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United Plant Savers: Planting the Future

Dale Pendell — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:55:27 +0000

Dale will be a speaker at the United Plant Savers “Planting the Future” Conference, Saturday, May 15th 2010. The event will be held at the Sonoma Academy Campus – Santa Rosa , CA (off Petaluma Hill Rd, just minutes from Santa Rosa). This should be a great event by a great group. See http://www.unitedplantsavers.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=219&cntnt01returnid=15

The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse

Dale Pendell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:48:59 +0000

A global pandemic kills much of mankind in 2021–more than 200 million die in the U. S. in the first month alone. Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse takes us on an unprecedented journey 16,000 years into the future of mankind–a future transformed by the warming of the planet and the flooding and climatic changes that result around the world. While Pendell’s scope is vast, the imaginative and thought-provoking stories in The Great Bay focus on the lives of people in what was once California, where rising sea levels have formed a great bay in the heart of the state. These stories are not merely a warning–they show how people rediscover the old ways of living and surviving, and the world that emerges is as much utopian as dystopian.

Available at bookstores and at amazon.

Reviews:

Philip Daughtry review on Amazon.

Mercer Cook review on North Atlantic.

Erik Davis review on Well Red Bear.

Kyoi-Kuksu

Dale Pendell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:56:07 +0000

Kuksu: Journal of Backcountry Writing

I brought out the first issue of Kyoi while I was wintering in an 8 x 16 shanty on Elk Rigde, above Salmon Creek, in southern Humboldt county. I figured that there were probably a bunch of other poets like myself, holed up in other cabins across Northern California, and that we all needed a place to publish our poems. It turned out that there were backcountry watersheds not only in California, but in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Arkansas, Vermont, Maine, Arizona, New Mexico, British Columbia–that had vibrant back-to-the-land communities. The contributors in Kyoi #1 were almost entirely from Southern Humboldt, but the circle quickly enlarged. Contributing editors included James Ekedal (Deerhawk), Steve Sanfield, and Gary Snyder. Many of the poets and writers whose early writings (sometimes first) appeared in Kuksu are now familiar names, including Gretel Ehrlich, Steve Sanfield, Steven Levine, Howard Norman, Ray Raphael, David Simpson, Peter Blue Cloud, Bret Blosser, Philip Daughtry, Gary Lawless, Sharon Doubiago, Gary Paul Nabhan, Luke Breit, Tim McNulty, Alma Villanueva, Roger Dunsmore,and Jim Heynen. The Kyoi-Kuksu archives are now in Special Collections at the University of California at Davis.