Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World - Paperback

by Mary M. Clare (Author), Gary Ferguson (Author)

How to confront the climate crisis without losing heart.

"One of the most important books ever written on the climate crisis." --Paul Hawken, author of Carbon and Regeneration

It's easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global climate breakdown. So how might we develop the inner resolve to confront it? Full Ecology, a collaboration between social-cultural psychologist Mary M. Clare and longtime science writer Gary Ferguson, suggests a path forward. Breaking the modern impulse to see humans as separate from nature, Clare and Ferguson encourage us to learn from the "supremely methodical and highly improvisational" natural systems that touch our lives. True change, they argue, begins with us stopping and questioning assumptions about our place in the world. From this process of reflection, they offer us an alternative blueprint for acting in ecologically healthy ways, and for inspiring others to do the same. Rather than proposing a ten-step plan to save the earth, this book encourages a more elemental rethinking of our connections to nature, and of how such connections might be strengthened for the common good. Practical and poetic, scientific and spiritual, Full Ecology presents a strong, nourishing foundation for climate action.

Author Biography

Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson, the creators of the Full Ecology project, have each dedicated more than thirty-five years to exploring the world's social and natural ecologies. Clare is a fellow in the American Psychological Association, and with her PhD in psychological and cultural studies she has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and two books. Ferguson is an award-winning and internationally recognized author of twenty-six books including The Carry Home and The Eight Master Lessons of Nature. The couple live in Bozeman, Montana. Learn more about their work at fullecology.com.