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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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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. Sara Lindey is professor of English at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. She teaches widely in American literature, including environmental literature. Before her work on Fred Rogers, she published essays on nineteenth-century American print culture, particularly representations of girlhood in antislavery picture books and boys' literacy in story papers in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, American Periodicals, and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Kathy Bell Denton, originally from Tennessee, has spent most of her professional career on the West Coast. Her first books took advantage of her Southern heritage, but her acting flexibility and talent with accents has led her into voicing an international cast of characters. She is a theater actress with an MFA in acting from UCLA who has performed everything from classics, musicals, and Shakespeare, to world premieres and brings an actor's delight in language and storytelling strength to her work. Kathy has been a teacher, a singer, and an acting coach for children and adults. She has done research and substantiation work for the health and medical division of SHM Publishing, and also has participated in deposition training programs for attorneys, improvisational work as various scientists being deposed, as well as portraying pharma reps for drug openings. She is a member of Sacred Fools Theater, The Road Theatre, and on the board of The Classical Theatre Lab.

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