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Chapter 17: Evaluating Environmental Claims - References

  1. Greenwashing - Wikipedia - Explains the practice of making misleading environmental claims about products and companies, including common tactics, historical examples, and regulatory responses.

  2. Media Literacy - Wikipedia - Overview of the skills needed to critically analyze media messages, including source evaluation, bias detection, and understanding how information ecosystems shape public perception.

  3. Confirmation Bias - Wikipedia - Describes the cognitive tendency to seek and favor information that confirms existing beliefs, with research evidence on how it distorts reasoning about environmental issues.

  4. Why Trust Science? - Naomi Oreskes - Princeton University Press - Examines how to distinguish legitimate scientific findings from misinformation and industry-funded doubt campaigns, with case studies from climate and environmental science.

  5. Environmental Science (16th ed.) - Miller & Spoolman - Cengage - Covers environmental ethics frameworks, cost-benefit analysis of environmental policies, and citizen science as tools for evaluating and responding to environmental claims.

  6. First Draft: Verification and Media Literacy - First Draft - Leading resource on combating misinformation with practical guides for verifying environmental claims, identifying manipulated images, and understanding information disorder.

  7. Media Bias/Fact Check - Media Bias/Fact Check - Independent source rating the factual accuracy and political bias of news outlets, useful for evaluating the reliability of media covering environmental topics.

  8. SciCheck at FactCheck.org - Annenberg Public Policy Center - Dedicated science fact-checking project that evaluates false and misleading scientific claims in public discourse, including climate change and environmental health topics.

  9. AllSides Media Bias Ratings - AllSides - Rates media outlets across the political spectrum and presents multiple perspectives on environmental policy debates, helping readers identify bias in their information diet.

  10. SciStarter: Citizen Science Project Finder - SciStarter - Database of over 3,000 citizen science projects searchable by topic, location, and age group, enabling students to participate directly in environmental research and data collection.