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Eco-consciousness and Spirituality

Course Number: GC234

Subject: Global Citizenship

Choosing a topic

Topic

  • There is a wide range of possible subjects you could search (selective list below)
    • try adding "moral and ethical aspects" or "religious aspects" to the following:

Agriculture, Animal industry, Animal Rights, Animal rights Movement, Animal Welfare, Animals, Climate changes, Conservation of natural resources, Ecology, Energy consumption, Energy development, Energy facilities, Energy policy, Environmental degradation, Environmental economics, Environmental law, Environmental protection, Environmental racism, Environmental responsibility, Environmentalism, Environmental ethics, Food, Food habits, Food preferences, Food industry and trade, Global Warming, Human Ecology, Livestock factories, Nature, Organic living, Plants, Sustainability, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable development

e.g, agriculture vs. agriculture ethical and moral aspects

People

  • Look for the following as Author; use "quotation marks" 

Edward Abbey, Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Aldo Leopold, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, David Suzuki, Severn Cullis Suzuki, Henry Thoreau

e.g., Edward Abbey vs. "Edward Abbey"

Background material
Finding books

Use the Omni to identify books at Laurier.

  • limit to "Books and eBooks" on the left side of search results
  • remember to use "quotation marks" when searching for phrases
  • limit publication year if applicable

Tutorials

Finding and using ebooks
Finding articles

Use the Omni to identify articles at Laurier.

  • on the results page, limit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed."

While Omni can be helpful in finding a lot of material, it often happens that the number of results is overwhelming. If this is the case, consider using a specialized database to find articles in a narrower field. Some examples include:

Tutorials

Videos

Use the Omni to identify videos at Laurier.

News sources

Finding newspaper articles

  • Use Omni to identify news articles
    • click on "More" at the top of the page and then "Newspapers"
  • The Library subscribes to thousands of newspaper titles from around the world, so if you need help locating particular news sources, or topics across a number of papers, contact Greg Sennema.
Citing Sources