BioneersYouth
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This is a forum for youth Bioneers attendees to share our unique experiences from Bioneers 2007. Here we will stay connected to other youth leaders we met at the conference and keep the dialogue rolling! Read what others are talking about and get involved with others in your area.Remember that you have to "join" WiserEarth, which is free of course, if you w ...learn more
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Created: Oct 10, 2007
Updated: Sep 28, 2009
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Patrick Thomas
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Permaculture
(3263 people) | Environmental Justice
(1980 people) | Environmental Education
(3384 people) | Cultural Diversity
(2552 people) | Literature
(1700 people) | Publishing
(1034 people) | Sustainable Production
(2468 people) | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
(2794 people) | Literacy
(1192 people) | Ecolabeling and Certification
(1238 people) | Arts Activism
(2150 people)
About
Born and raised in nomadic suburbia (in other words, our family moved from one suburb to the next
in search of prosperity) I have spent my conscious life searching for both place and meaning. This, along with a general bookish nature, led me to a life as an editor of environmentally inclined literary nonfiction. Here's a good quote from Bill Kittredge to illustrate why I chose books as my avenue for social change:
"We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in. Late in the night we listen to our own breathing in the dark, and rework our stories, and we do it again the next morning, and all day long, before the looking glass of ourselves, reinventing our purposes. Without storytelling it's hard to recognize ultimate reasons why one action is more essential than another."--Bill Kittredge, from Taking Care
So in other words, in my position as assistant editor at Milkweed Editions, one of the nation's largest, nonprofit literary publishers, I'm trying to learn how to tell stories, and to develop stories that move our world beyond sustainability, to a restorative future.
in search of prosperity) I have spent my conscious life searching for both place and meaning. This, along with a general bookish nature, led me to a life as an editor of environmentally inclined literary nonfiction. Here's a good quote from Bill Kittredge to illustrate why I chose books as my avenue for social change:
"We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in. Late in the night we listen to our own breathing in the dark, and rework our stories, and we do it again the next morning, and all day long, before the looking glass of ourselves, reinventing our purposes. Without storytelling it's hard to recognize ultimate reasons why one action is more essential than another."--Bill Kittredge, from Taking Care
So in other words, in my position as assistant editor at Milkweed Editions, one of the nation's largest, nonprofit literary publishers, I'm trying to learn how to tell stories, and to develop stories that move our world beyond sustainability, to a restorative future.