[SustainableTompkins] NEW BOOK, Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University Michael M'Gonigle and Justine Starke

[Daniel Roth]

This book has a bunch of pages on the Red Bud woods situation. They
interviewed a bunch of the people involved.

Dan Roth



On 10/9/06 9:54 AM, "Michael Burns" <michael at fingerlakespermaculture.org>
wrote:

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>> From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe at silcom.com>
>> Date: October 9, 2006 1:42:36 AM EDT
>> To: "International Permaculture List"
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>> Subject: [permaculture] NEW BOOK, Planet U: Sustaining the World,
>> Reinventing the University Michael M'Gonigle and Justine Starke
>> Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
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>> http://www.airamerica.com/ecotalk/node/255
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>> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
>> by Philippe Boucher on October 6, 2006 - 12:24am.
>> 
>>    Michael M'Gonigle, coauthor of Planet U: Sustaining the World,
>> Reinventing the University talks about what huge contribution they
>> could
>> make toward sustainability.
>> LISTEN (12 min)
>> 
>> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University by Michael
>> M'Gonigle and Justine Starke. New Society Publishers, 2006.
>> 
>> Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University explores the
>> unique nature of the university as a vehicle for becoming an integrated
>> model of place-based sustainability. Each university is different, but
>> each
>> has attributes that no other institution has, collectively equipping
>> these
>> places with an unparalleled potential for ecological innovation and
>> ability
>> to drive regional sustainability. The historical role of the
>> university as
>> a site and catalyst of social critique and change is evolving, and
>> Planet U
>> addresses the university as the object of change as well as the agent
>> of
>> change.
>> 
>> Touching on everything from the development of complete campus
>> communities
>> to food security programs to innovative transportation systems,
>> M'Gonigle
>> and Starke weave together a series of best practices and examples from
>> around the world. Alongside this comprehensive survey of the
>> sustainable
>> campuses movement is a narrative focus of the authors' struggle at the
>> University of Victoria to catalyse complete community at their
>> university.
>> Planet U puts forth a place-based strategy to integrate everything
>> from the
>> development of green buildings to local reinvestment strategies to
>> governance structures into an integrated approach for university
>> sustainability.
>> 
>>    Distinctively, Planet U includes both a discussion of technical
>> possibilities and one that addresses the underlying power issues
>> necessary
>> for "ecological governance." Universities must engage in democratic
>> reform
>> of their governance structures to enable the high degree of ecological
>> innovation that they are capable of. Planet U provides the movement
>> with
>> the inspiration to begin addressing this too-often overlooked aspect of
>> sustainability.
>> 
>> Planet U is of interest to a wide audience -- environmentalists and
>> student
>> activists, academics and administrators, business people and
>> politicians,
>> and to anyone concerned with how we can think our way out of the
>> ever-escalating crises of global sustainability, and how we can act
>> right
>> now. To sustain the world, we must reinvent the university, one place
>> at a
>> time.
>> 
>> Michael M'Gonigle holds the Eco Research Chair in Environmental Law and
>> Policy at the University of Victoria and is the founder of the POLIS
>> Project on Ecological Governance.
>> 
>> Justine Starke has recently completed a Master in Arts in Planning at
>> the
>> University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional
>> Planning.
>> 
>> For more about Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the
>> University
>> and the Planet U movement check out: www.planetaryuniversity.org
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