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<p> List of Tables, Figures, and Maps<br> Acknowledgements<br> Contributors</p>
<p> <strong>Prologue</strong><br> <em>E.N. Anderson</em></p>
<p> <strong>Introduction: </strong>Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An Introduction<br> <em>Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto</em></p>
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<p> <strong>PART I: BIOREGIONALISM</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1. </strong>Growing a Life-Place Politics<br> <em>Peter Berg</em>&#xa0; &#xa0;</p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2. </strong>On Bioregionalism and Watershed Consciousness<br> <em>James J. Parsons</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3. </strong>Growing an Oak: An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism<br> <em>Brian C. Campbell</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4. </strong>The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge &amp; Consciousness<br> <em>Steve Alexander and Baylor Johnson</em></p>
<p> <strong>Further Readings on Bioregionalism</strong></p>
<p> <strong>PART II: PERMACULTURE</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5. </strong>Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward Sustainability<br> <em>James R. Veteto and Joshua Lockyer</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6.&#xa0; </strong>Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health Farms<br> <em>Guntra Aistara</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 7.&#xa0; </strong>Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed Ecovillage<br> <em>Randolph Haluza-Delay and Ron Berezan</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 8.&#xa0; </strong>Culture, Permaculture and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston Foodshed<br> <em>Bob Randall</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 9.&#xa0; </strong>Putting Permaculture Ethics to Work: Commons Thinking, Progress and Hope<br> <em>Katy Fox</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 10. </strong>Permaculture in Practice: Low Impact Development in Britain<br> <em>Jenny Pickerill</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 11. </strong>In Search of Global Sustainability and Justice: How Permaculture Can Contribute to Development Policy<br> <em>Aili </em><em>Pyhälä</em></p>
<p> <strong>Further Readings on Permaculture</strong></p>
<p> <strong>PART III: ECOVILLAGES</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 12. </strong>From Islands to Networks: The History and Future of the Ecovillage Movement<br> <em>Jonathan Dawson</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 13. </strong>Creating Alternative Political Ecologies through the Construction of Ecovillages and Ecovillagers in Colombia<br> <em>Brian Burke and Beatriz Arjona</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 14. </strong>Globalizing the Ecovillage Ideal: Networks of Neighborliness, Seeds of Hope<br> <em>Todd LeVasseur</em>&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;</p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 15.&#xa0; </strong>Academia’s Hidden Curriculum and Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education<br> <em>Daniel </em><em>Greenberg</em>&#xa0;&#xa0;</p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 16. </strong>Ecovillages and Capitalism: Building Sustainable Communities within an Unsustainable Context<br> <em>Ted Baker</em></p>
<p> <strong>Further Readings on Ecovillages</strong></p>

<p> <strong>James R. Veteto</strong> is Assistant Professor and faculty member of the Cherokee Studies Program in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University. He is Executive Director of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies and Director of the Southern Seed Legacy.</p>