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These are resources that allow
you to get involved in the betterment of our communities and our
nation. Learning about these things and then taking actions
appropriate to our personal situation is a effective means of
changing the world for the better.
Educating oneself as to the nature of the
threat to the environment and our personal health can be a challenge
because there is so much to learn and there are so many different
solutions offered. The following sites are clearly articulated so
that one can both learn and then take
action.
THE ISSUE OF ALL ISSUES. What good is using less if the world
population is growing exponentially and thereby threatening
everything?
Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Dr. Albert Bartlett
http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461
Now that sounds boring doesn't it?
Probably the most important video available to understand sustainability, the environment and the changes you will face.
One cannot call themself an environmentalist or a informed citizen until they have seen this video.
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THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD
Rachel's Environmental & Health
Weekly. A fabulous resource of scientific information
written in a coherent, easily understandable language that hits right
at the heart of the health and environmental issues confronting not
just consumers but all people. References and sources of material
given. Read it and learn. It's free. There is no excuse,
(except laziness), for literate people with access to computers and
modems to be uninformed about what's happening to the environment and
our health.
Available free by
E-mail.
All you have to do is type the word SUBSCRIBE in the E-mail message
field
HERE.
Before you subscribe perhaps you would like to check out an
incredible library of BACK ISSUES, with search function, available
from
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4
The following is the kind of article that makes Rachel's so valuable:
#487,
OUR STOLEN FUTURE-Part 2.
(Found in the back issues link above).
This is a seminal and thoroughly foot-noted article on new research
conclusively establishing links between industrial chemicals and the
breakdown of human and animal health. If you've ever wondered why one
should go Organic, this is THE article to convince you or skeptics
that you care about.
to learn about these things.
So just what's in the
non-organic
food that
you're eating?
This link shows you what
is there and its effects on you. If you don't care about
yourself at least check out the bad things that you are
feeding to your kids.
Combination of
Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's
Disease:
Learn how to avoid this fate in your old age.
Enter your zip code-hit go. And
now...Here's how
corporate America is going to make it illegal to trade seeds
of any kind, or even grow native plants on your own
land:
Patented plants will be exempt from this. Think we're
kidding? Welcome to the nightmare world of the "approved
plant list". http://www.geocities.com/nowhitelist/index.html STOP THE WHITE LIST!
It works!
You can research the health affects of any pesticide used in your
work place or around your home using the
Pesticide
Information Service (PESTIS) Database
The next site discusses the actors in the drama that is involuntarily
being played out in every cell of your body.
Care to read the program? This is a description of several of the
largest chemical producing companies, the health and environmental
damage from their products and the brand names where these chemicals
are found as well as resources to boycott their other merchandise,
or rush out and buy lots
of it if you so choose; hey, we're interested in being good citizens
just like George the Second says we should be....
REVOLT
AGAINST THE EMPIRE: DOW, DUPONT & MONSANTO
Monsanto is desperately trying to improve its image. Read about
this company and its products in Revolt Against the Empire above then
appraise for yourself their home
pages, an excellent example of
CORPORATE GREENWASHING.
Here's an
example of the real kind of thing Monsanto has done for
the environment in rural Missouri.
And now, in the latest gambit to convince the world that they are
really just nice plain-old down-home overall wearin' folks, Monsanto
unveils...
Drum Roll Please...."The Monsanto Pledge"
Energy: We're fighting a war to guarantee the supply of cheap oil. You or someone you love may die in that war. Is it worth it to drive everywhere and consume copious amounts of energy because there are so few alternatives to do so where you live?
The ultimate tragedy of this is that the oil is not going to be as abundant no matter what happens in the new oil war. Read about the future of energy availability at this well written and excellent scientific website.
also
The Heart of The Matter-Colin Campbell
much longer and detailed backgrounder on oil depletion
At the same time the Powers That Be want to deindustrialize America,
destroy investment in the public realm and export middle class jobs
as part of their model: In The Grip Of A Permanent War Economy by Seymour Melman
Warning: This Australian site can take hours to read. Industrial
civilization and the future will never look the same to you. Read it
and you will see how the resources on our site can help individuals
and communities to avoid some of these problems.
(We find using our "Edit"-"select all"
function makes his pages easier to read.)
DETAILS BEHIND THE DEATH OF OUR ECONOMIC
EXPECTATIONS and DECLINE OF OUR COMMUNITIES; POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES
OFFERED.
Planner's Web is a site that allows you to learn about the
positive changes happening in our communities at the town planning
level. Fabulous links to the history of American small towns, their
demise and their resurrection.
Home From
Nowhere An incredible illustrative essay that defines how
zoning and sprawl has ruined our towns and cities and what can be
done to restore them.
Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New
California An alliance of environmental groups and Bank of
America are doing something to stop sprawl.
Another example of the growing awareness that Non-Sustainability =
Economic Suicide.
Fabulous articles about rebuilding communities in a progressive
manner from
In Context Magazine
A very nice and informative essay on why small businesses promote
community and the mechanics of how they're being destroyed. We
learned a lot from this.
Trouble on Main Street When
Local Stores Go, What Goes With Them?
National Priorities Project "is a community education,
research and training organization that for 16 years has dedicated
itself to making our nation's budget priorities something ordinary
citizens can understand and shape. We are the source that citizen
groups, progressive elected officials, the media and policy analysts
turn to find out the real, local impacts of federal policies. We have
an extensive data base of state and local information, and have
worked with many national organizations and hundreds of local citizen
groups to produce state and local impact reports. These reports
particularly illustrate the trade-off between excessive military
spending and tax breaks for the very wealthy, and resultant cuts to
community-based programs."
