Albuquerque's
Environmental Story
Educating For a Sustainable Community
Third Edition
Welcome!
Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Educating For a Sustainable Community
was created to help students relate caringly to their local natural and human
environment. A primary objective of the document is to foster a mindset in Albuquerque's
future citizens which can lead to a sustainable future for their community.
Its' hands-on interpretive approach is designed to heighten students' awareness,
enhance their capacity to enjoy the beauty surrounding them, and develop a sense
of social and environmental stewardship.
The environment, which is approached holistically, is defined to include the
natural, cultural, built and social aspects of the surroundings which impact
on our lives. Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Educating For a Sustainable
Community establishes a bridge between Albuquerque today and tomorrow, and
profiles such environmental topics as air, water quality, solid and hazardous
waste, energy, historic preservation, the built environment, transportation,
neighborhoods and downtown redevelopment.
- Credits
- Introductory Material: Prologue, Dedication, Foreward, Preface,
Acknowledgments, To the Readers, User's Guide, Environmental Understandings, Instructional
Objectives, Take a Trip
- Introduction: Albuquerque Then and Now
- Section I: Albuquerque's Natural Environment offers an
interdisciplinary look at the major natural areas in and around the city.
- Section II: Albuquerque's Built Environment is an overview
of the city's built environment - its architecture, infrastructure, and the many sub-areas within the city, each
reflecting a distinctive sense of place.
- Section III: Albuquerque's Human Environment reviews the city's
cultural history and provides a glimpse into the interactions people have had with their natural
environment.
- Section IV: The Home, School, And Neighborhood as Mini-Environments
views students' own school, home, and neighborhood as little environments - cities in microcosm. It also
presents the concept of an environment comprising and abiotic/biotic/cultural interrelated triangle.
- Section V: Albuquerque Today And Tomorrow presents
the environmental concerns confronting Albuquerque and Bernalillo County as
they approach the 21st century. It studies planning as a constructive link
between the present and the future.
- Appendix
- Post Script
- How to Create Your Own Community’s Environmental
Story
Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Educating For a Sustainable
Community
was developed collaboratively by the City of Albuquerque,
the Albuquerque Public Schools,
The Albuquerque Conservation Association and many community volunteers.
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Copyright © 2008, Friends of Albuquerque's Environmental Story