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Written By: Toban Penner

The Ecozoic Reader 4, No. 2 (2005)

How Did We Get Here?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

John Cock

Meditations on True Religion

Herman Greene

Don’t Know Much About History . . . Don’t Know Much About Biology

F. Nelson Stover

The Pendulum Swings (Recounting Five Great Endeavors of the Human Species)

Connie Barlow

Goodbye Eternal Frontier

F. Nelson Stover

I’ve Watched a Billion Years Pass (The Memoirs of an Appalachian Mountain Rock)

Ellen LaConte

Civilization & Agriculture: Mixed Blessings on Our Way Here

Ellen LaConte

The Poetry of John Clare: Lessons for the ‘Ownership Society’ (Introduction)

Herman Greene and Ellen LaConte

Ecozoic Book Reviews

Herman Greene and Ellen LaConte

Ecozoic Annotated Bibliography

Author Biographies

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