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Contents of the Earth Manifesto
All of the
essays on the Home Page of this online manifesto are being organized into Twelve Books of the Earth Manifesto. The first ten of these books is available
right now for purchase at a maximum 30% discount from the
on-demand publisher online at Lulu.com. Each of these handsome 8.5 x 11-inch books
are 212 pages in length.
A summary of the contents of these books is
provided below. See the online Home Page
at www.EarthManifesto.com
for the source of these essays. Here is
a brief encapsulation of what you will find on the Home Page. The wide-ranging writings in this manifesto
are organized into Seven Parts, presented very roughly in the reverse order of
their evolving genesis, with the most recent writings first. “LIFO, like!”
Before Part One
are a half dozen essays and analyses that I regard of paramount importance, and
they are followed by these Seven Parts:
PART
ONE. Observations, Introspection,
Illumination and Revelation. This section includes vitally important
current and historical perspectives and universal ideas.
PART
TWO. On the Cusp of the Obama Era (Sept.
’08 - Nov. ‘08). This section includes
six essays about the tumultuous economic and social turmoil of the year 2008.
PART
THREE. Soliloquistic
Expressions – A Feast of Ideas. This
section contains sixteen creative, entertaining and consequential essays,
including one of my personal favorites, Tall
Tales, Provocative Parables, Luminous Clarity, and Evocative Truth: A Modern Log from the Sea of Cortez.
PART
FOUR. Overarching Considerations --
Transformational Ideas and Enlightened Proposals. This section includes a wide variety of
smart, specific, visionary and practical ideas for helping us to achieve the
greater good.
PART
FIVE. A Marvelous Miscellany. This section includes Tiffany Twain Entertains: A Philosophic Cookbook, and Twelve Delicious Recipes for Good Health and
Gourmet Appreciation, both of which contain some outstanding recipes for
very healthy and tasty meals. It also
contains a rough draft of an Earth Manifesto Film Script. Note that
assistance is needed to make this into a vibrant, compelling and visually
stunning film like the extraordinary documentary Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Also in this section is a list of Recommended Reading for a Broader
Understanding and Appreciation of the World.
PART
SIX. Evolutionary Understandings: Blue
Period (October 2004 – January 2006).
This section contains 32 essays concerning a wide-ranging variety of
topics.
PART SEVEN. The Original Earth Manifesto. This manuscript began more than 15 years ago
as a passionate and philosophic outpouring of Big Ideas expressed in
calligraphic form. This
original Earth Manifesto consists of 121 Soliloquies, each one a single page
that explores its own compilation of ideas.
These Soliloquies offer fresh, cogent and far-sighted perspectives into
today's dominant worldviews, and into the state of our society, economies and
politics, and of our cultures, psyches and souls. These Soliloquies represent a comprehensive
and enlightening synthesis of broad-minded understandings, insightful ideas and
ecological truths. All of them are interspersed
with concrete suggestions for achievable actions that could help make human
societies fairer, healthier, and more propitious.
Contents of the Twelve Books of the Earth
Manifesto
Common Sense
Revival
Book One of the Earth Manifesto
Table
of Contents
1.
Introduction to Common Sense
Revival
2. Real Live Experiments in Applied Trickle-Down Theoretics
3.
Sustainability Index:
An Assessment of Progress toward
Sustainable Living
4.
Proposed Bill of Rights for Future Generations
5.
Uncommon Sense and Fair-Mindedness
6.
A Clear-Eyed Patriot Issues a Clarion Call for a Second American
Revolution
7. Intelligent Precautionary Principles Enunciated -- Holy Cow!
8. One Dozen Big Initiatives to Positively
Transform Our Societies.
9. Happy Harbingers in Good
Ideas for a Better Future
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Entertaining Illumination Unleashed
Book Two of the Earth Manifesto
Table of Contents
1. A Quite Curious and Illuminating Biography
of Mark Twain
2. Huckleberry
Finn, the Forty-Niners Gold Rush, and Sensational Related Reflections
3.
Gaia’s Geological Perspective:
Episodes Since Genesis
4. The Common Good, Properly Understood
5.
Press Release
6.
Ideas Seeking Inclusion in Book Two
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Enlightenment
Book Three of the Earth
Manifesto
Table of Contents
1.
Existence, Economics, and Ecological Intelligence
2.
Transcendental Musings: A Bugle Horn Sounds for Solidarity of Purpose
3. Revelations of a Modern
Prophet
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Imaginative Perspectives and Ecopsychological
Insights
Book Four of the Earth Manifesto
Table of Contents
1. Tall Tales, Provocative Parables, Luminous
Clarity, and Evocative Truths:
A Modern Log from the Sea of
Cortez
2.
Tyrants and Damsels and Associated Incisive Insights
3.
Inspiration, Imagination and the Deep Well of Human Impulses
4.
Rapture Mania: Bizarre Beliefs and Epic Epiphanies
5.
The Odd Brilliance of Dante’s Epic Poem, The Divine Comedy
6.
Ayn Rand, Jack London, and a Fountainhead of Philosophies
7.
Salvation and the Further Adventures of Humanity:
Grasping Reality and Glimpsing the
Fairest of Big Picture Perspectives.
8. Mission to Be Accomplished
9. Mississippi River
Reflections: An Ode to a Lost Friend
10. An
Autobiographical Obituary
11.
The Implications Associated with Modernity and the Coming of the Age of
Aquarius
12.
Recommended Reading for a Broader Understanding and Appreciation of the
World
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Healthy
Recipes and Provocative Worldviews
Book Five of the Earth Manifesto
Table
of Contents
1. Tiffany Twain Entertains: A Philosophic Cookbook
2.
