The Machine In The Garden (also the title of a book by Leo Marx): the Walden Pond restoration project; Martin Lewis, Green Delusions; the biocentric world view; breeding endangered species in captivity; Michael Pollan, Second Nature, A Gardener's Education; the garden metaphor vs. the wilderness metaphor; primitivism, primal purity, decentralization, "appropriate technology", capitalism as evil; Rodman, Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered; the principle of non-intervention, the California Condor, "better dead than bred".

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The Machine In The Garden (also the title of a book by Leo Marx): the Walden Pond restoration project; Martin Lewis, Green Delusions; the biocentric world view; breeding endangered species in captivity; Michael Pollan, Second Nature, A Gardener's Education; the garden metaphor vs. the wilderness metaphor; primitivism, primal purity, decentralization, "appropriate technology", capitalism as evil; Rodman, Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered; the principle of non-intervention, the California Condor, "better dead than bred".. Lecture was recorded on a Lapel Microphone, using a Cassette Tape.