

You can enable or disable these cookies by checking the corresponding box, being disabled by default. Therefore, activating this type of cookies, the advertising that we show you on our website will not be generic, but will be oriented to your searches, tastes and interests, therefore adjusting exclusively to you. To understand it in a very simple way, we will give you a fictitious example: if your last searches on the web were related to suspense literature, we would show you advertising about suspense books. This thesis differs from other work on environmental rhetoric because it develops theory from practices leading to claims about a rhetoric rather than claims arising from the arbitrary interpretation of texts.Behavioral advertising cookies Behavioral advertising cookies allow us to obtain information based on the observation of your browsing habits and behaviors on the web, in order to show you advertising content that best suits your personal tastes and interests. With these two deliverables, I am primarily assembling a careful look of how sustainability is practiced in a particular locale, thus this project can best be seen as a working model derived from practice as it occurs at Michigan State University's Office of Campus Sustainability. It is a contribution that occurs twofold: 1) a method as a means of building a rhetoric and 2) an emergent rhetoric of sustainability. This thesis proposes a way of examining environmental rhetoric to where what we know as green rhetoric or green knowledge becomes more complex by tracing textual production via practices in a network.


While the method of rhetorical analysis is valid in producing a certain kind of knowledge, it is limited in that it sees texts as the central locus of the rhetorical situation. Most scholarship on environmental rhetoric builds rhetoric via textual interpretation of things produced by individuals and groups and scholars have been all too comfortable to study texts in isolation as the foundations of environmental rhetoric. In this thesis, I am concerned with environmental rhetoric and its peculiar methodological predicament. And turtles.-There's a red-winged blackbird. Here and there is a stretch of open water and if you look closely you can see wild ducks at the edge of the cattails.

We bump along the beat-up concrete between the cattails and stretches of meadow and then more cattails and marsh grass. Tensions disappear along old roads like this. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. I'm happy to be riding back into this country. Then, when we are past, it suddenly warms up again. When we pass a marsh the air suddenly becomes cooler. This highway is an old concrete two-laner that hasn't had much traffic since a four-laner went in parallel to it several years ago. We are in an area of the Central Plains filled with thousands of duck hunting sloughs, heading northwest from Minneapolis toward the Dakotas. In the wind are pungent odors from the marshes by the road. When it's this hot and muggy at eight-thirty, I'm wondering what it's going to be like in the afternoon. The wind, even at sixty miles an hour, is warm and humid. 1 I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. What follows is based on actual occurrences.
