Ecoliterate -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Breakdown to Breakthrough -- Five Practices of Emotionally and Socially Engaged Ecoliteracy -- Section One: Stories From the Field -- Part One: Standing Strong on a Coal Mountain -- 1 Lessons from a Coal Miner's Daughter -- How to Mine a Mountain -- Deconstructing the Meaning of "Cheap" -- Why Can't We Go Out and Play, Daddy? -- 2 Taking a Power Trip -- Bringing "The Ecosphere" Down to Earth -- What's My Connection? -- The Last Mountain -- Part Two: From Anger to Action in Oil Country -- 3 The Heart of the Caribou -- Top Ten Oil Producers -- United States Is Number One in Oil Consumption -- 4 Beyond Whining -- The World's Most Important Energy Source -- Classroom Exercise: Where's the Oil? -- Part Three: Shared Water: Moving Beyond Boundaries -- 5 Water Wars and Peace -- The Biggest (Hidden) Use of Water -- Ocean Water in a Glass? -- The Resilience of Water -- 6 From Restoration to Resilience -- Freshwater Blues -- The Rise of Dead Zones -- The New Face of Water Pollution -- Part Four: Nourishing Communities with Food -- 7 Changing a Food System, One Seed at a Time -- How to Feed Nine Billion -- Test Your "Food IQ" -- 8 Forging the Food Justice Path -- The Rise of School Food Reform -- The Curriculum Connection -- Rethinking School Lunch -- Section Two: Professional Development Strategies -- 9 Cultivating Ecoliterate Learning Communities -- Using Circles to Cultivate Deep Listening -- Transformation in the Classroom -- 10 Reflection and Practice -- Going on a Virtual Dive -- Professional Development Sample Agendas -- Conclusion: Hands-On Hope -- Notes -- Resources -- Index -- The Center for Ecoliteracy -- The Authors.