How do people concerned for both the state of the living Earth & the state of the city, town & village confront the immense problems of today? With tough critique & enormous enthusiasm & creative innovation. Here are up-to-date chronicles of the movement for ecological city design & planning. A series of international conferences has become a key focal point of the growing concern for our cities impact on both nature & society. VILLAGE WISDOM/FUTURE CITIES is based on the most recent of these conferences, held in a traditional village of Senegal, West Africa. Here are the successes of Curitiba, Brazil, the ecocity plans of Bergen, Norway, the healthy traditions of old villages & new ecovillages world wide. From the poetic welcome of the mayor of Dakar, Mamadou Diop, to the detailed consideration of civilian's proper role in the Earth's biosphere, the book is a rich compendium of on-the-ground steps to a humanity in balance with nature. Fifty-two speakers present climate-tuned architecture, community layout, alternatives to cars, organic urban agriculture & the latest in both basic & high technology, physical transformation & changing policy & life ways. To order: Ecocity Builders, 5427 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA 94609, 510-649-1817.… (more)