[Lapg] Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis by Joanne Poyourow NEW BOOK

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

hi everyone
         New book Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental 
Crisis by Joanne Poyourow a resident of Los Angeles  , go to her website to 
learn more about her book and her work

here is an email that was sent to the Permaculture folks in Portland from Joan
"At an August 2005 talk in Santa Barbara, CA, David Holmgren emphasized how 
Permaculture applied to much more than simply land and nature stewardship, 
how our mission at this point is to apply Permaculture concepts to all 
realms of society.  Legacy does this, from within urban confines.  Legacy 
contains diverse illustrations of Holmgren's Permaculture Principles, and 
offers these in a meaningful story which is accessible to mainstream, 
non-Permaculture trained, readers."
                 wes



Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis
by Joanne Poyourow   http://legacyla.net/
ISBN 1-58939-789-4
available through VBW Publishers

"Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis" by Joanne Poyourow
   Price:$15.95 http://www.virtualbookworm.com/legacy

ISBN 1-58939-789-4. Softcover. $15.95. 386 pages.
What if a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens set out to change 
the world ... and did?!

Tia Chandler's status-conscious West Los Angeles lifestyle of SUVs, sterile 
corporate offices and shopping malls all changes the day her father is 
brutally murdered. Through her father's radical environmental books, Tia 
learns of the crisis around her, and is horrified that her lifestyle is 
contributing to it. At a gathering of environmental activists, Tia meets 
Ari Damek, a driven, purposeful negotiator who works with U.N. delegations 
for the Kyoto Protocol. From their first date, he speaks of Legacy: how the 
choices we make now will affect the generations to come.

A story of love and heroism, Legacy integrates climate change forecasts and 
real solutions. It brings alive technologies and proposals from today's 
leading environmental scientists, economists and political thinkers. This 
is a tale of possibilities.

Join Tia, Ari, their circle of activist friends, and their children on a 
40-year journey, battling consumerism, coping with climate change and sea 
level rise, restoring wildlife ecosystems, wrestling national policies and 
international treaties, counteracting citizen apathy with both grassroots 
and top-down approaches. Legacy envisions the wonder that can be if we work 
together toward a more sustainable future. Come join us.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A native Southern Californian, Joanne Poyourow lives in Los Angeles with 
her husband and two children, in the midst of an edible landscaping garden.

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What if there were ...

  a passionate circle of environmentalists working together, restoring 
every facet of life
  a major city, transformed to Sustainability, in the midst of the 5th 
largest economy in the world
  international cooperation that stabilized global warming
  a heroic man who thought in terms of generations rather than years
  a family that reached more than seven generations into the future
  a place for you, to become a part of the story ....

Table of Contents
Preface
   2105

  The Permaculture Flower

Part One

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the 
life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one 
can come.
-- Joseph Campbell

Year
Chapter 1
Voracious
2002
Chapter 2
Possibilities
2002
Chapter 3
Time to Choose
2002
Part Two

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
   -- Margaret Meade

Chapter 4
Thoughtful
   2002-2005
Chapter 5
Committed
2005-2011
Chapter 6
No Longer a Small Group
   2011-2018
Chapter 7
A Lot of Courage
   2018-2025
Chapter 8
Healing the Earth
2026-2032


Part Three

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible 
before they were done.
    -- Louis Brandeis

Chapter 9
Impossible
2032-2041
Chapter 10
Sustainability
2041-2045
Chapter 11
The Transformation Wave
   2005
Nonfiction footnotes
Glossary

Author Biography

Joanne Poyourow excels at integrating broad theories from multiple 
disciplines. She distills complex issues down to clear examples which 
people can understand.
She has worked with multinational corporations and their executives, and 
volunteered alongside the parents of inner city schoolchildren. She has 
created grassroots community-building networks, and designed workshops 
about Purpose and Legacy.

Through her experience with organics, native plants, edble landscaping, 
Permaculture, wildlife and soils, she has a tangible sense of the web of 
life, and the disconnection between modern city lifestyles and this natural 
wonder. As a past manager and trainer to community-rallying service 
projects, Joanne knows well the power of a positive vision.

Joanne’s diverse knowledge base includes environmental issues, financial 
markets, literature, history, alternative learning, philosophy and 
psychology. Her favorite word to describe herself is 'multiplicity.' As a 
storyteller Joanne is deeply connected with the fears of everyman, together 
with our need for noble heroes.

She is a columnist at the international network Gardening Organically at 
YahooGroups, and is a founding member and speaker at Environmental 
Change-Makers, an environmental action support group in Los Angeles. She 
holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California at 
Santa Barbara, and was a C.P.A. in public practice for 13 years.

A native Southern Californian, she lives with her family in Los Angeles in 
the midst of an edible landscaping garden, where her squash plants, 
parsnips and chard have been known to get a bit on the wild side.

Specialization tends to limit the field of problems that the specialist is 
concerned with. Now, the person who isn't a specialist, but a generalist 
like myself, sees something over here that he has learned from one 
specialist, something over there that he has learned from another 
specialist - and neither of them has considered the problem of why this 
occurs here and also there. So the generalist - and that's a derogatory 
term, by the way, for academics - gets into a range of other problems that 
are more genuinely human, you might say, than specifically cultural.

--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

READER COMMENTS:

It is refreshing to find an upbeat book about such an overwhelming subject! 
And even better, to read a positive social and technological plan to combat 
global warming, instead of the doomed or helpless attitudes that abound, or 
'the sky is falling' articles with no ideas or plan for how to change. It 
was great to find out that the technologies described are real and to read 
a coherent description of the politics involved.
-- "bhan," online review

We have quite a bit of apocalyptic imagining in our precarious time;
it's sweet and sensible to balance it with a glimpse or two of the world we 
might build if we got down to work.
-- Bill McKibben

The book was very thought-provoking,
and the author did a wonderful job of presenting the challenges we will be 
facing and a comprehensive blueprint for dealing with them. She wove it 
into a nicely developed plot and personal story, which will attract a 
reader who might not otherwise take the time or trouble to learn about 
these things.
The book did a beautiful job of putting things into perspective, which
often times gets lost in the clutter of the 10,000 environmental issues
that pop up and become the focus of debate.
-- DP, Cypress, CA

I am completely blown away. I can’t even express how impressed I am not 
only with the depth of the subjects but with the writing. I have a stack of 
books I’m trying to read right now but I’m glued to this one. The book is 
inspiring me to take action and make my own contributions towards 
sustainability.
-- PB, Stevensville, MD

Photo credit: Colonial Williamsburg Garden 3 by Brian Deihl, New Berlin, PA

©2005 Joanne Poyourow All Rights Reserved
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