For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the
environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher
education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and
working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed
by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory. "Hope Is an Imperative" brings
together in a single volume Professor Orr's most important works. These include
classics such as "What Is Education For?," one of the most widely reprinted
essays in the environmental literature, "The Campus and the Biosphere," which
helped launch the green campus movement, and "Loving Children: A Design
Problem,"