ABSTRACT
Urban sustainability is the number one environmental issue for the twenty-first century, contends Berg in this interview with author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen, published in Listening to the Land (1995). But how do we go about persuading city people to know the place where they live in natural terms? Berg discusses networking efforts, service projects, eco-friendly design principles, and the value of urban wild habitat—“Human brains need the interaction of other kinds of squiggly, furry, many-legged, able-to-fly, fierce, slinky species.” We must inflame people with a desire to relate to and protect regional natural systems. Urban sustainability must become a new kind of consciousness.
