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'''Michael Charles Tobias''' (born ], ]) is an American ], ], ], and ]. His more than 35 books and 100 films have been distributed, translated and/or broadcast internationally. Many of his projects are collaborations with his wife, Jane Gray Morrison.
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'''Michael Charles Tobias''' (born June 27, 1951) is an American author, environmentalist, mountaineer, and filmmaker.<ref>See "Michael Tobias," pp.269–278, ''People Promoting And People Opposing Animal Rights&nbsp;– In Their Own Words'', ed. by John M. Kistler, Greenwood Press, ], 2002.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://transitionworld.org/team/michael-tobias/|title=Michael Tobias {{!}} Transition World|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> In 1991, Tobias produced a ten-hour dramatic television series, ''Voice of the Planet'', for ]; the series starred ]. Tobias has written numerous books, most notably ''World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium''.
His work has focused on interlocking themes as population and the environment, ecological aesthetics, international conservation and the sanctuary movement. One of his foremost themes is what he has termed "the anthropology of conscience", emphasizing humanity’s capacity for non-violence, compassion, and tolerance. This has resulted in what they have generally described as "the sanctuary movement" <ref>“Red listed biodiversity threatened,” by Jane Gray Morrison and Michael Tobias, www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7638, 7/23/08</ref>,<ref> http://onlineathens.com/stories/052701/boo_0527010021.shtml</ref> ], then Queen of ], described their efforts as being “invaluable for policymakers and scientists...(and) inspiration for the next generation of young ecologists wanting to make a difference in the world.”<ref> From the Queen of Bhutan’s Foreword to ''Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence'', by Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, p. ix, Council Oak Books.</ref><br /> Tobias has been an advocate for animal rights<ref>See “Michael Tobias,” pp.269-278, ''People Promoting And People Opposing Animal Rights – In Their Own Words'', ed. by John M. Kistler, Greenwood Press, ], 2002.</ref> and in the mid-1990s was a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Prize.<ref>http://www.peaceabbey.org/awards/cocrecipientlist.html</ref> In 2004 Tobias was honored with the Parabola Focus Award for his body of work in defense of the Earth. <ref>Explore the Power of Myth in film at Mythic Journeys </ref> ], co-founder and President of ], described Tobias as "one of the world’s great souls."<ref>www.petacatalog.org/BK882_PEEK.pdf</ref> Examples of his interdisciplinary approach include collections of essays such as ''A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium'' and ''A Parliament of Science: Science for the Twenty-First Century'' in which he invited philosophers, scientists, and ethicists from around the world to contribute.


== Early studies == ==Early life and career==
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Tobias received his Ph.D. from the ] in 1977 in the ]. His particular interests converged around a broad approach to ecological science and humanities: the impact on diverse human cultures of the idea of nature, a theme throughout much of gis approach to what he examined with respect to tribal cultures, and the ecological drivers throughout all civilizations and cultures.
In 1977, Tobias received a PhD from the ], in the ], a humanities department.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}


He directed a mountaineering film in 1984. Called ''Cloudwalker'', it was recorded for the UK's ]. The film chronicled a failed attempt at an ascent on the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snewsnet.com/press-release/the-adventure-theatre-presents-jeff-lowe-films-at-or|title=The Adventure Theatre Presents Jeff Lowe Films at OR|last=Team|first=Jeff Lowe Metanoia|website=SNEWS|date=17 January 2011 |language=en-us|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> in the ] Amphitheatre of Alaska's ] (now Denali).
His early mentors, Helen Kazantzakis (widow of ]) and Kazantzakis’ translator, the poet/essayist Kimon Friar, were very close{{Fact|date=March 2009}} to Tobias, who eventually directed one of his first films on the legacy of Kazantzakis. The ] ] ]’s work inspired Tobias to write his biographical novel of the painter and his family, ''Jan & Catharina''. ]ese aesthetics held an allure for him, who later wrote and filmed in that country. He wasalso inteeested in India; During his final year as an undergraduate, he moved to ], wrote several books, and made several first ascents in the Kashmiri Himalaya.


==Conservation==
The Himalayas, and mountains in general, are an important influence on his work. He was the first review editor for the journal ''Mountain Research & Development'', and some of his early climbing fiction and non-fiction appeared in such journals as ''Climbing'', ''The Mountain Gazette'', and ''Mountain Magazine'', most notably an early essay entitled “The Anthropology of Ascent.” He made hundreds of mountaineering ascents, including many first ascents. Among his climbs was the first known ascent (solo) of the sheer wall on Mount Sinai. In 1973 he lived in a cave above the Monastery of Mount Saint Catherine’s, while attending the University of Tel Aviv and writing one of his earliest books, ''Dhaulagirideon'', the subject of an essay in ''Mountain Magazine'' entitled, “Pondering the Imponderable.” In 1984, he wrote, produced and directed a mountaineering film, ''Cloudwalker'' for ], which many{{Who|date=March 2009}} described as one of the most dangerous movies ever made at the time. It chronicled a failed attempt at a first ascent on a 7,000 foot wall of ice on the ], in the ] Amphitheatre of Alaska’s McKinley range. Much of this early mountaineering appeared in many of his books, including the early metaphysical epic, ''Tsa'', and a novel set in ] (where he had spent nearly a year in total while working on his Ph.D.) titled ''Deva'', with a Preface by Kimon Friar. Subsequently, Tobias edited an anthology, ''The Mountain Spirit'', as well as the anthologized work, ''Mountain People''.
Michael Tobias's PBS film ''Ahimsa&nbsp;–Nonviolence'' premiered in the United States on December 25, 1987.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/event/ahimsa-nonviolence-dr-tobiass-pbs-documentary-film-presentation|title='Ahimsa-NonViolence': Dr. Tobias's PBS Documentary Film Presentation {{!}} Georgia College News and Events|website=frontpage.gcsu.edu|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> Taking three years to make, it was the first major film to portray the life of ] (a religious group) in India.<ref name=":0" /> Southeast Asian religions professor ] said that the film "elegantly portrays several Jain leaders and extols the religion as the great champion of animal rights and nonviolent living"<ref>''Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life'', edited by Christopher Key Chapple, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Religions of the World and Ecology Series, 2002.</ref>.


In a cover story for the ] publication '']'', Tobias called for an Antarctic World Park,<ref>"The Next Wasteland: Can the Spoiling of Antarctica Be Stopped?" by Michael Tobias, ''The Sciences'', March/April 1989, pp.18–24</ref> citing threats{{what|date=November 2019}} to the potential area for large-scale habitat preservation. He released a 1987 PBS film entitled ''Antarctica: The Last Continent'' with a similar topic, proposing the creation of an "international park" in Antarctica similar to ].<ref name=":1" /> According to '']'', the film explores "the discovery of Antarctica and the multinational claims to ownership"<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0817/lant.html|title=Antarctica's prospects clouded by treaty's impending end|date=1987-08-17|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2019-05-06|issn=0882-7729}}</ref>.
== Population and environment - World War III ==
Tobias has tackled the many complex issues concerning human population pressure on the environment.<ref>“Feeding the Population Monster -
A review essay based on a new book by Michael Tobias entitled: ''World War III: Population and the Biosphere At the End of the Millennium'',” by Ronald Bleier, desip.igc.org/Monster.html; Thomas Marks’ review of World War III, published in: the journal ''Small Wars & Insurgencies'', Volume 7, Issue 1 Spring 1996, pages 112 – 119; “Population Ethics For the 21st Century,” by Michael Tobias, www.populationpress.org/essays/essay-tobias; See also, “Listening To Women,” by M.Tobias, ''The Population Press'', Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2004, pp.6-11. </ref>] His book ''World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium'' received widespread praise. ''Psychology Today'' wrote that it "''reads like a volcano erupting...Tobias throws sparks like an evangelist and has the old-fashioned, wide-ranging erudition of a Renaissance scholar.”<ref>''Psychology Today'', “What's next?”</ref> Scientist Marc Lappé described ''World War III'' as “a lengthy and complex treatise that is a distillation of a lifetime of thought and action concerning the human condition.... It provides a thread of hope, offering a new vision about how humankind may ultimately come to peace with nature.” <ref>Lappe, Marc. "So Many People . . . How Will We Feed Them? ''World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium'', By Michael Tobias", ''Los Angeles Times'', November 27, 1994. "Like Wilson, Tobias perceives the duty to maintain biodiversity as a moral requirement of planet stewardship."</ref> Writing also of Tobias’s' ''World War III'' in 1998, Jane Goodall said, “Tobias describes for us a path that we could take – a path mapped out by a combination of scientific, logical, intuitive, and spiritual reasoning – towards a future where all is not, after all, lost.”<ref>Jane Goodall, from her Foreword to ''World War III –Population And The Biosphere At The End Of The Millennium'', Continuum Publishing Company, New York, 2nd edition, 1998, p.12.</ref> In 1994, during the UN population conference, the '']'' quoted Tobias “For purposes of absolute clarity I call it World War III,” or, as the Gazette extrapolated from Tobias’s perspective, “the most terrifying problem humanity has ever faced."<ref>“Cairo’s an apt site for UN population conference,” by Mark Abley, ''The Gazette'', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 3, 1994. www.lexisnexis.com/us/Inacademic/frame.do?tokenKey-rsh-20.640961.830</ref> In her Foreword to ''World War III'', Jane Goodall said of Tobias that he has provided “ample scientific proof of the large-scale habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity that has and continues to take place. ”<ref>p.12, Jane Goodall’s Foreword to ''World War III – Population And The Biosphere At The End Of The Millennium'', by Michael Tobias, 2nd Edition, Continuum Publishing Company, New York, 1998.</ref>


