Connecting Our Species: Planet Reports: Find out how local bioregional activities are becoming prevalent on a global scale. This issue includes a comprehensive interview with David Suzuki by Peter Berg on local grassroots activism, planetary and ecological awareness; reports from South of the Alps, Rhineland, Spain, Scotland, Japan, and the U.S.; a review of Stephanie Mills’ In Service of the Wild by Jim Dodge; Peter Berg on the role of bioregionalism in United Nations policy, and more. Also, Remembering Franco Beltrametti, Circles of Correspondence, Planet Drum PULSE, and bioregional directory updates.
Connecting Our Species: Planet Reports
Circles of Correspondence (Regional Reports)
- Dr. Paul Routledge, Glasgow Earth First!—Ecopolitics and the Free State: Scotland’s First Anti-Motorway Conflict
- Paul Glover—Creating Ecological Economics with Local Currency
- Gena VanCamp & Bob Glotzbach—Shasta Bioregional Gathering IV-Bridge to the Future
- Stephanie Mills—On The Watershed: The Sixth Great Lakes Bioregional Congress
Articles
- Thinking About the Biosphere and Getting Bioregional, Peter Berg interview with David Suzuki
- U.N. at 50: Time for A New Perspective, Peter Berg
- The Century of Bioregionalism, Santiago Vilanova, Catalonia
- Bioregion As A Unifying Vision, Inoue Yuichi
- Why the Moon Is Not on the Internet, Ken Rodgers
- Three Green City Glances at Japan, Peter Berg
- European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor, Peter Berg
- South of the Alps, Franco Beltrametti
- Remembering Franco Beltrametti, James Koller
- Remember Franco Beltrametti. Stefan Hyner
- Franco Beltrametti, A Sketch, Peter Berg
- Thoughts About the Rhine-Valley, Stefan Hyner
Poetry
- Caribouddhism, Gary Lawless
- Trickster Ayers Rock, Conrad Levasseur
Weaving Alliances
Changes/Corrections:
- Friends of Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore, Topanga, CA
- The Geonomy Society, Albion, CA
- Planet Drum Foundation, San Francisco, CA
- Santa Cruz Bioregional Institute, Boulder Creek, CA
- Kivaki Press, Durango, CO
- Way of the Mountain Center, Silverton, CO
- Mesechabe, New Orleans, LA
- Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME
- Harmonious Earth Research, Kihei, HI
New Listings:
Groups:
- Pacific Coast
- Ecology Center, Berkeley, CA
- Northcoast Environmental Center, Arcata, CA
- Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute/Alliance For A Paving Moratorium, Arcata, CA
- Pacific Mountains
- Yuba Watershed Institute, Nevada City, CA
- Basin and Range
- Environmental Action Report, Cottonwood, AZ
- Rocky Mountains
- Bitteroot’s Mind on Clark’s Fork of the Columbia, Missoula, MT
- Great Plains
- Crosstimbers (Oak Hickory Forest), Flower Mound, TX
- Great Lakes
- Lake Calumet Study Committee, Chicago, IL
- Atlantic Mountains
- Elfin Permaculture/Yankee Permaculture, Dahlonega, GA
- Atlantic Mountains
- Living Education Center For Ecology & The Arts, Charlottesville, VA
- Europe
- Gaia, Palombara, RM Italy
Individual:
- Mississippi River Valley
- Dan Earle, Baton Rouge, LA
Announcements
- Jonathan Ellerby, Plea for Resources
- Otherwise, Otherwise: The Earth Pledge Foundation Book Review
- Kathy Wildman, Hearts and Flowers Butterfly Farm, Seeds Available to Educators
- Ishi & Sarah Crosby, Earth Village Network, Marses Earth Village
- Forest Tree Seed Company, Tree Seeds Available for Home Growing
- Giuseppe Moretti, Centro di Documentazione Bioregionale, International Cooperation Appeal
- Green Party, Puig Wins in Catalonia
- Spot the Difference! Green-Tourism
- Beatrice Briggs, Raise the Stakes #26, Bioregional Association Update, Turtle Island Bioregional Congress VII
- Planet Drum, Discovering Your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook
Reviews: Riffs, Reads & Reels
Reads
Reviewed by Jim Dodge
- In Service of the Wild by Stephanie Mills
Reviewed by Seth Zuckerman
- Restoration Forestry: An International Guide to Sustainable Forestry Practices by Michael Pilarski
Reviewed by Carli Schultz
- The Way of the Earth: Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought by T.C. McLuhan
Reviewed by Hitomi Maeda
- Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen
Reviewed by S. Dog
- Full House: Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity by Lester R. Brown & Hal Kane
Reviewed by Kari Norberg Carter
- Follow the Dirt Road: An Introduction to Intentional Communities in the 1990s by Monique Gauthier & Daniel Greenberg
- Communities Directory: A Guide to Cooperative Living by Fellowship for Intentional Community
Reviewed by Elizabeth Kristen
- Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping by Annie Berthold-Bond
Planet Drum Pulse by Debbie Hubsmith
Stake Raisers and Planet Drum adventures in and out of the office.
Green City Report & Education + Action
Green City/urban sustainability & educational activities in the SF Bay Area.
Graphics
- Victor Vasques Temó, Harvesting and Growing Onions (front page)
- F. Phipps/CBS, David Suzuki (photo) (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
- D. Rengo, Consumer Equivalents (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
- Graphic: Population Consumerism Poverty (Thinking About the Biosphere…)
- Bruce McGillivray, Devolutionary Europe map (U.N. at 50: Time for A New Perspective)
- Making maps from machi-watching (Bioregion As A Unifying Vision)
- Peter Berg, “La Judy” Goldhaft in Catalonia (European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor)
- Judy Goldhaft, Peter Berg in Italy (European Visit Fuels Bioregional Fervor)
- Canton Ticino map (South of the Alps)
- Franco Beltrametti note to Peter & Judy (South of the Alps)
- Graphic: Vulture (South of the Alps)
- Graphic: Beltrametti-Koller Reading at New College (Remembering Franco Beltrametti)
- Graphic: Franco Beltrametti – Riva S.V. (South of the Alps)
- Rhine Valley (photo) (Thoughts About the Rhine-Valley)
- Location maps (Circles of Correspondence)
- Graphic: Ithaca dollar (Creating Ecological Economics with Local Currency)
- Shasta Bioregional Gathering logo (Shasta Bioregional Gathering IV)
- Great Lakes Bioregional Congress ’95 (On The Watershed: The Sixth Great Lakes Bioregional Congress)
- 2 Graphics (Weaving Alliances)
- Shafi Hakim, Planet Drum staff (photo)
- Graphic: Lorenzo ? (back cover)
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