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Land & Nature Stewardship
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The Permaculture Flower of David Holmgren
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Buildings:
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Government
- Explaining The Problems
- What Government can do
Community-building:
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Tools & Technology
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Finance & Economics
- Ethical Investing
- Local economies
- LETS, time banks,
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Culture & Education:
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Health & Spiritual Well-Being:
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| "The Big Picture" - understanding the context within which we are working and living
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Arts & music
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| Body/mind/spirit disciplines
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Buildings, materials, maintenance
- ECM handout Beat the Heat with Passive Cooling
- ECM handout Earth-Wiser Remodeling
- Greener House Cleaning article and resources
- Solar Cooking: "Build Your Own Solar Cooker" - 3 page ECM how-to guide
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Community-building
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Culture Change
- jump to Understanding the problems
- Environmental Change-Making -- our book. How to create a group like Environmental Change-Makers in your neighborhood.
- ECM handout ReLocalizing Your Urban Lifestyle
- ECM handout What We Can Do: the 5Rs
- ECM handout What is Power Down, and Do We Have To Do It Now?
- see also The Big Picture section of this page
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Economics
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Education
- ECM handout Raising Children to a Climate Change Future
- our Children's Environmnetal booklist.(pdf)
- "10 Things You Can Do About Global Warming (Yes, even if you're not yet an adult)" a booklet for children, reading level grades 4-8
- Home education in Los Angeles: HomeschoolLA.us
- Better Than College, by Blake Boles
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Energy: Renewable Energy
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Faith communities
- Faith communities resources have moved here
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Family & Parenting
- "Kids & Transition" series - Joanne's blog entries contemplate how to juggle parenting our children with the work we know we must do
to facilitate a livable world for them when they are grown?
- Home education in Los Angeles: HomeschoolLA.us
- Living Simply with Children, by Marie Sherlock
- Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front, by Sharon Astyk
- more resources for kids are listed above at "Education"
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Gardens: Functional Gardens
- ECM's Food and Gardens page: the community gardens we're working on, our ongoing Organic Vegetable Gardening class series, and resources from that series
- AbundantHarvests.com -- Joanne's edible landscaping resources for Los Angeles
- many of the handouts you see at the Environmental Change-Makers meetings are online here
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Government
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Groups: Resources for groups
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Health care, holistic medicine, well-being
- "Healing Without Harm ," by Joel Kreisberg, DC
- "Eight ways that modern medicine is oil dependent," by Paul Roth
- The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World, by Ted Kaptchuk and Michael Croucher (Summit Books 1987).
A mind-expanding discussion that crosses many modalities, from accupuncture and Ayurvedic to Native American healers to scientific (Western) medicine. It is available in the El Segundo Public Library.
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Passive solar
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Reduce / Reuse / Repair
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Sustainability & Resilience
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Technology: Appropriate Technology
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Transition Towns
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Transportation
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Water wisdom
- Sierra Club bottled water campaign
- Water Saving Tips, by the City of Santa Cruz et al
- Water Wisdom - ECM's 41 page booklet. Includes water conservation, how to water your garden, drought-tolerant edible plants, rainwater harvesting, greywater, greywater soaps
- "Los Angeles receives enough rainfall in a normal year to supply at least half its needs." -- quote on the blog of TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis
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Wildlands
- Backyard Wildlife Habitats resource page
- more coming soon
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Global Warming
Peak Oil
Peak Everything
Economic Contraction
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