In a ] documentary about the ] disaster, named ''Black Tide'', he considered the dilemma of safely using oil resources.<ref>"'Black Tide'; Discovery's 'Tide' Examines Alaska Oil Spill," by Patricia Brennan, Washington Post Staff Writer, March 18, 1990, The ''Washington Post'' Sunday Edition</ref>
In China, Tobias tracked down the “father” of the one-child revolution –a legendary mystery figure, Dr. Qian Xinzhong and met with him in Beijing). <ref>ibid., p. 59.</ref> In his later PBS adaptation of his book, he interviewed Madame Peng Peiyun, the head of China’s State Family Planning Commission; she admitted that China could possibly hit 2 billion: a number that smashed the conventional demographic projections for China by a whopping 25%. Not surprisingly, many were alarmed by the scope and devastation portrayed in ''World War III''. ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote that Tobias had employed “a governing metaphor a bit less subtle than a strip mine” but acknowledges that “Tobias is both knowledgeable and passionate in his attempt to reconcile scientific rationality with a religious reverence for the planet.”<ref>], 1994.</ref> Tobias’s contribution to understanding this issue was in his systematic correlations of myriad hits to biological populations throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Pacific Rim, as well as in the G7 nations, resulting from expanding human numbers, a relationship that has recently seen a wave of renewed scientific interest, particularly in calculating the impact of climate change on biodiversity. <ref>''Climate Change and Biodiversity'', Edited by Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut., 2005.</ref>


Tobias has been involved in wildlife preservation efforts. In ], he has overseen ] of a peninsula in the far south of the country, adjoining ].<ref>"Island fence set to enhance biodiversity," by Phil McCarthy, ''Southland Times'', Invercargill, New Zealand, April 14th, 2005: "It was an important conservation tool to help restore native flora and fauna in a region of outstanding historic biodiversity, " Tobias said.</ref>{{Better source|date=May 2019}}
The documentary, ''No Vacancy'', based on Tobias’s book of that title, again addresses the issue of population and the environment. Journalist Ellen Snortland writing in the Pasadena Weekly, stated that, “‘''No Vacancy''’, written and directed by Michael Tobias, is to the world’s population explosion what Al Gore’s `'An Inconvenient Truth'’ is to global warming.”<ref> www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/search/?page=3&author=256 </ref>, <ref> “Regarding a sustainable world,” by Olivia Redwine, ''New Perspectives'', Winter 2008, pp.18-21. </ref>, <ref> “''No Vacancy'', a Film by Michael Tobias,” reviewed by Dr. Alvin Winder, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in ''Int’l. Quarterly of Community Health Education'', Vol. 26(3) 319-320, 2006-2007</ref> <ref> 'Mad Cowboy' Wins Artivist Film Festival Best Feature Award; </ref> <ref>
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Dec_1/ai_n27072207; </ref>,


], first wife of the ] of ], described Tobias's efforts as being "invaluable for policymakers and scientists&nbsp;... inspiration for the next generation of young ecologists wanting to make a difference in the world"<ref>From the Queen of Bhutan's foreword to ''Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence'', by Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, p. ix, Council Oak Books.</ref>.
== The anthropology of conscience - the Jains, Bishnoi and Todas ==
In researching indigenous spiritual and ethical traditions, he thinks that humanity has what it takes to get it right, with respect to an environmentally sustainable future. In ''Mother Earth News'', Tobias has been described as one who has “reinvigorated (Thomas) Malthus’s theories” <ref>“The New Population Bomb,” August/September 1997, ''Mother Earth News'', www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1997-08-01/Dangers-Of-Population-Increase.aspx?page=; </ref>, of exponential population growth. Tobias has also argued, with a range of examples and research, that human beings are constantly revealing windows on the “soul of nature.” In writing about the example of the nearly twenty-million Jains, Tobias has said that “what we do with the all-encompassing belief in nonviolence is a personal affair...Each of us must rise to the challenge; must transform every juncture of every day into the possibility of a poetic gesture of forgiveness, right intentions, love and compassion. The opportunities, of course, are endless.”<ref>p.x, from Tobias’s Preface to ''Mahavira –Prince of Peace'', by Ranchor Prime, Illustrated by B. G. Sharma, Mandala Publishing, San Rafael, Calif., 2006</ref> In analyzing Jain compassion, lifestyle, and nonviolent approaches to the world, Tobias has championed Jain ecological connections. His work which most embodies this is ''Life Force: The World of Jainism'', which has been called “the best book on Jainism.” <ref> ''An Anthology Of Living Religions'', ed. by Mary Pat Fisher and Lee W. Bailey, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Second Edition, 2008, pp.108-110; </ref>, <ref> Tobias’s ''Life Force: The World of Jainism'', Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1991, pp.5-16.</ref>


==Population and environment==
His PBS film ''Ahimsa –Nonviolence'' premiered nationwide in the United States on Christmas Day in 1987 and was described by Southeast Asian Religions Professor Chris Chapple as a film “which elegantly portrays several Jain leaders and extols the religion as the great champion of animal rights and nonviolent living.”<ref>''Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life'', edited by Christopher Key Chappel, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Religions of the World and Ecology Series, 2002.</ref> The film, which took three years of preparations and was filmed in nearly 100 locations across India, was one of the first to explore in depth the Jain religion, {{Fact|date=March 2009}} as well as portraying the life of Digambara, Shwetambara and Sthanakavasi mendicants. In an essay on Jain conscience in 1997, Tobias described “the goal of absolute nonviolence” as an ideal that activists worldwide must take seriously, “every waking moment."<ref>“Ecology of Conscience,” by Michael Tobias, ''Parabola'', Fall 1997, p.18.</ref> Elsewhere, he has argued that evolution does not condemn us; only our choices can do that, adding, “We have the capacity throughout our lives to give unstinting, unconditional love.”<ref>“Choosing Generosity –Filmmaker and author Michael Tobias on developing the capacity for unconditional love and making sense of our passions,” Interview by Zoe Weil, ''Hope Magazine'', Spring 2000, No.22, pp.51-53.</ref>


Tobias wrote a book about the growing world population, the environment, and the potential for a ] called ''World War III:&nbsp;Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium''.{{cn|date=November 2019}}
In examining the Bishnoi, he focused on universal principles of conservation based on long-term ethical convictions. In this case, the Bishnoi of Rajasthan who, during a sustained drought in Western India and Pakistan in 1988, were shown to have saved themselves and their communities and ecosystems through prudent and non-violence ecological behavior, a metaphor, for progressive conservation that could be applied throughout Asia, Africa and elsewhere. <ref>Michael Tobias, "Desert survival by the book", ''New Scientist'', 17 December, 1988, p.29- 31; </ref>, <ref> www.institut.veolia.org/fr/cahiers/symbolique-eau/mythes-eau/afrique.aspx; </ref>, <ref>Tobias, M., ''Environmental Meditation'', Crossing Press, Freedom, Calif., 1993, pp.83-96.</ref> He pointed out that the entire society of the Todas of the Nilgiris converted to vegetarianism 1000 years ago. This transformation of an entire community on ethical grounds is one of the “windows” he cites as key to understanding the potential for the human species to engage in non-violence. In his introduction to the book ''One Earth'' he wrote, “The human race is rallying. The earth desperately needs the personal help and restraint of each of us.”<ref>Michael Tobias, “The Anthropology of Conscience,” ''Society & Animals'', pp.69-71.</ref>


The magazine '']'' wrote that it "reads like a volcano erupting&nbsp;... Tobias throws sparks like an evangelist and has the old-fashioned, wide-ranging erudition of a Renaissance scholar"<ref>''Psychology Today'', "What's next?"</ref>. Scientist Marc Lappé described ''World War III'' as "a lengthy and complex treatise that is a distillation of a lifetime of thought and action concerning the human condition.&nbsp;... It provides a thread of hope, offering a new vision about how humankind may ultimately come to peace with nature."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-27-bk-1806-story.html|title=So Many People . . . How Will We Feed Them? : WORLD WAR III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium, By Michael Tobias (Bear & Co.: $29.95; 656 pp.)|date=1994-11-27|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-05-05|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> Anthropologist ], writing of the book in 1998, said, "Tobias describes for us a path that we could take&nbsp;– a path mapped out by a combination of scientific, logical, intuitive, and spiritual reasoning&nbsp;– towards a future where all is not, after all, lost." In her foreword to ''World War III'', she also said that Tobias has provided "ample scientific proof of the large-scale ] and ] that has and continues to take place"<ref>p.12, Jane Goodall's foreword to ''World War III&nbsp;– Population And The Biosphere At The End Of The Millennium'', by Michael Tobias, 2nd Edition, Continuum Publishing Company, New York, 1998.</ref>. In 1994, during the UN ], the '']'' quoted Tobias: "For purposes of absolute clarity I call it World War III," as The Gazette extrapolated from Tobias's perspective, "the most terrifying problem humanity has ever faced"<ref>"Cairo's an apt site for UN population conference," by Mark Abley, ''The Gazette'', Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 3, 1994. www.lexisnexis.com/us/Inacademic/frame.do?tokenKey-rsh-20.640961.830</ref>.
== The sanctuary movement and international conservation efforts ==
In some of his earliest work, Tobias focused extensively on the concept of “sanctuary” as an ecological and modern-day ethical incarnation of early spiritual and legal traditions in many countries, particularly ], wherein, for a thousand years those who entered churches could obtain legal sanctuary.


