Background
Katie Pearl, Lisa D’Amour and Shawn Hall describe How to Build a Forest – the collaboration, the ecosystems that inspired it, and its core values
They have provided a field guide for the materials used in the performance as well
Partial Bibliography
Barry, John M.: Rising Tide – The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Blossfeldt, Karl; The Complete Published Works
Commoner, Barry: The Closing Circle
Dietrich, William: The Final Forest: Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest
Drengson and Taylor: Wild Foresting Practicing Nature’s Wisdom
Egan, Timothy: The Worst Hard Time
Fowles, John: The Tree
Gablick, Suzi: Conversations before the End of Time
Grandon, Greg: Fordlandia
Greenberg, Paul: Four Fish
Hartman, Thom: The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight- The fate of the world and what we can do before it’s too late
Heinrich, Bernd: The Trees in my Forest
Hogan, Linda: Dwellings- A spiritual History of the Living World
Krech III, Shepard: The Ecological Indian – Myth and History
Kurlansky, Mark: Cod – A biography of the fish that changed the world
Leiren-Young, Mark: The Green Chain
Leopold, Aldo: A Sand County Almanac
McPhee, John: Control of Nature
Merwin, WS: Unchopping a Tree (poem/essay)
Mowatt, Farley: Sea of Slaughter
Narby, Ph.D., Jeremy: The Cosmic Serpent
Nouvian, Claire: The Deep- the Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
Pollan, Michael: The Botany of Desire; see http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/ and PBS’ Botany of Desire video
Preston, Richard: The Wild Trees
Rocca, Alessandro: Natural Architecture
Ross, Rupert: Returning to the Teachings
Solnit, Rebecca: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Stamets, Paul: Mycelium Running – How Mushrooms can Help Save the World
Stone, Christopher D.: Should Trees Have Standing? – Law, Morality, and the Environment
Tidwell, Mike: Bayou Farewell – The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast
Valient, Jon: The Golden Spruce
Weisman, Allen: The World Without Us
Whynott, Douglas: Following the Bloom
Additional Resources
The Crochet Coral Reef Project – our responsibility to the ocean
Maya Lin’s “Unchopping a Tree,” part of her 2009 What is Missing memorial project.
http://vimeo.com/8128504
World Environment Day (WED) sponsored by the United Nations. Occurs every June 5. In 2011 the theme was Forests: Nature at your Service.
The World of Waste Infographic (from Science) offers insights into where the world’s waste is coming from, where it is going, and how waste streams are changing.