After Earthday celebrates the spirit of Earth Days I through XXI, not as media spectacles, but as exemplifying the sustained commitments of many different people and organizations to a common cultural effort.
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The University of North Texas Press began its new series, Philosophy and Ecology, with the publication of After Earthday: Continuing the Conservation Effort, edited by Max Oelschlaeger.
After Earthday celebrates the spirit of Earth Days I through XXI, not as media spectacles, but as exemplifying the sustained commitments of many different people and organizations to a common cultural effort.
The essays cover conservation politics; environmental science today and tomorrow; conservation, economics, and the corporation; environmental philosophy; and religion and conservation. Together the essays afford consersiderable insight into conservation over the last twenty years and some perspective on where it might be going during the 1990s.
Authors include Robert Paehlke, George Sessions, Curt Meine, Neil Evernden, Eugene C. Hargrove, Dolores LaChappelle, Eleanor Gadon, Michael Zimmerman, Susan Bratton, and Max Oelschlaeger.
ISBN 0-929398-44-0, cloth: $24.50
ISBN 0-929398-40-8, paper: $15.95
264 pages, index
The series also includes the Big Thicket: An Ecological Evaluation by Pete A. Y. Gunter.
When a bill creating the Big Thicket National Preserve was signed into law, it claimaxed more than a half century of environmental debate, planning, and destruction. The preserve opened new vistas for recreation.
Gunter describes not only the history and rich diverstity of the region saved from the bulldozers of real estate developers and lumber companies, but also the dimensions of the new Big Thicket preserve.
ISBN 0-929398-52-1, paper, $14.95
200 pages, 35 b&w photos., 14 maps, bib., index
Revolution for Nature: From the Environment to the Connatural World by Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, with translation Matthew Armstrong.
Meyer-Abich argues, in accordance with his holistic alternative to the "incomplete Enlightenment" of the dominant Western world view, that we must join together as global citizens and consumers in a revolution for nature, treating all purchasing choices as ethical, and withdrawing our spending from an economic system which threatens the very foundations of life on Earth.
Revolution for Nature combines a provocative historical and philosophical analysis with practical recommendations both for lifestyle changes of reformed consumers and for the political constitution of the nature state of the future.
ISBN 0-929398-70-X, cloth: $25.00
ISBN 0-929398-69-6, paper: $15.95
160 pages
For more information about these books, contact Charlotte Wright, Editor, University of North Texas Press at untpress@abn.unt.edu.
For complete listings, consult the UNT Press website. Order throught the Texas A&M University Press Consortium