Tobias directed a feature-film documentary called ''No Vacancy'', which is based on his book and also focuses on the growing world population.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gillespiefoundation.wordpress.com/no-vacancy/|title=No Vacancy|date=2019-01-07|website=Gillespie foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> Journalist Ellen Snortland, writing in the '']'', stated that "''No Vacancy'', written and directed by Michael Tobias, is to the world's population explosion what Al Gore's '']'' is to global warming"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2006/08/10/no-vacancy/|title=No Vacancy|last=Snortland|first=Ellen|date=Aug 10, 2006|website=Pasadena Weekly|access-date=2012-03-12}}</ref>.
In a cover story for the New York Academy of Sciences publication ''The Sciences'', and in three films, he called for an Antarctic World Park, in the spirit of similar proposals from Greenpeace and New Zealand <ref>“The Next Wasteland: Can the Spoiling of Antarctica Be Stopped?” by Michael Tobias, ''The Sciences'', March/April 1989, pp.18-24</ref>. He drew attention to the despoliation occurring in what was considered the last great hope for large-scale haitat preservation. His film, ''Antarctica: The Last Continent'' (PBS, 1987) encouraged the National Science Foundation to implement best environmental practices at some of its managed bases in Antarctica, including McMurdo, which NSF subsequently did. {{Fact|date=March 2009}} In his Discovery Channel documentary of the Exxon Valdez disaster, ''Black Tide'', he considered the dilemma of safely using oil resources. <ref> "'Black Tide'; Discovery's 'Tide' Examines Alaska Oil Spill," by Patricia Brennan, Washington Post Staff Writer, March 18, 1990, The ''Washington Post'' Sunday Edition</ref>


==Other works==
The combined impacts of demographic pressure with energy intensity and consumerism have been themes in his work. ''The Sky’s On Fire'', a movie-of-the-week for ABC based upon his novel ''Fatal Exposure'', examined the effect of ozone depletion on biodiversity. ''The View From Malabar'' and ''Element One'' were early documentaries for public broadcasting examining green space issues, and prospects for an hydrogen fuel cell economy. ''America’s Great Parks'', a documentary for Discovery Channel, examined the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite.
Tobias received the international Courage of Conscience Award in 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peaceabbey.org/2015/05/recipients-of-the-courage-of-conscience-award/|website=www.peaceabbey.org|access-date=20 August 2015|title=Recipients of the Courage of Conscience Award &#124; the Peace Abbey FoundationThe Peace Abbey Foundation|date=2 May 2015 }}</ref>


In 2004, Tobias received the '']'' Focus Award.<ref>Explore the Power of Myth in film at Mythic Journeys </ref>
He has endeavored to explore the concept of sanctuary in his, and co-author Jane Gray Morrison’s work, ''Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence''. They track efforts by conservationists and animal rights activists to save habitat and individuals. They focussed on Alaska (Wrangell-St. Elias National Park with Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife researchers working to save a rare seabird, Kittlitz’s Murrelet), the San Francisco Bay Area (Muir Woods and the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge), Central Park, Gene Baur and team’s Farm Sanctuary in Upstate New York, the Central Suriname Nature Reserve with Dr. Russell Mittermeier, the Iberian Wolf Sanctuary in Portugal, the work of Brigitte Bardot in France, continuing efforts to save Bialowieza National Park in eastern Poland and western Belarus, a European brown bear sanctuary in the Netherlands, Michael Aufhauser’s Gut Aiderbichl sanctuary in Salzburg, Austria, Howard Buffett’s cheetah sanctuary (Jubatus) in South Africa, Marieta Van Der Merhe’s Harnas Wildlife Sanctuary in Namibia, and other sanctuaries on Socotra in Yemen, in the United Arab Emirates at Al Maha, at the Al Areen Sanctuary in Bahrain, in the vegetarian Rajasthani city of Pushkar, and the Nilgiris of India (working with the Todas and Dr. Tarun Chhabra), in Indonesian Borneo with Dr. Birute Galdikas at Tanjung Puting National Park, in Brunei’s Ulu Temburong National Park, at a butterfly sanctuary in Malaysia, at nature reserves throughout Singapore, in Thailand, and the many moss temples of Kyoto’s Greenbelt, Japan, and in eastern-most Bhutan’s newest wildlife sanctuary of Sakteng, where he participated in a recent biodiversity survey across 125 kilometers of little-known Eastern Himalayan high-altitude terrain, under the auspices of Bhutan’s National Biodiversity Centre.


He delivered the annual address at the ] ] in March 2012 as the opening for a symposium on ], animal rights, and comparative religions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soas.ac.uk/biodiversity/21mar2012-12th-annual-jaina-lecture-mahavira-don-quixote-and-the-history-of-ecological-ethics-and-id.html |title=12th Annual Jaina Lecture: Mahavira, Don Quixote and the history of ecological ethics and idealism |publisher=SOAS, University of London |date=2012-03-21}}</ref> ], co-founder and president of ], described Tobias as "one of the world's great souls"<ref name="peta2">{{cite web|url=http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2011/06/14/meet-one-of-the-world-s-great-souls.aspx|title=Meet 'One of the World's Great Souls'|last=Sherrow|first=Michelle|date=14 June 2011|website=PETA}}</ref>. In 2013, Tobias gave an address to the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, the Research Centre for Sustainable Development, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at their annual conference in ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bFj1qfZAo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/x2bFj1qfZAo |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=20 August 2015|title=Dr Michael Charles Tobias addresses the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences|date=19 April 2014 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/30/Aliyun_and_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences_Sign_MoU_for_Quantum__x/|website=article.wn.com|access-date=20 August 2015|title=Aliyun and Chinese Academy of Sciences Sign MoU for Quantum Computing Laboratory}}</ref> He has also given addresses in ], Mexico, for the Fifth Conference on Worldwide Values,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywG0lBMFkVA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/ywG0lBMFkVA |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=18 August 2015|title=Michael Charles Tobias en Encuentro Mundial de Valores|date=10 September 2013 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and at the 21st International Meeting of the Club of Budapest in Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mahb.stanford.edu/nodal-activities/michael-tobias-nature-animals-ethics-revolution/|website=mahb.stanford.edu|access-date=18 August 2015|title=Michael Tobias – Nature, Animals and Ethics Revolution|date=2015-02-02}}</ref>
He has been involved wildlife preservation efforts. In New Zealand; for nearly a decade he has overseen ecological restoration of an peninsula in the far South of the country, adjoining Rakiura National Park,<ref> “Island fence set to enhance biodiversity,” by Phil McCarthy, ''Southland Times'', Invercargill, New Zealand, April 14th, 2005: “It was an important conservation tool to help restore native flora and fauna in a region of outstanding historic biodiversity, “ Tobias said.</ref>
In his most recent documentary, ''Hotspots'' (2008) Tobias and Morrison joined forces with President of Conservation International, Dr. Russell Mittermeier, to make a film, based upon the book ''Hotspots Revisited'', <ref>''Hotspots Revisited'', by Russell A. Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, Michael Hoffmann, John Pilgrim, Thomas Brooks, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, John Lamoreux and Gustavo A.B. Da Fonseca, CEMEX, Mexico City, 2004.</ref> which focuses upon biodiversity conservation efforts on Easter Island (Rapa Nui, Chile), throughout Madagascar, in the Atlantic Forests of Brazil, in the Tropical Andes, Southern California, and New Zealand.


Tobias is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clubofbudapest.org/clubofbudapest/index.php/en/|website=www.clubofbudapest.org|access-date=18 August 2015|title=Club of Budapest &#124; Home}}</ref>
== Reconciling animal rights and conservation biology ==
In their book ''Donkey: The Mystique of Equus Asinus'', Tobias and Morrison examined donkeys through an interdisciplinary ecological approach.


Tobias is a contributing writer for ] online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.forbes.com/michaeltobias |title=Green Conversations |work=Forbes}}</ref>
In his book, ''Environmental Meditation'', he addresses the eco-psychological underpinnings of animal rights, eco-aesthetics, ecological history, and spirituality – from Chartres, to Viennese ducks, the search for paradise and “the mind in an age of ecological stress.”


==Teaching==
The reconciliation of conservation biology with animal rights has been a theme in his recent work. In his lead essay for the catalogue of a museum exhibition on ''Endangered Species: Flora & Fauna in Peril'',<ref>''Endangered Species: Flora & Fauna in Peril'', Wildling Art Museum, Los Olivos, California, 2008.</ref> he writes, “The numbers (referring to U.S. Fish & Wildlife listings of Threatened and Endangered species) represent far more than cold calculus. Each species has an amazing, mysterious face, an incalculable biography, and a primeval context that is local, regional, and global... Given the extremes of the human animal, whose footprints are inordinately represented across the landscape, we must confront that all too familiar spectacle of ourselves: ungainly beasts in an innocent garden, with capacities that both recommend and condemn us in the context of biological history.”
From 2001 to 2002, Tobias was Regents Lecturer at the ], in Environmental Studies.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of California, Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures|url=https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/pdf/RegentsLecturerList.pdf|access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref> In 2016, he was a Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar at ].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sofala|first1=Aubrie|title=Ecologist Michael Charles Tobias joins Georgia College as 2016 Newell Scholar|url=https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/article/news/ecologist-michael-charles-tobias-joins-georgia-college-2016-newell-scholar|access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref>


==Selected works==
He has furthered his enquiries into this dialectic that perceives human nature with both optimism and sincere misgivings, in such works as ''Nature’s Keepers: On The Front Lines of the Fight to Save Wildlife in America'', ''Voices From The Underground: For the Love of Animals'', and the 1836-page illustrated novel ''The Adventures of Mr. Marigold''. ''Chateau Beyond Time''' got a '']'' Starred Review as a “...a well-written and sophisticated thriller,” <ref>''Publishers Weekly'' March 3, 2008.</ref>


