A Republic of Trees: Field Notes on People, Place, and the Planet - Softcover

William Shutkin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976452081 ISBN 13: 9780976452089

Publisher: The Public Press, 2007

Synopsis

An informal sequel to the award-winning The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, A Republic of Trees is the latest installment in William Shutkin's on-going quest to align natural and human-made systems into one unified, bold and sustainable model for social and economic development. The book invites us to imagine a political order in which society and nature are seen as interdependent, as sustaining each other in a new republic, a Republic of Trees.

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About the Author

A global leader in sustainability and social entrepreneurship, William Shutkin is the author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, which won a 2001 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association, was selected as one of Time Magazine's 2002 ":Green Century" Recommended Books and was translated for publication in India. The legendary environmentalist David Brower described Bill as "an environmental visionary creating solutions to today's problems with a passion that would make John Muir and Martin Luther King equally proud."

Edition details

• Publisher: The Public Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976452081
• ISBN 13: 9780976452089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212