Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully & of Searching for Truth (A heavily-illustrated little book on applied ecology which we are developing):
We are working on a small book dealing with “positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE” which folk can browse through and hopefully be compelled to study. It will include mostly illustrations and outlines with captions below, and brief sidebar stories/pieces including a letter to Donald Trump. Plans are for the “text” of illustrations, outlines, and sidebars to be followed by:
- a poem to digest titled “Enrolada” (or slang in Brazilian Portuguese for “all balled up/all messed up”),
- our concept of sustainable livelihoods,
- some suggested further reading, and
- a glossary.
Moreover, inside the front and back cover we plan to place slightly modified versions of p.b. martin’s “Little Things We Can Do to Have a Better Life and Sustainable World”, and G. Tyler Miller, Jr.’s “Principles for Understanding and Sustaining the Earth”. http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/2015/04/22/little-things-we-can-do-to-have-a-better-life-and-sustainable-world/ Miller, G.T., Jr. 1990. Resource Conservation and Management. Wadworth Publishing Co.
With the development, promotion, and publishing of this book we are trying to:
- make a case for Why? we should/must live sustainably through a hard-fought process of social justice, humaneness, and ecological sanity,
- point out What? we need to do in order to realize resilient, sustainable ecological community, and
- suggest How? we can realize the process and the “Whats”.
We hope the process of developing, publishing, and disseminating the Truths in this book will be helpful toward realizing:
- the 6 Ss, or living Sabiamente/Wisely, Simply, Smally, Slowly, Sharingly, SUSTAINABLY,
- the processes of Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology/PEACE,
- regeneration and conservation of resilient, sustainable community,
- transformation of Eaarth back toward being more of an Earth, and
- a healthier world for all for as long as possible. http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/eaarthbook.html
[I’ll be posting pieces of this developing book on applied ecology here at http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/blog/ during the remainder of the year for possible feedback. pbm]