Greens The hard-hitting newsletter of the Social Ecology Project, ©fC®n Pcr/pcctivc/, is available (address at left) for $10 for 12 issues (overseas $14). Social Ecology is a distinctive, well considered synthesis of social and ecological activism. This practical opinion letter provides coherent analysis of current events and current strategy in terms of ecology, human rights, decentralism and confederalism. Provocative and polemical, Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin, Chuck Morse and Gary Sisco criticize their best friends' mistakes as readily as establishment profligacy. This is important reading for activists. These Burlington greens bring their theoretical care to the Institute For Social Ecology, an ambitious and well-received program in ecology, appropriate technology, politics and sociology. Established in 1974 and matriculating through Goddard College, the institute offers a year long master's program as well as summer courses. The instructors are internationally known activists, and all the graduates we know rave about it. Contact: The Institute For Social Ecology, P.O. Box 89, Plainfield, VT 05667, phone:(802) 454-8493 (Dan Chodorkoff, Director). The Book Defending the Earth, by Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman (1991), is available for $10.00 from South End Press, 116 Saint Botolph Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA or Black Rose Books, 3981 Boul. St- Laurent, #444, Montr6al, H2W 1Y5, Qu6bec, Canada. Defending The Earth is a tidy and satisfying exercise in constructive debate on the practical and philosophical conflicts between deep ecology and social ecology. If you know radical conservationists who are unaware of social issues, or socialists who are skeptical of wilderness activism, this brief, conversational book will give them pause. Organized by New York’s Learning Alliance (494 Broadway, New York, NY, 1(X)1, phone: (212) 226-7171), the dialogue between Foreman and Bookchin should be a model for dealing with friction between movements. Steve Chase provides a fine historical introduction on utopian dreams of a farmed versus a wild earth. Bookchin and Foreman reject both visions, and present complementary, rather than competing, strategies towards achieving justice for humanity and the rest of the natural world. ^TRe £jefi Green Xetworlc is a continental alliance for social ecology, anticapitalism, confederal libertarian municipalism and independent politics. They publish the organizing bulletin Left Green Notes, available for $10/ year and $14 overseas from: LGN Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 366, Iowa City, lA 52244. The Left Greens are on their second issue of a lively new journal of detailed analysis, theory and strategy, Regenerollon. “a Magazine of Left Green Social Thought”, Regeneration'^ second issue reported on coalition building efforts over toxics in poor neighborhoods, and the economic and political problems in recycling efforts. Subscriptions to the quarterly are $10/year, from: WD Press, P.O. Box 24115, St. Louis MO, 63130. Some of the staff of Regeneration in St.Louis produce the monthly Gateway Greens' Compost-Dispatch, an organizing bulletin and forum for Green activists at the old gateway to the West. From: Gateway Green Alliance, P.O. Box 8094, St.Louis, Missouri 63156. One of the broadest samplings from green and ecology organizations in the US can be found in Grectl Letter, ($20/four issues. The Tides Foundation/Green Letter, P.O. Box 14141, San Francisco, CA 94114). One-fourth of its pages are committed to official news of the US Greens, mostly opinion pieces about building the movement. A subscription to Green Letter comes with green membership, $25/year to TTtC Greens (USA), Box 30208, Kansas City, MO 64112. In Canada, the Confederation of Municipal Greens is putting inter-community solidarity to the test, organizing in Montr6al, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Qu6bec City, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Kingston. Attend the next face-to- face meeting of these left greens in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in May of 1992. They publish a bulletin. The Citizen, for $16/year (10 issues). Contact the CMG Clearinghouse, 51 Lee Avenue., Toronto, Ontario, M4E 2P1, phone: (416) 694-2666 (Mike McConkey, Editor). EcoSoci^lift Kcvlew is a high-energy quarterly opinion letter associated with the Environmental Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America. Although the DSA itself often acts unafraid of big left coalitions, national democratic socialist governments and party politics, this journal pays unusually close attention to decentralists and eco-anarchists. Here, as a consequence, state-reform strategies react frothily with state-undermining ones. $15/ year from Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, 1608 N. Milwaukee, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60647, phone: (312) 752-3562. Berkeley's Ecology Center Terrain is an impressive, long-running, monthly ecology tabloid distributed free in the Bay Area (but people outside should subscribe with a $25/year donation to The Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702, phone: (415) 548-2220). The Center is at the heart of dozens of community projects, and Terrain's pages reflect this frenetic activity. Rain Winter/Spring 1992 Volume XIV, Number 2 Page 41
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