Bringing the Biosphere Home : Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change

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Summary: Perceiving Global Environmental Change
Review: "Bringing the Biosphere Home" is a well-researched and scholarly book about the author's search for meaning, and communicating his extensive experience and personal observations of "Bioapherical Perception." Author Mitchell Thomashow delicately weaves the basic elements of a complex tapestry of his ecological perceptions around our involuntary immersion in the sea of electronic smog and information overload. His sensitive and often lyrical excursions into the nuances of the natural world are both poignant and insightful. His intellectual exercises such as "Taking delight in the ordinary," considering "the interstate and the internet as the psychodelics of biospheric perception," or the fact that humanity is "on the verge of the sixth megaextinction" are each unique and intellectually stimulating metaphors, which together form a driving force for a general "Awakening of Ecological Awareness" in the Global Social Mindset.
Anyone seriously interested in expanding their ecological perspective, or in broadening their biospherical information base, would be well advised to read this insightful book. Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., President, Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona.

Rating:
Summary: Perceiving Global Environmental Change
Review: "Bringing the Biosphere Home" is a well-researched and scholarly book about the author's search for meaning, and communicating his extensive experience and personal observations of "Bioapherical Perception." Author Mitchell Thomashow delicately weaves the basic elements of a complex tapestry of his ecological perceptions around our involuntary immersion in the sea of electronic smog and information overload. His sensitive and often lyrical excursions into the nuances of the natural world are both poignant and insightful. His intellectual exercises such as "Taking delight in the ordinary," considering "the interstate and the internet as the psychodelics of biospheric perception," or the fact that humanity is "on the verge of the sixth megaextinction" are each unique and intellectually stimulating metaphors, which together form a driving force for a general "Awakening of Ecological Awareness" in the Global Social Mindset.
Anyone seriously interested in expanding their ecological perspective, or in broadening their biospherical information base, would be well advised to read this insightful book. Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., President, Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona.