Ecological Consciousness

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Callenbach, Ernest: Connexipedia Article
Article
American writer, known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). (Born 1929).
The dangers of reactionary ecology
Article
2014
Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism. Here we want to look at how ecological ideas can be deployed to supp...
Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Williams, Terry Tempest
Article
2017
A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our...
Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
Flinders, Tim
Article
2016
For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to...
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
Biehl, Janet; Staudenmaier, Peter
Book
1995
Explores the integral role ecological ideas played in German fascism, along with anti-rational, quasi-New Age ideas about nature, blood, and soil. A second essay looks at certain present-day ecologic...
Ecology as Politics
Gorz, Andre
Book
1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mann, Charles. C.
Book
2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
Life without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Jensen, Robert
Article
2018
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? This delusion is not limited to one country, one group, or one political party, but rather is the unstated assumption of everyday ...
The Modern Crisis
Bookchin, Murray
Book
Our Generation: Volume 7 Number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Our Generation: Volume 18 Number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1987
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Bookchin, Murray
Book
1990
Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
A post-affluence critique
Brecher, Jermey
Article
1973
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
Social Ecology after Bookchin
Light, Andrew (ed.)
Book
1998
Addresses Bookchin's theory of social ecology and how its role in linking environmental concerns with the desire for a free and egalitarian society.