Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac: Celebrating Nature And Her Rhythms In The City - Softcover

Utne, Eric

9780976198901: Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac: Celebrating Nature And Her Rhythms In The City

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976198908 ISBN 13: 9780976198901

Publisher: Eric Utne, 2004

Pilgrimages to wild places such as Death Valley help us connect to nature, to be sure. But what would it take for us to reestablish that connection right where we live day-to-day ... in the city?

Ben Franklin would be proud. In the spirit of his Poor Richard's Almanac, Eric Utne, founder of Utne Magazine, presents Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac: Celebrating Nature & Her Rhythms in the City. It's an inspirational way for 21st-century urbanites, who now number over half the U.S. population, to connect with nature, live more fully, and celebrate each day of the year.

Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac can help you connect to Nature and Her Rhythms wherever you are! This is an urban version of the old farmer's almanacs, like Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. It includes a daily calendar and organizer, a guide to the night sky, weather predictions for most of North America, a field guide to urban flora and fauna, Rudolf Steiner's "Calendar of the Soul," a dream journal, and more.

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About the Author:

Eric Utne is founder and editor-in-chief of Utne Reader magazine. He spent more than five years away from Utne, mostly as a parent, volunteer, and 7th and 8th grade class teacher at an urban elementary Waldorf school. He considers himself completely clueless about nature, and figured there must be others who could use an updated, 21st century, urban almanac. He is the author of Y2K: A Citizen's Action Guide.

From Publishers Weekly:

Channeling the spirit of Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard, the founding publisher of Utne magazine (formerly known as the Utne Reader) brings together a delightful assortment of folksy knowledge in this guide for the urban citizen. In charging readers to "Look Up," "Look Out" and "Look In," Utne (aka Cosmo Doogood) hopes that city dwellers will connect better with themselves and their surroundings: "we are always in nature, wherever we are." Opening sections consider the pleasures of walking, the possibilities of gardening and the probabilities of wildlife sighting within city limits; the volume then becomes an eclectic and fascinating day planner, in which one can record one’s engagements on pages that also serve up poems, photographs, trivia (e.g., January is mail-order gardening month), recipes (Caprese salad; baked apples), quotes ("Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment"), travel suggestions (New Orleans’s Magazine Street), thumbnail biographies (Pharrell Williams; Rembrandt), history lessons (on the birth of the Transcendentalist Movement) and "civilizing ideas" (citizen wisdom councils; community gardens). There’s something interesting on every page of this fun and useful guide.
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