[Lapg] NEW Book /Toolbox For Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide by PC authors in Austin TX

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

<http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87804>Toolbox 
For Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide

http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87804


Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew

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 world’s 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?

That’s 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 Rhizome’s 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.


Pages: 256
Edition: illustrated
ISBN: 978-0-89608-780-4
Format: paperback original
Release Date: 2008-07-01

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When people envision food production or toxic 
cleanups, the last setting most likely imagine is 
New York City. But with more than half the 
world’s 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?

That’s where this guide comes in. Seven years 
ago, the Rhizome Collective transformed an 
abandoned Austin, Texas, warehouse into a 
sustainability training center. Here, with their 
first book, two of Rhizome’s founders provide 
step-by-step instructions for city dwellers­those 
who have never foraged or gardened along with 
those who have done dumpster-diving and CSAs­with 
directions for producing our own food, collecting 
water, managing waste, reclaiming land, and generating energy.

With vibrant illustrations created by a member 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, making the 
Guide an accessible and relevant tool for all 
members of the community. This manual enables us 
to move from envisioning a future with resources for all to living it.

Stacy Pettigrew and Scott Kellogg are part of the 
Rhizome Collective, an educational and activist 
organization based in Austin, Texas. Its members 
recently received a $200,000 brownfield cleanup 
grant from the EPA, which they're using to turn a 
10-acre dump into an ecological justice park. The 
bioremediation techniques they developed are 
being used to remove toxins deposited by the waters of Hurricane Katrina.
Book Formats:





Interview

Sonali Kolkatar of Uprising Radio, interviewed 
Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew on radical 
sustainability on May 27, 2008. You can access 
the interview on more information http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87804



For more information about Scott Kellogg & Stacy 
Pettigrew please visit http://www.radicalsustainability.org

For more information about R.U.S.T. and the 
Rhizome collective please visit http://www.rhizomecollective.org





Praise

"This important manual will become even more 
necessary as people increasingly recognize the 
end of the age of oil-and increasingly 
relocalize. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living 
should be on the shelves of all city dwellers."
Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame

"These simple, yet powerful steps can transform 
your life and your concept of sustainability. 
Radical sustainability--intimately connected to 
urban living and urban people doing for 
themselves--is critically important. This book 
provides us with relevant tools to change what we 
do and valuable thoughts to push the conversation 
forward. If you care about low income urban 
people and their/our future you are going to read this book."
Renée Toll-DuBois, Eagle Eye Institute

And for the Rhizome Collective

"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

"They had a really great idea of where they're 
going with the site. It was so sustainable, and 
the practices they're using are very innovative. 
We didn't see them anywhere else."
Amber Perry, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

"One group distinguishing themselves as a major 
environmental force is the Rhizome Collective."
The Green Building Program Newsletter


Scott Kellogg and 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 for Sustainable City Living developed out 
of R.U.S.T.­Radical Urban Sustainability 
Training­their intensive weekend seminar in urban ecological survival skills.






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