Tracking Down Ecological Guidance

"Holding out a goal of a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship, Helmuth reminds us that what we are attuned to is what we get guidance from. This book offers guidance that we all need." – Pamela Haines, Friends Journal – Read the full review.

Tracking Down Ecological Guidance recounts an engagement with science, technology, education, economics, and cultural adaptation over the past fifty years.

The culture of industrial progress and financial wealth is based on the belief that endlessly increasing the exploitation of Earth's resources will endlessly improve the human condition. This strategy of adaptation is now failing; it no longer provides believable guidance for the human future.

Tracking Down Ecological Guidance displays a countervailing worldview; it focuses on what kind of economic adaptation makes sense, given what we know about how Earth's ecosystems actually work; it is equally focused on the means of cultural and spiritual survival through the continuing fallout of economic and environmental disruption.

The author charts a journey through the storm of progress to a culture of ecological guidance that places equity and beauty at the heart of economic and spiritual wellbeing.

Keith Helmuth is a founding trustee of Quaker Institute for the Future, serving as its first Board Secretary and Coordinator of Publications. He is a co-author of three books: Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, How on Earth Do We Live Now? Natural Capital, Deep Ecology, and the Commons, and Paths of Faith in the Landscape of Science. He is a co-editor of two books: It's the Economy, Friends: Understanding the Growth Dilemma, and Fuelling Our Future: A Dialogue About Technology, Ethics, and Public Policy. He has been writing for publication and public presentation for more than forty years. He lives in Woodstock, New Brunswick.