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Wildness Essays
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In 2006, The Iowa Natural Heritage Heritage Foundation's Agrestal Fund sponsored a write-for-scholarship program. The theme of the essays is wildness. For 2007, we have two organizations sponsoring essay contest scholarship, the Agrestal Fund and the Arcadia Fund.
The concept of wildness is integral to a deep ecology based understanding of the world.
Introduction to Wildness
Roger Gipple, Agrestal Fund Founder
An introduction to the concept of wildness that was a keynote speech at the 2006 Ecofair, which Big Green Summer helped organize and sponsor
Introduction to Wildness by Roger Gipple
Download Rediscovering the Territory - Roger Gipple's excellent and thought provoking book featuring his own essays and quotes from others on the concept of wildness.
The 2006 scholarship entries are listed below:
- Claire Runyan
- Claire is a graduate of the Permaculture design certification course. After the course, she was an intern at the Bullock Brothers Farm, Orcas Island, Washington. http://www.permacultureportal.com Claire's Wildness Essay
- Frank Lebeau
- Surviving Civilization - The Recovery of Nature and Man
