Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #10 – Open Fire: A Council of Bioregional Self-Criticism
Guest editor Jim Dodge selects representative gripes from Marni Muller, Bill Devall, Gary Snyder, Kelly Kindscher, and others. The Centerfold is Peter Berg’s Amble Towards Continent Congress. The Insert (not included): A Bioregional Directory.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #12 – Emerging States: A Bioregional Directory
A Directory of over 100 bioregional groups, publications and contact persons. The centerfold is a map of Represented Bioregions of North America created by William Quesada in 1987.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #13 – Nature in Cities
Beryl Magilavy discusses, Cities Within Nature; David Goode seeks The Green City as Thriving City; Christine Furedy on Natural Recycling in Asia Cities; Doug Aberley on Native American reinhabitation; Peter Garland looks at musical tradition in Michoacan, Mexico and more.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #14 – Borders
Exploring the concept of boundaries with features including Malcolm Margolin on Walking the Border Between Native and Non-native Culture; Dolores LaChapelle on Boundary Crossing to reconcile wilderness and civilization; Stephen Duplantier on Distance Disease and more.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #15 – North “America” Plus: A Bioregional Directory
Columbus’ “discovery” of North “America is considered with Kerry Beane, Darryl Wilson, and Andrés King Cobos expressing native perspectives and Kirkpatrick Sale and Peter Berg seeing it from a reinhabitory standpoint. Also Richard Grow on Decolonizing the Language of the Ecology Movement.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #16 – Europe Now: The Bioregional Prospect
Articles include George Tukel on Reinhabitation in Hungary; Thomas Kaiser on Eastern Europe; as well as reorganizing along bioregional lines and for Regional Ecological Development; a glimpse of sustainable agriculture in Neolithic France by Marc Bonfils, and more.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #17 – Exploring Urban Frontiers
Urban Challenges are highlighted in articles by Marie Dolcini, Richard Register, Peter Berg, Bruce Hinkforth, Beryl Magilavy, Jean Gardner, Paul Ryan, Nelson Denman, Paul Glover, Patrick Mazza, and Doug Aberley . Reports continue the focus on Europe.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #18/19 – Eco-Governance: Bioregional Gatherings
Accounts of eco-governance via bioregional gatherings, including Peter Berg on Post-Environmentalist Origins and Judy Goldhaft on Ways to Bioregion. Special section features reports from indigenous groups in response to the quincentennial of Columbus’ arrival.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #20 – Eco-Governance II: Anatomy of the Shasta Bioregional Gathering
An in-depth survey and exploration of the first Shasta Bioregional Gathering in northern California from conception to realization including highlights, participant reports and musings. This issue along with # 18/19 explores a wide variety of eco-governance models.
Raise the Stakes, The Planet Drum Review #21 – Bioregional Culture
Bioregional Culture A look at several unique bioregions in the articles within this issue, from India to Silverton, Colorado. What bioregionalism means to different people and its significance in determining and reflecting one’s own place in craft, music, industries and mythologies.