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	Fiction NonFiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Contacts	Fresh oxygen for the political neurons. Relentlessly self-critical. Paranoia transmuted into understanding and honesty. An antidote for eco-left ineffectiveness, secreted from within. Leads to unexplored plateaus. So new, it moves. — Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent and editor of Shamans Through Time FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Political Ecosystems: Modernity, Complexity, Fluidity and the Eco-Left by J.P. Harpignies Pub Date: October 15, 2004 ISBN 0-9720662-9-2 240 pages $15.95 Distributed to the trade by Biblio Distribution Published by Spuyten Duyvil Political Ecosystems is an unusual and highly original appeal to left-progressives and environmentalists and those sympathetic to those movements. It urges them to engage in more thorough self-examination, to assess more realistically their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots, and to learn to look at the darkened American political panorama through a variety of far more sophisticated lenses, and with a broader, longer, more nuanced view of history, culture and social change. A modest yet deeply informed account of the current state of eco and social justice activism and its adherents, Harpignies invites us to engage in a rigorous, but entertaining, and ideally rejuvenating, set of ideological calisthenics. # # # J.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. and Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes. A former program director at the New York Open Center and contributing editor to its magazine Lapis, he is an associate producer of the annual Bioneers environmental conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer for other organizations. He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical critique of genetic manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the Bioneers book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions (Sierra Club Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan and is based in Brooklyn, NYC. # # #

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Fresh oxygen for the political neurons. Relentlessly self-critical. Paranoia transmuted into
understanding and honesty. An antidote for eco-left ineffectiveness, secreted from within.
Leads to unexplored plateaus. So new, it moves. — Jeremy Narby, author of The
Cosmic Serpent and editor of Shamans Through Time

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Political Ecosystems: Modernity, Complexity, Fluidity and the Eco-Left
by J.P. Harpignies
Pub Date: October 15, 2004
ISBN 0-9720662-9-2
240 pages $15.95
Distributed to the trade by Biblio Distribution
Published by Spuyten Duyvil

Political Ecosystems is an unusual and highly original appeal to left-progressives and environmentalists
and those sympathetic to those movements. It urges them to engage in more thorough self-examination,
to assess more realistically their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots, and to learn to look at the
darkened American political panorama through a variety of far more sophisticated lenses, and with a
broader, longer, more nuanced view of history, culture and social change. A modest yet deeply informed
account of the current state of eco and social justice activism and its adherents, Harpignies invites us to
engage in a rigorous, but entertaining, and ideally rejuvenating, set of ideological calisthenics.

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J.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. and
Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes. A former program director at the New
York Open Center and contributing editor to its magazine Lapis, he is an associate producer of the
annual Bioneers environmental conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer
for other organizations. He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical
critique of genetic manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the
Bioneers book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions
(Sierra Club Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan and is based in Brooklyn, NYC.

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