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Janet Biehl is a prominent writer and publisher on social ecology and a leading activist in the US green movement. She is also the editor and curator of the body of revolutionary socialist ideas developed and elaborated by the prominent ecologist Murray Bookchin , with whom she collaborated closely during the last 15 years of his life. She edited and published essays and articles with Bookchin from 1990 until his death in July 2006. From 1990 until his death, the two lived together in Burlington, Vermont. Biehl and Bookchin were activists in the Burlington Greens and the Left Green Network, among other US green groups over the same period. Biehl and Bookchin were publishers of the prominent newsletter Green Perspectives . In a series of books authored during the 1990s, Biehl expounded on and popularized the notion and practice of social ecology, distilling Bookchin's voluminous theoretical and political works into concise, entry-point texts. She also developed critiques of the shortcomings of American and German environmentalist and women's movements, warning against both the attractions of New Age mysticism and forming alliances with reformist political parties, which sought to gain the imprimatur of ecologists as a means to political power. Biehl is the author of Bookchin's biography. SEE ALSO: Anarchism in the United States, 1946-Present ; Bookchin, Murray (1921–2006) ; ... log in or subscribe to read full text