Your Economic Vote: Your Influence On Politics And The Economy

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Save The World From Corpruption

Your Daily Purchases Have Much Greater Influence Than Your Political Votes

This page explores the most important and most overlooked political power in the world, the power to buy or boycott. Given that public policy is influenced and often drafted by big business, your direct political vote often has less influence on your life, community and our society and world than does your economic vote: the choices of whether to purchase, what to purchase and from whom to purchase.

After the introduction which looks at this issue from a few other angles, there is information (many links) supporting the claims of the introduction and then information (many links) on alternatives.

Introduction

If you are like most in our society, then instead of producing what you need, you produce something you don't need, get money (after paying taxes for the privilege) for compensation and then buy (paying for sales tax, {selling business'} income tax, payroll tax, production, unwanted processing, transportation, storage, packaging, waste disposal of packaging of) what you need.

The hope is that the following information can help you optimize and balance your health, budget, time, ethics, and your general quality of life. The definition of what a "good balance is" is obviously up to you. This page will never be complete, but it is hoped that it will help regardless. (See below for many links).

Becoming less dependent on many of today's primary sources of food, energy and other fundamental materials may be both good for you and easy to do. Being aware of the ways you can be independent of big business sources allows you to exercise your right to the economic equivalent to a vote for what you would like to support. This document presents much evidence that your daily economic votes generally influence both politics and the economy more than your political votes. Also, answering the question of how to become less dependent gives some answers to these questions:

How can one prevent/recover from illness and/or stay healthy?
How can one get by (or live well) with less money?
How can one help protect the environment?
How can one legally pay less taxes?
How can one make the local community more livable?
How can one become less vulnerable to local and international crime, the whim of our government (including war), Wall Street and our nation's economy?

The following is a mixture of essay and information regarding your quality of life and its relationship to your economic influence and dependence on our political and economic system. It assumes that your primary dependence on the economic system is due to dependence on products and services, the lack of which would cause hardship.

Fundamental materials most of us depend on are listed in "Fundamental Resources Needed For Healthy Living"
Some primary and mainstream sources are examined "Big Businesses, Their Activities And Your Support."
Some alternatives (sources of food, energy, etc.) are presented.
The influence your choice of sources has on your health, wealth, government, environment and the rest of the world is discussed.
Related information and links

You may be wondering "What are you trying to sell here?" I have nothing to sell. I am interested in sharing information gathered and receiving more. I have been trying to find a balance among factors influencing the quality of life. For many, one's capacity to produce and/or accumulate money is the primary means of measuring one's capacity to meet various needs, especially material. I see money as just one factor to be balanced among many others, even for material goods.

Another common reaction is "the alternatives take more time and/or energy than I can spare." This may be true in many cases. However, you may be pleasantly suprised by the exceptions to this general rule. For example, I find that in many cases, I can grow some easy to grow foods by planting cheap or free seeds with little soil preparation and weed only once or twice and get more food for the total time than the equivalent trips to a store. In general, far fewer trips are needed when you produce your own goods. Since I don't need as many things from stores, riding my bike to work works out better (so the car is used much less). Riding the bike to work takes about an average of 5 minutes more, but I make it exercise on the way home and save time by killing two birds with one stone. Also, less use of the car saves time in fewer trips to the gas station, less maintanence, etc. Producing your own goods generally means less packaging to tear open (and sort, if you recycle) and dispose of. One thing harder to quantify is the time and energy gained by the health benefits of much of this, also.

I don't claim to have the answer of the best balance for anyone. What I claim is that there may be information in or pointed to by this page that will help you find a better balance.

This page is a living document. I plan on adding many more links to related pages that are on the web. If you have practical, related information or links to add, please send to: kevinf@debone.com

Fundamental Resources Needed For Healthy Living:

Survival of Self:
- Food (all things consumed for maintaining health)
- Heat
  - Shelter (Land, structure, energy ( fuel for heat, electricity, lighting)
  - Clothing
Survival of Species:
- Social interaction
  - family (everything leading up to and including having/raising children)
  - community (associated with perpetuating the "family")
Fundamental Aspects for Obtaining/Maintaining the Above
- Health (other than food).
- Education (source for learning)
- Leisure
- Expression
- Misc. (includes transportation) to sustain above

As stated above, if you are like most in our society, then instead of producing what you need, you produce something you don't need, get money (after paying taxes for the privilege) for compensation and then buy (paying for sales tax, income tax, payroll tax, production, unwanted processing, transportation, storage, packaging, waste disposal of packaging of) what you need. The following industries generally rely on your role in this:

