November 22, 2009
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The Durning Point

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July/August 1996
By Paul Roberts, Utne Reader 
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So Durning came home. In 1993 he, his wife, Amy, and their three children moved back to his hometown of Seattle, where he founded NEW. Since then, he and a small paid staff and volunteers have been documenting the cost of doing business as usual and offering governments, citizens, and businesses "catalytic" alternatives. NEW's proposals range from the ambitious--replacing the sales tax with a "carbon tax"--to the provocatively simple: reconnecting individuals to the community by building front porches. But the dominant theme is the development of an urban ecology. "Deep ecologists like Wendell Berry write beautifully about `place,' and about how, if we can reconnect to a particular place, we can regain an immediate sense of responsibility for our natural environment," Durning says. "But they're always writing about rural or wilderness areas. Most people are in cities and suburbs. So what does `place' mean for us?"

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