Eutopias

Making Good Places Ecologically and Culturally

Alan Wittbecker

Contents Outline

I. Utopia: No Place

Images/Symbols

Reason

I.A. The Lure of Nowhere

I.A.1. Getting Nowhere

I.A.1.a. The Gift of Bigness/The Lure of Speed

I.A.1.b. The Theft of Life, Choice, and Intelligence

I.A.2. Being Nowhere

I.A.2.a. Nations and War

I.A.2.b. Placelessness

I.A.3. Leaving Nowhere

I.A.3.a. Habit and Hope

I.A.3.b. Science

I.B. The Ideal Place

I.B.1. Designing Nowhere

I.B.1.a. General Characteristics

I.B.1.a.i. Ungrounded Static Teleological Ingenuous

I.B.1.a.ii. Simplistic Homogenous Incomplete

I.B.1.b. Goals and Failed Designs

I.B.2. Good and The Possibility of Evil

I.B.2.a. Good

I.B.2.b. Evil

I.B.2.b.i. Size/Freedom

I.B.2.b.ii. Knowledge/Intent

I.B.2.c. The Tragic Species

II. Making Places

II.A. Standing in Place: Epistemology

II.A.1. Traditional Science

II.A.2. Organic Science

II.A.2.a. Qualitative

II.A.2.b. Holecological

II.B. Knowing a Place: Ecology

II.B.1. The Environment

II.B.1.a. Ecosystems

II.B.1.b. Change/Evolution

II.B.2. Holecological History

II.B.2.a. Animal Histories

II.B.2.b. Human

II.B.2.b.i. Hunting/Gathering

II.B.2.b.ii. Agriculture/Pets

II.B.2.b.iii. Population Growth

II.B.2.b.iv. Humanity as a Geological Force

II.B.2.c. Good Ecosystems

II.B.2.c.i. Stability

II.B.2.c.ii. Integrity/Wholeness

II.B.2.c.iii. Health/Maturity/Diversity

II.B.2.c.iv. Renewability

II.B.3. Human Ecology

II.B.3.a. Living in Place

II.B.3.a.i. Home

II.B.3.a.ii. Imagination

II.B.3.b. The Image of Place: Human Cosmologies

II.B.3.b.i. Similarities

II.B.3.b.ii. Holocosmological Framework

II.B.4. Pan Ecology

II.B.4.a. Ecophilia/Topophilia

II.B.4.b. Design of Ecosystems

II.B.4.c. Good Places

II.B.4.c.i. History and Investment

II.B.4.c.ii. Participation/Attachment/Care/Committment

II.B.4.c.iii. Center of Existence and Meaning/Focus

II.B.4.c.iv. Identity, Extension of Self to Place/Rootedness

II.B.4.c.v. Openness of Place/Aesthetic Source/Order/Cosmos

II.B.4.c.vi. Richness

II.B.4.c.vii. Challenge

II.B.4.d. Global Connectiveness/Global Limits

II.C. Managing the Place: Economics

II.C.1. Money and Growth

II.C.2. Holeconomics

II.C.2.a. Wealth of the Earth

II.C.2.b. Wealth of Humanity

II.C.3. Good Society

II.C.3.a. Optimum Size/Scale

II.C.3.b. Conviviality/Appropriate Technology

II.C.3.c. Mixed Economy

II.C.3.d. Plenitude (enoughness or prosperity) and Equity of Wealth

II.C.3.e. Stable Politics and Peace and Justice

II.C.3.f. Opportunity for meaning in work, community, metaphysics Freedom

II.C.3.g. Balance of material/spiritual/Health and Well-being

II.C.3.h. Education for Continuity

II.C.3.h. Flexibility for change

II.D. Managing the Inhabitants: Politics

II.D.1. Growth and Movement

II.D.1.a. Models

II.D.1.a.i. Mathematical/Conceptual

II.D.1.a.i.a. Productivity

II.D.1.a.i.b. Population

II.D.1.a.ii. Biological/World

II.D.1.b. Games/Systems

II.D.2. Planning

II.D.2.a. Limits

II.D.2.a.i. Ecosystem/Global

II.D.2.a.ii. Human/Social

II.D.2.b. Zoning

II.D.2.b.i. Wilderness

II.D.2.b.ii. Common Places (Palouse)

Creation

Restoration

II.D.2.b.iii. Human Places

II.D.3. Changes

II.D.3.a.Ownership

II.D.3.b Education

II.D.3.c Leadership

II.D.3.d. One World

II.D.4. Transition

II.E.4.a. Action

II.E.4.b. Catastrophe

III. Eutopias: Good Places

The Lure of Good Places

The Existence of Good Places

III.A. Describing Somewhere

III.A.1. Characteristics

III.A.1.a. Grounded Dynamic Adventitious Sophisticated

III.A.1.b. Complex, Heterogenous, Comprehensive

III.A.2. Structure/Framework

III.A.2.a. Norms

III.A.2.b. Principles

III.A.2.c. Actions

III.B. Being Somewhere In Context

III.B.1. Individuals

III.B.1.a. Participation

III.B.1.b. Responsibilities

III.B.1.b.i. Health/Fulfillment

III.B.1.b.ii. Nonviolence

III.B.2. Republics

III.B.2.a. Recognizing

III.B.2.b. Responsibilities

III.B.2.b.i. Boundaries

III.B.2.b.ii. Population

III.B.3. United Republics

III.B.3.a. Necessity/Creation

III.B.3.b. Responsibilities

III.B.3.b.i. Population

III.B.3.b.ii. Peace

III.C. Getting Somewhere

III.C.1. The Decline of Large Nations

III.C.2. Recognizing Global Local Differences

III.C.3. Implementing Steps

III.C.4. Advertising Good Places

III.D. Eutopias

III.D.1. Health

III.D.2. Conclusion

III.D.3. Coda

IV. Principles

IV.A. General

IV.B. Global

IV.C. Republic

IV.D. Individual

V. End Matter

V.A. Bibliography

V.B. Index