Books

Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

Edited by Cheryl Glotfelty and Eve Quesnel, this collection presents Peter Berg’s bioregional vision and its global, local, urban, and rural applications. It provides a highly accessible introduction to bioregional philosophy and contains a  bibliography of Berg’s publications.

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Catalog of Bioregional Primary Sources

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

Inspired and excellent primary-source articles about bioregionalism by Peter Berg, Thomas Berry, Raymond Dasmann, Freeman House, Dolores LaChapelle, Stephanie Mills, Kirkpatrick Sale, Gary Snyder, etc.

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Devolutionary Notes, by Michael Zwerin

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

Published by Planet Drum in 1980. The book, with an introduction by Peter Berg, raised the questions: Is devolution like revolution? Will new countries lean to the left, the right, or a  new direction?  Follow Zwerin’s storytelling to discover a journey from states to nations.

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Discovering Your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook, by Peter Berg

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

The book was developed by Peter Berg, based on workshops he held. It leads readers to a new appreciation of their relationships with local natural systems through a practical, hands-on map-making exercise.

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Envisioning Sustainability, by Peter Berg

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

Essays, manifestos, interviews, presentations and poems that begin in the late 1960’s and guide the reader through the awakening of the evolving understandings of post-industrial society. Introductions, written expressly for this collection, discuss the historical and psychological context of the pieces.

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Green City Program for the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

A series of nine symposia were held to consider urban sustainability questions with people actively involved in  particular topics. This book resulted to provide guidelines  for how positive changes might occur and what “visions” of  a Green City anywhere would be like.

 

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Music of the Indians of Northern California by Jaime de Angulo

By Judy Goldhaft / January 9, 2021 / 0 Comments

“Peter has culled …all presently known musical work by [Jaime] de Angelo…Peter remarks the poetic mood evoked to any musician by Jaime’s own notations –those flags and banners of various sizes on various levels streaming in a tonal breeze.” —Lou Harrison

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North American Bioregional Congress- 4th Proceedings

By Judy Goldhaft / December 25, 2020 / 0 Comments

A collection of committee reports, panels, workshop reports, photos plus drawings,  essays, poems, and history from the Fourth North American  Bioregional Congress. This Congress included bilingual Spanish participants and includes  the bioregional manifesto Welcome Home!  in both English and Spanish.

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Reinhabiting a Separate Country, A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California

By Judy Goldhaft / December 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

A collection of essays, natural history, biography, poems, interviews, artwork, and stories revealing Shasta Bioregion (Northern California) as a distinct area of the planetary biosphere.  Early essays  defining  bioregions and reinhabitation are included in this book.

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Wild Douglas County

By Judy Goldhaft / January 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

This book was designed…to be used as a guide to accompany you when you take your treks outdoors to observe nature first hand. The seasons and cycles of life around this special place in northeast Kansas are illuminated.

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