The Heartcore Alternative:

Reinterpreting Our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age

By: Nancy C. Jacques

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Editorial Reviews
Daniel D. Chiras, author of The Natural House, book of the year, Chelsea Green:
"Heartcore Alternative is a brilliant, intriguing analysis and a vital prescription for a sane, happy populace and a sustainable future."

Jonas Minton, Executive Director, Water Forum:
"Heartcore allowed representatives of diverse groups to forge an historic agreement for managing water in a major region of California."

Book Description
The Heartcore Alternative combines environmental science and psychology to unravel the intricate ways human perception and values, and our level of psychological maturity, create healthy - or destructive - relationshps to self, each other, and Earth. Using easy-to-follow examples of General Systems Theory and Semiotics, The Heartcore Alternative provides ways to measure the integrity of an individual action or a social policy. It entices the reader to think in original ways, to experience how his or her lifestyle contributes to sustaining or destroying life on Earth as it has existed for millennia. It suggests how to change destructive patterns and instead create "Heartcore Alternatives."

From the Publisher
Americans are hungry for something, but we're confused about what satisfies. We take pride in recycling while we buy more and increase personal debt. We value open space, but we gobble nearly four acres of land a minute. We seek happpiness, but antidepressants have become our favorite prescription medication. While we seek satisfaction what - including ourselves - are we destroying? What do we really want? Raven's Eye Press published The Heartcore Alternative because it helps readers find answers to these questions. Raven's Eye Press looks for original works of nonfiction that provide insight and emphasize our social responsibility to each other and to sustaining biological diversity on Earth. The Heartcore Alternative perfectly fits these guidelines.

From the Author
"If we are to morally keep pace with the directions and speed at which societies are currently moving, then - like learning to read and write - psychological maturity must become a standard social expectation." Nancy C. Jacques

From the Inside Flap
The Heartcore Alternative is for anyone who has wondered: What will this planet be like in 100 years? Why, in the midst of plenty, do so many people feel dissatisfied? What is truly important? The Heartcore Alternative helps the reader find answers to these questions and consciously take part in directing how our lives and the environment change. This is a book of hope and solutions, a workbook proven for its success in building healthy relationships with the self, each other, and Earth.

"Applying the concepts in The Heartcore Alternative allowed representatives of groups as different as the Sierra Club and the Chamber of Commerce to forge an historic agreement for managing water in a major region of California. An unanticipated result was that Heartcore lessons significanly improved how we related to others and lowered our own stress." Jonas Minton, Executive Director, Water Forum.

"The causes of the environmental dilemma are many and complex. The most fundamental driving forces of all are human perceptions and values. Not until we understand the primal relationship between these forces and the environment and deal with them effectively will we be able to produce truly lasting solutions to our problems. The Heartcore Alternative is a brilliant, intriguing analysis and a vital prescription for a sane, happy populace and a sustainable future." Daniel D. Chiras, author of the award-winning book, The Natural House, published by Chelsea Green.

About the Author
Nancy Jacques blends more than 25 years of experience as an educator, counselor, director of nonprofit organizations, and mediator to create this pragmatic approach to healthy relationships. She currently facilitates and writes for Ecosystems Management International in Durango, Colorado.