2000-01: Serious Play

Volume 9: 2000-2001

Authors in this issue discuss play in the context of environmental work. Some writers celebrate the richness of our creative powers; others describe how landscapes of play form a basis for connecting with the natural world. A common idea emerges throughout the writings: play brings people together and sets the imagination in motion--both integral to the ecological work we face now and in the future.

Introduction

Susie Caldwell/Mitchell Thomashow

Poetry

WARNING: No Swimming
Marilyn Kallet
Unusual
Marilyn Kallet

Essays

Saving Presents: The Re-emergence of Dreamtime and Playtime in Childhood
David Sobel
Comedy and a Play Ethic
Joseph W. Meeker
More Than Just Watching
Michael P. Branch
The Place of Dance
Andrea Olsen
Variations on Baseball
Richard Grossinger
River Soldiers
David James Duncan
Business-as-Very-Unusual
interview with Alan AtKisson
Risking Play
Lilace Mellin-Guignard
Save Coyote
John Herrmann
An Ecology of Tag
Amy Wright
Lighting the Match
interview with Terry Tempest Williams

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