ABSTRACT
After spending three weeks struggling with the daunting ecological realities of Tokyo and Nagoya, Berg in this 2005 dispatch visits Toyooka, a mountain village in the Nagano Prefecture, and Oshima Island, which has an active volcano that erupted in 1986. The people of these small, out-of-the-way places take on the big question of what kind of life can and should be lived considering technological and environmental changes occurring to our species and the planet in general. Berg finds the creativity of the people inspiring and an ecological future for these places entirely feasible.
