Chellis Glendinning

Chellis Glendinning is an author and activist. She has been called a pioneer in the concept of ecopsychology -the belief that promoting environmentalism is healthy.[1][2] She promotes human cultures which are land-based and confined to bioregions, and is a critic of the use of technology.[3]

Chellis Glendinning
BornJune 18, 1947, Cleveland Ohio
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Columbia Pacific University

Career

In 2007 Glendinning’s bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, was presented at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[4]

Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in social sciences in 1969.[5]

Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan.[6]

Books

Glendinning in New Mexico ca. 2005

See also

References

  1. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds., Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995, pp. 44-54, 336
  2. JayWalljasper and Jon Spade, eds., Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. Gabriola Island CAN: New Society Publishers, 2001, pp. 260-263; and John Mongillo and Bibi Booth, eds., Environmental Activists. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 110-114.
  3. Stephanie Mills, ed., Turning Away from Technology. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997, p. xxviii; and Z. Pascal Zachary, “Not So Fast,” Wall Street Journal, June 26, 1997.
  4. http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/performing_arts_books_September_12_18/1871/ Performing Arts / Books: September 12-18
  5. University of California Berkeley, Class of 1969; Mongillo and Booth, pp. 110-114
  6. Accession Form #08-L13, University of Michigan/Special Collections Library. Date of Accession: 21 August 2008. Collection Name: Glendinning, Chellis, Papers. Processor: Will Lovick, 16 September 2008; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=sclead&idno=umich-scl-glendinning
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