This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence - Hardcover

Durning, Alan Thein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570610401 ISBN 13: 9781570610400

Publisher: Sasquatch Books, 1996

Synopsis

Documents a quest by the author for an environmentally sustainable way to exist as a society and to get a suburb to function more like a village

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Review:

Alan Durning spent several years traveling the world as an environmental policy analyst. When a Filipino tribeswoman asked him to describe his home, he found that he could not, answering weakly, "In America, we have careers, not places." Determined to change all that, he brought his family to his native Northwest to make a home--by which Durning means learning the geology and ecology of a place, as well as its human present and past. Durning looks into matters such as recycling, urban planning, and community building, and he proposes ways in which we can all tread a little more lightly on the earth, especially by sharing goods and knowledge with our neighbors. This is a lively, hopeful addition to the literature of place.

About the Author:

Alan Thein Durning is founder and executive director of Northwest Environment Watch and author of award-winning books such as This Place on Earth, and How Much is Enough? Formerly senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute, he lectures widely and lives with his wife and children in Seattle.

Northwest Environment Watch is an independent, not-for-profit research and communications center based in Seattle, Washington. Its mission is to foster a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1570610401
• ISBN 13: 9781570610400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326