Table of Contents
House Organ 1
Essay
From the Sea that Divides to the Sea that Links:
Contradictions of Ecological and Economic
Development in Okinawa
By Gavan McCormack 3
Green Dreams
Planetary Liberation/Animal Rights
By Paul Buhle 41
Ecological Socialism
La Liberación del Medio Ambiente: The Rise and Fall
of Revolutionary Ecology in Nicaragua, 1979-1999
By Daniel Faber 45
Ripples In Clio’s Pond
The Classic Maya Collapse
By J. Donald Hughes 81
Economic Notebook
By James O’Connor 91
The Second Contradiction
Time Contradictions of Capitalism
By Andri W. Stahel 101
Brief
British Ecosocialism: A Note
By Joan Roelofs 133
Book Reviews
Sandra Steingraber: Living Downstream: An Ecologist
Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Rodney Barker: And The Waters Turned to Blood
By Roger S. Gottlieb 137
Richard Grove: Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colon-
ialism and Global Environmental History 1400-1940
By John Roosa 139
Richard Primack, David Bray, Hugo Galletti and Ismael Ponciano: Timber, Tourists and Temples: Conservation
and Development in the Maya Forest of Belize,
Guatemala and Mexico
By Ron E. Mader 141
Alan Weisman: Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the
World
By Ron E. Mader 143
Pierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero, eds.: Green
Management: A Reader
By John Ferguson 145
Vandana Shiva: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and
Knowledge
By Douglas H. Boucher 147
Book Notes 150
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