication in Higher Education

Veronica House ; Catherine Lasswell ; Rebecca Dickson

Abstract

Environmentalist David Orr lamented some twenty years ago that universities “still educate the young for the most part as if there were no planetary emergency” (27). This emergency, as Reflections readers are well aware, refers to the shifting and collapse of massive ecosystems and agricultural systems because of human-caused pollution and climate change coupled with exponential population growth. The planetary shifts call on us to reconceive our positions as activists, scholars, and teachers in relation to our communities, to the earth, and to one another. These shifts provide an opportunity for us to rethink the stark and often arbitrary distinctions between our research, teaching, and service or between our colleges and universities and our communities. Students and fellow community members need to be prepared for, and feel agency in, our changing world. In many ways, higher education has heeded Orr’s call.

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2016-09-01
DOI: 10.59236/rjv16i1pp3-13
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