Five thought-provoking essays by Stephanie Mills are followed by reviews and excerpts of the ten most important pieces of related literature written by experts in the various fields. Reviewers include Peter Borrelli, David Brower, Ernest Callenbach, J. Baird Callicott, Lois Gibbs, and others. Following the essays is an annotated bibliography listing over 100 important environmental works.
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Abbey, Edward
Abrahamson, Dean E.
Acid deposition
Actualization power
Adams, Carol J.
Adler, Margot
Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Planet The (Lovelock)
Agriculture
Aikido
Air
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr
Alinsky, Saul
Almanac and Weather Forecaster (Sloane)
Altars of Unhewn Stone (Jackson)
Always Coming Home (LeGuin)
American Forestry Association
American Friends Service Committee of San Francisco
Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest (Norse)
Animal Liberation (Singer)
Aquaculture
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Nosthern Landscape (Lopez)
Ashworth, William
Atlas of Planet Management (Meyers)
Atmospheric decomposition
Automobiles
Axe Handles: Poems (Snyder)
Bachelard, Gaston
Backpacker
Bacteria
Baldwin, J.
Barrons, Dave
Barrow, Pope
Bates, Marston
Bates, Sarah M.
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Bear, Three Famous Short Novels: Including Spotted Horses; Old Man; Bear, The (Faulkner)
Beck, Peggy V.
Bender, Marty
Berg, Peter
Berger, John
Berger, Linda-Ruth
Berman, Morris
Berry, Thomas
Berry, Wendell
Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch, The (Krutch)
Beston, Henry
Beyond Adversary Democracy (Mansbridge)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (Stegner)
Bicycles
Big Outside, The (Foreman and Wolke)
Biodiversity
Biodiversity (Wilson)
Biodiversity and the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest
Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species (Wilson)
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design (Todd and Todd)
Biosphere people
Bishop, Elizabeth
Black Elk Speaks (Niehardt)
Blumberg, Louis
Bly, Carol
Bly, Robert
Bodner, Joan
Bookchin, Murray
Booth, Glenna
Borrelli, Peter
Bottle washing
Botts, Lee
Brand, Stewart
Brave Cowboy, The (Abbey)
Brazos River
Breakdown of Nations, The (Kohr)
Brenneman, Russell L.
Brittle Power (Lovins and Lovins)
Broecker, Wallace
Brooks, Paul
Brower, David R.
Brown, Lester
Brown, Michael H.
Brown, Tom, Jr.
Buber, Martin
Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest (Wallace)
Bureau of Reclamation, U.S.
Burroughs, John
Butler, Katy
Butz, Earl
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Reisner)
Callahan, Bob
Callenbach, Ernest
Callicott, J. Baird
Call of the Wild, The (London)
Calvino, Italo
Capra, Fritjof
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Carrighar, Sally
Carson, Rachel
Carstensen, Jeanne
Cashdan, Lisa
Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament, The (Ehrlich)
Caufield, Catherine
CEIP Fund
Cent...
Table of contents
- About Island Press
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Publisher’s Preface
- Foreword
- Grassroots Momentum Toward a Sustainable Future - AN INTERVIEW WITH DENIS HAYES
- Prologue
- EARTH
- AIR
- FIRE
- WATER
- SPIRIT
- Further Reading
- Reviewers’ Biographies
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Also Available from Island Press
- Island Press Board of Directors
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