More than a dozen years ago, Ted Bernard travelled to nine communities acrossthe United States to meet residents who were working collaboratively to solvenatural resource conflicts. While there may have been different perspectivesover process, their common goal was to achieve higher levels of sustainabilityas vibrant communities. He visited places as diverse as tiny one-mile-squareMonhegan Island in Maine and cities as large as Chicago and Chattanooga, andwith Jora Young, wrote about their findings in 1997 in The Ecology of Hope.
Now Bernard has caught up with these communities again to discover their progress, and seewhat a difference their collaborative conservation has made in 15 years. Hopeand Hard Times chronicles that journey; the successes, the speed bumps, andthe remarkable tenacity and persistence of the partnerships and initiativesdriving change during exceedingly hard times. Overall, community-basedsustainability initiatives have proved resilient, despite the down-spiralingof the global economy and the looming problems of global climate change. Theirquest points to the need for new perceptions of nature and of humankind, moreguidance from nature, and less consumption and materialism. They offer adviceon how to live on pieces of land without spoiling them.
Offering hopeful roadmaps for other communities working toward a sustainable future, this book will appeal to community activists, natural resource professionals, educators, and environmentalists.
Now Bernard has caught up with these communities again to discover their progress, and seewhat a difference their collaborative conservation has made in 15 years. Hopeand Hard Times chronicles that journey; the successes, the speed bumps, andthe remarkable tenacity and persistence of the partnerships and initiativesdriving change during exceedingly hard times. Overall, community-basedsustainability initiatives have proved resilient, despite the down-spiralingof the global economy and the looming problems of global climate change. Theirquest points to the need for new perceptions of nature and of humankind, moreguidance from nature, and less consumption and materialism. They offer adviceon how to live on pieces of land without spoiling them.
Offering hopeful roadmaps for other communities working toward a sustainable future, this book will appeal to community activists, natural resource professionals, educators, and environmentalists.
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Advance Praise 2
- Title Page 4
- Rights Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 7
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- Part One: Hard Times 24
- Chapter 1: Hard Times 25
- Chapter 2: Striving For Home: Community, Collaboration, and Sustainability 40
- Part Two: The Journey Back 54
- Chapter 3: Step Out Boldly: Monday Creek, Ohio 55
- Chapter 4: Into the Eighth Generation: Monhegan Island, Maine 75
- Chapter 5: Ever Vulnerable: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 101
- Chapter 6: Millennia of Resilience: The Menominee Indians of Wisconsin 125
- Chapter 7: Gathering the Borderlands: The Sky Islands of the Southwest 149
- Chapter 8: Healing Relationships, Healing Landscapes: The Mattole Valley, California 176
- Chapter 9: The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us: Plumas County, California 202
- Chapter 10: Blowback on Sustainability?: Chattanooga, Tennessee 226
- Chapter 11: An Improbable Wilderness: Sustaining People and Nature in Chicago 248
- Part Three: Hope 266
- Chapter 12: Retracing the Path 267
- Chapter 13: The Sacred Hoop and the Genius That Invents the Future 292
- Notes 298
- Index 324
- About the Author 336