{"product_id":"2940156735716","title":"Invitation to a Renaissance","description":"Invitation to a Renaissance, a collection of short essays, is essential to every Environmental Studies program, because it provides the students with a heightened sense of purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudents want to leave behind the shackles of the 20th century--the pollution, the plundering, the poverty, the wars--so that they can design and build their own 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey want to build a world unprecedented in all of human history, where people learn to live in harmony with each other, and with their planet Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a teacher, John Slade believes that we need to ask the Big Questions, so that we can engender vibrant discussions in our classrooms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does the melting of the polar ice cap affect our weather, our economies, our fate for the next several centuries?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can we build a global classroom, preparing young people around the world to meet the global challenges?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho shall determine the course of our human journey, the oil companies, or young people who will live their lives in the 21st century?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we plunder and poison the oceans, the Cradle of Life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill the Arctic Ocean become our final military battleground?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill climate change create a new kind of refugee, a new kind of war?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan the democratic sun and the democratic wind create a more democratic economy for the peoples of the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan that democratic economy bring us stability, equality, and peace?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1776, America was the most innovative nation in the world. Can we do it again?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the moral questions? The religious questions? The spiritual questions, as we design a new way of thinking in the 21st century?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShall we give unto our children and our children's children a great gift, or a great curse?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet us look with vision that reaches around our planet. Let us look with vision that reaches through the decades to the end--and beyond--of this hopeful century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet us design and build a Renaissance--the first since 1500--for the 21st century.","brand":"Woodgate International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083373461744,"sku":"2940156735716","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156735716_p0.jpg?v=1764087688","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156735716","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}