An Open Letter to James Hark, Mayor of Hannibal, Missouri
3.
A Feminine Vision of an Achievable Better World -- Anima Should Reign
4.
A Congratulatory Salute to Rachel Maddow
5.
Twelve Delicious Recipes for Good Health and Gourmet Appreciation
6.
Radically Simple Ways to Make America Fairer, and to Fix Both Social
Security and
Health Care So We Can Move On to
Address Bigger Issues
7.
Common Sense vs. Political Realities:
An Anatomy of Dysfunctionality
8.
Occupy Movement: What’s Next? - Occupy These
Ideas!
9.
Progressive
Agenda for a More Sane Humanity
10.
Three Bills of Right: A
Triumvirate of Responsible Actions for the Greater Good
11.
An Open Letter to the Hannibal High School Black & Red
12. A Modern Version of the
Story of Noah’s Ark
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Incisive Global Perspectives
Book Six of the Earth Manifesto
Table
of Contents
1. Principal Reasons a Bill of Rights for
Future Generations Is Needed
2. Sow
Justice, Harvest Peace
3.
Reflections on War – and Peace!
4. The
Art of Peace
5. The
Reality and Ramifications of Peak Oil
6.
Profound Psychological Perspectives and Prescriptions for Trying
Times
7. A
Peaceable Proposition – The Golden Rule ‘Greening’ of U.S. Foreign Policy
8.
Optimizing Change through Clarity of Awareness and Right Action
9. Freedom: Utopian Idea and Unifying
Objective
10.
Crystal Clear Conceptions
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Comprehensive Global
Perspective: An Illuminating Worldview
Book Seven of the Earth Manifesto
This philosophical treatise is the magnum opus of Earth
Manifesto awareness. It contains 121
chapters of insightful observations and cohesive understandings that concern
the nature of the human condition and the significant challenges facing
humanity today. It also provides
valuable ideas about how we could, and arguably should, be transforming our
lives into healthier and more meaningful ones, and our societies into fairer
and more likely sustainable ones.
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Big Picture Perspectives,
and A Pursuit of Social Activism
Book
Eight of the Earth Manifesto
Table of Contents
1. Climate Change Considerations, Carrying Capacity, and
Population Overshoot
2. Views on High from an Angular Unconformist
3.
Sad Implications of the Two Dueling Santa Claus Strategies in Political
Economics
4.
Earth Manifesto Film Script
5. An
Open Letter to President Obama – September 2009
6. A
Second Open Letter to President Obama: Provocative Proposals for
Real ‘Change We Can Believe In’
7.
General Germinating Ideas Seeking Expression in December 2015
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The Original Earth Manifesto
Book Nine
Table
of Contents
1. Original Earth Manifesto Introduction and
Overview – March 2012
2. Introduction – Serendipitous Epiphany –
October 2004
3.
Earth Manifesto
The original Earth Manifesto consisted of
121 timeless and far-sighted Soliloquies that began as passionate calligraphic
expressions and evolved into the current manuscript. These Soliloquies represent a comprehensive,
compelling and provocative exploration of ideas and principles that have been
waiting to be discovered since October 2004.
4. Index
of the 121 Earth Manifesto Soliloquy Titles
5. A
Personal Plea for Voter Sanity
6. Germinating Ideas Seeking
Expression in December 2015
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A Marvelous Miscellany of Musings and Evolutionary
Understandings
Book Ten of the Earth Manifesto
Part One: Introspections in the Tumultuous
Year of 2008
1. Sliding
Doors, Shifting Perspectives, and Transcendent Visions
2.
Crumbling Ideologies, Hope, and Baby Steps toward Wiser Ways Forward
3.
Reporting Live from the Ground Zero Bleacher Seats in the Mega Bubble
4.
Beam Me Up, Scotty! The Earth
Manifesto Arrives …
5.
The Bailout Blues and Gut Check Soul Revue
6. Twelve Compelling Reasons
to Have Chosen to Elect Barack Obama and Not John McCain in 2008
7. Twelve
Compelling Reasons to Have Chosen to Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012
Part Two: Evolutionary Understandings –
Thirty-Two Soliloquies
1.
Intelligent Redesign.
2. Evolutionary Understandings Overview.
3. Important Principles Illuminated.
4. Visionary Perspective -- The
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
5. The Big Picture.
6. Katrina Revelations.
7. Patriotism and Christianity.
8. Materialism, Aggression, and
Militarism.
9. Strategic Imperative -- Oil
Independence.
10. Superstition, Prophecy and End
Times.
11. Faith, Fundamentalism, and
Practicality.
12.
Practical Idealism, Political Philosophy, and Fairness.
13. An Ode to Liberty and Justice for
All.
14. Strategic Planning Truths.
15. Reason, Morality, and Progressive
Adaptation.
16. Top Ten Reasons to Adopt a
Progressive Agenda.
17. Freedom, Fascism, Deception, and
Rationality.
18. The U.S. Constitution -- Progress
and Reaction.
19. The True State of the Union.
20.
Media and Its Impacts.
21. A Weakness for Irresponsible
Expediencies.
22.
An Ode to Visionary Practicality.
23. Understanding the Universe.
24. The Control of Nature.
25. Quo Vadis -- Where Do We Go From
Here?
26. Our Bubble Economy.
27. Empathy and Compassion.
28. Political Prophecy.
29.
The Zeitgeist of America in the Winter of 2006.
30. Success, Failure, and
Rationality.
31. Sex, Sexual Drives, Sexual
Intercourse, and Personal Responsibility.
32. An Ode to Meaning.
Note: Both Book Eleven and Book Twelve are
on the back burner, germinating, and will be completed at a later date.
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