Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide

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The tools you need to create 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 worlds population now residingand struggling to survivein 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? Thats where Toolbox for Sustainable City Living comes 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 Rhizomes founders provide city dwellersthose who have never foraged or gardened along with those who dumpster-dive and belong to CSAswith 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 Toolbox is 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. Toolbox developed out of R.U.S.T.Radical Urban Sustainability Trainingtheir intensive weekend seminar in urban ecological survival skills.