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== California animal sanctuaries ==
* '''1973''' ''Dhaulagirideon'', IMAJ Publishers, Limited Edition Book, Antioch, Ohio. Fiction.
], of which Tobias is president, is engaged in environmental, cultural and animal-welfare activities, including operating two sanctuaries in Central California, one near the coastal town of Cayucos and a smaller one inland near Paso Robles. They provide a refuge for rescued equines and bovines, as well as pigs, dogs, cats, a goat, and wild migratory birds. They also protect wild forest canopy and a multitude of native flora and fauna. The mission of the facilities is to provide sanctuary “for the benefit, solace, peace and quiet of the resident species." <ref>“Animal Protection -- Dancing Star Foundation,” http://www.dancingstarfoundation.org/us_sanctuaries.php</ref>
* '''1974''' ''TSA'', IMAJ Publishers, Limited Edition Book, San Francisco, CA. Fiction.
* '''1977''' ''A Biography of Self-Consciousness'', Ann Arbor Dissertation Archives. Non-fiction.
* '''1979''' ''The Mountain Spirit'', Co-Edited With Co-Editor Harold Drasdo. Overlook/Viking/Penguin, editions, and Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, edition. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198067100/The-Mountain-Spirit|title=The Mountain Spirit |website=americanalpineclub.org |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1982''' ''Deva'', Avant Books. Fiction.<ref name=publishers1>{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-57178-213-7 |title=Chateau Beyond Time |website=publishersweekly.com |access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref>
* '''1983''' and '''1984''' ''Deep Ecology''. Ed., Avant Books, San Diego, CA. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-bradford-how-deep-is-deep-ecology.pdf |title=Talari Product Page |website=theanarchistlibrary.org |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1984''' ''After Eden– History, Ecology & Conscience'', Slawson Communications, San Diego, CA. Non-fiction.
* '''1986''' ''Mountain People'', Ed., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-ed-tobias/mountain-people/ |title=MOUNTAIN PEOPLE |website=kirkusreviews.com |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1990''' ''Voice of the Planet'', Bantam Books, New York. Fiction.<ref name=sunsentinel1>{{cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1991-02-18-9101090341-story.html |title='VOICE OF THE PLANET' DELIVERS MESSAGE FROM EARTH |website=sun-sentinel.com |date=1991-02-18 |access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref>
* '''1991''' ''Voice of the Planet'', Special Edition Large Format Illustrated Book. Privately Published in Alaska to accompany the film series, ] Productions, Los Angeles, CA. Non-fiction.
* '''1991''' ''Fatal Exposure'', Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, Fiction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefactscien0000stab |url-access=registration |page= |quote=fatal exposure michael tobias. |title=Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia |publisher=Taylor & Francis |via=Internet Archive |last1=Stableford|first1=Brian|year=2006 |isbn=9780415974608 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1991''' ''Vengzetas Sugarak'', Plantan, Budapest. Fiction.
* '''1991''' and '''2000''' ''Life Force – The World of Jainism'', Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, CA. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/syllabi/g/gier/306/jainism.htm |title=JAINISM |website=wabash.edu |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1992''' ''Believe'', Co-Author, with William Shatner. Berkley/Putnam. Fiction.<ref name=washington1>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1991/02/17/one-mans-vision-learn-by-listening-to-the-earth/ca9af77d-2477-4857-954f-9bdcf30bb4ca/ |title=ONE MAN'S VISION LEARN BY LISTENING TO THE EARTH |website=washingtonpost.com |date=1991-02-17 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1993''' and '''1997''' ''Rage & Reason'', Rupa & Co., New Delhi, India; and AK Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, and San Francisco.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DL_YeddqFVQC&q=michael+tobias+rage+and+reason&pg=PA187 |title=From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA |isbn=9042013966 |access-date=2019-09-25|last1=Herzogenrath |first1=Bernd |year=2001 |publisher=Rodopi }}</ref>
* '''1993''' ''Environmental Meditation'', Crossing Press. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcLEjD_ZNnMC&q=Environmental+Meditation+michael+tobias&pg=PT619|title=The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise|last1=Baker|first1=Ian|date=2 May 2006|publisher=Penguin |isbn=9781101117804|access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1994''' ''A Naked Man'', Asian Humanities Press. Fiction.
* '''1995''' ''A Parliament of Souls-In Search of Global Spirituality'', Co-Edited With Co-editors Jane Gray Morrison and Bettina Gray, KQED/Bay Books. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11546575|title=A parliament of souls : in search of global spirituality : interviews with 28 spiritual leaders from around the world |website=searchworks.stanford.edu |year=1995 |isbn=9780912333359 |access-date=2019-09-25 |last1=Tobias |first1=Michael |last2=Morrison |first2=Jane |last3=Gray |first3=Bettina |publisher=KQED Books }}</ref>
* '''1995''' ''A Vision of Nature – Traces of the Original World'', Kent State University Press, Kent, OH. Non-fiction.<ref name=washington1/>
* '''1995''' and '''1996''' ''The Soul of Nature – Visions of a Living Earth'', Co-Edited With Co-editor, Georgianne Cowan, Continuum/Penguin-Dutton/Plume editions. Non-fiction.
* '''1996''' ''India 24 Hours'', Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, India. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19960331-book-review-of-michael-tobiass-india-24-hours-833115-1996-03-31 |title=Book review: Michael Tobias's India 24 Hours |website=indiatoday.in |date=1996-03-31 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1996''' ''World War III – Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium'', Bear & Co.; Canadian audio book - L’Institut National Canadien Pour les Aveugles (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). Spanish edition ''El Hombre La Contra De Tierra: población y biosfera al final del milenio‘', Colección de los Cuatro Vientos, Barcelona. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-tobias/world-war-iii/ |title=KIRKUS REVIEW |website=kirkusreviews.com |date=2010-05-20 |access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://desip.igc.org/Monster.html |title=Feeding the Population Monster |website=desip.igc.org |last1=Bleier|first1=Ronald|date=1997-03-01 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1997''' ''A Day in the Life of India'', Harper Collins, San Francisco, CA. Non-fiction.<ref name=hinduismtoday>{{cite web|url=https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=4793|title=A Day in the Life of India|website=hinduismtoday.com |date=1997-02-01|access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1997''' ''Nature's Keepers: On the Frontlines of the Fight To Save Wildlife in America'', John Wiley & Sons Publishing, New York. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalp17&div=3&id=&page= |title=UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy |website=heinonline.org |volume=17 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1997''' ''The Search of Reality-The Art of Documentary Filmmaking'', (Ed.), M. Wiese Publishing. Non-fiction.
* '''1997''' ''Jan & Catharina'', Smart Art Press, illustrated novel, with photographs by Rocky Schenk. Fiction.
* '''1997''' ''Ich spürte die Seele der Tiere (I Feel The Soul of Animals)'', (Ed.) with Co-editor Kate Solisti, Frankh-Kosmos Publishing. 2nd edition-'''2003'''. Non-fiction.
* '''1998''' ''Kinship with Animals'', Ed., with co-editor Kate Solisti, Beyond Words Publishing. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8456690?q&versionId=9759787 |title=Kinship with the animals / edited by Michael Tobias and Kate Solisti-Mattelon. |website=trove.nla.gov.au |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.processwork.org/files/C_Spark.pdf |title=Kinship with animals – Unlearning Speciesim |website=trove.nla.gov.au |date=2004-03-02|access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''1998''' ''World War III –Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium'', Revised and Updated Second Edition, Preface By Jane Goodall, Continuum Books, New York. Non-fiction.
* '''1999''' ''A Parliament of Minds - Philosophy for a New Millennium'', Co-Editor with Co-Editors Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald and Dr. David Rothenberg, State University of New York Press. Non-fiction.
* '''1999''' ''Voices From the Underground- For the Love of Animals'', New Paradigm Books, Hope Publishing. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://juliettespeaks.org/david-casselman-one-million-square-acre-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/ |title=David Casselman and His New One Million Square Acre Cambodian Wildlife Sanctuary |website=juliettespeaks.org |date=2013-02-24 |access-date=2019-09-25}}</ref>
* '''2002''' ''TWIMC (To Whom It May Concern)'', With Co-Author Chris Traub, Verbum Inc., San Francisco, Fiction.
* '''2002''' ''La Leggi di Felham'', Nuova Etica Publishers, Turin, Italy.
* '''2003''' ''A Parliament of Science - Science for the 21st Century'', Co-Edited with Co-Editors Teun Timmers and Gill Wright, State University of New York Press. Non-fiction.
* '''2003''' ''Dubai 24 Hours'', Foreword by Sheikh Hamdan, Motivate Publishing, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Non-fiction.
* '''2005''' ''The Adventures of Mr. Marigold'', 1,836 page illustrated ecological epic, Craig Potton Publishing, Photographic illustrations by Craig Potton. Nelson, New Zealand.
* '''2006''' Turkish edition of ''Rage & Reason, Öfke'', Versus Kitap, Istanbul.
* '''2006''' ''No Vacancy - Global Responses to the Human Population Explosion'', Co-editor with Co-Editors Bob Gillespie, Jane Gray Morrison and Elizabeth Hughes, Hope Publishing. Non-fiction.
* '''2006''' ''Donkey - The Mystique of Equus Asinus'', With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Council Oak Books. A Dancing Star Foundation Book. Non-fiction.
* '''2007''' Belgesel film yapim sanati, Turkish edition of ''The Search for Reality: The Art of Documentary Filmmaking'', Kolaj Kitapigi, Istanbul.
* '''2008''' ''Chateau Beyond Time'', Council Oak Books. Fiction.<ref name=publishers1/>
* '''2008''' ''2008 Smithsonian FolkLife Festival – Bhutan'', Photo Portfolio by Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, for Ta Dzong/National Museum of Bhutan Exhibition/Permanent Collection: 196 Photographs, Dancing Star Foundation.
* '''2008''' ''Endangered Species: Flora and Fauna in Peril'', With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Wilding Art Museum, Los Olivos, California. Non-fiction.
* '''2008''' ''Sanctuary - Global Oases of Innocence'', With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, foreword by The Queen of Bhutan, Her Majesty Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Council Oak Books. Non-fiction.<ref name=psych1/>
