The North Texan, Volume 54, Number 1, Spring 2004

The North Texan, Volume 54, Number 1, Spring 2004

Date: March 2004
Creator: University of North Texas
Description: The North Texan magazine includes articles and notes about UNT students, faculty, and alumni activities.
Contributing Partner: University Relations, Communications & Marketing department for UNT
Arbor day, its purpose and observance.

Arbor day, its purpose and observance.

Date: November 1936
Creator: United States. Forest Service.
Description: Discusses Arbor Day as a holiday that recognizes the importance of United States forests and discusses a citizen's duty to preserve them and foster new growth of trees.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Polls on the Environment and Global Warming

Polls on the Environment and Global Warming

Date: April 2010
Creator: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Description: This report is a meta-analysis of twenty years of public opinion polls about Americans views on environmental quality, environmental policy, and environmental science.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Media Coverage of Modern Environmentalism

Media Coverage of Modern Environmentalism

Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Kettavong, Lasamee; Taylor, J. David & Verrill, Diane
Description: This poster discusses research on the media coverage of modern environmentalism. Modern environmentalism is considered a social movement that has grown as a result of the synthesis of a variety of broad-reaching media available to people in the United States from a multitude of different backgrounds. The growth of the movement has not been systematically measured, but continues to manifest in the lifestyles of Americans. 'Mediating Climate Change', by Julie Doyle and 'Mediating Nature', by Nils Lindahl Elliot, are both recently published books that investigate and discuss how nature has been presented in the media and what this presentation has done for the purpose of the conservation and pollution regulation/clean-up of the environment. Employing an archival and data-analysis method of research to accurately come to a conclusion about media coverage's impact on modern environmentalism is the best approach. By understanding the rhetorical situation of each news source, it will be feasible to gauge whether or not the successes of the modern environmental movement's growth are far-reaching, or affecting only a minute part of the typical American's day and not really becoming a daily concern and change in practice.
Contributing Partner: UNT Honors College
Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings

Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings

Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Description: This article discusses diverse theologies in Hinduism and describes ten important Hindu teachings on the environment.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet

The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet

Date: May 12, 2011
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Description: This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology

Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology

Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Description: This paper is a summary of an essay by the author titled "Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners". It discusses the Swadhyayis and their Vrksamandiras, or tree-temples, and dharmic ecology.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Description: This paper discusses the Hindu religion and elements of ecology that relate to this religion. It describes some of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and describes how these are important spiritually and ecologically.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Description: This article discusses the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and explores Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics. It also compares Jainist perspectives on the consumption of natural resources with other lifestyles. From the few examples of Jain "environmentalism", this article also seeks to redefine the categories such as "religion" and "environmental ethics", especially as they are applied to the non-Western parts of the world such as the Jains in India.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service