One Earth Many Worlds: An Essay on Holopoetic Cosmology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518768347)

During a brief career in astrophysics and astronomy at the University of Arizona, where he worked on mathematical models of stars and on spectrometric analysis, Alan Wittbecker spent his daylight hours climbing trees and trying to track mountain lions. He shared a trailer with a mouse, cockroach, squirrel, and bat (but did all the cooking himself ). Encouraged by research cuts to pursue a different direction, Wittbecker went to graduate school in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, veterinary medicine, and ecology. As a graduate student in 1970, he was a cofounder of the G. P. Marsh Institute for Research in Ecology, where he worked for 22 years, including 3 as Director by rotation. When projects were sparse, he worked in other occupations, such as ditchdigger, janitor, gardener, diving coach, gymnastics teacher, artists model, librarian, systems engineer, editor, graphic artist, typesetter, forester, and math instructor. In 1976, with three partners, Wittbecker cofounded Nieman Ryan Community Designs, specializing in private and urban local landscape design-but, also designing books, posters, journals, packages, landscapes, and buildings. In 1992, he founded SynGeo ArchiGraph, a firm specializing in global and regional ecological designs; he created designs for several bioregions, as well as international frameworks. A year later he set up the educational program for the Ecoforestry Institute, becoming an Instructor in 1994, journal Editor in 1995, and Director in 1997. He has worked on public and private forests from British Columbia to California, and on wildlife projects, from Siberia to Norway. A veteran of the US Air Force, Wittbecker is also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Bulgaria, where he monitored wolves in the Central Balkan Mountains. He has written newspaper columns and articles on ecology. He is the author of eight books, including The Poetic Archaeology of the Flesh: An Investigation into the Phenomenology and Ecology of Being, Good Forestry, and Redesigning the Planet. He has published over 100 articles on wildlife ecology and forestry.