Parker Hatley is finalizing a book project featuring unpublished writing and selections from the personal archive of Peter Warshall (1943-2013), the late maniacal naturalist, bio-gladiator, and land-use editor for the “Whole Earth Catalog.” A capsule biography and testament assembled in Peter’s writing cabin in the Sonoran Desert, the book explores the constitutive affinities and tensions between environmentalism, science, technology, and poetics at the heart of the country’s fateful experiments with communalism, systems thinking, and holistic philosophy. Tentatively titled “2 Billion Years of Animal Sounds Sutra: Selected Writings and Lectures of Peter Warshall,” this book was originally conceived of with Julia Sharpe as the first in a series of publications in the “Later USA Almanac,” a CMP Collaborative Project. Forthcoming Summer 2022, CMP Projects and Edition Hors-Sujet.