Bioneers: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature | Bioneers Radio Series

In July 2016, Jack Loeffler recorded Gary Snyder reading his updated version of 'Four Changes' in his home. This recorded version was prepared for and included in a major exhibition held at the History Museum of New Mexico at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. The exhibition was entitled 'Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest', and Snyder's rendering of 'Four Changes' aptly conveyed how deeply the counterculture movement helped nurture the emerging environmental movement. The impact of this manifesto is as powerful today as it was a half century ago and could not be more timely. Four Changes at Age 50: A Celebration on the Environmental Movement’s First Manifesto of Contemplative Ecology Introduction by Diana Hadley, Jack Loeffler, Gary Paul Nabhan and Jack Shoemaker In the months before the first Earth Day in April 1970, mention of a prophetic manifesto seemed to crop up in nearly every serious discussion of what the nascent environmental movement should be and what values it should embody. That ma