Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.

Introduction: Voice and the Environment-Critical Perspectives; Jennifer Peeples and Stephen Depoe PART I: VOICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY 1. Corporate Ventriloquism: Corporate Advocacy, the Coal Industry, and the Appropriation of Voice; Peter K. Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples 2. Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy; Patrick Belanger 3. Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment; Casey R. Schmitt 4. Sustainable Advocacy: Voice For and Before an Intergenerational Audience; Jessica M. Prody and Brandon Inabinet 5. RESPONSE ESSAY: The (Im)possibility of Voice in Environmental Advocacy; Danielle Endres PART II: VOICE AND CONSUMPTION 6. Voices of Organic Consumption: Understanding Organic Consumption as Political Action; Leah Sprain 7. Vote With Your Fork: The Performance of Environmental Voice at the Farmers' Market; Benjamin Garner 8. RESPONSE ESSAY: Thinking through Issues of Voice and Consumption; Laura Lindenfeld PART III: LISTENING TO NON-HUMAN VOICES 9. The Language that All Things Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of Nature; William Homestead 10. The Ethics of Listening in the Wilderness Writings of Sigurd F. Olson; David A. Tschida 11. Listening to the Natural World: Ecopsychology of Listening From a Hawai'ian Spiritual Perspective; Yukari Kunisue 12. RESPONSE ESSAY: Environmental Voices Including Dialogue with Nature, Within and Beyond Language; Donal Carbaugh CODA: Food, Future, Zombies; Eric King Watts