The Future of Nature
Writing on a Human Ecology from ORION Magazine
by Selected and introduced by Barry Lopez
Required reading for those interested in a livable future, this
collection explores the barriers that divide humanity from the natural
world and reveals the damning results of that division. The Future of Nature looks through our pervasive ecological crises to the root causes in human culture and offers a path beyond.
From local economies to our genetic heritage, and from environmental
refugees to the nature of education, this essential book is both a
compendium of the finest writing in Orion and a crucial guidebook for the twenty-first century activist.
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Many thanks go to Tom J. Hillard of Boise State University for editing and contributing to The Future of Nature Teaching Guide, as well as to the following contributors: Eric Chilton of the University of Arizona, Corey Lee Lewis of Humboldt State University, Kathryn Miles of Unity College, and Gioia Woods of Northern Arizona University.
Contributors: Wendell Berry, William Cronon, Mark Dowie, Alison Hawthorne Deming,
David James Duncan, William Fox, Bill McKibben, Gary Paul Nabhan, David
Orr, Scott Russell Sanders, Rebecca Solnit, Sandra Steingraber, Peter
Sauer, Jeffrey Kaplan, Derrick Jensen, Laura Paskus, BK Loren, Van
Jones, Hope Burwell, Erik Reece, Charles Wohlforth, Judith Nies, Ginger
Strand, John Landretti, John Daniel, David Sobel, Lowell Monke, Bary
Lopez, Robert Michael Pyle, Marybeth Holleman, and Eric Freyfogle.
Barry Lopez
Author's Bio:Barry Lopez is an essayist, short-story writer, novelist and international traveler. He is the author of Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, and Of Wolves and Men
(a National Book Award finalist), among many others. Lopez is
considered one of the nation’s premier writers on the relationship
between people and nature. His most recent project, Home Ground, is an American dictionary of uncommon and forgotten geographical terms.
About Orion Magazine
Orion magazine seeks
to explore an emerging alternative worldview. Informed by a growing
ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum
for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we
might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth. Orion is published
six times a year by the Orion Society and the Myrin Institute. Quotes:"Clarion essays by such innovative and now prominent thinkers as
Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Rebecca Solnit
nestle against two-dozen other arresting dispatches, including Loren’s
chronicle of a grassroots effort to halt unnecessary commercial
development in Colorado and Sandra Steingraber’s report on the trouble
with vinyl. . . . The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,
adding up to a thought-provoking ecological primer."— Donna Seaman, Booklist
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2007
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Pages: 408
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