Assignment

As you start your course project, describe your environmental experiences. Within this paper you should:

• Identify the key environmental experiences that influenced yourlife. Recall childhood memories of special places where you formed someconnections with the earth through emotional experiences. This mayinclude places you knew and cherished that have since been polluted,developed or destroyed.

• Identify key environmental events that forced you to think aboutyour environmental values. Events like a beautiful sunset,the fantastic complexity of living things, the tremendous power ofnature's floods, earthquakes, tornados and hurricanes.

• List the educational experiences that influenced yourunderstanding and concern about environmental problems. Have youarrived at your ecological identity through formal educationor directly experiencing nature or both?

Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length and all citations must use APA formatting. Please refer to the Course Project overview for a list of all requirements for this paper.