Editors: Marianne E Krasny & Kimberly Snyder Designer: Kimberly Snyder Inspiration: Danny Rueda Cruz
Civic Ecology
Stories about love of life, love of place
Written by students of the
Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology CornellX 2015 MOOC
© 2016 by Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab Suggested reference: Krasny, M. E. and K. Snyder, eds. 2016.
Civic Ecology: Stories about love of life, love of place.
Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab. Ithaca NY. Stories in this eBook were produced by students in the 2015 CornellX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC):
Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology
. Instructors: Marianne E Krasny, Keith G Tidball, and Samar Deen. You can learn more about civic ecology through the following sources:
Civic Ecology Lab
website (www.civicecology.org)
Civic Ecology:
Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
; by M. E. Krasny and K. G. Tidball. 2015. MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/civic-ecology eBook: iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/civic-ecology/id963512364?mt=11
Reclaiming Broken Places: Introduction to Civic Ecology
. edX/CornellX MOOC. https://www.edx.org/course/reclaiming-broken-places-introduction-cornellx-envsci1500x-0#.VEJ-eBaFlom Follow us on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/CivicEcologyLab/ Published by: Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab Ithaca, New York www.civicecology.org Cover photo credits. Front: http://nishinomiya-style.jp/blog/2013/04/09/7655; Back: María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, Olexiy Logvinov Funding for the MOOC was provided by Cornell University Office of the Provost. Funding for this ebook was contributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture administered through Cornell University NYC-14745 & MRP NYC-147859. The views expressed are solely those of the chapter authors.
TableofContents
Table of Contents
Foreword
by Danny Rueda Cruz
i Preface
by Dr. Marianne Krasny
iv Ten Principles of Civic Ecology v
Stories from MOOC Students
Cultivating Mangroves 1
Project ‘The Spirit of the Earth’
6 Para La Naturaleza 10 Nillumbik Indigenous Plant Park 15
Earth’s Eye into the Woods
22 Fixing a Broken Place by Fixing First our Heart and Mind 25 Friends of the Ithaca City Cemetery 43 Floreciendo el Sur de Providence 52 Restoring Community through Agriculture and Education 55 A Century of Six Mile Creek Stewardship 61 The Un-damming of Crystal River 71 1 Earth Clean-up 80 Hudson River Sweep 85 My School, My Food 90 Planting at Atlas Coal Mine 98 Civic Ecology Practices in the "Waste Grounds" Network of Madrid 110 Restauración Ambiental Comunitaria (Community Environmental Restoration) 121 The Confluence Trail in Atlanta 125
Development of the Anthracite Region’s Huber Miner’s Memorial Park:
Paying Homage to our Mining Heritage 128 MiCalle: A Neighborhood Redesigned by its Residents 137 The Caved-in Castle and an old European Wild Pear 146 Samosad 160 Community and Ecological Resilience through Civic Ecology 165 The Fight against the Pompom 173 From Brownfield to Green Space: Brolly Square 180 Clean up Bulgaria for One Day 185 Micro habitats on Urban Balconies 187 Reclaiming Bowman Creek 198 Flowering Yurino Garden 212 Annecy Gardens 223 Rebuilding from the Ground/Soil Up 231 Texas A&M Howdy Farm: Where Local Food Production Meets Environmental Education 235
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