* '''2010''' ''God's Country: The New Zealand Factor'', With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Introduction by Ingrid Newkirk/PETA, A Dancing Star Foundation Book. Non-fiction.<ref name=psych1/>
* '''2010''' ''Bestiarium'', German edition of Chateau Beyond Time, Bastei Lübbe. Bastei Entertainment.
* '''2011''' ''Professor Parrot and the Secret of the Blue Cupboard'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
* '''2012''' ''The Strange Life & Disappearance of English Milligrams'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.<ref name=booklove/>
* '''2013''' ''21st Century Solitude'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.<ref name=booklove/>
* '''2013''' ''The Misadventure of Pinocchio'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
* '''2013''' ''Biotopia'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.<ref name=booklove>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookloversreview.com/2018/04/22/the-earth-quartet/|title=The EARTH QUARTET – Four Novels by Michael Charles Tobias |website=bookloversreview.com |date=2018-04-22 |access-date=2019-09-10}}</ref>
* '''2014''' ''Hope On Earth: A Conversation'', With Co-Author Paul R. Ehrlich, University of Chicago Press. Non-fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/hope-on-earth-a-conversation|title=Hope on Earth: A Conversation |website=washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com |date=2014-05-29 |access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref>
* '''2014''' ''Central Park: A Conversation in Three Acts'', Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
* '''2014''' ''Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind'', with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-fiction.<ref name=psych1/>
* '''2014''' ''The Metaphysics of Protection'', with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison. Foreword by Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Preface by Dr. Marc Bekoff. Waterside Productions, Cardiff, CA.<ref name=psych1>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/animal-emotions/201701/anthrozoology-embracing-co-existence-in-the-anthropocene|title=Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-existence in the Anthropocene |website=psychologytoday.com |date=2017-01-13 |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* '''2014''' and '''2015''' ''Environmental Impact, Society of Animal Artists'', David Wagner, Curator, Catalogue Essay with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison. Non-fiction.
* '''2015''' ''Edward W. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks'', by ], With Contributions by A.D. Coleman, Eric Jolly, Michael Tobias and Louise Erdrich, Prestel Publishers, Random House, New York. Non-Fiction.
* '''2016''' ''Nikos Kazantzakis'', Screenplay, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York, Non-fiction.
* '''2016''' ''The Adventures of Mr. Marigold,'' Kindle and Paperback Editions from Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201603/the-psychology-saving-the-world-in-the-anthropocene |title=The Psychology of "Saving the World" in the Anthropocene |website=psychologytoday.com |date=2016-03-27 |access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref>
* '''2016''' ''Undaunted - A Utopian Opera''
* '''2016''' Russian Translation of ''The Metaphysics of Protection'' – Metaphysika zaschiti prerodi (МЕТАФИЗИКА ЗАЩИТЫ ПРИРОДЫ).
* '''2016''' ''Codex Orféo'', Springer Publishers, New York. Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201607/deep-eco-psychology-non-violent-activism-and-science |title=Deep Eco-Psychology, Non-Violent Activism, and Science |website=psychologytoday.com |date=2016-07-15 |access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
* '''2017''' ''Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene'', with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201701/anthrozoology-embracing-co-existence-in-the-anthropocene|title=Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-existence in the Anthropocene|website=psychologytoday.com |date=2017-01-13 |access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''2017''' ''Ideal Algebra'', Zorba Press. Fiction.<ref name=booklove/>
* '''2018''' ''The Theoretical Individual: Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity'', with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookloversreview.com/2018/04/01/the-theoretical-individual/ |title=THE THEORETICAL INDIVIDUAL by Michael Tobias and Jane Morrison|website=bookloversreview.com |date=2018-04-01 |access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''2018''' ''The Tuscany Dialogues: Human Consciousness, Ecology and the Universe'', with co-author Dr. Ervin Laszlo, SelectBooks, New York. Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nciutAEACAAJ|title=The Tuscany Dialogues: Human Consciousness, Ecology and the Universe |date=2018-06-12 |isbn=9781590794517 |access-date=2019-08-30|last1=Laszlo |first1=Ervin |last2=Tobias |first2=Michael |publisher=SelectBooks, Incorporated }}</ref>
* '''2018''' ''The Earth Quartet'', Zorba Press. Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookloversreview.com/2018/04/22/the-earth-quartet/ |title=The EARTH QUARTET – Four Novels by Michael Charles Tobias |website=bookloversreview.com |date=2018-04-22 |access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
* '''2018''' ''The Eradication of Diphtheria Tetanus'', A Play in Two Acts, Waterside Productions, Cardiff, CA. Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/eradication-diphtheria-tetanus/ |title=The Eradication of Diphtheria Tetanus |website=mahb.stanford.edu |date=2018-07-10 |access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
* '''2019''' ''Bionomics In The Dragon Kingdom: Ecology, Economics and Ethics in Bhutan'', with Dr. Ugyen Tshewang and Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Nature, New York and Switzerland, Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kuenselonline.com/bionomics-in-the-dragon-kingdom/ |title=Bionomics in the Dragon Kingdom |website=kuenselonline.com |date=2018-12-27 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
* '''2019''' ''The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution'', with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/becoming-solutionary/201905/how-evolution-can-help-us-solve-problems?amp |title=How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Problems |website=psychologytoday.com |date=2019-06-06 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
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In early 2009, a small number of former employees alleged that the Cayucos sanctuary was ] for economic reasons.<ref>“Animal sanctuaries criticized over surge in euthanizations,” Los Angeles Times, 26 February 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-animal-sanctuary26-2009feb26,0,3333200.story</ref><ref>"Ex-Employees Claim CA Sanctuary Killing Animals" CBS 5 News, 20 February 2009 http://cbs5.com/local/animals.horses.Euthanized.2.940213.html</ref> A maintenance supervisor confirmed the allegations and reported he was dismissed afterwards due to speaking out, although the sanctuary says they terminated his employment for other reasons. <ref></ref><ref></ref> Dancing Star denied the animal-care allegations, saying that they are “contrary to our most deeply held beliefs” and that the Foundation is “unwavering in our commitment to compassion.” <ref>“Animal sanctuaries criticized over surge in euthanizations,” ''Los Angeles Times'', 26 February 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-animal-sanctuary26-2009feb26,0,3333200.story</ref><ref>"Ex-Employees Claim CA Sanctuary Killing Animals" ''CBS 5 News'', 20 February 2009 http://cbs5.com/local/animals.horses.Euthanized.2.940213.html</ref> <ref>“Dancing Star Foundation Refutes Animal-Care Accusations", ''MSNBC'', 21 February 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29316601</ref>
* '''1984''' ''Kazantzakis'', Writer, director, producer, Co-Composer. PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://greektv.com/san-francisco-greek-film-festival-north-california-welcomes-greek-cinema/|title=San Francisco Greek Film Festival: North California welcomes Greek Cinema.|website=greektv.com |date=2015-04-29|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''1984''' ''House for All Seasons'', Writer, 2 specials. PBS.
* '''1984''' ''Cloudwalker'', Writer, director, producer. Channel 4/London.<ref name=bfi/>
* '''1985-87''' ''Science Notes'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Thirty-two part series. PBS.
* '''1986''' ''Sand and Lightning'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
* '''1986''' ''Space Futures'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
* '''1986''' ''Playing God'', Narrator. Documentary. PBS.
* '''1986''' ''The Gift'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
* '''1986-87''' ''Animal Rights'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. With three other MacNeil-Lehrer PBS specials.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-2j6833nj1b|title=The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour|website=americanarchive.org |date=1986-12-19|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''1987''' ''Antarctica - The Last Continent'', Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary, PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0817/lant.html|title=Antarctica's prospects clouded by treaty's impending end |website=csmonitor.com |date=1987-08-17|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''1987''' ''Ahimsa - Non-Violence'', Writer, director, executive producer, Documentary, PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/event/ahimsa-nonviolence-dr-tobiass-pbs-documentary-film-presentation|title='Ahimsa-NonViolence': Dr. Tobias's PBS Documentary Film Presentation|website=gcsu.edu |date=2016-02-01|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''1989''' ''The Power Game'', Co-Executive producer for Maryland Public Broadcasting, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB/PBS), four hour series. Phillip Burton Production, with MPT.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/05/02/the-tv-column/fbfc3ea5-5700-46bc-88d6-467392f51f57/|title=THE TV COLUMN|website=washingtonpost.com |date=1988-05-02|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
* '''1989''' ''Black Tide'', Writer, director, producer. Discovery Channel.<ref name=sunsentinel1/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkdZTK4zSm4C&q=%22black+tide%22+discovery+channel+tobias&pg=PA127|title=A Virtuous Life in Business|isbn=9780847677474|access-date=2019-09-06|last1=Williams|first1=Oliver F.|last2=Houck|first2=John W.|year=1992|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref>
* '''1990''' ''The Making of Voice of the Planet'', Writer, director, producer, executive producer. TBS.<ref name=sunsentinel1/>
* '''1990''' ''Voice of the Planet'', Writer, director, producer, executive producer, Starring William Shatner and the Voice of Faye Dunaway. Ten-Hour Dramatic Miniseries, TBS (Turner Broadcasting).<ref name=bfi/>
