The essay I was looking for is “The Place, the Region, and the Commons,” pages
25-49, chapter 2 of The Practice of the Wild,
by Gary Snyder, but I was given a lot of other interesting references too. They
are listed below.
Thanks to everyone who responded!
-- Becky
Journal Issue: Co-Evolution Quarterly #32, “Bioregionalism.” Winter 1981.
Books:
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered by Bill Devall and George Sessions.
Ecological Ethics, an Introduction by Patrick Curry, Polity Press
Biosphere 2000: Protecting our Global Environment, 2nd ed. By Donald G. Kaufman
and Cecilia M. Franz. 1996. Kendall / Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, USA. p.
579.
Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature: For Kids of all Ages and their
Mentors, by Jon Young, Ellen Haas and Evan McGown
Dwellers in the Land, by Kirkpatrick Sale
Earth Alive and Home Place, both by Stan Rowe
Ecological identity: becoming a reflective environmentalist, By Mitchell
Thomashow
Ecological Literacy, by David Orr
My story as told by water : confessions, Druidic rants, reflections,
bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light,
from living rivers, in the age of the
industrial dark, by David James Duncan
The Ecology of Place: Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological
Understanding, by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price
A Sand Country Almanac and Sketches here and there, by Aldo Leopold. Oxford
University Press, 1949. Especially pages 158-162, 203-204, and 224-225.
The Tracker, by Tom Brown, Jr.
Other Thinkers/writers: Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, Peter Warshall.
Web sites:
The Big Here, by Kevin Kelley: http://www.kk.org/helpwanted/archives/001084.php
Discovering a Sense of Place:
http://www.nwei.org/discussion_courses/course-offerings/discovering-a-sense-of-place
An Earth Manifesto: http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/EarthManifesto.pdf
Interview with Gary Snyder & Peter Coyote:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/interviews.htm from
Poetry Flash 283 (November-December 1999)
The Tourist Test: http://www.wildernessawareness.org/PDFs/TouristTest.pdf
