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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-306-5
Pages: 408
Publish Date: January 2007
Genre: Nonfiction
The Future of Nature
Writing on a Human Ecology from ORION Magazine
BY Barry Lopez
Required reading for those interested in a livable future, this collection explores the barriers that divide humanity from the natural world and reveals the damning results of that division. The Future of Nature looks through our pervasive ecological crises to the root causes in human culture and offers a path beyond.
"Clarion essays by such innovative and now prominent thinkers as Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Rebecca Solnit nestle against two-dozen other arresting dispatches, including Loren’s chronicle of a grassroots effort to halt unnecessary commercial development in Colorado and Sandra Steingraber’s report on the trouble with vinyl. . . . The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, adding up to a thought-provoking ecological primer."
— Donna Seaman, Booklist
From local economies to our genetic heritage, and from environmental refugees to the nature of education, this essential book is both a compendium of the finest writing in Orion and a crucial guidebook for the twenty-first century activist.
Many thanks go to Tom J. Hillard of Boise State University for editing and contributing to The Future of Nature Teaching Guide, as well as to the following contributors: Eric Chilton of the University of Arizona, Corey Lee Lewis of Humboldt State University, Kathryn Miles of Unity College, and Gioia Woods of Northern Arizona University.
"Clarion essays by such innovative and now prominent thinkers as Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Rebecca Solnit nestle against two-dozen other arresting dispatches, including Loren’s chronicle of a grassroots effort to halt unnecessary commercial development in Colorado and Sandra Steingraber’s report on the trouble with vinyl. . . . The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, adding up to a thought-provoking ecological primer."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
