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October, 2003

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Author Action

Radical Simplicity
Jim Merkel

Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator
Spring Gillard

The Natural Plaster Book
Dan Chiras

Webs of Power
Starhawk

Divorce Your Car!
Katie Alvord

Connecting Kids
Linda Hill

 

Kudos

Cruise Ship Blues
Ross Klein

The Party’s Over
Richard Heinberg

The Natural Child
Jan Hunt

The Sick House Survival Guide
Angela Hobbs

Free The Children
Susan Fitzell

 

Home Front

Global Warming Strategy

BALLE BC
Living Economies

Clearcutting Canada’s
Rainforests

Dogwood Initiative

BC Citizens
for Public Power

 

The Network

WTO
A threat to the rich,
by George Monbiot

Collapse or Victory?

Network Utne


MEDIA
The NewStandard

Z Daily

The Daily Mis-Lead

The Moscow Times


ENERGY
Blackout 2003

Green Power, BC


OTHER
E-Voting Scandal

Life-Long Learning

$$$ to Dump Bush

Military oppose Bush

Corporate Library


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War Profiteers

 King of Diamonds
– George Shultz –
from the War Profiteers deck of cards

Senior Counselor, The Bechtel Corporation, Former Secretary of State

Best known for dumping nuclear waste on native lands and hijacking Bolivia's water, now Bechtel's scored big with the contract to "rebuild" Iraq. AND, they employ George Schultz and Caspar Weinberger. Did some-one say, "revolving door?"

-- Just one of the 52 War Profiteers cards from the Ruckus Society, each giving excellent background on the key players profiting from the latest US wars. Check out the full deck at: www.warprofiteers.com

In addition, check out the Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers and Corporate Invasion at the excellent website of the Institute for Southern Studies: http://www.southernstudies.org

Dubya and Daddy

"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in 'mission creep,' and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, there was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome."

-- Who said that?

George Herbert Walker Bush said that, in a 1998 book entitled A World Transformed. It’s a pity Dubya didn't listen to his Dad…!

 

The Party’s Over – second edition

Richard Heinberg’s success with The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies has prompted us to release a second edition of the book featuring this dramatic new cover as used by the UK publishers. – Available mid-October.


Hot Off Press

"A blueprint for sustainable living"
Simple living comes in numerous forms, from straight to extreme, but Jim Merkel’s life’s work is guaranteed to push all previous limits. Hot off-press, Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth is "the most persuasive argument I have yet seen for all of us to radically change the we live day-to-day," according to Howard Zinn -- which is exactly what Jim did when he quit his previous life as a military engineer and devoted himself full-time to figuring out what it would look like to live equitably on our small planet. Read what others say about the book, or Chapter One: Building the Case for Global Living (70k).

The Rich Compost of City Farming
City Farmer has been Vancouver’s unofficial office of urban agriculture for the past 25 years, and their good-humored staff celebrated this fact along with many supporters during the last weekend of September. They also proudly celebrated the release of their Compost Hotline Operator’s first book, called (strangely enough) Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator: Edible Essays on City Farming, by Spring Gillard. A hilarious romp through the urban horticulture avant-garde, it’s also a mine of useful resources. Check out the Advance Praise for the book, or its Contents. Or read, in Spring’s own words, how she came by such a unique job title. Go!

Bug-A-Slug
Believe it or not, this was the name of a campaign begun by the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales through their website. Concerned about the huge amounts of chemical pesticides disbursed by British gardeners to rid their gardens of slugs, the canny folk at the Centre asked people for their non-chemical recipes for dealing with slugs. The response was so overwhelming that they decided it was material enough for a book – a humorous and useful one at that, containing over 70 ways to a stress-free, slug-free garden. It’s called The Little Book of Slugs.

On The Horizon

Behind the War on Terror
Delayed slightly, this excellent analysis of the broader context of the invasion and occupation of Iraq will be off press in late October. Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq, by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed has already garnered considerable critical acclaim, as you can read from the Advance Praise. See, also the Contents and Introduction.

Organic Weddings
What better way to make a major contribution to greening the world than to influence the larger industries – especially those known for not being green? This was Michelle Kozin’s rationale for starting a new business, and is the subject matter of her forthcoming book,Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition. She has focused on the $70 billion a year weddings industry, aiming to provide would-be brides and grooms with responsible alternatives to the usual synthetic glitz. The Contents indicates the full range of this book’s scope.

Above All, Be Kind
Zoe Weil is a pioneer in the field of Humane Education, and this if the first book that describes her methods, and those of the Institute for Humane Education that she cofounded. Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times is full of solid advice for parents on how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense. Check out the Advance Praise.








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