Straight from General Eisenhower's mouth:
"Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed.""The Chance for Peace" Address April 16.
1953
"In the councils of government, we must
guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether
sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
Farewell Address. Radio and TV January 17. 1961
The Solar Utilities Network:
This is a fabulous source to learn about electricity,
lighting and Solar through lucid text, wonderful graphics and well
designed Energy Audits that allow one to do an easy measuring of
their energy usage and then take steps to seriously reduce it.
Solar Energy: It's Nothing New, and
It's Here to Stay A wonderful essay on the practical
history of Solar Energy and easy ways to use it from Countryside
Magazine.
Once you've learned about
it, how about putting it to practice? Home Power's
RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRONIC SITES
How to Create a Solar Economy in
Four Years
by Denis Hayes. From the Earth Island
Journal.
SMUD: The most progressive municipally owned utility district in
America. They voted to shut down a nuke and made a solar
park generating electricity out of it. Is there some reason why your
utility can't be this progressive?
The Organic
Consumers Association is
a non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to building a
healthy, safe, and sustainable system of food production and
consumption in the US and the world. It helps build a national
and
international consumer/farmer/labor/progressive retailer boycott of
genetically engineered and chemically contaminated foods and crops.
INTERGARDEN an incredibly through and well constructed set
of links to
PERMACULTURE & REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE sites.
Advertising
Glossary: learn all the terms to describe how they can get to you or
your children.
American
Demographics magazine
Read some of these teasers for industry articles to get a
feel for how they look at you. Guess what?
YOU are the commodity that is for sale by media to advertisers! Read
it and bleat.
The physical effect
of TV on the brain.
Don't let your School District sell your children's brains
to advertisers. Curbing
public space advertising.
Run away from anyone who says this to you:
"Want
to meet some really special people who will show you how easy it is
to get rich...?"
How commercialism and
parasitizing
your friends and family can make someone else rich. An excellent
article on
What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?
Shaking
the Money Tree From Amway to Equinox...
"We speak of a plague that consumes an
estimated $75 billion per year of public money, exacts an estimated
$70 billion a year from consumers, is responsible for nearly 50 per
cent of the million Americans who are today in jail, occupies an
estimated 50 per cent of the trial time of our judiciary, and takes
the time of 400,000 policemen -- yet a plague for which no cure is at
hand, nor in prospect."
(Written by that hippie
socialist William F. Buckley)
tip: Sick of junk mail? Just stuff all of their ads, the magnetic-'you're name here" credit card, the envelope addressed to you back into their postage paid envelope. Fold it so that's it's 'chunky' or fat. It'll cost them .91 cents in postage.
Your Economic
Influence on Politics and the Economy A graphics-free site
packed with very diverse resources.
Don't
Be Soft On Microsoft!
Corporate Watch Info
has serious links for researching and tracking corporate
malfactors.
TAMING
THE GIANTS
Fine essay by David Korten on the specififc effects of
corporate control on local political and economic progress
Alternatives to the
automobile.
Read the review of The End of Oil 14 links below this, and
then learn about how your community can prepare for high energy
prices while making life better for all except car dealers, oil
companies and the Road Gang.
What we once had: 
The conspiracy to destroy America's
streetcar systems
Monopoly of U.S. Ground Transport by the "Big 3"
An excellent and informative history.
A longer heavier commentary by Chomsky with the streetcar
part several paragraphs down from the top
Seattle has a real
transit agency; check it out
Transit Action
Coalition
Just about every resource you could want to implement
community-friendly transit.
The
full costs of the car
financial studies that provide undisputable ammunition for transit
proponents.
Rails to
trails Converting abandoned railroad tracks to community
resources.
A
review of BEYOND OIL: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the
Coming Decades.
Instruments
for change A good list of more academic books having to do
with sustainable development.
Spending
Our Great Inheritance -- Then What? During 500 million
years, geological processes accumulated a rich bank account for us --
oil ""
Some Teachers' and Scholarly Researcher's
Resources:
The Environmental Working
Group Environmental contamination resources.
What is
Sustainable Agriculture? Nice overview from the University
of California
K-12 Curriculum Resources for
Botany
We have a large page
dedicated to organic gardening.
Population And The Environment: A Bibliography All text.
No links from this list.
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
A report by the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
Institute of Medicine
National Research Council
Mad Cow
Website The cattle breeder's billions can't cover up this
growing threat to our health;
vegetarians are not always exempt.
BOOKS (with ample
illustrative quotes) & MAGAZINE section now has its
OWN
PAGE.
Ithaca hours home page In Ithaca N.Y., people have the option of being paid for their labor or products in "Ithaca Hours" worth one hour's average wage of $10 per hour. This is a spendable local currency that at least 1,200 merchants and individuals accept; the ultimate in keeping money in the community. For a starter kit for your community or more information write to: Ithaca Money, Box 6578, Ithaca, NY 14851.
Business exchanges. The ultimate use of microprocessors to fight consumerism and help the environment. It works like an automated electronic classified section. Businesses with surplus merchandise, fixtures, and raw material to sell or trade or that being sought are linked to each other. There's no reason that this can't be used by individuals, for example, all the men that wear size 42 jackets in an area could be linked together with those who want to trade or sell or buy size 42 garments. Start your own electronic exchange. There are a few out there but we haven't found one yet that exists as a true community service without some profit motive in action except for Building Resources in San Francisco.
ready to get serious about anti-consumerism?
Radical Anti-Consumerism
O.
C. Accomplishes?
Active
Resistance
Hands
on methods
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Families compared
our
personal consumer choices
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How
to raise food
How
to raise trees
eliminate
polystyrene products
Corporate
officers and their interlocking interests
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