Out of the Wasteland
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Foreword by Pico Iyer, 1 - Prologue, 2 - Awakening, 3 - The Realm of Ideas, 4 - Inspiration, 5 - Small is Beautiful, 6 - Design with Nature, 7 - The Garden of the Heart's Delight, 8 - Santa Barbara Stands Fast, 9 - Mr. Pollock's Challenge, 10 - Survival Times, 11 - The Garden as a Centering Force, 12 - Disputes at the Urban-Rural Border, 13 - Earth Day 1970, 14 - Standing Up to Power, 15 - A Farm in the City, 16 - El Mirasol Polyculture Farm, 17 - When Dreams Get Tough, 18 - A Beacon on the Hill , 19 - When You're Blocked, Adapt, 20 - Building Community Gardens , 21 - How Big Should Our City Be?, 22 - In Defense of Agriculture, 23 - Building Our Dream, 24 - Between the Idea and the Reality:
Early Sustainability Metrics, 25 - Making Use of the Lulls, 26 - A Design Competition, 27 - Inviting Art In, 28 - Garbage, 29 - At the Ground Floor of Recycling , 30 - The Power of the Word, 31 - Into Berkeley We Dared to Tread, 32 - Recycling Goes Mainstream, 33 - A Journey to the Far East, 34 - Taiwan: A Glimpse into the World's Electronic Wasteland, 35 - China: A Recycling Dragon Awakens , 36 - Smokey Mountain, Manila, 37 - Using Less Stuff, 38 - Out of the Comfort Zone , 39 - Politics, 40 - Organics: The Magic of Biology, 41 - Regulation as Art, 42 - Waste and Renewable Energy , 43 - Biofiltration, 44 - The End of Landfills?, 45 - Biogas, 46 - On the Matter of Scale, 47 - Fossil-Free? , 48 - When Certainty is the Enemy, 49 - Community Energy Blueprints, 50 - Transportation Fuels, 51 - Wind , 52 - Sun, 53 - Sea, 54 - Post-Petroleum Economics, 55 - A Post-Oil Pattern Language, 56 - Renewable Technology Diffusion, 57 - Bio-based Packaging, 58 - Local Food, 59 - Bicycle and Foot Power, 60 - Rethinking Our Regulatory System, 61 - Scale, 62 - Perspective and Resolve, Acknowledgements, About the Author, Photo Credits, Notes
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