Planet Drum Activities
Publishing (Informational materials for deepening bioregional
awareness)
Discovering your Life-Place: A First Bioregional Workbook leads readers
to a new appreciation of their relationships with local natural systems through a
practical, hands-on map-making exercise. The book is an exciting way to teach local
ecology and natural science in either urban or rural areas for all ages.
A Green City Program for the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond has an
easily accessible format: it describes the present situation, agendas for short and long
term changes, "fables" for how changes might occur and "visions" of
what a Green City anywhere would be like.
Reinhabiting a Separate Country is a collection of essays, natural
history, biography, poems, and stories revealing Shasta Bioregion (Northern California) as
a distinct area of the planetary biosphere. It has served as a model for indigenous
collections in New York, the Ozarks, and the Rocky Mountains, among other places.
Wild in the City is a poster-map comparing a view of the natural geography of San Francisco before colonization with a present-day street map to show what features could be
restored.
Shasta Bioregion Map with descriptions of natural zones within Northern
California.
Envisioning Sustainability is a collection of essays by Peter Berg.
Eco-Bahia
Calendar 2010 has lovely photos from the work and the area in
Ecuador where Planet Drum's Eco-Ecuador Project is done.
Planet Drum's bi-annual review, Raise the Stakes, presented
thought-provoking essays on issues ranging from restoration ecology to the greening of
cities for 20 years. A "Circles of Correspondence" section described the
activities of bioregional groups. See the Publications page for
listings.
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