Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter
Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity’ s reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us.

A story of separation has long gripped the human race: that people are separate— with more advanced habitats, technologies, and values— from our natural surroundings and fellow creatures. We have been told this story for generations. But as Powers watches his daughter approach adulthood, with all of society’ s expectations, he knows that the story we pass down has to change. In Ripple, he tells a different tale, one of community and family, inner wisdom, and shared existence within a living planet.
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Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter
Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity’ s reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us.

A story of separation has long gripped the human race: that people are separate— with more advanced habitats, technologies, and values— from our natural surroundings and fellow creatures. We have been told this story for generations. But as Powers watches his daughter approach adulthood, with all of society’ s expectations, he knows that the story we pass down has to change. In Ripple, he tells a different tale, one of community and family, inner wisdom, and shared existence within a living planet.
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Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter

Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter

by William Powers
Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter

Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter

by William Powers

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Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist and His Daughter is a narrative of letters written by an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of-age. Drawing upon his personal history, family anecdotes, and shared memories, Powers envisions a path for humanity’ s reintegration with nature, and a chance to save the life force that runs through all of us.

A story of separation has long gripped the human race: that people are separate— with more advanced habitats, technologies, and values— from our natural surroundings and fellow creatures. We have been told this story for generations. But as Powers watches his daughter approach adulthood, with all of society’ s expectations, he knows that the story we pass down has to change. In Ripple, he tells a different tale, one of community and family, inner wisdom, and shared existence within a living planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798991413459
Publisher: Green Writers Press
Publication date: 10/21/2025
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Powers is an author, activist, and leading expert in deep ecology. He is a Senior Fellow at World Policy Institute, and he founded the Living Well Collaborative, supporting a new paradigm for healing the planet and nourishing community and economy at the local level. Powers has published five nonfiction books within the sustainability space, including DISPATCHES FROM THE SWEET LIFE (New World Library, 2018) and TWELVE BY TWELVE (New World Library, 2010), and his essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, and "Fresh Air."

Table of Contents

Prologue

I Aquifer

Separation
Future Zarahs
Biophilia Lost

II Source

Sapiens and Humans
Vocation as Voice
Initiation: Hay Luz

III River

Re-tribe
An American Transition Family
Then You Leave and Art Begins
The Reef
This is Water

IV Estuary

Ruptures
A Wisp of Soul Carrying a Corpse
Amor Fati
Flight
The Knife

V Ocean
Freedom From Ambition
Roar
Rippling Further
Living Bridge
Seeds Dream Deep

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