House Organ 1

Essay
Ecological Perspectives on Alternative Development:
The Rainbow Plan
By Muto Ichiyo 3

Symposium
John Clark's "A Social Ecology": Comments
By Joel Kovel, Kate Soper, and Mary
Mellor; Reply by John Clark 25

Ecological Socialism
Some Reflections on CNS's Conference on
"What is Ecological Socialism?"
By James O'Connor 47
Planning Safe Spaces with Children
By Sandra Meucci 56
Child Care and Child Rearing Today and Tomorrow
By Suzanne Helburn 64

Classics
The Unknown Wallace
By Mike Davis 73 The Plunder of the Earth
By Alfred Russel Wallace 78

Eppur4 Si Muove
How Different are Natural and Social Science?
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 85

Landscapes
Wastesheds
By Michael Vincent McGinnis 91

Ripples In Clio's Pond
The Pre-Industrial City as Ecosystem
By J. Donald Hughes 105

Economic Notebook
The Euro in Europe's Future: A Discussion with Elmar
Altvater, Juan Martínez Alier, and Giovanna Ricoveri 111

Nature Prospects
Human Needs and Natural Relations:
The Dilemmas of Ecology II
By Kate Soper 119

Brief
On Murray Bookchin's Philosophy of Social Ecology
By Don Alexander 125

Teaching Political Ecology
Politics of Nature: An Overview of Political Ecology
By Peter Walker 131

Book Reviews
Arran Gare, NIHILISM, INC.: Environmental
Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability
By Joel Kovel 145
David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography
of Difference
By John Barry 148
David Macauley, ed., Minding Nature: The Philosophers
of Ecology
By Tim Stroshane 152
Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor, Who Owns
the Sun? People, Politics, and the Struggle for a
Solar Economy
By Robert Gordon 155
Harold Crooks, Giants of Garbage: The Rise of the
Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution
Control
By Maarten de Kadt 157

Sudhir Chella Rajan, The Enigma of Automobility:
Democratic Politics and Pollution Control
By George Martin 160
Garrett Hardin, Living Within Limits: Ecology,
Economics, and Population Taboos
By Penn Loh 162

Letters 164