Site Map for Chris Maser

1. HOME
   
   
   1. Home
   
   
2. ABOUT CHRIS MASER
   
   
   1. Résumé, Summary Version
   2. Résumé, Full Version
   3. Countries and Settings
   4. Selected Clients
   5. Bibliography
      1. U.S. and Canadian Libraries That Have My Books
      2. International Libraries That Have My Books

   6. Speeches
   
   
   
3. WHAT'S NEW?
   
   
   1. Song Sparrow Hermitage
      
      
4. REQUEST RESERVATION
   
   
   1. To Schedule an Engagement, Please Contact Me
   
   
5. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
   
   
   1. Sustainable Community Development
   2. Ecological Prime Directive
   3. The Test of Social Service
   4. Our Institutionalized Resistance to Change
   5. The Hydrological Continuum
   6. The Hidden Domain of Soil
   7. Educating for Sustainability
   8. My History in Sustainable Community Development
   9. Giving Children a Voice
   10. Choice of Lifestyle
   11. Recommended Reading
       
       
       1. If you are interested in the principles and concepts of sustainable community development, read:  Sustainable Community Development
          
          
       2. For an overview of sustainable community development with an economic bent, you may find value in:  Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development
          
          
       3. Interested primarily in the ecological aspects of sustainable community development? Read:  Ecological Diversity in Sustainable Development
          
          
       4. In case all you want is a general overview of sustainable community development, you should find it in:  Setting the Stage for Sustainability:  A Citizens Handbook
          
          
       5. If you want to see how all of the elements of sustainable community can be taken into account in planning, consider reading:  Land-Use Planning in Sustainable Development
          
          
       6. If you want to know how to evaluate where you are in the process of planning for and implementing sustainable community development, you will find help in:  Evaluating Sustainable Development
          
          
       7. If you want to understand the hydrological continuum—an absolute necessity for sustainable community development, you will find help in:  Our Forest Legacy and From the Forest to the Sea
          
          
       8. If you want to understand the role of fear and violence in sustainable community development, you will find help in:  The Perpetual Consequences of Fear and Violence
          
          
       9. Finally, if you want to understand how to give children a voice in their future, read:  Teaching Kids to Change the World
   
   VI. VISION AND LEADERSHIP
   
   
   1. Why a Vision is Important
   2. The Visioning Process
   3. My History in Creating Vision Statements and Teaching Leadership
   4. Letters of Recommendation
   5. Recommended Reading
      
      
      1. If you are interested in learning the principles of helping people create a shared vision and learn about leadership at the same time, read:  Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development
   
   VII. CONFLICT RESOLUTION
   
   
   1. Conflict Resolution
   2. My History in Conflict Resolution
   3. "No Formula"
   4. Letters of Recommendation
   5. Recommended Reading
      
      
      1. If you are interested in learning about the transformative resolution of environmental conflicts, read:  Resolving Environmental Conflict
   
   VIII. FORESTRY
   
   
   1. Forestry Workshop
   2. My History in Forestry
   3. Forest Trusteeship
   4. Letters of Recommendation
   5. Recommended Reading
      
      
      1. If you are interested in sustainable forestry, read:  Sustainable Forestry
         
         
      2. To understand something about the certification of forests as managed with excellence, read:  Forest Certification
         
         
      3. Should, perchance, you want to know what I think needs to be done in terms of caretaking our federal, public forests for the benefit of all generations, read:  Our Forest Legacy
         
         
      4. Curious about the connectedness of the world's forests to the world's oceans, read:  From the Forest to the Sea
         
         
      5. To understand the biophysical commonalities of the world's forests read:  Trees, Truffles, and Beasts
   
   IX. PUBLIC SPEAKING
   
   
   1. Why Language and Communication are so Important
   2. Why Public Speaking is so Important to Me
   3. Letters of Recommendation
   4. Recommended Reading
      
      
      1. If you are interested in some tips about speaking in public, read Chapter Five in:  Resolving Environmental Conflict
   
   X. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
   
   
   1. Understanding the Pieces in Terms of the Whole
   2. My History in Environmental Education
   3. Selected Clients
   4. Letters of Recommendation
   5. Recommended Reading
      
      
      1. Want to how Nature fits together in different scales of time and space, read:  Ecological Diversity in Sustainable Development
         
         
      2. For a story about the natural history of an ancient forest through time, read:  Forest Primeval
         
         
      3. Ever wonder where "driftwood" comes from and why it's critical to the health of the aquatic world, from little mountains streams to the depths of the ocean, read:  From the Forest to the Sea
         
         
      4. If you are interested in learning something about the natural history of mammals, read:  Mammals of the Pacific Northwest

      5. If you are interested in understanding where our water comes from, read:  The Hydrological Continuum

      6. Should you one day wonder how soil is formed, read:  The Hidden Domain of Soil

      7. If you are interested in sustainable forestry, read:  Sustainable Forestry
         
         
      8. To understand something about the certification of forests as managed with excellence, read:  Forest Certification
         
         
      9. Should, perchance, you want to know what I think needs to be done in terms of caretaking our federal, public forests for the benefit of all generations, read:  Our Forest Legacy
         
