This podcast is part of our "Rediscovering Our Song" series
Tom Wessels: Relocalizing Communities
Tom Wessels
Tom is a terrestrial ecologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University New England where he founded the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology. His interest range from forest, desert, arctic, and alpine ecosystems, geomorphology, evolutionary ecology, complex systems science, to the interface of landscape , culture, and economy.
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Show Notes: https://centristchange.blogspot.com/2023/03/tom-wessells-relocalizing-communities.html
Tom calls himself a terrestrial ecologist. But he is also a philosopher and an astute observer of all kinds of communities, including human ones.
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He has conducted workshops on ecology and sustainability throughout the country for over three decades and he is the author of numerous books including his Reading the Forested Landscape series. His book The Myth of Progress is now in its third printing.
More than 15 years ago Tom Wessels gave an address at Antioch titled "Restorying America".
Inspired by Author Robin Kimmerer, writer of the best-selling book "Braiding Sweetgrass", who had used the phrase in an address she had given at Antioch herself.
Tom makes a forceful case that the change we need begins - right where he did - at the grassroots.
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Despite the fact that his own scientific specialization has evolved to what has come to be known as Complex systems science, Tom believes that our salvation lies in our civic and biological grassroots. He believes that the majority of Americans share a core of values around community and family that have the potential to unite us.
I've said it before, Tom Wessels is a national treasure. In years to come I believe he will be remembered among the most important environmental and civic leaders of our generation. Mentioned in the same breath as John Muir or Aldo Leopold, or Rachel Carson.
This podcast is part of our special series "Rediscovering Our Song" focusing on speaking with national opinion makers who are helping us to explore avenues for building common ground among people of goodwill who have diverse opinions and beliefs. My thanks to Tom for being a part of this important effort.
To Restory America (Tom Wessels) - Part 1
Tom Wessels, core faculty in the Antioch University New England Department of Environmental Studies, spoke about the need to reclaim the story the nation's founders told about the kind of country the United States should be. The story has shifted from thrift and community to consumption and the individual. The myriad problems we face today cannot truly begin to be addressed until we frame the story differently.
To Restory America (Tom Wessels) - Part 1 (part 1 of 3)
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