Douglas Todd is one of the most honoured spirituality and ethics writers in North America. He has won more than 60 journalism honours and educational fellowships. Working for the Vancouver Sun and other newspapers, he is a two-time winner of the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, which goes to the top spirituality writer in North America's secular media. He has also received the leading commentary award from the American Academy of Religion, which represents 6,000 scholars of religion. In addition to winning National Newspaper Awards in Canada, Vancouver Magazine referred to him as "arguably Vancouver's most thoughtful journalist.

"Douglas Todd has assembled some of Cascadia's best thinkers, essayists and poets to show how the Pacific Northwest's stunning wilderness and intricate ecology have inspired modern environmental movements, a self-reliant secular spirituality, ethnic pluralism and rugged independence. As this volume reveals, something spectacular is going on in Cascadia." -- Rex Weyler, author of Greenpeace: The Inside Story and The Jesus Sayings ‘Students of British Columbia should have this book in their personal libraries.’ – BC Studies Winter 2009/2010