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PREFACE

Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean That You Should.

1.    Visit the Seeds of Simplicity web site at http://www.seedsofsimplicity.org/

2.    Get help reducing your own consuming through the Media Foundation at
http:// www.adbusters.org

3.    Keep your eye on corporations through Corporate Watch at http://www.corp­watch.org/

4.    Read a letter written to Bill Gates by Ralph Nader about wealth disparities at http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/189.html

5.    Keep track of air quality issues from the EPA's Air Now website at http://www.epa.gov/airnow/.

6.    The National Academies of Sciences website is at http://www.nationalacademies.org/.

7.    Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them often. Tell them your hopes and dreams and fears. They work for you.  If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html

CHAPTER 1

From a Distance, the World Looks Great

1.      Read articles about the sea otter deaths and the connection to TBT at http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/news/seaottrs.html and http://members.aol.com/adrcnet/marmamnews/98041501.html

2.      Visit the National Wildlife Health Center for details on the toxic threats to wild­life and us at http://www.emtc.nbs.gov/nwhchome.html

3.      A thorough discussion of TBTs and sea otter mortality can be found in the May 1, 1998 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 32, No. 9, by Drs. Kannan, Guruge, Thomas, Tanabe, and Giesy. You can look for it at a university library or purchase it from http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/.

4.      The Baykeeper organization keeps watch on waterways throughout the nation. Visit their Santa Monica, California site at http://www.smbaykeeper.org/smbay/ and support their work.

5.      See the "report card" for the water quality of Southern California beaches, main­tained by the Surfrider foundation, at http://www.surfrider.org/

6.      View some amazing facts about our oceans at http://www.surfrider.org/cfmany.html#marine pollution

7.      Over 1.5 billion dollars is being spent on enlarging the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant so that it can handle one billion gallons of our wastewater every day. This will allow the Plant, they say, to serve the needs of the city for the next 100 years. After that, who knows? Visit the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant at http://www.ci.la.ca.us/BOE/wcmd/htp.htm and http://www.sccwrp.org/pubs/annrpt/96/ar-01.htm

8.      Read all the lyrics to Julie Gold's powerful song (Performed by Nanci Griffith), "From A Distance," at http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1752/album11.htm#froma

9.      Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them. Tell them to outlaw the use of TBT and to work to get it out of our web of life.  If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ ziptoit.html

In A Class By Ourselves

1.    The works of Morris Berman are revealing. Read his "The Reenchantment of the World," New York: Bantam Books, 1988.

2.    Read Kirkpatrick Sale's "Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision," Santa Cruz: New Society Publishers, 1991. A starting point on the web is http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Sale.html

3.    Still battling consumerism. Get help from Adbusters at http://www.adbusters.org The "Overcoming Consumerism" page is great as well. Check them out at http://www.hooked.net:80/users/verdant/index.htm

4.    Learn about the progressive education at Antioch University at http://www.antiochla.edu/otcamp.html

5.    Learn about Topanga State Park at http://parks.ca.gov/south/angeles/styles/win_ns.css

6.    Visit the Context Institute for outstanding articles on these subjects at http://www.con­text.org/

What Are We?

1.      Visit the International Community for Ecopsychology http://www.ecopsychology.org/

2.      See more ecopsychology links at http://clem.mscd.edu/~davisj/ep/eplinks.html

Connecting and Noticing

1.      Chellis Glendinning, "My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization, Shambhala Books, Boston, 1994. Read an interview with her at http://www.newtimes.org/issue/0007/collective.html

2.      Visit Project Nature Connect and try out their "Reconnecting With Nature" activity at http://www.ecopsych.com/

3.      For help challenging your perceptions, check out "In Context" Magazine at http://www.context.org

4.      For more on the work of Buddhist Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, visit the Parallax Press site at http://www.parallax.org/

Home Sweet Toxic Home

1.       Watch the health of your family carefully. Don’t discount symptoms or illnesses that seem to come out of nowhere. During discussions with your mental or physical health care practitioner, be sure to tell them where you work.

2.       If you suspect a problem – don’t worry if you can prove it or not – contact the local OSHA office in your community. You can find them in the phone book. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE IN IMMENENT DANGER, CONTACT OSHA AT 800-321-6742.

3.       If you work in an industry or business that brings you into contact with substances, leave soiled work clothing at work. Take your shoes off before you enter your home. And sadly, have your family resist welcoming you with a hug until you have changed your clothing.

