Raise the Stakes #26: 3 R’s and a B Bioregional School

3 R’s and a B: Bioregional School: This issue focuses on alternative education practices, specifically bioregional school programs, urban eco-education, and folk learning.

3 R’s and a B: Bioregional School
This issue of RTS is dedicated to Binti Jua, Gorilla Mother

Articles

• Schools Can Construct the Path Back to Where We Are, Byrd Schas
• A School’s Community: The Place to Learn About Ecology, Simon Hurd
• How To Shift to Community Based Ecology and Arts Le arning, Ernest Reed plus Literature Cited [in his article]
• 13 Ways of Looking at a Grade, Howard Horowitz
• A Cypress Curriculum t hat Won’t Rot, Kathleen Duplantier
• Mr. Tom Colvin Builds A Pirogue, Matthew Marlborough-2nd Grade, Anie Sipos-1st Grade; Curtis Allen-3rd Grade, Ashley Revere-1st Grade, Jason Mineo-4th Grade
• Earthscore for Educators, Paul Ryan
• Schooling In A Wild Preserve, An Interview with Doug Tompkins, Byrd Schas
• You Are Where You Eat
  • I The Need, Kelley Walters
  • II The Practice, Pam Kasey
  • III College Agenda (U.C. Davis Food Services), Gail Feenstra & Dave Campbell
• Interspecies Lessons
  • Migratory Routes: Pathways for Interconnectedness, Chris Desser
  • For a Great Leap Forward, Rev. Dan Meyer (Froggy)
• The Bioregional Association of the Northern Americas (BANA), Byrd Schas (report from the founding meeting.)

Announcements

• Jill Torres & Sharon Farrell, Creating Community: Curriculum for the Future, Students, Stewardship and Sustainability
• The Association Réseau Terre, France, property purchase
• Regeneration Resources, Proceedings Shasta Bioregional Gathering IV
• Beatrice Briggs, First Bioregional Gathering of the Americas, November 17-24, 1996
• A Sacred Space, Native Hawaiian’s land and sovereignty
• The Institute for Bioregional Studies, developing courses on bioregional education
• Planet Drum, Discovering Your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook
• Ottawa Youth Bioregional Initiative (O.Y.B.I.)
• Petrolia High School: Living in the Natural World (insert)

Reviews: Riffs, Reads & Reels
Reads
Reviewed by David Graves

• Balancing the Scales: Guidelines for Increasing Biodiversity’s Chances Through Bioregional Management

Reviewed by Kenton R. Miller

• Head/Waters, edited by Linny Stovall

Reviewed by Paul Ryan

• Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America, by Jerry Martien

Reviewed by James Koller

• In Cold Margins: Sustainable Development in Northern Bioregions, by J.M. Jamil Brownson

Reviewed by S.S. Kush

• Poems For the Wild Earth, edited by Gary Lawless

Reviewed by Patrick Mazza

• Shared Living Communities: Housing for Ecological Living, Personal Empowerment and the New Extended Family by Ken Norwood & Kathleen Smith, forward by Ernest Callenbach

Green City Report by Planet Drum Staff
Green City/urban sustainability activities in the SF Bay Area.

The Green City Hands-On Activist Award granted to Ron Thelin by Peter Berg

Planet Drum Pulse by Jonathan Burstein
Stake Raisers and Planet Drum adventures in and out of the office.

Graphics

• Judy Goldhaft (4 young school children) (front cover photo)
• Simon Hurd (A School’s Community)
• Debbie Hubsmith (A School’s Community)
• Aimeé del Longchamp (How To Shift To Community Based Ecology)
• Kathleen Duplantier (A Cypress Curriculum That Won’t Rot)
• Steve Duplantier (Mr. Tom Colvin Builds A Pirogue)
• Elise Morris (Schooling in a Wild Preserve)
• Kelley Walters & Pat Kasey (3 photos) (You Are Where You Eat)
• Brian M. Aalbers (U.C. David Food Services)
• Byrd Schas (For a Great Leap Forward)
• Migratory Species Project, Migratory Route of the Leatherback Turtle (Migratory Routes: Pathways for Interconnectedness)
• Byrd Schas (For a Great Leap Forward)
• Judi Quick, 1996 Green City Award (The Green City Hands-On Activist Award)
• Peter Panaher, Planet Drum Staff (photo)

Note: The PDF below is searchable if downloaded. Download