Robert 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. "LifePlace "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 reinhabiting 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.
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