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Welcome!

The book project Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed is nearing completion! Currently, the project is on Kickstarter, a fundraising website that allows the public to learn and support all kinds of creative projects.  

Click here to go to the Passion for Place Kickstarter page 

Passion for Place is a book and CD project for and by the community and serves as a prototype for people in other communities. The book would not be where it is without all those who wrote for the book, granted interviews (44 total) and those are supporting it through their generosity of time, expertise, and donations. In addition, Pamela Takigawa and Anne Greene have created beautiful drawings of flora and fauna that accompany the text and paintings/photographs.

This project is about creativity and the possibility of cultural change, understanding what ecological integrity means, and knowing that we are a part of that integrity. 


When we live together with a watershed consciousness, we come to understand more clearly how our actions affect the greater whole. Imagine how life and business could be different if more and more people around the world became immersed in their home watershed in this way!

My goal is to raise $4000 or more on Kickstarter by February 24, 2012. These funds will go towards the printing of 1000 books printed on the west coast of this continent (not overseas) on 100% recycled paper. The total cost for printing is approximately $36,000.

I am very grateful to the following supporters of Passion for Place have made pledges totaling $1,100. through Kickstarter:

Diane Berthoin-Hernandez

Ariane Berthoin-Antal

Peregine Whittlesey

Cynthia Johnson-George

John Dotson

Elaine Bolduc

Laura Lee Lienk

Wendy Sinclair

An additional $22,670 has been raised through fundraising efforts which began in 2011.

Those who have generously made these donations  or bought paintings to support the project are:

Sophie Debukelaer (Painting)

Darby Worth (Painting)

Patrice Vecchione (Painting)

Susan Davis

RisingLeaf Watershed Arts                                                                 

Hubert and Doris Fabre                                                

Jennifer Brook-Kothlow                                                

Gayle Cureton                                                                        

Ian Neumann                                          

Laura Lee Leink                                                            

Rima West                                                                        

Berit Andersen                                                           

Darby Worth                                                                       

Shirley and Don Thomas                                                 

Neil and Dale Agron                                                            

Sherry Smith                                                                         

Dennis and Debbie Sharp                                                

Donna Lawson Leisy                                                            

Patricia Oliveira and Luis Esteves                                    

Mary Gale                                                                        

Nellie Ryder                                                                        

Anonymous                                                                        

Alice Gill

Pamela Takigawa  

Fred Bohlander                        

Barbara and Steve Brooks                          

Sylvia Shih                                      

Bill and Pat Eggleston                      

Doug Westphal                          

Chris Fitz                           

Jane Parker                              

Helen Rose                           

Edward and Beverly Sigourney               

Heidi Hopkins                                 

Rosy Luke                            

Katherine and Gregg Dexter                     

Dr John F. and Nancy Bennetts            

Mibs McCarthy                                

Elsa Con and Bucky Jackson                        

Peggy and Hebard Olsen                              

Elizabeth Murray                                  

Val and Mildred Price                                                                            

David and Lois Epel                                                                        

Paul and Lynn Schafer                              

Mark Sietman                                  

Karin Strasser-Kauffman                                                            

Donna Dormody                                                       

Paola Fiorelle Berthoin

Click here to go to the Passion for Place Kickstarter page 


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