Big Businesses, Their Activities And Your Support

While the mainstream media has little financial incentive to promote most of the alternatives presented in this document, much of the media has a disincentive to report much of what follows. This disincentive is due to large advertisement revenue or outright ownership of media ( The world's biggest media and entertainment company, Disney owns ABC; nuclear weapons manufacturer, Westinghouse owns CBS; nuclear weapons manufacturer, GE owns NBC.) Lesser examples are: In about 1975, my father sold his small newspaper to the highest bidder who happend to be the chairman of the GOP of VA at the time, who also owned the majority of newpapers along the mid-Atlantic coast. Dan Quayle's family owns The Indianapolis Star and News newspaper. (See The GE Boycott: A Story NBC Wouldn't Buy as an example. For much more see FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) and try looking up a company of your choice using the Index for FAIR publications.)

Industries that represent the dominant source of food, energy and somewhat neccessary or addictive products follow:

The Food Processing Industry

Americans spend about $1800 per person per year on food (or about $7200 for a family of 4).
A recent "Food Processing Magazine" issue cited a Department of Agriculture study showing that a half of a _Trillion_ dollars of foods "processed" in the United States is sold each year.
While some food processing may be required to sustain our population, much of it is to mask the lost of taste, consistency, nutrition and appearance due to the processing itself (as discussed below, bread is a classic example). Also, much of the processing involves coloring and packaging simply to make foods stand out in the market. Much of this packaging increases the cost of the product and the cost of waste disposal, in addition to the energy and raw materials required. The petroleum industry supplies much of the this and also fertilizers and "food grade" oils.
The vast majority of baked goods available, regardless of being labeled "whole wheat" are made from the same "enriched " white flour. Generally, this flour has been stored long enough to have lost most of its nutritional value and to grow mold. The " enriched" label refers to adding some of the nutrients lost after milling.
Meat Industry:
- There is evidence that "mad cow" disease is related to feeding cows cow remains. There is also evidence of other health risks associated with this practice. The practice of feeding cows cows and pigs pigs has become quite common in recent years.
- "MEAT is responsible for 70% of all food-poisoning incidents." (This link explains why.)
The Dairy Industry produces products, all of which have been accused of causing many health problems: "Dairy products cause or contribute to asthma, hives, allergies, arthritis, appendicitis, inflammatory bowel disease [see note], and other problems." In addition, breast and overy cancer have been linked to dairy consumption. Also, " pesticides concentrate in milk of both farm animals and humans...(and)...Cow's milk protein damages the human immune system." Also, dairy tends to counteract the benifits of dietary fiber.
Fat Substitutes: Procter and Gamble's Olestra (in junk foods such as Pringles potato chips) adds insult to injury by actually robbing your body of nutrients as it passes through, causing cramping and diarea in many of its victims. (See also the FDA'a "Olestra and Other Fat Substitutes" which includes Simplesse and Avice).
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland): Agriculture..."The Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) has been the most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history." You rarely hear about what they do due to the influence they have on the media through large advertisement budgets and media ownership. However, here you have a chance to read "ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND: A CASE STUDY IN CORPORATE WELFARE" by James Bovard of the Cato Institute. ADM recently pleaded guilty to price fixing of citric acid and other food additives. They are being investigated for price fixing of corn syrup.
The Sweetener Industry: Sweeteners can counteract the good effects of dietary fiber.
Many modern diseases are linked to lack of fiber in our modern diet. Much of the lack of fiber is due to food processing which removes it. Then, to correct for this, we can spend more money to buy products such as Metamusil instead of simply eating non-processed foods to begin with. There is evidence that some fiber supplement products can actually promote colon cancer.
Pesticides (insecticides and heribicides) are commonly found in foods widely available. The pesticide industry has great incentive to see to it that pesticide use increases. (Also, see The Pure Food Campaign Web Site for information on pesticides, hormones and genetic engineering used in food).
An extreme case including most of the above and more is " fast food."
Many attribute increased longevity of modern industrialized society primarily to modern food production technology. However, while widespread famine does not generally occur, there is evidence that the main reason for average longevity increase is improved medical care, primarily in the area of sanitation and the care of infants. See http://www.debone.com/foodhistory.html a discussion of the longevity and food history for more on this.

