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See also Kirkpatrick Sale, an independent scholar and self-proclaimed neo-Luddite from Vermont who writes and agitates for a scaling-down of American society. In his book, ''Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision'' (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985), he charts of vision of decentralism, participation, liberation, mutualism and community. UCSC Library Call number: QH540.5.S25 1985. | See also Kirkpatrick Sale, an independent scholar and self-proclaimed neo-Luddite from Vermont who writes and agitates for a scaling-down of American society. In his book, ''Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision'' (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985), he charts of vision of decentralism, participation, liberation, mutualism and community. UCSC Library Call number: QH540.5.S25 1985. | ||
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Revision as of 17:19, 9 September 2008
This is new page, thus a work in progress, see Eco-Heroes page as well. Suggestions welcome.
David Brower
Chadwick
Muir
Gaylord Nelson Senator and governor, founder of Earth Day
Thoreau
Theoretical Foundations
Peter Berg coined the term "bioregionalism" in the early 70s to define an environmental perspective that emphasizes action over protest, lifestyle over legislation. A bioregion is an area that shares similar topography, plant and animal life, and human culture. Bioregions are often organized around watersheds, and they can be nested within each other. Bioregional boundaries are usually not rigid, and often differ from political borders around counties, states, provinces and nations. Ideally, bioregions are places that could be largely self-sufficient in terms of food, products and services, and would have a sustainable impact on the environment. See also Kirkpatrick Sale, an independent scholar and self-proclaimed neo-Luddite from Vermont who writes and agitates for a scaling-down of American society. In his book, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985), he charts of vision of decentralism, participation, liberation, mutualism and community. UCSC Library Call number: QH540.5.S25 1985.
[Planet Drum is an activist organization the embraces Bio-regionalism http://www.planetdrum.org/]
A Bioregional Reader, Van Andrus (1990) UCSC Library: GF51.H6 1990
Bio-Regionalism by Michael Vincent McGinnis - 1999 (Google preview).
Wendell Berry. “The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture.” (hard copy) When the environmental movement divides land between pristine and degraded, what place does that leave humans who must make a livelihood? A real chance of impacting the environmental crisis can occur only when environmentalists turns their attention to "kindly use" of the land.
Unsettling of America HD1761.B47 1986
[Audio version http://www.lasercave.biz/podcast/2007/04/episode-10-chapter-3-unsettling-of.html]
E.F. Schumacher. Small is Beautiful Importance of the principle of smallness as being a good thing.
Lynn White, "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis," Science 155 (1967): 1203-7. What does Christianity tell people about
their relationship to the environment? White's
seminal article spawned great concern in the 1970s
about the Western world's unique, and destructive ethos
towards nature.
