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WHY LIFE MATTERS - MICHAEL CHARLES TOBIAS JANE ...

Dr. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are world-renowned ecological philosophers
and activists  interdisciplinary social and environmental scientists and broad-ranging  deeply
committed humanists. This collection of fifty essays and interviews comprises an invigorating 
outspoken  provocative and eloquent overview of the ecological humanities in one highly
accessible volume. The components of this collection were published in the authors' Green
Conversations blog series  and pieces in the Eco News Network from 2011 to 2013 and feature
luminaries from Jane Goodall to Ted Turner to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to
the former head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Stunning color photographs
captured by the authors and contributors make Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart
and Mind a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and soul. Ethics  science  technology 
ecological literacy  grass-roots renaissance thinkers  conservation innovation from the U.S. to
the U.K.  from India to Ecuador  from Bhutan to Haiti  from across Africa  the Neo-Tropics 
Central Asia and Japan  to Rio  Shanghai and Manhattan - this humanistic ode to the future of
life on earth is a relevant and resonating read. Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison 
partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written  directed and produced some
170 films  a prolific body of work that has been read  translated and or broadcast around the
world  have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the
disciplines of comparative literature  anthropology  the history of science and philosophy 
ecology and ethics  in over 80 countries  has served as a telling example of what two people -
deeply in love with one another - can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to
others - of all species.

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