* '''1991''' ''The Fifth Annual Genesis Awards'', Director, producer. Discovery Channels.
* '''1992''' ''A Day in the Life of Ireland'', Writer, director. PBS-WNET/RTL-Dublin.
* '''1992''' ''The Sixth Annual Genesis Awards'', Director, producer. Discovery Channels.
* '''1993''' ''A Parliament of Souls'', Writer, director, producer, 28- and 32- part series, PBS/Vision TV-Canada.
* '''1995''' ''World War III'', Writer, director, producer, executive producer, host. Documentary. PBS.
* '''1996''' ''A Day in the Life of India'', Writer, director, producer. Feature film. PBS/Doordarshan/NHK/StarPlus.<ref name=hinduismtoday/>
* '''1997''' ''Element One'', Writer, director. A Geoffrey Holland production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elib.upm.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=514717|title=Element one /Hydrogen 2000, Inc. presents in association with Cognizant Films ; produced by William Hoagland, Geoffrey Holland ; written & directed by Michael Tobias.|website=elib.upm.edu.my |date=1996 |access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref>
* '''1997''' ''Jam Packed'', Director, co-executive producer. A Geoffrey Holland production.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.berry.edu/title/jam-packed-the-challenge-of-human-overpopulation/oclc/038892932|title=Jam packed : the challenge of human overpopulation|website=berry.edu |access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref>
* '''1997''' ''Sean Connery – An Intimate Portrait'', Writer, Director. LifeTime Television Network.
* '''1997''' ''The Originals'', Co-Executive producer, Director. CMM Productions, Mumbai, India.
* '''1997''' ''Climb For Tibet'', Director. Wisdom Network special.
* '''1998''' ''The Wetlands of Japan: The Legacy of Ishahaya Bay'', Director, producer. Short-subject documentary. Goldman Foundation.
* '''1998''' ''Renewable Power'', Executive Producer. A Geoffrey Holland Film.
* '''1998''' ''America’s Great Parks'', Writer, Two-Hour Feature Documentary, Discovery Channel.
* '''1998''' ''Legends And Dreamers'', Co-Director, Producer, KAET/PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vhsisland.com/2015/04/22/legends-and-dreamers-inspired-by-arizona-highways/|title=Legends and Dreamers Inspired by Arizona Highways|website=vhsisland.com |date=2015-04-22|access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
* '''1998''' ''A Parliament of Science'', Director, Co-Host, Multi-Part Series, Vision TV/London, With UNESCO.
* '''1998''' ''At Home In The Universe – Biography of William Shatner'', Writer, Director. Harvey McKinnon Productions. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/shatner.pdf|title=At Home in the Universe: The Life and Times of William Shatner|website=ubc.ca |access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
* '''1999''' ''A Parliament of Minds'', Director, Producer, Hosted by Mike Malone, 15-part series, PBS/Wisdom Network.<ref>{{cite book|title=A parliament of minds : philosophy for a new millennium|oclc = 48127065}}</ref>
* '''1999''' ''The Whale Shark Hunters of the Philippines'', Executive Producer, KETA Films, National Geographic Channel<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.documentary.org/feature/whale-tale-whale-shark-hunters-philippines|title=A Whale of a Tale: The Whale Shark Hunters of the Philippines|website=documentary.org |date=1999-09-01|access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
* '''1999''' ''River Of Love'', Writer, Director. Feature Docu-Drama, Dharmic Productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/print.php?itemid=3990|title=Ammachi's Video|website=hinduismtoday.com |date=2001-03-01|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''1999''' ''Kids & Animals'', Director, Co-Writer, Animal Planet/Discovery Networks.
* '''1999''' ''Reigning Cats of San Francisco'', Director, Writer, Animal Planet/Discovery Networks.
* '''1999''' ''The Last Stand: The Battle to Save Ballona Wetlands'', Co-Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Hosted by ], Feature Documentary, A Sheila Laffey Film, Public Broadcasting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.documentary.org/feature/last-stand-increases-awareness-environment|title='The Last Stand' Increases Awareness of the Environment|website=documentary.org |date=2001-09-01|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''2000''' ''The View From Malabar'', Director, Documentary, Ohio PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3091134105_the_view_from_malabar|title=The View From Malabar |website=cml.bibliocommons.com |access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''2000''' ''],'' Co-Executive Producer, Based upon the Novel, Fatal Exposure, by Michael Charles Tobias, Two-Hour dramatic Movie-of-the-Week, ABC.<ref name=scifi1>{{cite encyclopedia |title= Countdown: The Sky's On Fire |encyclopedia= ] |author= Nicholls, Jack |date= 2011-12-20 |access-date= 2019-10-24 |publisher= ] |location= New York |url= https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsc00ies1 |isbn= 978-0-312-09618-2 |url-access= registration }}</ref>
* '''2001''' ''Images of Arizona'', Senior Director, Producer. KAET/PBS. Emmy Award winning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gulfnews.com/uae/24-hours-in-life-of-dubai-1.354967|title=24 hours in life of Dubai|website=gulfnews.com |date=2003-04-30|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://azpbs.org/about/arizona-pbs-history-timeline/|title=History|website=azpbs.org |access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''2002''' ''Dubai 24 Hours'', Writer, Director. Feature film Documentary. Al Arabiya TV.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/general/dubai-goes-live-for-global-audience|title=Dubai goes live for global audience|website=khaleejtimes.com |date=2003-09-18|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''2002''' ''J.C. Leyendecker - The Great American Illustrator'', Writer. Kultur Video.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa119.htm|title=J.C. Leyendecker: America's "Other" Illustrator|website=tfaoi.com |date=2007-02-06|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
* '''2003''' ''Y.M.I.'', Co-Executive Producer, dramatic feature, Temple 4 Films.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba25c3718 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827173730/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba25c3718 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |title=Michael Tobias |website=bfi.org.uk |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
* '''2004''' ''The Hydrogen Age'', Co-Writer. A Geoffrey Holland Film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://link.colby.edu/portal/The-Hydrogen-age--energy-solutions-for-the-21st/G9DIcWSCuLI/ |title=The Hydrogen age : energy solutions for the 21st century, Films for the Humanities & Sciences |website=link.colby.edu |access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>
* '''2005''' ''Mad Cowboy'', Writer Director, Executive Producer, Hosted by Howard Lyman of Voice for a Viable Future, KQED/PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.humanedecisions.com/documentary-film-mad-cowboy-the-story-of-howard-lyman/ |title=Documentary Film MAD COWBOY, The Story of Howard Lyman |website=humanedecisions.com |date=2017-06-15 |access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>
* '''2006''' ''No Vacancy'', Writer, Director, Directory of Photography, Producer, Executive Producer, Hosted by Bob Gillespie of Population Communication, public broadcasting service.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2006/08/10/no-vacancy/ |title=No Vacancy |website=pasadenaweekly.com |date=2006-08-10 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
* '''2008''' ''Hotspots'', Writer, Director, Producer, Co-Director of Cinematography, Executive Producer, Hosted by Dr. Russell Mittermeier of Conservation International, Two-Hour Feature Documentary, KQED/PBS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/forum/812120900/governors-commission-on-the-21st-century-economy-environmental-hotspots |title=Governor's Commission on the 21st Century Economy / Environmental Hotspots |website=kqed.org |date=2008-12-12 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
* '''2009''' ''The Grand And Otago Skinks: Conservation of Two of New Zealand’s Rarest Reptiles'', Writer, Director, Producer. Short Subject Documentary, Dancing Star Foundation.
* '''2011''' ''State of the Earth'', Director, three-hour documentary series, Dancing Star Foundation/Earth Service Production.<ref name="peta">{{cite web|url=http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2011/06/14/meet-one-of-the-world-s-great-souls.aspx|title=Meet 'One of the World's Great Souls'|last=Sherrow|first=Michelle|date=14 June 2011|website=PETA}}</ref>
* '''2012''' ''Yasuni – A Meditation On Life'', Writer, Director, Executive Producer, UNDP/Yasuni-ITT Initiative, Government of Ecuador, for Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit Premiere. A Dancing Star Foundation Film.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmqPDwAAQBAJ&q=2012+Yasuni+%22A+Meditation+On+Life%27%27&pg=PA148|title=The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution |date=21 April 2019|isbn=9783030113193 |access-date=2019-08-26|last1=Tobias |first1=Michael Charles |last2=Morrison |first2=Jane Gray |publisher=Springer }}</ref>
* '''2013''' ''Ecosystems on the Edge'', 15 Short Ecological Documentaries. Co-Executive Producer for Dancing Star Foundation, the Primary Collaborating Partner with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://insider.si.edu/2013/07/ecosystems-on-the-edge-video-series-launched-on-youtube/ |title="Ecosystems on the Edge" on Youtube |website=insider.si.edu |date=2013-07-02 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
* '''2016''' ''bioreverie'', Writer, Executive Producer. One-hour documentary, GCSU (Georgia College and State University).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frontpage.gcsu.edu/article/news/students-partner-newell-scholar-create-documentary-%E2%80%98bioreverie%E2%80%99 |title=Students partner with Newell Scholar to create documentary 'bioreverie' |website=frontpage.gcsu.edu |date=2016-03-10 |access-date=2019-08-26}}</ref>
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San Luis Obispo County Animal Services determined that the animals put to rest were “either beyond treatment or had conditions for which euthanasia would be at least one of the considerations that could be responsibly made.” <ref name=LATimes>“Animal sanctuaries criticized over surge in euthanizations,” ''Los Angeles Times'', 26 February 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-animal-sanctuary26-2009feb26,0,3333200.story</ref> The general counsel of the Farm Sanctuary in New York State, who examined the Cayucos sanctuary following the allegations, said he was unable to confirm the process for selecting those who had been euthanized. But he noted, “It’s the best-funded place in the country for animals, and the staff appears to be caring.” <ref name=LATimes/>