         
      10. To understand the biophysical commonalities of the world's forests read:  Trees, Truffles, and Beasts
   
   XI. WRITING
   
   
   1. BOOKS
      
      
      • Sustainable Community Development
        
        
        1. Series Synopsis
        2. Conflict Resolution
        3. Ecological Diversity
        4. Reuniting Economy and Ecology
        5. Setting the Stage for Sustainability: A Citizen's Handbook
        6. Sustainable Community Development
        7. Vision and Leadership
        8. Land Use Planning
        9. Evaluating Sustainable Development
        10. Teaching Kids to Change The World
        
        
      • Natural History
        
        
        1. Forest Primeval
        2. Fleas of the Pacific Northwest
        3. Forest to Sea
        4. Mammals of the Pacific Northwest
        5. Trees, Truffles, and Beasts
        
        
      • Forestry
        
        
        1. The Redesigned Forest
        2. Sustainable Forestry
        3. From the Forest to the Sea
        4. Forest Certification
        5. Our Forest Legacy
        6. Trees, Truffles, and Beasts
        
        
      • General
        
        
        1. Global Imperative
        2. The World is in My Garden
        3. Fear and Violence
        4. Of Ditches and Ponds
        5. Of Paradoxes and Metaphors
      
      
   2. NOTATIONS ON LIFE
      
      
      • SHORT STORIES
        
        1. Magpie
        2. Owl
        3. Ranch Hand
        4. Of Rabbits and Shrews
        5. Harry and Me
        6. Xerxes and Buck
        7. Buck
        8. Demon in My Outhouse
        9. Ghurang
        10. Jhamuna
        11. Teddy
        12. Valley of Fire
        13. My Lesson
        14. The Washing Deer Mouse
        15. Skunked
        16. Coon Capers
        17. Weasel
        18. Dionysus and the Birds
        19. The Snake Hunt
        20. Ken
        21. Oliver
        22. Moonbeam Fawn
        23. My Family Album
        24. The Passage of Seasons in My Garden Pond
        25. Three Snakes
        26. A Tale of Water and Wood
        27. Pitfalls of Language
        28. A Whale of a Tale
        
        
      • ESSAYS

        Economics

        1. Economics of Extinction
        2. Three Economic Paradigms
        3. The Cost of Economic Myopia

        Environmental

        1. In Honor of Trees
        2. Air, Breath of the World
        3. God's Trustees
        4. Trouble in Forestry
        5. Nature's Services
        6. Earth, a Biological Living Trust
        7. Raiding the "Commons"
        8. Wooden Mariners
        9. Ecological Redundancy
        10. Fear of Forest Fire
        11. Species Enrich the World
        12. The Atomic Interchange
        13. Life, The Wonder of It All
        14. Three Spheres
        15. Ecological Restoration
        16. The Humble Ditch

        Personal

        1. From Where I Stand
        2. Natural History
        3. The "Book Team"
        4. Notations In The Margin
        5. Gone is My Valley
        6. Saying Goodbye to Kim
        7. Of Life and Language
        8. The Snowflake Principle

        Psychological

        1. The Countries of Our Mind
        2. Our Cultural Soul
        3. Perception is "Truth"
        4. Experiencing Experience

        Social

        1. Cultural Values vs Science
        2. Conflict is a Choice
        3. Cultural Sustainability
        4. What is a Right?
        5. The Equality of Differences
        6. Creating Community
        7. Raiding the "Commons"
        8. Is World Peace Possible?"
        9. Participation and Choice
        10. Cruel Agriculture
        11. Stolen Harvest
        12. Age As An Archive
        13. We Cannot Serve Two Masters
        14. Democracy
        15. Do We Owe the Future?
        16. The Decisions We Make
        17. What Children Know
        18. Paradigm Shift
        19. A Matter of Gender Equality
        20. Human Culture
        21. Animal "Rights"
        22. Commandeering Language
        23. Grieving for Our Social-Environmental Losses
        24. We've Made Ourselves Into Abstractions
        25. Now We're Human Commodities
        26. "Relearning" What We've Forgotten
        27. We Must Honor Women
        28. True Community is Founded on Trust
        29. Socially Responsible Decisions
        30. Who Are We as a Culture?
        
        
      • CONVERSATIONS WITH FEAR
        
        1. Meeting Fear
        2. Technology
        3. Greed
        4. Violence
        5. Love
        6. Secrets
        7. Ignorance
        8. Shame
        9. Truth
        10. Equality
        11. Change
        12. Comparisons
        13. Rights
        14. Anger
        15. The Shadow
        16. Reality
        17. Terrorist Attack
        18. Justice
        19. Women
        20. Self-Interest
        21. Imagination
        22. Time and Eternity
        
        
      • MUSINGS
        
        1. Keyboard of the Winds
        2. A Hawk's Last Dive
        3. Where My Brother Sat
        4. The Last Grain of Sand
        5. Fire
        6. Sand Trees
        7. A Woman's Melody
        8. For Zane
        9. Time
        10. Language
        11. Friendship
        12. Spiritual Journey
        13. Five Paradoxes
        14. River of My Youth
        15. We are One
        16. Garden
        17. Driftwood
        18. Noise and Light
        19. Love and Fear
        20. Miracle of Insects
        21. New National Anthem
        22. What a Stream Taught
        23. Ol' Red
        24. A Lesson in Humility
        25. Garden Hose
        26. Concerning "Screamers"
        27. The Mirror of Life