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call for a new class of educators, one "equally at home in the cosmopolitan world of ideas and the very particular world of watersheds and growing seasons" helped inspire the current movement for "place based education" and education for ecological literacy.
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published on page A17 an 1,800-word essay entitled "G.D.P. R.I.P.," in which Zencey argued that the G.D.P. is a flawed measure of societal and economic progress and should be abandoned as a primary benchmark. Zencey had a story in April 2009 in
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