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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide (Do-It-Ourselves Guides)by Scott Kellogg
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The tools you need tocreate self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests and fields. We need sustainable living right where so many of us are: in urban neighborhoods. But how do we do it? That’s where Toolbox for Sustainable City Livingcomes in. In 2000 the dynamic Rhizome Collective transformed an abandoned warehouse in Austin, Texas, into a sustainability training center. Here, with their first book, Scott and Stacy, two of Rhizome’s founders, provide city dwellers—those who have never foraged or gardened along with those who dumpster-dive and belong to CSAs—with step-by- step instructions for producing our own food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy. With vibrant illustrations created by Juan Martinez of the Beehive Collective and descriptive text based on years of experimentation, Stacy and Scott explain how to build and grow with cheap, salvaged, and recycled materials. More than a how-to manual, Toolboxis packed with accessible and relevant tools to help move our communities from envisioning a sustainable future toward living it. Scott Kellogg a Stacy Pettigrew are co-founders of the Rhizome Collective, an educational and activist organization based in Austin, Texas, that recently received a $200,000 grant from the EPA to clean up a 10-acre brownfield that they are transforming into an ecological justice park. Toolboxdeveloped out of R.U.S.T.—Radical Urban Sustainability Training—their intensive weekend seminar in urban ecological survival skills.
Book News Annotation:In 2000, Kellogg and Pettigrew helped found the Rhizome Collective in
Austin, Texas, which offers an intensive weekend seminar in urban
ecological survival skills. Mostly describing what they have done and
are doing, they discuss food, water, waste, and energy. A section on
bioremediation draws on their experience reclaiming a brownfield, for
which the Collective recently received a big grant from the US
Environmental Protection Agency.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:In 2000 the dynamic Rhizome Collective transformed an abandoned warehouse in Austin, Texas, into a sustainability training center. The group's first book provides city dwellers with step-by-step instructions for producing food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy. Synopsis:"The Rhizome Collective is a force that gets stuff done. . . . A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need."-Austin Chronicle What does it take to livein a city? Are urban centers merely giant sinkholes sucking in food, water, and energy and shipping out waste? Or can cities be affordable, sustainable places to live? With half the world's population now living in cities and that number rising, they have to be-and we need to start transforming them now! That's where A Do-It-Ourselves Guide for Sustainable City Livingcomes in. Stacy Pettigrew and Scott Kellogg, two founders of the Rhizome Collective, have been experimenting with transforming cheap, salvaged, and recycled material into the building blocks of sustainable urban communities. In easy to recreate examples, they describe the hows and whys of sustainable urban living. From microlivestock and aquaculture to wastewater recycling and bioremediation of the soil, readers learn how to implement these technologies in their own lives. The instructions are accompanied throughout by illustrations in the uniquely recognizable Beehive Collective style. Stacy Pettigrewand Scott Kelloggare co-founders of the Rhizome Collective, a nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas (www.rhizomecollective.org). Over the past six years and on a shoestring budget, they have transformed a burnt-out warehouse into a thriving educational center for community organizing and urban sustainability. This book developed out of R.U.S.T., the intensive weekend seminar in urban ecological survival skills they present. The Rhizome Collective has also received a $200,000 EPA grant to transform a ten-acre brownfield into an ecological justice park. Stacy and Scott publish frequently and give workshops on radical sustainability at universities and political gatherings across the country. About the AuthorScott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew, co-founders of the Rhizome Collective, a non-profit organization based in Austin, Texas, have extensive experience in the fields of ecological design and community activism. They have authored numerous articles on sustainability and the Rhizome Collective and frequently give presentations on radical sustainability at universities and political gatherings across the country. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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