Table of Contents
Introduction. You Can’t Have Your Cake Unless You Eat It, Too: On Duel-ism; Living like Bees, Beavers, and Wolves; Using Alien Solutions to Earthly Problems; Becoming Native Again
Chapter 1. Pink Panthers and Lost Tribes: Restoring Life to Dead Land; The Pink Panther People; A Lost Tribe Among Us; Showing Dog Tricks to Cat Fanatics; The Leave-It-Alone Assumption; Making the Environment Irrelevant; A Scandal in Eden
Chapter 2. Evidence of Gardeners in Eden: The Amazon as Cultural Artifact; Straight as a Rifle Shot; Self-Renewing Soil; Counterfeit Icons (False Advertising); A Map of Eden; Wild and Mutual Kingdom; Stepping Out from Behind the Blinders
Chapter 3. Echoes of Eden – Beyond Symbiosis to Synergy: The Birds Don’t Want to Live Over There All by Themselves; Don’t Run Over That Fish!; None Is the Loneliest Number (It’s a Pretty Bad Score, Too); The Synergy-Minus-One Test; Spillover Synergies; Hu
Chapter 4. Droughtbusters: Trincheras and Trincheritas; Effective Rainfall; Pooping and Stomping; Stopping a Flash Flood with Grass Blades; How Many Times Are We Going to Have to Learn This Lesson?
Chapter 5. Lub-Dub: That’s CPR Not CRP; Don’t You Smell That Smell?; The Honey Bear Test; Sequestering Carbon; Restoring One of the Wonders of the World
Chapter 6. Learning on the Fringe: Eccentric Geniuses in a Ghost Town; Water Rises to Life; Stepping on the Sponge; Terra Preta Revisited; It’s Up to the Bugs; Pleistocene Park — If We Build It, Will They Come?
Chapter 7. Return of the Natives: A World of Relationships, Not of Things; Making Home Home Again; Lub-Dubbing a Refuge; Getting Natives to Invade Invasives; Learning in the Dead Zone
Chapter 8. Eden in Flames: Bubble Cities and Space Stations; The Myth of Natural Fire; Fire Opens the Door; Fire That’s Warm and Fuzzy; Controlled Until the First Match; Hydrophobic Soils
Chapter 9. The Economics of Eden: The Currency of Mutualism; Organic, Natural, Grass-Fed, and Pasture-Raised; An Epiphany for an Investigative Journalist; The Conflict Economy; The Advantages of Using More Land
Chapter 10. Building a New Economy for Eden: Marketing the Fruits of Eden; You Can’t Sell It Unless You Can Measure It; The Three D’s; Ultralights, Quads, and Ipacs; Cowboying from Satellite; Tool-Using Plants; Reintroducing Ourselves to Nature
Chapter 11. Becoming Native Again – Toward a New Environmentalism: Gone Pack Hunting Lately?; A College Course on Eden; Discovering the Value of Earlier Cultures; A Unified Environmental Theory; Revoking the Free Pass for the Leave-It-Alone Assumption
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author and Photographer