Books
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.