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CONTENTS

  • 1) MSI Newsletters
  • 2) Books
  • 3) DVD's
  • 4) Links
  • 5) Events
  • 6) Articles


MSI Newsletter Archives
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Books

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Mann, Charles C.
Autobiography of a Yogi,
Yogananda, Paramahansa
Awakening to Zero Point,
Braden, Gregg
Chavin & The Origins of Andean Civilization,
Burger, Richard
Children's Special Places , David Sobel (Wayne State University Press, 2001
Complete Works,
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Confessions of an Economic Hitman,
Perkins, John
Cosmic Serpent, Narby, Jeremy
Coyote's Guide to Connecting Kids with Nature , Jon Young, Ellen Haas, Evan McGown
Creating a Family Garden:
Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages , Bunny Guinness
Death and Letting Go,
Tadd, Ellen
Exploring the Power of Solo, Silence, and Solitude
Edited by C. Knapp & T Smith
French Through Pictures,
Richards, I.A.
Go Outside: Over 130 Activities for Outdoor Adventures , Nancy Blakey
Keeping a Nature Journal:
Seeing the World Around You , Clare Walker Leslie
Leadership in the New Science,
Wheatly, Meg
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from the Nature Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight:
Revised. The Fate of the World, Hartmann, Thom
Light on Yoga,
B.K.S. Iyengar
Mobs Markets and Messiahs
Nature's Seven Doctors, Kirschner, H. E.
Power Down,
Heinberg, Richard
Power of Now,
Tolle, Eckhart
Power of Place:
How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, & Actions, Gallagher, W.
Saved by the Light,
Brinkley, Dannion
Sharing Nature with Children , Joseph Cornell
Spanish Through Pictures,
Richards, I.A.
The Great Unraveling:
Losing Our Way in the New Century, Krugman, Paul
The Money Trust (1913),
Hon. Charles Linberg Sr.
The Party's Over
: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Heinberg, Richard
Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson with David Oliver Relin
Unplugged Play , Bobbi Conner
Out of Africa:
Karen Blixen
Outward Bound: Schools of the Possible,
Godfrey, Robert
Plan B 2.0:
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Brown, Lester R.
Woman in a Shaman's Body
World Journey of the 14th Dali Lama
Yoga The Iyengar Way,
Silva Mehta, Mira Mehta, and Shyam Mehta

*Why is this list not linked to Amazon?
We encourage you to purchase books from your local independent bookseller.

• 
•  (Wilderness Awareness School, 2008)
•  (Abbeville Press, 1996)
•  (Tricycle Press, 2002)
•  and Charles E. Roth (Storey, 2003)
•  (Workman Publishing, 2005).
•  (Dawn Publications, 1998)
•  (Workman, 2007)

FILM/DVD's

An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore's Educational Film on Global Climate Change
Crude Awakening
Escape from Suburbia-
By the same producers of the DVD below
End of Suburbia -
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
From Freedom to Fascism:
Aaron Russo's expose on the IRS and more
Men's Group
My Life
Once
Ratatouille
Sicko - Michael Moore
Supressed Medical Discovery: Dr. David Beck
The Great Turning - From Empire to Earth Community by Yes Magazine
The Money Masters
The Money Fix: Hood River's Community Currency, River Hours, Premiers June 21st, 2007
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Secret
What the Bleep Do We Know
What the Bleep, Down the Rabbit Hole
Who Killed Democracy
Who Killed the Electric Car

Links: These are links we personally and highly recommend.

Education & Health

American Camp Association
Appreciative Inquiry

Association for Experiential Ed
Audubon Adventures
Awakening Program
Center for Global Leadership

Children and Nature Network
Climbing Life
Community Action Guide: Building the Children and Nature Network from the Ground Up
From Freedom To Fascism
Gary Acevedo's Dreammakers

Go Green Iniative
Holly Flanders/Juice Plus
Hooked on Nature
Infinite Persistence Institute
Integrative Health Network
Kurt Hahn

Michael Moore
MSI's Blog
More Kids in the Woods- U.S. Forest Service
N'l Outdoor Leadership School
NWF's GreenHour
NWF's Great American Backyard Campout
No Child Left Inside Coalition
Northfield Conference
Omega Institute
Outward Bound

Poqen Kanchay Foundation
Report on the Movement to Connect Children with Nature
The Spiritual Center
Take a Child Outside
What the Bleep

Music/Art for the Soul:

Chimu Inka: Peruvian Musica Folklorica
Click Horning
Fat Hands Website
FatHands- Kutylowski Bros.
Randy Richards
Snatam Kaur
Susan Parmenter: Master Painter
Leavenworth CoffeeHouse
Sunapee CoffeeHouse

News:

Alternet.org
Democracy Now: Amy Goodman
Mt. Everest News
Kearsarge Magazine
Faithful America
MSI's Blog
Mountain Zone.com
The Power Hour
Sunapee News
We the People
Yes Magazine

Suppliers/Vendors:

Co-op America
Green Shopper.com
Native American Flutes: Mike Cheney

Sustainabilty:

Aspen's Canary Initiative
Fair Trade Federation
Friends of Mount Sunapee
James Howard Kunstler
Lake Sunapee Protective Assoc.
Mountain Insitute
Rocky Mountain Institute
NH Forests Society

World Watch Institute

Travel Responsibly

Lonely Planet
South American Explorer's Club
Sustainable Travel I'l

Events

Sunapee SunFest
Florida's Sunfest

Going Green Expos Worldwide
The Spiritual Center
Vermont's SolarFest

Articles, Readings, Quotes (Also, see our blog)

  • 1) Willie Unsoeld: The Spiritual Values of Wilderness
  • 2) Eckhart Tolle
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1) The Spiritual Values of Wilderness
From Pacific Crest Outward Bound School Book of Readings

And so what is the final test of the efficacy of this wilderness experience we've just been through together? Because having been there, in the mountains, alone, in the midst of solitude, and this feeling, this mystical feeling if you will, of the ultimacy of joy and whatever there is. The question is, "Why not stay out there in the wilderness the rest of your days and just live in the lap of Satori or whatever you want to call it?" And the answer, my answer to that is, "Because that's not where people are." And the final test for me of the legitimacy of the experience is, "How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?"

And now you see how this phases with the role of wilderness, It's a renewal exercise and as I visualize it, it leads to a process of alternation. You go to nature for your metaphysical fix - your reassurance that there's something behind it all and it's good. You come back to where people are, to where people are messing things up, because people tend to, and you come back with a new ability to relate to your fellow souls and to help your fellow souls relate to each other.

Willi Unsoeld, Former Director of Northwest Outward Bound
Founding Board Member of Evergreen State College
[Edited: Male references replaced with non-gender specific terms]

2) Eckhart Tolle

"When you perceive nature only through the mind, through thinking, you cannot sense its aliveness, its beingness. You see the form only and are unaware of the life within the form - The sacred mystery. Thought reduces nature to a commodity to be used in the pursuit of profit or knowledge or some other utilitarian purpose. The ancient forest becomes timber, the bird a research project, the mountain something to be mined or conquered.
When you perceive nature, let there be spaces of no thought, no mind. When you approach nature in this way, it will respond to you and participate in the evolution of human and planetary consciousness."

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