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"Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature" by Kenny Ausubel

2/17/2017

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REVIEW BY PEGI EYERS

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Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature is an excellent collection of inspiring essays by social entrepreneur Kenny Ausubel, cocreator (with Nina Simons) of the partnership non-profit Bioneers, provider of  environmental and social justice leadership and host of the world-renowned conference of the same name.  In the face of massive change, he outlines the radical personal, political and cultural changes we need to make to build a better future, and that many of the solutions are already waiting for us in the natural world.
 
Divided into three parts, Part One “It’s All Alive” introduces us to the clash of civilizations,  old/new concepts of earth connectivity, cocreation stories, the reenchantment of the Earth, “nature’s operating instructions” and resilience thinking.  In Part Two “Hungry Ghost Stories” Ausubel describes solutions to the reprehensible and criminal practices of Empire including ecocide, the toxicity of consumerism, public relations wars and corporate greed.  With Part Three “Value Change for Survival” he rounds out his discourse with essays on clear thinking, shifting worldviews, the “law of love,” restorative justice, penal reform, peacemaking, clean energy, earth rights, the healing of nature and culture, and the Great Mystery as seen through the eyes of poets and seers. 
 
In Dreaming the Future, Kenny Ausubel introduces us to diverse ideas, proposals, change-makers, visionaries and ecopreneurs from what he calls “a revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart.”  Highly recommended.  www.bioneers.org
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Pegi Eyers is the author of  "Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community," an award-winning book that explores strategies for intercultural competency, uncolonization, recovering an ecocentric worldview, rewilding, creating a sustainable future and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community.
Available from Stone Circle Press or Amazon. 

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