Resources and Links

UCLA and other organizations
- Sustainability website: www. sustain.ucla.edu; lots of resources and links.
- Ecology. Economy. Equity. Student group dedicated to environmental and justice issues.
- http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002924.html (link takes you to article that talks about Europe's footprint, but check out the rest of the site too).
- Organic Gardening Class Article about a 6 week gardening class at UCLA that happens on Saturdays with Rosa Romero.

Farms and Food Stuff
- http://urbanhomestead.org/ Check this family out! And here's a short video about them.
- Polyface Farms; These folks are talked about in Omnivore's Dilemma.
- McGrath Family Farm; Field trip destination.
- Slow Food LA; "Supporting good, clean, and fair food production and consumption in Los Angeles."
- Cool Foods Campaign; "The Cool Foods Campaign educates the public about how food choices can affect global warming and empowers them with the resources to reduce this impact. Join our 'Cool Foods' Campaign and help take a bite out of global warming by changing the way you eat."
- Eat Low Carbon; Estimate the footprint of particular meal items by dragging and dropping them onto your plate.
- How to go green in the kitchen This page offers lots of useful tips.
- http://www.eatwild.com/products/california.html Pastured meats directory for California.

Restaurants
- Govinda's 6$, all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet at the Hare Krishna temple in Palms. The food is very delicious!
- Lucques Gourmet, seasonal, local, organic, sustainable cuisine by Chef Suzanne Goin, who trained at Chez Panisse. Treat yourself and a special someone to a very memorable meal!
- Ford's Filling Station This is another locally renowned restaurant specializing in artisinal, organic, seasonal cuisine. Don't let the prices intimidate you. Wait for a special occasion and treat yourself!
- Chez Panisse Often touted as the place where the organic food movement and California Cuisine were born, Alice Waters' seasonal, local cuisine proved to be a major historical force driving and inspiring the growth of farmers' markets, first in the bay area, then all throughout California and across the country. Located in Berkeley, CA. For more info watch "Food Fight", a documentary about the organic food movement in the US.

Recommended readings and videos: Because social justice, economic, geographical, cultural and other issues are so integrally tied to our relationship with the planet, I've included a variety of books on this list that aren't strictly about the environment or sustainability.
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (credited with starting the modern environmental movement)
- Walden by Thoreau (classic account of simple living)
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Radical Simplicity by Jim Merkel
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown This is about the genocide of native Americans by US govt. and pioneers. An important and interesting but not very happy read.
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein This about how free market reforms have been made and what their consequences have been around the world.
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond This was made into a pretty good documentary that helps explain some of the economic and technological disparities between developed, technologically advance societies and other not so advanced societies
- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey This is about Abbey's time in Southern Utah in and around Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. He's an excellent writer. These two parks and the surrounding desert are home to some the most magical and otherworldly landscapes on the planet.
- The Monkey Wrench Gang also by Edward Abbey This is a fictional account of radical activism.

Nature and outdoors:
- National Parks (link to interactive map of all the parks and from there to each park's website)
- Sierra Club "...America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization."
- Online John Muir exhibit "America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist". If you haven't heard of Muir you must check this out!
- Restore Hetch Hetchy! "...a wonderfully exact counterpart" of Yosemite Valley -John Muir; but unfortunately it was dammed in 1923. This site is dedicated to the ongoing fight to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley.

Technology and designs for sustainable living:
- Earthship Biotecture Mike Reynold's company that designs and constructs Earthships.
- Green Home Building Really cool site that summarizes lots of techniques and provides many links for further reading.
- Composting Toilets On the Cheap This guy shows you how to build your own or if you don't feel inclined to do so, how to buy his. Has interesting instructional videos.
- Composting Toilets on the Steep Envirolet's official looking website to sell their toilets. Their systems really are well designed, just too expensive for most.
- Solar ovens Solar ovens use reflective surfaces at different angles to concentrate light from the sun onto a pot of food (beans, soup, roasts, etc.). They are easy and practically free to make.

Energy use:
- Energy Information Administration This is part of the Department of Energy. This link takes you to a summary of statistics on electricity usage for the average American household for 2001 and several other years. There is a VAST amount of information and stats on energy consumption in the U.S. available through this site.

Lifestyle: These sites cover social justice, environmental, and lifestyle choice issues related to sustainable living. They are holistic in that sense. They overlap a bit but content varies surprisingly so check them all out.
- Santa Monica Green Office Buying Guide It says "office" but most of this stuff could work for a home as well.
- Earth Easy Information, suggestions, and products for more sustainable living. Very comprehensive source and quite well organized, but not always scientifically rigorous.
- Mother Earth News News and how-to articles, links and other resources all related to greener living.
- Resources for Life Yet another interesting site about better (more sustainable) living. Lots of links to all sorts of other sites.
- Sustainable living guides A database of several dozen different guides published at different university and college campuses around the country.
- Self Sufficient Living Site about homesteading, gardening, making things you normally buy.

Pets:
- Reduce your dog's footprint Unfortunately this article missed out on an opportunity to address what's really at issue- what your dog eats. Dog food contributes the most to Fido's footprint b/c of what it's made of- chicken and corn. This article focuses on important but less consequential aspects of your mutt's human run lifestyle.
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