The Energy Industry

The Petroleum Industry:
- (and petrochemical industry) has outlawed, bought the rights to, or undercut alternatives to energy, soap, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paint, packaging, synthetic rubber, adhesives, wood finishing (sealant) products, fiber (used for rope, clothing and other textiles, etc.), agriculture related goods ( fertilizer, pesticides), cayons, inks, candles, and everything plastic replaces. (See BP's Chemical Products Page). Also,
- "Texaco, Shell, Mobil, ARCO, Chevron, Exxon and Unocal deprived taxpayers and oil independents of revenue (>$1.5 billion) by depressing the well-head or production-site price below market value." -- Multinational Monitor -- May 1995, "Big Oil Bilks Taxpayers." Here's a link to British Petroleum.
- Our tax dollars defend the source of raw material for this industry. Examples of this include the Gulf War and our expensive and dangerous presence in the Middle East in general.
- We pay directly and indirectly for oil spills and other mishaps, poor health related to air pollution ( smog) and the alleged greenhouse effect (through combustion, fertilizer use and nylon production).
Utilities - General Electric: You paid for the development and certification of a nuclear reactor made for China. You rarely hear about these types of stories due to the influence GE has on the media through large advertisement budgets and media ownership.

Transportation

The Automobile Industry

The average American will spend $6,398 per year, 42.6 cents per mile, on each automobile they own.
You pay for the roads regardless of use. (This is a Jim Blair Page who has a related page on the gasoline tax.)
Here's a more opinionated page on the industry (not mine): "Case[s] Against the Auto Industry".
General Motors and Standard Tire teamed up to eliminate most of the countries cable cars in order to make us more reliant on automobiles (PBS's Front Line).
A pro-cycling web area offers a Road Cost Report.
Your tax dollars may no longer fund automobile alternatives unless the interested public becomes aware of The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Congress must decide whether or not to allow Federal funds to be spent on bicycle lanes and public transportation, or exclusively for automobile traffic. Here's the text of a speech on this subject by Deputy Secretary of Transportation Mortimer Downey at the MAKING THE MOST OF ISTEA CONFERENCE.
Nine Ways to Lower Your Auto Insurance Costs brought to you by the U.S. Government.

SUV's and other radically fuel inefficient cars continue to get less efficient as sales continue. The link between these fuel hungry vehicles and oil related terrorist activity has been a recent (Jan 2003) motivation for the creation of The Detroit Project which has created the recent TV ads mimicing the drugs-fund-terrorism ads of late.

Addictive Substance Industry

This broad subject is included because of direct costs to you should you become another victim and indirect costs to you through taxes, general cost increases and crime related costs.

For what it's worth, I not only don't produce or consume illegal drugs, I generally have no interest in consuming substances which contain caffeine, alchohol or tobacco. My opinion is that the sale of harmful substances, including tobacco and drinking alcohol, should be against the law, possession or consumption in public should remain illegal, but the private possession of them should be legal. Treat it a bit like society treats sex. As long as no one makes money from it and it's out of public view, we would rather have privacy than police in the bedroom. The logic behind this is that most of the damage done to society is through the economic incentive to create a demand for and control the flow of these substances. Individuals that chose to escape will always find a way, regardless of what's legal. Making possession and use legal takes away the "cool" factor I saw my friends get sucked in by when I was growing up. Thus, it reduces the demand in these two ways.

In short, take the money out of it.

The Tobacco Industry
Why is this $30+ billion/year industry mentioned here? Because tax dollars from your economic transactions subsidize this industry. In "Merchants of Death: The American Tobacco Industry," Larry C. White (M.D.) points out that "...a study in 1986 that found that cigarettes cost the nation $53.7 billion each year in health care costs and income lost by sick smokers and those who die." What does this have to do with you if you don't smoke? "Cigarettes are the most advertised product in the United States with an annual ad budget close to $2 billion, the merchants of death have a large club to hold over the heads of the media." This industry is supported by your financial transactions that generate tax revenues, regardless of whether you buy tobacco products or the magazines that contain their ads. (See http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ for UCSF's famous Brown & Williamson Collection which includes the companies own damaging documents. Also, see Tobacco PAC Contributions To Congress 1986-1995).
Here are more links related to tobacco:
- ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), a national nonprofit legal action and educational organization fighting for the rights of nonsmokers against the many problems of smoking.
Illegal Drugs Industry & The "Drug War" Industry
- The San Jose Mercury contends that our tax dollars paid for the " crack explosion."
- INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign encourages a boycott of products of the Philip Morris and RJR-Nabisco corporations. It presents arguments for boycotting.
- The "War" against hemp: 100 times more deaths than all other drugs combined.
- Here's the DEA's side of things.
- A retired California Policeman Raymond Karczewski claims that the "war on drugs is a sham."
The Alcoholic Beverage Industry
The Credit Industry

Misc. Industry Information Links

Public Citizen keeps an eye on drug companies, the automakers, big energy interests, and the like.
WWW.Essential.ORG is an alphabetical list of the organizations concerned with the activities of corporations and government.
Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
ETHANOL: FUELING AN ECONOMIC ENGINE "Few have examined the macroeconomic contribution made by the ethanol industry."
Consumer Information Center of the U.S. Government (Pueblo, CO).