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Not to be confused with Tobias Michael. For the luthier, see Michael Tobias Design.

Michael Charles Tobias
Michael Tobias with a cheetah
Born (1951-06-27) June 27, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author
Environmentalist
Anthropologist
Mountaineer
Filmmaker

Michael Charles Tobias (born June 27, 1951) is an American author, environmentalist, mountaineer, and filmmaker. In 1991, Tobias produced a ten-hour dramatic television series, Voice of the Planet, for Turner Broadcasting; the series starred William Shatner. Tobias has written numerous books, most notably World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium.

Early life and career

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In 1977, Tobias received a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the History of Consciousness, a humanities department.

He directed a mountaineering film in 1984. Called Cloudwalker, it was recorded for the UK's Channel 4. The film chronicled a failed attempt at an ascent on the Moose's Tooth in the Ruth Gorge Amphitheatre of Alaska's McKinley range (now Denali).

Conservation

Michael Tobias's PBS film Ahimsa –Nonviolence premiered in the United States on December 25, 1987. Taking three years to make, it was the first major film to portray the life of Jains (a religious group) in India. Southeast Asian religions professor Christopher Chapple said that the film "elegantly portrays several Jain leaders and extols the religion as the great champion of animal rights and nonviolent living".

In a cover story for the New York Academy of Sciences publication The Sciences, Tobias called for an Antarctic World Park, citing threats to the potential area for large-scale habitat preservation. He released a 1987 PBS film entitled Antarctica: The Last Continent with a similar topic, proposing the creation of an "international park" in Antarctica similar to national parks in the US. According to The Christian Science Monitor, the film explores "the discovery of Antarctica and the multinational claims to ownership".

In a Discovery Channel documentary about the Exxon Valdez disaster, named Black Tide, he considered the dilemma of safely using oil resources.

Tobias has been involved in wildlife preservation efforts. In New Zealand, he has overseen ecological restoration of a peninsula in the far south of the country, adjoining Rakiura National Park.

Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, first wife of the fourth king of Bhutan, described Tobias's efforts as being "invaluable for policymakers and scientists ... inspiration for the next generation of young ecologists wanting to make a difference in the world".

Population and environment

Tobias wrote a book about the growing world population, the environment, and the potential for a third world war called World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium.

The magazine Psychology Today wrote that it "reads like a volcano erupting ... Tobias throws sparks like an evangelist and has the old-fashioned, wide-ranging erudition of a Renaissance scholar". Scientist Marc Lappé described World War III as "a lengthy and complex treatise that is a distillation of a lifetime of thought and action concerning the human condition. ... It provides a thread of hope, offering a new vision about how humankind may ultimately come to peace with nature." Anthropologist Jane Goodall, writing of the book in 1998, said, "Tobias describes for us a path that we could take – a path mapped out by a combination of scientific, logical, intuitive, and spiritual reasoning – towards a future where all is not, after all, lost." In her foreword to World War III, she also said that Tobias has provided "ample scientific proof of the large-scale habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity that has and continues to take place". In 1994, during the UN International Conference on Population and Development, the Montreal Gazette quoted Tobias: "For purposes of absolute clarity I call it World War III," as The Gazette extrapolated from Tobias's perspective, "the most terrifying problem humanity has ever faced".

Tobias directed a feature-film documentary called No Vacancy, which is based on his book and also focuses on the growing world population. Journalist Ellen Snortland, writing in the Pasadena Weekly, stated that "No Vacancy, written and directed by Michael Tobias, is to the world's population explosion what Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is to global warming".

Other works

Tobias received the international Courage of Conscience Award in 1996.

In 2004, Tobias received the Parabola Magazine Focus Award.

He delivered the annual address at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in March 2012 as the opening for a symposium on conservation biology, animal rights, and comparative religions. Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, described Tobias as "one of the world's great souls". In 2013, Tobias gave an address to the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, the Research Centre for Sustainable Development, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at their annual conference in Tianjin and Binhai. He has also given addresses in Monterrey, Mexico, for the Fifth Conference on Worldwide Values, and at the 21st International Meeting of the Club of Budapest in Hungary.

Tobias is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest.

Tobias is a contributing writer for Forbes online.

Teaching

From 2001 to 2002, Tobias was Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Environmental Studies. In 2016, he was a Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar at Georgia College & State University.

