LEADER 04253nam 22006494a 450 001 9910450373703321 005 20210604015316.0 010 $a1-59734-714-0 010 $a9786612359606 010 $a1-282-35960-6 010 $a0-520-93680-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936805 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004677 035 $a(EBL)222938 035 $a(OCoLC)475926723 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192288 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196950 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192288 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186328 035 $a(PQKB)10490863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC222938 035 $a(DE-B1597)520866 035 $a(OCoLC)56026379 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL222938 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062335 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235960 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004677 100 $a20020403d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLifePlace$b[electronic resource] $ebioregional thought and practice /$fRobert L. Thayer, Jr 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 0 $aBFI Modern Classics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-21312-2 311 0 $a0-520-23628-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction. Bioregional Thinking --$t1. Grounding. Finding the Physical Place --$t2. Living. Awakening to a Live Region --$t3. Re-inhabiting. Recovering a Bioregional Culture --$t4. Fulfilling. Celebrating the Spirit of Place --$t5. Imagining. Creating Art of the Life-Place --$t6. Trading. Exchanging Natural Values --$t7. Planning. Designing a Life-Place --$t8. Building. Making Bioregions Work --$t9. Learning. Spreading Local Wisdom --$t10. Acting. Taking Personal Responsibility --$tNotes --$tGeneral Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aRobert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. Life Place is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to live, work, eat, and play in relation to naturally, rather than politically, defined areas. In it, Thayer gives a richly textured portrait of his own home, the Putah-Cache watershed in California's Sacramento Valley, demonstrating how bioregionalism can be practiced in everyday life. Written in a lively anecdotal style and expressing a profound love of place, this book is a guide to the personal rewards and the social benefits of re-inhabiting the natural world on a local scale. In LifePlace, Thayer shares what he has learned over the course of thirty years about the Sacramento Valley's geography, minerals, flora, and fauna; its relation to fire, agriculture, and water; and its indigenous peoples, farmers, and artists. He shows how the spirit of bioregionalism springs from learning the history of a place, from participating in its local economy, from living in housing designed in the context of the region. He asks: How can we instill a love of place and knowledge of the local into our education system? How can the economy become more responsive to the ecology of region? This valuable book is also a window onto current writing on bioregionalism, introducing the ideas of its most notable proponents in accessible and highly engaging prose. At the same time that it gives an entirely new appreciation of California's Central Valley, LifePlace shows how we can move toward a new way of being, thinking, and acting in the world that can lead to a sustainable, harmonious, and more satisfying future. 410 0$aBFI Modern Classics 606 $aBioregionalism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBioregionalism. 676 $a333.7/2 700 $aThayer$b Robert L$01027514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450373703321 996 $aLifePlace$92443004 997 $aUNINA