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Learning Native Wisdom
With this book, Gary Holthaus explains how to nurture a sustainable society by closely observing the traditions of various native communities. He asserts that all cultures - urban or rural - depend on the land and that we must live in harmony with the land in order to preserve our cultures, communities and humanity iself.
Learning Native Wisdom
Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources. Scholars, activists, politicians, and citizens worldwide are promoting the idea of sustainability, or systems and practices of living that allow a community to maintain itself indefinitely. Despite increased interest in sustainability, its popularity alone is insufficient to shift our culture and society toward more stable practices. Gary Holthaus argues that sustainability is achievable but is less a set of practices than the result of a healthy worldview. Learning Native Wisdom: Reflections on Subsistence, S...
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Wide Skies
Enters the lives of the people in small towns and on ranches from Utah to Oregon to Alaska, as they reveal the true spirit of the West
From the Farm to the Table
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It's now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, "big iron" combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce efficiency, while farmers endure debt, dangerous working conditions, and long hours to pay for the technology. Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in an effort to keep up and break even. There is more to...
Hunger for the Wild
Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
The Firmament of Time
Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skilful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory, factual evidence, personal anecdotes, haunting reflection, and poetic prose.
Where One Voice Ends Another Begins
The first single-volume, comprehensive survey of the best Minnesota poetry, Where One VOice Ends Another Begins showcases the work of seventy-six of the state's premiere poets.
