Author: Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was cofounder of the ISE and professor emeritus at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He was a prophetic voice in the ecology movement for more than forty-five years, and is the author of numerous books and articles. His last books include four volumes of The Third Revolution (1996-2003), and The Murray Bookchin Reader (1998). Bookchin's classic works include Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982), Urbanization without Cities (1986), and The Philosophy of Social Ecology (1994).

Our Synthetic Environment (Ch 1)

Our Synthetic Environment Chapter 1 Tuesday, November 18 2003 @ 01:22 AM PST Contributed by: murray By: Murray Bookchin CHAPTER ONE: THE PROBLEM Our Changed Environment Life in the United States has changed so radically over the past one hundred years that the most wearisome historians tend to become rhapsodic when they describe the new […]

Our Synthetic Environment (Ch 8)

CHAPTER EIGHT: HEALTH AND SOCIETY Individual and Social Aspects of Health A new approach is likely to gain easier acceptance if it involves individual rather than social action. The majority of people tend to look for immediate, practical solutions that they can adopt without having to face major social and environmental problems. They search for […]

Our Synthetic Environment (Appendixes)

APPENDIX A: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF ILLNESS -An Excerpt from “The Healthy Environment” by John D. Porterfield, Deputy Surgeon General of the United States* Our dazzling technological progress since World War II has yielded a random harvest of mixed blessings, and a bumper crop of new health challenges. These challenges differ from our traditional health concerns […]