We have explored several avenues of educating for environmental literacy. Numerous authors have explored what it is to educate for environmental or ecological literacy means, among them the great environmental educators David Orr, Garrett Hardin and Stephen Schneider.
"Ecology is the ability to ask 'what then?'"
Garrett Hardin
"Students should be taught how to ask three questions to the experts that include, 'what can happen', 'what are the odds' and 'how do you know.'"
Stephen Schneider
"Students should not be considered ecologically literate until they have read Thoreau, Kropotkin, Muir, Albert Howard, Alfred North Whitehead, Gandhi, Schweitzer, Aldo Leopold, Lewis Mumford, Rachel Carson, E.F. Schumacher, and Wendell Berry." David Orr in Ecological Literacy (1992)
