This Place on Earth 2001 : Guide to a Sustainable Northwest [Paperback]

Alan Thein Durning (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 2001

When is car insurance like a pizza?
How do Skinny streets help salmon?
Why should phantom tollbooths haunt rush hour?
Where’s the ideal spot for Granny to have a flat?
And what does all this have to do with aikido?

Aikido is the martial art that applies the principle of leverage to greatest effect. It is also the organizing metaphor for This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest. This slim, lively volume-first in a new Northwest Environment Watch series -takes on a weighty question: how can the Northwest create a way of life that will last?

Part report, part reflection, This Place on Earth 2001 connects the dots: between costs and congestion, streets and streams, granny flats and growth. Along the way, it takes readers on a fascinating tour with some of the Northwest’s top “aikido masters,” who are -block by block, hearing by hearing, forest district by forest district – fashioning a new Northwest.

Editorial Reviews

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"Rather than harangue, these writers concentrate on bright, persuasive arguments for fixing what's wrong." -- Seattle Times

"[NEW books] are well researched, optimistic and written in a light, knowing and easy to digest manner. -- Tidepool: News For The Rain Forest Coast

About the Author

Alan Thein Durning is founder and executive director of Northwest Environment Watch and author of award-winning books such as This Place on Earth, and How Much Is Enough? Formerly senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute, he lectures widely and lives with his wife and children in Seattle.

Northwest Environment Watch is an independent, not-for-profit research and communication center based in Seattle, Washington. Its mission is to foster an environmentally sound economy and way of life in the Pacific Northwest.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Northwest Environment Watch (March 23, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886093113
• ISBN-13: 978-1886093119
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars positive ideas for positive change, October 11, 2001

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B. Culver (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Place on Earth 2001 : Guide to a Sustainable Northwest (Paperback)

Rarely do you find such a wonderful combination of environmental challenges and reasonable well thought out solutions to those problems. While exploring the problems facing residents of the Pacific Northwest (from Northern California to British Columbia) the authors choose not to dwell on the problems but to walk through obtainable solutions to those problems that really leave the reader thinking that they really can make a big difference.

By applying simple straight forward action to the existing economic and cultural climate in the area, big changes could be made towards creating a sustainable Northwest. Anyone looking for an uplifting boost to their environmentalist morale should check out this book.

I feel that this book would be useful to people all over the planet as most of the ideas presented here are applicable to any area of the world. The examples are set in the context of the Pacific Northwest, but it would be easy to extrapolate those examples to your part of the world.