Movement-Building and Collaboration
We are all doing our part: land conservation, environmental justice, affordable housing advocacy, food security, sustainable agriculture. But more and more, we are being called to create a unified movement that bridges the divides between us and weaves us together. Referenced below are our picks of the most compelling of those calls, followed by some articles about collaboration in practice.
Calls for Movement Building
Bohm, David and Edwards, Mark. 1991. Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises Facing Our World. Harper San Francisco.
Friedman, Thomas L. 2007. "The Power of Green." New York Times April 15, 2007. (For purchase.)
Gelobter, Michel, Dorsey, Michael, L. Fields, T, Goldtooth, A. Mendiratta, R. Moore, R. Morello-Frosch, P. Shepard, G. Torres. 2005. "The Soul of Environmentalism."
Hawken, Paul. 2007. "To Remake the World: Something Earth-changing is afoot among civil society." Orion Magazine May/June 2007.
Shellenberger, Michael, and Nordhaus, Ted. 2004. "The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World." Download PDF
White, Curtis. 2007. "The Idols of Environmentalism: Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests?" First in a two-part series. Orion Magazine March/April 2007.
White, Curtis. 2007. "The Ecology of Work: Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work—and supplants it." Second in a two-part series. Orion Magazine May/June 2007.
Collaboration: Doing Whole Communities Work
Interview with Whole Thinking alumnus Ernie Atencio, Executive Director of the Taos Land Trust, about an innovative collaboration between the Taos Land Trust, the Taos County Economic Development Corporation and the Taos Valley Acequia Association.
Livingston, Gil. 2007. "Land Trusts as Responsible Citizens: Community Building through Land Conservation." Talk given at the University of Vermont, April, 2007. Download PDF
Poole, Linda. 2006. "Faith." In Whole Thinking Journal Vol 2., Winter 2006-2007. Download PDF
Varela, Maria. 2001. “Peace or Pacification.” In Brick, Philip editor: Across the Great Divide. Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West. Island Press. Download PDF