ENVS 101: Introduction to Environmental Studies (with Professor Taylor Cunningham)

This news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos.

Includes maps, images (including aerial images), and primary sources regarding Spartanburg County's history. The collections may we searched by keyword.

A nonprofit organization based in Spartanburg, SC, focusing on land conservation, parks management, and environmental outreach. It is known in the community for its system of public preserves, most notably the Cottonwood Trail, where it works to provide public access to green spaces and the natural world. It collaborates with private landowners and other agencies to conserve land through voluntary conservation easements and currently protects over 5,000 acres of land in this community.

Over the past two decades, this nonpropfit organization has worked to protect farmlands, forests, natural areas, rivers, and clean air. It is committed to ensuring that our communities are vibrant and retain their green spaces, outdoor heritage, and unique identities in the face of rapid development and significant sprawl. Upstate Forever works with landowners, communities, and local stakeholders to balance growth with the protection of our natural resources. It focuses its work on ten counties: Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg and Union.

Located in the restored and renovated former Glendale Mill office building overlooking the Lawson’s Fork of the Pacolet River in the historic textile mill town of Glendale. It serves as the hub of activities for Wofford’s Environmental Studies Program. The center is 8 miles from Wofford's main campus.

"SPACE’s first project was the Cottonwood Trail Preserve, currently a 116-acre urban preserve and trail system. Located minutes from downtown Spartanburg, the property protects a 1.5 mile stretch of Lawson’s Fork Creek and several feeder streams. The preserve serves as an important water quality buffer in a fast-growing region and provides habitat for a myriad of plants and animals--from Space's website. The trail is less than 5 miles from Wofford's campus.

"Once an army training base, Croft State Park covers more than 7,000 acres of rolling, wooded terrain just a few miles from downtown Spartanburg. The park offers over 20 miles of biking and hiking trails, a playground, picnicking and camping, as well as fishing and boating in one of two lakes"--From the park's homepage. Croft is less than 8 miles from Wofford's campus.

Hatcher's mission is "to provide a place where the public can come for inspiration, enjoyment, and education through the study of nature"--from its homepage. The garden is less 3.5 miles from Wofford's campus.

This article, by Andrew Gutkowski, originally appeared in The Journal of American History, vol. 106, no. 4, 2020, pp. 923–48.

"ReGenesis is a community-based non-profit organization formed in 1998 to address environmental health issues in the Arkwright and Forest Park communities in the Southside of the City of Spartanburg, South Carolina. ReGenesis has focused on the assessment, cleanup, redevelopment and revitalization of these communities, a 500 acre area that includes two Superfund hazardous waste sites, the Arkwright Dump and the former IMC Fertilizer Plant, as well as an abandoned textile mill, an operating chemical plant, two dumps and several suspected illegal disposal areas. In 2000, ReGenesis was selected as one of fifteen national demonstration projects by the Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Environmental Justice. ReGenesis has been recognized in numerous other ways, before and since"--From the report's introduction.

"Jimmy Buffet has his 'Coconut Telegraph,' but he's got nothing on nature writer John Lane, who sends his musings into the world each week in a popular newspaper column named after the ubiquitous green vine that's swallowing the South. Lane is a champion of the underdog, and what he seeks to protect is the character and the beauty of the place he lives.Lane, a much published poet and essayist, is a soldier for sustainability and a warrior for wildness. Using both wit and wisdom he takes on the environmental issues of our times, often by simply taking us on a walk through the woods or a drive up the highway. Just when he seems to write best about animals in his South Carolina Upcountry backyard-deer, tree frogs, and, yes, coyotes-he captivates us with a river adventure. He writes with as much intensity about old maps or a favorite pickup truck as he does about the socio-political issues that concern him-land use, urban planning, and conservation.These four dozen short essays, published by Community Journals in upstate South Carolina, will make you look more closely at the world around you and also, Lane hopes, will make you look ahead: to take actions, large and small, to protect the place you live"--Publisher's description.

Is the story of the 85-acre preserve on Spartanburg's eastside told through photography and essay.

Johh Lane's explorations--within a one-mile radius of his home in South Carolina--intensify his bonds to family, friends, and colleagues as they sharpen his sense of place. By looking more deeply at what lies close to home, both the ordinary and the remarkable, Lane shows us how whole new worlds can open up. Lane, a Wofford alumnus, returned to teach English. He went on to help found the college's Environmental Studies Program, in which he taught such courses as Environmental Literature.

Features 140 species of North Carolina and South Carolina birds organized by color for ease of use.

Features 153 species--only North and South Carolina trees!

"Organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the wildflowers they see in North Carolina and South Carolina"--From publisher's description.

"The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place"--From the publisher.

"Explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved--and is still evolving--as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the 'environment' of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. [The] . . . highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today [are considered]"--From the publisher.

"We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. The body, the senses, must conspire with the mind. Expression is the act of the whole man, that our speech may be vascular. The intellect is powerless to express thought without the aid of the heart and liver and of every member"--From the book itself.