The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Sara Lindey · Jason King

Sep 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kathy Bell Denton

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Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. Rogers' direct, slow, gentle, and empathic approach is supported by his superior emotional strength, his intellectual and creative courage, and his joyful spiritual confidence. The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" centers on the show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week "Caring for the Environment," produced in 1990 in coordination with the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. Unfolding against a trash catastrophe in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers advances an environmentalism for children that secures children in their family homes while extending their perspective to faraway places, from the local recycling center to Florida's coral reef. Ultimately, Rogers cultivates a practical wisdom that provides a way for children to confront the environmental crisis through action and hope and, in doing so, develop into adults who possess greater care for the environment and a capacious imagination for solving the ecological problems we face.

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Sara Lindey is professor of English at Saint Vincent College. She teaches in American literature and environmental literature. She published essays on nineteenth-century American print culture in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, American Periodicals, and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Jason King is professor of theology at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is author of Faith with Benefits: Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses and coeditor of Sex, Love, and Families: Catholic Perspectives. Currently, he edits the Journal of Moral Theology.

Kathy Bell Denton, originally from Tennessee, has spent most of her professional career on the West Coast. A theater actress with an MFA in acting from UCLA, Kathy has also been a teacher, a singer, and an acting coach for children and adults. She is a member of Sacred Fools Theater and The Road Theatre.

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