# David Tracey


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- [Contact](https://davidtracey.ca/contact/): Contact Email ecourbanist(AT)gmail.com Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Subject *Comment or Message * Send Message What People Say “You have been remarkable in your patience and openness to go with all of the delays and bureaucratic red tape that surrounded this project. It has been more than worth it for the community and I hope you know that we really needed you and your expertise or it still would not be complete.” Ethel Whitty Carnegie Centre Director “[The Mustard Seed] reminded me of a Phillip Marlowe film noir, with the main character acting like […]
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- [About](https://davidtracey.ca/about/): About I am a writer, environmental designer, teacher and community ecologist based in Vancouver, Canada. I work with individuals, groups and governments to improve the planet through words, design and education. As a journalist from nearly the start of my working life I still feel I have the “ink in my blood.” Most of recent writing has gone into books. You’re welcome to visit here to consider buying a novel or non-fiction work, including my most recent book which was — to my eternal surprise — a BC #1 Bestseller for 16 weeks. I have a Masters in Landscape Architecture […]
- [Home](https://davidtracey.ca/): Hi, I’m David Tracey. Writer, designer, educator and community ecologist based in Vancouver, Canada. About Me Read More I work with individuals, groups and governments to improve the earth through writing, designing, teaching and community work. My consultation work employs my diverse skillset and experiences. It includes writing for hire, editing from the conceptual level to fixing typos, educational planning, curriculum creation, teaching, ecological site design, project management, nonprofit organizational leadership training, urban tree care consultation, word coaching and public speaking. Featured Books View All Books Quick ViewAdd to cart Vancouver Tree Book – Ebook $12.00 Quick ViewAdd to cart The […]

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- [Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto](https://davidtracey.ca/product/guerrilla-gardening-a-manualfesto/): <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>For print or digital versions of this book please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source</strong>.</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term “guerrilla” may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist’s nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this movement is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
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</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical, and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence—one good deed inspiring another, with win-win benefits all around.</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
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</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guerrilla Gardening </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">outlines the power-to-the-people campaign for greening our cities. Tips for effective involvement include:</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
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</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">• Finding plants and seeds cheap (or free)</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">• Handling city officials</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">• Getting the dirt on soil</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">• Planting to bring back the birds</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">• Knowing when to ask first</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">
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</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social activists, city dwellers, and longtime gardeners will delight in this fast-paced and funny call to arms.</span>

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- [Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution](https://davidtracey.ca/product/urban-agriculture-ideas-and-designs-for-the-new-food-revolution/): <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>For print or digital versions of this book please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source</strong>.</span></i>

<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the New Food Revolution</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers anyone from a beginner to a green-thumb tips and inspiration to grow more food where it counts – at home. Starting with simple windowsill set-ups for herbs and sprouts, it progresses with each chapter to bigger and better home-grown farms.</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author, activist and scientists Dr. Vandana Shiva called it, “</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a road map to food security, to our reconnecting to the soil and the earth, even in cities, and to reclaiming our humanity as cultivators of community while we cultivate food</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.”</span>

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- [The Earth Manifesto: Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology](https://davidtracey.ca/product/the-earth-manifesto-saving-native-with-engaged-ecology/): <b><strong>For print or digital versions of this book please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source</strong>. For academic and bulk orders please contact <a href=\"mailto:ecourbanist@gmail.com\">me</a>.</b>

Do you care about the world and want to save it but aren’t sure where to start?

<a href=\"http://page\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Earth Manifesto: Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology</span></i></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was written to help. It takes the reader step by step through the six laws of Engaged Ecology, a journey from theory to practice. We cover the Three Big Ideas, and then the Three Big Steps of getting involved. By the end, it is hoped, readers will feel inspired and empowered to “groundtruth” a part of the Earth that means something, and use that experience to join others in defending our planet.</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s part of the </span><a href=\"http://series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manifesto Series</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from </span><a href=\"http://books\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocky Mountain Books</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a cool package perfect for our frenetic times. The books are small enough to be easily transportable or shared but with hard covers that can take abuse whether it’s from bike pannier scrunches or truncheon knocks. And they’re thin enough to read in a couple of fervid hours.</span>

From the ecopsychology.org website:

<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“…a deceptively small book (132 pages), which is much bigger on the inside…Engaged Ecology is what Ecopsychology should be about – local, personal, and reflective, but also global, communitarian, and active.” </span></i>

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- [The Mustard Seed - Ebook](https://davidtracey.ca/product/the-mustard-seed-ebook/): <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For print versions of this book please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source</strong>.</p>
<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mustard Seed</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is about revolution, both the street variety and the psychological transformation needed to overcome grief. It follows the adventures of a sportswriter who visits Sri Lanka to cover a soccer tournament but finds himself lured by a deadly rebellion.</span>

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- [The Miracle Tree - Ebook](https://davidtracey.ca/product/the-miracle-tree-ebook/): <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For print versions of this book please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source</strong>.</p>
<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miracle Tree</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a comedy about a tree that </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> make wishes come true. Although it’s really about life and love and race and truth and media and politics and miracles and what more do you want for $18?</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story concerns a rookie reporter who gets sent to a small town to report on the mysteries surrounding a large tree. When his first article sparks a media circus, he has to decide whether to come clean by setting the facts straight…or learn quickly how to lead a parade.</span>

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- [Vancouver Tree Book - Ebook](https://davidtracey.ca/product/vancouver-tree-book-ebook/): (For the print version of <strong>Vancouver Tree Book</strong> please order from your favourite local bookstore or online source such as <a href=\"https://www.amazon.ca/Vancouver-Tree-Book-Living-Field/dp/0986505528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459291553&sr=8-1&keywords=vancouver+tree+book\">amazon.com</a>. For the ebook version please order here.)

*News Flash: Vancouver Tree Book reached #1 on the BC Bestselling Books List!*

<b>Vancouver Tree Book</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Living City Field Guide inspiring readers to get outside to explore one of the world\'s great urban forests.</span>

Trees tell the story of a city. Some of the largest specimens ever seen on Earth grew right here. The old growth forest is mostly gone (see inside for where to find the rare survivors) but replacing it is an urban forest like Vancouver itself -- young, vigorous and eclectic, far from perfect but on the edge of something the whole world can admire.

<b>Vancouver Tree Book</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> features in-depth profiles of more than 100 trees and nearly 100 additional descriptions of related species and cultivars. More than 450 colour images, together with stories from First Nations traditions to modern arboriculture techniques, explain the quiet giants that shape the city. Tree Tour maps of 10 locations encourage urban adventuring using trees as local guides.</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written for all levels from beginners to professional arborists, </span><b>Vancouver Tree Book</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aims to raise awareness of the most important plants that support our ecosystem.</span>

<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn to identify the trees in your urban forest and you’ll be among friends wherever you go.</span>


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