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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813228203321

Titolo

A voice for Earth : American writers respond to the Earth Charter / / edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and A. James Wohlpart ; editorial assistant, Brandon P. Hollingshead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-25310-0

9786613253101

0-8203-4276-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CorcoranPeter Blaze

WohlpartJames <1964->

HollingsheadBrandon P

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Human ecology

Environmental protection

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Imagination into principle -- Crafting principles for the Earth Charter / Steven C. Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.