Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life (Utne Reader Books)

Praised by The New York Times as "one of the most distinctive voices in magazine journalism, " the Utne Reader's mission has been to uncover the important and inspiring news that the major media overlooks. Now, with that same dedication, the editors of Utne have profiled more than sixty of the world's most original thinkers who are often right at the center of that news, focusing on their ideas, their inspiration, and their visions of the future.

These are not the usual "visionaries." Coming from monasteries and urban ghettos, working at architecture firms and restaurants, living in Berkeley and Bangladesh, being under 35 and over 80, the visionaries in this book share one crucial asset: hope for the future. Hope for finding broader meaning and greater joy in our lives. Hope for the restoration of the planet. Hope for a social and economic order that uses the welfare of the weakest, not the strongest, as its gauge of success.

Well-illustrated with photographs of the subjects who are grouped into six categories-spirit, design, environment, social action, health, and culture-Visionaries is an inspiring and invaluable resource that will have profound appeal for activists, concerned citizens and all those "cultural creatives" who make up Utne's 600,000 loyal readers.

Featuring:
Folk-rock musician, Ani DiFranco
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Thich Nhat Hahn
Pagan witch, Starhawk
Catholic priest, Thomas Berry
Eco-architect, William McDonough
Feminist scholar, bell hooks
Sustainable business guru, Paul Hawken

Marketing for Visionaries:
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National publicity
Author events in Minnesota
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsz
Foreword by Eric Utne
Introduction

The Spirit Moving Us

Introduction
Thomas Berry
Satish Kumar
Stephen & Ondrea Levine
Thich Nhat Hahn
Zalman Schachter-Shalomiv
Starhawk

The Sense of Community

Introduction
Ernesto Cortes Jr.
Roberta Brandes Gratz
Jane Jacobs

In addition to being Utne Reader's Editorial Director, Jay Walljasper regularly contributes to The Nation, Resurgence, Shambhala Sun, and Conscious Choice. He lives in Minneapolis, MN. Jon Spayde is a contributing editor at Utne Reader, a freelance writer, and performance artist. He hails from St. Paul, MN.