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

Durning, Alan Thein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570611270 ISBN 13: 9781570611278

Publisher: Sasquatch Books, 1997

Synopsis

Simplify, downshift, sustainability. What does it all mean? Alan Durning returns to his home ground to consciously carve out a new life away from the mainstream of politics and power. This Place on Earth is both a personal journey and a working blueprint for anyone interested in a better life.

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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: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1570611270
• ISBN 13: 9781570611278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336