Selected works

Books
  • 1973 Dhaulagirideon, IMAJ Publishers, Limited Edition Book, Antioch, Ohio. Fiction.
  • 1974 TSA, IMAJ Publishers, Limited Edition Book, San Francisco, CA. Fiction.
  • 1977 A Biography of Self-Consciousness, Ann Arbor Dissertation Archives. Non-fiction.
  • 1979 The Mountain Spirit, Co-Edited With Co-Editor Harold Drasdo. Overlook/Viking/Penguin, editions, and Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, edition. Non-fiction.
  • 1982 Deva, Avant Books. Fiction.
  • 1983 and 1984 Deep Ecology. Ed., Avant Books, San Diego, CA. Non-fiction.
  • 1984 After Eden– History, Ecology & Conscience, Slawson Communications, San Diego, CA. Non-fiction.
  • 1986 Mountain People, Ed., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. Non-fiction.
  • 1990 Voice of the Planet, Bantam Books, New York. Fiction.
  • 1991 Voice of the Planet, Special Edition Large Format Illustrated Book. Privately Published in Alaska to accompany the film series, Adrian Malone Productions, Los Angeles, CA. Non-fiction.
  • 1991 Fatal Exposure, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, Fiction.
  • 1991 Vengzetas Sugarak, Plantan, Budapest. Fiction.
  • 1991 and 2000 Life Force – The World of Jainism, Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, CA. Non-fiction.
  • 1992 Believe, Co-Author, with William Shatner. Berkley/Putnam. Fiction.
  • 1993 and 1997 Rage & Reason, Rupa & Co., New Delhi, India; and AK Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, and San Francisco.
  • 1993 Environmental Meditation, Crossing Press. Non-fiction.
  • 1994 A Naked Man, Asian Humanities Press. Fiction.
  • 1995 A Parliament of Souls-In Search of Global Spirituality, Co-Edited With Co-editors Jane Gray Morrison and Bettina Gray, KQED/Bay Books. Non-fiction.
  • 1995 A Vision of Nature – Traces of the Original World, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH. Non-fiction.
  • 1995 and 1996 The Soul of Nature – Visions of a Living Earth, Co-Edited With Co-editor, Georgianne Cowan, Continuum/Penguin-Dutton/Plume editions. Non-fiction.
  • 1996 India 24 Hours, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, India. Non-fiction.
  • 1996 World War III – Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium, Bear & Co.; Canadian audio book - L’Institut National Canadien Pour les Aveugles (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). Spanish edition El Hombre La Contra De Tierra: población y biosfera al final del milenio‘', Colección de los Cuatro Vientos, Barcelona. Non-fiction.
  • 1997 A Day in the Life of India, Harper Collins, San Francisco, CA. Non-fiction.
  • 1997 Nature's Keepers: On the Frontlines of the Fight To Save Wildlife in America, John Wiley & Sons Publishing, New York. Non-fiction.
  • 1997 The Search of Reality-The Art of Documentary Filmmaking, (Ed.), M. Wiese Publishing. Non-fiction.
  • 1997 Jan & Catharina, Smart Art Press, illustrated novel, with photographs by Rocky Schenk. Fiction.
  • 1997 Ich spürte die Seele der Tiere (I Feel The Soul of Animals), (Ed.) with Co-editor Kate Solisti, Frankh-Kosmos Publishing. 2nd edition-2003. Non-fiction.
  • 1998 Kinship with Animals, Ed., with co-editor Kate Solisti, Beyond Words Publishing. Non-fiction.
  • 1998 World War III –Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium, Revised and Updated Second Edition, Preface By Jane Goodall, Continuum Books, New York. Non-fiction.
  • 1999 A Parliament of Minds - Philosophy for a New Millennium, Co-Editor with Co-Editors Dr. Patrick Fitzgerald and Dr. David Rothenberg, State University of New York Press. Non-fiction.
  • 1999 Voices From the Underground- For the Love of Animals, New Paradigm Books, Hope Publishing. Non-fiction.
  • 2002 TWIMC (To Whom It May Concern), With Co-Author Chris Traub, Verbum Inc., San Francisco, Fiction.
  • 2002 La Leggi di Felham, Nuova Etica Publishers, Turin, Italy.
  • 2003 A Parliament of Science - Science for the 21st Century, Co-Edited with Co-Editors Teun Timmers and Gill Wright, State University of New York Press. Non-fiction.
  • 2003 Dubai 24 Hours, Foreword by Sheikh Hamdan, Motivate Publishing, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Non-fiction.
  • 2005 The Adventures of Mr. Marigold, 1,836 page illustrated ecological epic, Craig Potton Publishing, Photographic illustrations by Craig Potton. Nelson, New Zealand.
  • 2006 Turkish edition of Rage & Reason, Öfke, Versus Kitap, Istanbul.
  • 2006 No Vacancy - Global Responses to the Human Population Explosion, Co-editor with Co-Editors Bob Gillespie, Jane Gray Morrison and Elizabeth Hughes, Hope Publishing. Non-fiction.
  • 2006 Donkey - The Mystique of Equus Asinus, With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Council Oak Books. A Dancing Star Foundation Book. Non-fiction.
  • 2007 Belgesel film yapim sanati, Turkish edition of The Search for Reality: The Art of Documentary Filmmaking, Kolaj Kitapigi, Istanbul.
  • 2008 Chateau Beyond Time, Council Oak Books. Fiction.
  • 2008 2008 Smithsonian FolkLife Festival – Bhutan, Photo Portfolio by Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, for Ta Dzong/National Museum of Bhutan Exhibition/Permanent Collection: 196 Photographs, Dancing Star Foundation.
  • 2008 Endangered Species: Flora and Fauna in Peril, With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Wilding Art Museum, Los Olivos, California. Non-fiction.
  • 2008 Sanctuary - Global Oases of Innocence, With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, foreword by The Queen of Bhutan, Her Majesty Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Council Oak Books. Non-fiction.
  • 2010 God's Country: The New Zealand Factor, With Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Introduction by Ingrid Newkirk/PETA, A Dancing Star Foundation Book. Non-fiction.
  • 2010 Bestiarium, German edition of Chateau Beyond Time, Bastei Lübbe. Bastei Entertainment.
  • 2011 Professor Parrot and the Secret of the Blue Cupboard, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2012 The Strange Life & Disappearance of English Milligrams, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2013 21st Century Solitude, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2013 The Misadventure of Pinocchio, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2013 Biotopia, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2014 Hope On Earth: A Conversation, With Co-Author Paul R. Ehrlich, University of Chicago Press. Non-fiction.
  • 2014 Central Park: A Conversation in Three Acts, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2014 Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind, with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-fiction.
  • 2014 The Metaphysics of Protection, with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison. Foreword by Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Preface by Dr. Marc Bekoff. Waterside Productions, Cardiff, CA.
  • 2014 and 2015 Environmental Impact, Society of Animal Artists, David Wagner, Curator, Catalogue Essay with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison. Non-fiction.
  • 2015 Edward W. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks, by Christopher Cardozo, With Contributions by A.D. Coleman, Eric Jolly, Michael Tobias and Louise Erdrich, Prestel Publishers, Random House, New York. Non-Fiction.
  • 2016 Nikos Kazantzakis, Screenplay, Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York, Non-fiction.
  • 2016 The Adventures of Mr. Marigold, Kindle and Paperback Editions from Zorba Press, Ithaca, New York. Fiction.
  • 2016 Undaunted - A Utopian Opera
  • 2016 Russian Translation of The Metaphysics of Protection – Metaphysika zaschiti prerodi (МЕТАФИЗИКА ЗАЩИТЫ ПРИРОДЫ).
  • 2016 Codex Orféo, Springer Publishers, New York. Fiction.
  • 2017 Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene, with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-Fiction.
  • 2017 Ideal Algebra, Zorba Press. Fiction.
  • 2018 The Theoretical Individual: Imagination, Ethics and the Future of Humanity, with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Publishers, New York. Non-Fiction.
  • 2018 The Tuscany Dialogues: Human Consciousness, Ecology and the Universe, with co-author Dr. Ervin Laszlo, SelectBooks, New York. Non-Fiction.
  • 2018 The Earth Quartet, Zorba Press. Fiction.
  • 2018 The Eradication of Diphtheria Tetanus, A Play in Two Acts, Waterside Productions, Cardiff, CA. Fiction.
  • 2019 Bionomics In The Dragon Kingdom: Ecology, Economics and Ethics in Bhutan, with Dr. Ugyen Tshewang and Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Nature, New York and Switzerland, Non-Fiction.
  • 2019 The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution, with Co-Author Jane Gray Morrison, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Non-Fiction.
Films
  • 1984 Kazantzakis, Writer, director, producer, Co-Composer. PBS.
  • 1984 House for All Seasons, Writer, 2 specials. PBS.
  • 1984 Cloudwalker, Writer, director, producer. Channel 4/London.
  • 1985-87 Science Notes, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Thirty-two part series. PBS.
  • 1986 Sand and Lightning, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
  • 1986 Space Futures, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
  • 1986 Playing God, Narrator. Documentary. PBS.
  • 1986 The Gift, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary. PBS.
  • 1986-87 Animal Rights, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. With three other MacNeil-Lehrer PBS specials.
  • 1987 Antarctica - The Last Continent, Writer, director, producer, editor, host. Documentary, PBS.
  • 1987 Ahimsa - Non-Violence, Writer, director, executive producer, Documentary, PBS.
  • 1989 The Power Game, Co-Executive producer for Maryland Public Broadcasting, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB/PBS), four hour series. Phillip Burton Production, with MPT.
  • 1989 Black Tide, Writer, director, producer. Discovery Channel.
  • 1990 The Making of Voice of the Planet, Writer, director, producer, executive producer. TBS.
  • 1990 Voice of the Planet, Writer, director, producer, executive producer, Starring William Shatner and the Voice of Faye Dunaway. Ten-Hour Dramatic Miniseries, TBS (Turner Broadcasting).
  • 1991 The Fifth Annual Genesis Awards, Director, producer. Discovery Channels.
  • 1992 A Day in the Life of Ireland, Writer, director. PBS-WNET/RTL-Dublin.
  • 1992 The Sixth Annual Genesis Awards, Director, producer. Discovery Channels.
  • 1993 A Parliament of Souls, Writer, director, producer, 28- and 32- part series, PBS/Vision TV-Canada.
  • 1995 World War III, Writer, director, producer, executive producer, host. Documentary. PBS.
  • 1996 A Day in the Life of India, Writer, director, producer. Feature film. PBS/Doordarshan/NHK/StarPlus.
  • 1997 Element One, Writer, director. A Geoffrey Holland production.
  • 1997 Jam Packed, Director, co-executive producer. A Geoffrey Holland production.
  • 1997 Sean Connery – An Intimate Portrait, Writer, Director. LifeTime Television Network.
  • 1997 The Originals, Co-Executive producer, Director. CMM Productions, Mumbai, India.
  • 1997 Climb For Tibet, Director. Wisdom Network special.
  • 1998 The Wetlands of Japan: The Legacy of Ishahaya Bay, Director, producer. Short-subject documentary. Goldman Foundation.
  • 1998 Renewable Power, Executive Producer. A Geoffrey Holland Film.
  • 1998 America’s Great Parks, Writer, Two-Hour Feature Documentary, Discovery Channel.
  • 1998 Legends And Dreamers, Co-Director, Producer, KAET/PBS.
  • 1998 A Parliament of Science, Director, Co-Host, Multi-Part Series, Vision TV/London, With UNESCO.
  • 1998 At Home In The Universe – Biography of William Shatner, Writer, Director. Harvey McKinnon Productions. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • 1999 A Parliament of Minds, Director, Producer, Hosted by Mike Malone, 15-part series, PBS/Wisdom Network.
  • 1999 The Whale Shark Hunters of the Philippines, Executive Producer, KETA Films, National Geographic Channel
  • 1999 River Of Love, Writer, Director. Feature Docu-Drama, Dharmic Productions.
  • 1999 Kids & Animals, Director, Co-Writer, Animal Planet/Discovery Networks.
  • 1999 Reigning Cats of San Francisco, Director, Writer, Animal Planet/Discovery Networks.
  • 1999 The Last Stand: The Battle to Save Ballona Wetlands, Co-Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Hosted by Ed Asner, Feature Documentary, A Sheila Laffey Film, Public Broadcasting.
  • 2000 The View From Malabar, Director, Documentary, Ohio PBS.
  • 2000 Countdown: The Sky’s On Fire, Co-Executive Producer, Based upon the Novel, Fatal Exposure, by Michael Charles Tobias, Two-Hour dramatic Movie-of-the-Week, ABC.
  • 2001 Images of Arizona, Senior Director, Producer. KAET/PBS. Emmy Award winning.
  • 2002 Dubai 24 Hours, Writer, Director. Feature film Documentary. Al Arabiya TV.
  • 2002 J.C. Leyendecker - The Great American Illustrator, Writer. Kultur Video.
  • 2003 Y.M.I., Co-Executive Producer, dramatic feature, Temple 4 Films.
  • 2004 The Hydrogen Age, Co-Writer. A Geoffrey Holland Film.
  • 2005 Mad Cowboy, Writer Director, Executive Producer, Hosted by Howard Lyman of Voice for a Viable Future, KQED/PBS.
  • 2006 No Vacancy, Writer, Director, Directory of Photography, Producer, Executive Producer, Hosted by Bob Gillespie of Population Communication, public broadcasting service.
  • 2008 Hotspots, Writer, Director, Producer, Co-Director of Cinematography, Executive Producer, Hosted by Dr. Russell Mittermeier of Conservation International, Two-Hour Feature Documentary, KQED/PBS.
  • 2009 The Grand And Otago Skinks: Conservation of Two of New Zealand’s Rarest Reptiles, Writer, Director, Producer. Short Subject Documentary, Dancing Star Foundation.
  • 2011 State of the Earth, Director, three-hour documentary series, Dancing Star Foundation/Earth Service Production.
  • 2012 Yasuni – A Meditation On Life, Writer, Director, Executive Producer, UNDP/Yasuni-ITT Initiative, Government of Ecuador, for Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit Premiere. A Dancing Star Foundation Film.
  • 2013 Ecosystems on the Edge, 15 Short Ecological Documentaries. Co-Executive Producer for Dancing Star Foundation, the Primary Collaborating Partner with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC).
  • 2016 bioreverie, Writer, Executive Producer. One-hour documentary, GCSU (Georgia College and State University).


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