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Earth Crash Earth Spirit
- Large archive of articles, plus photo galleries and loads of other stuff.

In Search of Nature:
- Imagining the Precolumbian Landscapes of Ancient Central America. "There is no question but that language both reflects and conditions the way we think about the relationships between humans and their environment."

Social Criticism Review
- Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional technical complex. Forum for ideas that go against the current. Plea to restore a responsible community. Motto: Achieving goodness in a complex world.

Uncommon Sense: The State is out of Date
"The application of Chaos Theory to the marriage of freedom and human civilization." Whole book online.

rat haus reality, ratical branch
Living life passionately, birthright of all life, the rat haus promotes seeing wholistically, within ourselves, with all our relations, and throughout our world within universe.

The Evolution of the conservation Movement
Large US GOV't archive. Reviewed below.

The Writings of Valdas Anelauskas
Valdas Anelauskas is a Lithuanian journalist temporarily living in the U.S. A former Soviet dissident and human rights activist in political exile from the USSR, he settled in the United States and eventually became a dissident in America just as he was in the former Soviet Union. Observation of the American reality led him to the conclusion that U.S. extreme capitalist system is absolutely the same kind of evil as the Soviet mock-communism was.

The Essays and Research pages of "The Land is ours" website have a good collection on the history and present state of land rights struggles.

For a huge collection of eco-essays on a wide range of subjects, see: http://www.dieoff.org

The Man from the Sunflower Forest
"A Loren Eisley Reader", it says, but much more than this: Selected Eisley readings, links to sites for other nature writers, 'other genre'--links to essays on various related subjects and "informational links" which is an enormously useful page.

Henry David Thoreau
Full texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, Walking, Life Without Principle, and six others.

Charles Darwin
The full texts of The Origin of Species and Voyage of the Beagle.

For some radical Native American screeds, see: http://www.dickshovel.com/www.html

Indigenous Peoples' Literature
A massive resource of indigenous literature, biographies, art and poetry from around the world.

Voices of Resistance
native sovereigntists writing and speaking from the front-lines of North Amerikkka.

Wisdom from the oldest culture in the world.
"Billa Kalina is not a remote and unused area to us. It is our home. It has always been used as a cultural place and will continue to be used by the Peoples coming through. We can no longer be sacrificed."

Magazines

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920

These books provide a glimpse into the thinking of our great grandparents' generation -- including both their brilliant insights and their unbelievably stupid ideas. They recognized a lot of serious problems, and recommended a number of radical solutions.

By reviewing these books, we who are living at the end of humankind's most terrible century can readily see that far more radical ideas and approaches are required to restore peace and harmony to Earth -- far fewer people living far more simply.

• Man And Nature
  by George Perkins Marsh was published in 1864. This very important book marks the dawn of the modern ecology movement. It is a spell-binding collection of illuminating ecological horror stories. It describes the magnificent complexity and beauty of functional ecosystems, and then what happens when civilized humans arrive. The bulk of his observations and ideas remain accurate to this day. Amazing!
• Our Vanishing Wild Life -- Its Extermination and Preservation
  by William T. Hornaday was published in 1913. This book provides detailed and shocking information on 19th century wildlife destruction around the world. It describes the tremendous abundance of wildlife at the dawn of the industrial era, enabling modern readers to fully realize exactly how much has been lost. On its downside, it contains some explicit racism and ecological heresy.
• The Extermination of the American Bison
  by William T. Hornaday was published in 1889. This book documents in great detail the senseless extermination of the bison in the US.
• Checking the Waste -- A Study in Conservation
  by Mary Huston Gregory was published in 1911. This book documents the shocking destruction and waste of forests, soils, fuels, minerals, and wildlife in the US. She foresees the depletion of these resources, and issues a strident call for conservation.
• The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States
  by Charles Richard Van Hise was published in 1910. This book documents the waste of natural resources, lays the blame on individualism, and calls for responsibility -- living in a way that does not diminish the quality of life for unborn generations. Notably, this book sounds the alarm on excessive carbon dioxide emissions, and predicts global warming.
• The Fight for Conservation
  by Gifford Pinchot was published in 1910. This book documents the destruction of resources, and lays the blame on the terrible merger of politics and business interests. He advocates returning the control of government to the people.
• Man and the Earth
  by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler was published in 1905. This book decries the destruction of land by irresponsible agricultural practices. It predicts the elimination of forests by the 23rd century, and the end of war and hunting. To create new farmland for a growing population, he recommends draining lakes and wetlands, and irrigating the deserts. He advocates the elimination of nuisance species -- large predators and untamable herbivores. A great collection of dumb ideas.

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