4.       Read the USA TODAY special report on workplace toxins at http://www.usatoday.com/careers/news/usa006.htm

5.       For a very comprehensive list of toxins, their sources and effects, visit http://nccnsw.org.au/member/tec/projects/tcye/tox/bytopic_index.html

6.       For an interesting report on workplace toxins and African American workers, visit http://www.udayton.edu/~health/01status/98newbur.htm

7.       Planning on continuing working while you are pregnant? Check out these concerns at http://webmd.lycos.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_3961093

8.       The American Academy of Family Physicians provides information on workplace hazards that can harm your lungs at http://familydoctor.org/handouts/134.html

9.       For a list of problem industries with cancer risks, visit http://www.toxictorts.com/process.htm. You will also find legal histories of court actions.

10.   Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them. Tell them that the time is now to crack down on workplace safety issues. If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html  

What Is Really Going On

1.      The two verses above are from Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and published by Harper Books, 1991.

2.      Read about the AQMD's air pollution credits at the AQMD Web Site: http://www.aqmd.gov/

3.      Learn about Hildegard of Bingen at http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/music/Hildegard.html

4.      Her incredible music can be purchased from Sisterhood Books at http://ladyslipper.org. I highly recommend "Visions" on Capitol Records.

5.      The works of Hildegard can be obtained from the Washing­ton National Cathedral at http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/shops/hildy/hildy.html

Earth Day: To March or to Shop?

1.       Visit an Earth Day website at http://www.earthday.net/

2.       Earth Day 1998 might be a great time to get your family to watch the Diet for a New America video by Jon Robbins, possibly the most important 60 minutes you and your family and friends could watch. You can get a copy at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302231736/qid%3D983385780/107-7506049-9424523

3.       Visit the World Game Institute at http://www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/  for their amazing "What the World Wants Project" to get details on the costs and assumptions presented above. It is a remarkable resource that will open your eyes forever.

4.       Changelinks is a publication that provides a calendar of activist events in the Southern California. Visit them http://www.change-links.org and find a similar calendar for your home town. Visit the Northwest Animal Rights Network at http://www.narn.org/ for animal rights activity in the Pacific Northwest.

Where Do We Draw the Line?

1.    The material we used on our house is called “Timbor.” You can find many pest control companies that apply it - it is mainly boric acid (like is found in “20- mule Team Borax” laundry powder). You can also apply it yourself. It can be obtained from Apex Pest Control in Florida. They sell it through their web page at http://www.apex-pest.com/.

2.    Learn about biological control of pests from Cornell University at their web site at http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/.

3.    The Pesticide Action Network will help you understand the growing problem of pesticides in our environment. Visit their web site at http://www.igc.org/panna/index.html

What's Extreme?

Create a new bookmark file with links to sites that link people together on issues you care about. Visit those sites once per week. Commit yourself to writing one letter, e-mail message, or making one phone call per week about an issue that is important to you. At the end of the next year, you will have written 52 letters! Build your activist bookmark file from some of the links below:

1.    Keep an eye on what companies are being boycotted at the Boycott Action News at http://www.coopamerica.org/boycotts/index.html

2.    Keep an eye on activism world wide at Macrocosm at http://www.macronet.org/

3.    The Video Project has powerful, affordable videos for all ages on the social and environmental issues of the day. They also have a program where they give free videos to schools. Visit them at http://www.videoproject.net/

4.    Visit the World Health Organization at http://www.who.int/

5.    Visit Zero Population Growth for info on the issues of population at http://www.zpg.org/

6.    Keep track of the last stands of old growth forest from Earth First! at http://www.enviroweb.org/headwaters-ef/about_hw-ef.html

7.    For a different angle on humane issues, visit Psychologists for the Ethical Treat­ment of Animals at http://www.psyeta.org/

8.    Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting will help you stay ahead of the media at http://www.fair.org/

9.    The Media Foundation and Adbusters magazine will help you reduce consumerism at http://www.adbusters.org/

10.The Witness to the Future site at http://www.witnesstothefuture.com/ will involve you in activism.

11.The Nature Conservancy protects the world's lands by buying them! Support them at http://www.tnc.org/

12.The U.S. Army School of the Americas trains assassins and brutal world lead­ers. Learn about this at http://www.soaw.org/

13.Stay in touch with Project Underground for information on little known issues at http://www.moles.org/index.html

14.Learn about vegetarianism through the World Guide to Vegetarianism at http://www.veg.org/

15.Track environmental health issues from Physicians for Social Responsibility at http://www.psr.org/

16.Support farm workers through http://www.ufw.org/

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