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Susanne organized my library, which has been disorganized for 10 years. First my granddaughter and her boyfriend, then my granddaughter...

Spring 2014 course at Cowell College on the history of California Organic Movement that began here at UCSC. #OrganicMovement #PaulLee...

Santa Cruz High School drawn by architect, William H. Weeks. Back in the saddle after three months at our retreat–Cisco Point–in Phelps,...

In 1967, author and educator Lee and amateur gardener Chadwick established the University of California, Santa Cruz, Chadwick Garden. Lee...

By Kurt Riezler Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Mar., 1943, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Mar., 1943), pp. 326-337 The Greeks called...

Lighthouse Field State Beach The Homeless Garden Project Natural Bridges State Park Long Marine Lab Antonelli Pond Arroyo Seco Canyon...

Among the many magnificent trees in the Pogonip is one whose grandeur has earned it it the name The Sacred Oak. It dominates a meadow...

An Earth Day 2000 Address by Paul Lee The Ballad of Rachel Carson and the Historical Origins of the Environmental Crisis and Earth Day An...

Florence is a goose. I think of her as my goose although I don’t own her. She belongs to me in my imagination, although she is a real...

by Paul A. Lee Homelessness is not easy to think about. In fact, one would rather do something about it than think about it. It is the...

Three Lectures on Paul Tillich by Paul Lee “There is a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will.” Shakespeare There are...

Paul Tillich: A Reminiscence by Paul Lee Paul Tillich came to lecture at St. Olaf College when I was a senior philosophy student,...

This is the final chapter of the book Roundabout Zen, a tribute to Richard Baker Roshi, chapter by Paul Lee When my father died and I...

Audubon drew a pair of them, drew them from dead birds he shot himself, and showed a pair sharing food. He lived in the heyday of the...

by Sandy Irvine A spectre is beginning to haunt the world. It is not some phantom menace. It is the all too real possibility of...

The following press release was web published on the Sierra Club’s Sprawl listserv in August, 1999. It gives as good an explanation as...

by Shelley Gerstein This essay first appeared in Coast Magazine’s Holiday Issue, 1996 reprinted with permission of the author It’s said...

Restoring the Earth Healing the Mind Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner Reviewed by Don Weiss Millions of...

by John Steinbeck Reviewed by Don Weiss Steinbeck is best known as the author of The Grapes of Wrath, which brought him the Nobel Prize...

by Ernest Callenbach Reviewed by Don Weiss Wallace Stegner once called ecology “a harder form of literacy” than reading and despaired of...