Foundation For Deep Ecology :: Publishing Program

Since 1990, FDE has supported a small in-house publishing program. Our books are available where books are sold, and provide information about the wildness and biodiversity of our natural world.

We do not accept any unsolicited proposals.

Wildlands Philanthropy:
The Great American Tradition

Project description: In Wildlands Philanthropy, veteran conservation writer Tom Butler and world-class landscape photographer Antonio Vizcaíno take readers on a visually spectacular tour of natural landmarks from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and around globe. With more than 350 pages, 170 color photographs, and a large-format design with exquisite production values, Wildlands Philanthropy is a book grand enough to tell the inspiring stories of people who saved extraordinary places. From Muir Woods National Monument to Acadia National Park, from beloved icons to obscure natural areas, the forty parks, refuges, and sanctuaries featured in the book represent the incredible diversity of wildlife habitats that have been saved through private initiative during the past century. The amazing people who invested their passion and wealth to secure these scenic treasures come from every walk of life and every corner of the country, suggesting that everyone—regardless of means—can join this great American tradition of individual action on behalf of wild nature.

Contributors: Essays by Tom Butler, photography by Antonio Vizcaíno and a foreword by Tom Brokaw.

More information about the book in www.wildlandsphilanthropy.org

Thrillcraft:
The Environmental Consequences
of Motorized Recreation

Project description: To expose the lasting damage done to our land, water, and air from the growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt bikes, dune buggies, and other motorized recreational craft that are penetrating the last bastions of wild America. The increase in thrillcraft use is responsible for wildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbance of sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread of invasive weeds, loss of silence, as well as water and air pollution.

Publisher and Publication Date: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Chelsea Green, November 2007.

Contributors: Edited by George Wuerthner with essays by Rick Bass, Philip Cafaro, Dominick DellaSala, David Havlick, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Mahler, Thomas Michael Power, Paul Sutter, Howie Wolke, and many others.

Wildfire: A Century
of Failed Forest Policy

Project description: Cover a broad range of ecological, economic, social, and political perspectives on one of nature’s most potent forces, and the past century of failed attempts to control these wild events. Through photographs and essays by scientists, media critics, firefighters, and activists, this book will challenge the view of wildfire as a destructive element and encourage us all to embrace its positive role in nature’s ecological process.

Publisher and Publication Date: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Island Press, 2006

Contributors: Edited by George Wuerthner, with essays by writers including, Stephen J. Pyne, Ph.D., Mollie Matteson, Thomas R. Vale, Ph.D., Les Aucoin, Gary Snyder, Dominick DellaSella, Ph.D., Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D., Andy Kerr and many others.

Paperback, $45.00, ISBN: 1-59726-070-3
Hardcover, $75.00, ISBN: 1-59726-069-X

The Wildfire Reader:
A Century of Failed Forest Policy

Project description: In a concise version of the larger format book, The Wildfire Reader covers a broad range of ecological, economic, social, and political perspectives on one of nature’s most potent forces, and the past century of failed attempts to control these wild events. Through photographs and essays by scientists, media critics, firefighters, and activists, this book will challenge the view of wildfire as a destructive element and encourage us all to embrace its positive role in nature’s ecological process.

Publisher and Publication Date: Published by The Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Island Press, 2006

Paperback, $27.50, ISBN: 1-59726-087-8

The Selected Works of Arne Naess

Project description: Revise and edit sixty years of writing by one of the most radical and sagacious philosophers of the twentieth century. Bring the full range of Naess’s work to the contemporary English-speaking audience.

Publisher and Publication Date: Springer, The Netherlands, 2005.

Contributors: Harold Glasser, Series Editor; Alan Drengson, Associate Editor; Bill Devall and George Sessions, Editorial

Hardcover, Volumes 1-10, $2,300.00
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3727-9

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy
of Industrial Agriculture

Project description: Comprehensively describe and document the unsustainable consequences of our industrial food system. Offer a seldom-seen perspective on monoculture farming, genetic engineering, pesticide use, irradiation, precision farming, and other aspects of agribusiness. Serve as a catalyst for readers to develop new connections with their food and fibers and the farmers that produce them. Promote an alternative ecological vision of agriculture. Teach lay people and professionals alike to see what they're looking at in industrial versus ecological agriculture.

Publisher, and Publication Date: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Island Press, 2002

Contributors: Edited by Andrew Kimbrell, with essays by writers including Wendell Berry, Jerry Mander, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Monica Moore, Wes Jackson, Alice Waters, Gary Nabhan, and David Ehrenfeld.

Paperback, $45.00, ISBN: 1-55963-941-5 (Out of Print)
Hardcover, $75.00, ISBN 1-55963-940-7 (Out of Print)

The Fatal Harvest Reader

Project description: In a concise version of the larger book, The Fatal Harvest Reader attempts to comprehensively describe and document the unsustainable consequences of our industrial food system. Offer a seldom-seen perspective on monoculture farming, genetic engineering, pesticide use, irradiation, precision farming, and other aspects of agribusiness. Serve as a catalyst for readers to develop new connections with their food and fibers and the farmers that produce them. Promote an alternative ecological vision of agriculture. Teach lay people and professionals alike to see what they're looking at in industrial versus ecological agriculture.

Publisher, Distributor, and Publication Date: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Island Press, 2002

Paperback, $19.95, ISBN: 1-55963-944-X

Welfare Ranching:
The Subsidized Destruction
of the American West

Project description: To demonstrate the ecological damage of grazing livestock on public lands, to document its economic absurdity, and to weaken the grip of the "cowboy myth" on the public imagination.

Publisher and Publication Date: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology, distributed by Island Press, 2002.

Contributors: Edited by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson, containing essays by scientists, field biologists, and ecologists, such as Edward Abbey, Joy Belsky, Ph.D., Christopher Manes, Tomas M. Power, Ph.D., and T.H. Watkins.

Paperback, $45.00, ISBN: 1-55963-943-1
Hardcover, $75.00, ISBN: 1-55963-942-3

Clearcut: The Tragedy
of Industrial Forestry

Project description: Create a visually compelling activist tool that documents the seldom-viewed behind-the-scenes effects of industrial forestry across North America.

Publisher and Publication Date: Sierra Club Books and Earth Island Press, 1994 (first edition, paperback and hardcover), 1995 (second edition paperback).

Contributors: Fourteen essays edited by Bill Devall; color and black-and-white photographs edited by Edgar Boyles. Authors include Reed Noss, Dave Foreman, Chris Maser, Colleen McCrory, Ed Grumbine, Herb Hammond, and Mitch Lansky.

ISBN: 0-87156-494-7 (Out of Print.)