Table of Contents
House Organ 1
Essay
The Lonely Hour of Scarcity
By Andrew Ross 3
Eppur4 Si Muove
False Dichotomies
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 27
Thinkers
Regulation, Ecology, Ethics: The Red-Green
Politics of Alain Lipietz
By Kerry Whiteside 31
Marxism and Ecology
On Some Common Misconceptions About Nature and
Marx's Critique of Political Economy
By Paul Burkett 57
Urban Ecology
Entropic Zones: Buildings and Structures
of the Contemporary City
By James Dickinson 81
Ripples In Clio's Pond
Classical Athens and Ecosystemic Collapse
By J. Donald Hughes 97
Environmental Movements
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Environmentalists: The International Tropical Timber Organization
By Fred P. Gale 103
Nature Prospects
A Green Mythology
By Kate Soper 119
Green Dreams
Wilson Harris: Literary Ecologist of the Americas
By Paul Buhle 125
Brief
Sustainable Development of What?
By John Bellamy Foster 129
Teaching Political Ecology
Bioregional Education on the Hudson
By Steve Breyman 133
Book Reviews
Martin O'Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
By Les Levidow 137
Kate Soper, What is Nature?
By Colin Hay 140
Jim Schwab, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of
Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America
By Tim Stroshane 142
Michael E. Zimmerman,Contesting Earth's Future:
Radical Ecology and Postmodernity
By Joseph Boland 144
Michael Hough, Cities and Natural Process
By Liette Gilbert 146
Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum, GET A LIFE! How
to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and
Save the world while you're at it
By Brian Milani 148
Sara Berry, No Condition is Permanent: The Social
Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Peter Walker 151
Book Notes 154
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