Leisure "Industry"

Television:
- Even PBS has been gradually becoming commercial. The old "Macneil/Lehrer Newshour" has been sold to TCI. The pressures to make news more entertaining, for ratings, and to squelch negative information regarding corporate sponsors and owners are substantial. Aside from the examples given previously, issues effecting large portions of the population, sometimes the majority, are " softened."
- TV-FREE AMERICA reports in TV Tattered Nation's Social Fabric that Harvard professor "Putnam has documented a sharp decline over the past generation in the percentage of people joining groups of all kinds, political, choral, fraternal, church, hobby..." and that "new evidence indicates that the powerful introduction of television in the 1950s is a major factor in the subsequent decline in both social trust and group participation."
Video Games Industry

Business Ethics Bureau of Investigation

Business Ethics Bureau of Investigation is another resource. Email ismach@bebi.com.

Alternatives To The Mainstream Sources

There are degrees of "alternativeness" regarding the following sources. For example, buying your food, unprocessed and in bulk, avoids supporting much of the undesired actions of food processing industry, but still may support unsustainable, erosion provoking agricultural practices. Many people do not know how to grow food with available space with little or no money or time invested. I hope this can be remedied, partly by information and links to be added here.

Food:

rGBH(rBST) (and generally puke) Free Dairy Products Guide
Background on ancient diets, removed from modern food-processing may be found here
New Crop Compendium lists information about a large number of alternative food and medicinal plants.
The "Quick and Easy Veggie Meals Under a $1.50" FAQ contains similar to the following and additional information.
Recipes via The Epicurious Dictionary can help you simplify the task of adding variety.


 Grow your own via propagation or buy bulk, minimum processed raw form foods:

"Fresh" but cheap store bought produce.  Some examples may be:
        Carrots (when not in your ground)
        Broc. (in season)
        Bananas, Plantains
	Etc.

Bulk, unprocessed dry foods: 
        Brown Rice 
        Dry Beans (small red, kidney, pinto, black, garbonzo, etc.)
        Nuts 
        Corn* (White, Yellow)
        Oats*
        Wheat*, buckwheat*, rye*
	Etc.

(*: I mill all of these whole grains into flower with a small nut
	grinder just before cooking.  This way storage is simple.
	Just keep these in a dark, cool, dry place (cupboard) and
	they will last much longer raw, whole and dry than in any
	other form.  I especially notice the freshness of freshly 
	milled corn compared to pre-milled.  Mostly, I buy Oats
	already rolled since I don't know how to do this yet.  I
	use them in many ways, but mostly in a home made granola.)

Bulk, unprocessed semi-dry foods (mostly root crops that last long):
        Potatoes
        (Onions, Garlic)
	Etc.

Grow your own (or even eat what's already there):

        Solar gardening for near year round food growth.
	Check with local grainary for local grain sources.
        Keep root crops that can be harvested throughout winter:
                carrots
                potatoes
                onions
		etc.
	We eat only a small percentage of edible species.  I've
	made flower/bread out of many wild grass seeds that are much better
	tasting than most wheat.

Cooking:
        solar cooker:  190 deg. F. in mid August w/88 deg. ambient,
                17.6% more intensity in late June (peak solar intensity).
        fire stove:  Outdoor clay.  Build frame of wood.  Build up
                clay & stone around wood.  Burn out wood frame.
                Scrape and clean out interior.

 Again, generally, most expensive food is most processed, removing
 essential nutrients, adding processed ingredients both
 good and harmful.  And/or the food that is the most expensive
 uses the most natural resources:

 - Packaging material (trees, petroleum)
 - Energy
 - Dairy products & Beef (takes a great deal of land, not best for health).
 - Wheat based baked goods:
        Based on white, "enriched" flour (usually includes mold)
        Whole wheat bread generally has the above with some
          whole wheat or dyed wheat thrown in for effect/legal minimum.

Heat

This includes fuel, clothing, lighting, transportation and more.

Heat Energy (& Fuel)
Major sources of free heat:
  - Solar energy
  - Scrap lumber from construction sites
  - Waste oil (burns relatively cleanly and efficiently in high temp. 
	waste oil burners).
  - Charfuel from biomass heated anaerobically (in air-tight container
	near fire).
  - Other waste (including junk mail: or click here to learn how
  to stop getting junk mail, email and phone calls).

Major sources of near free heat:

6 cords of "free" lumber per person per year from National and State Forests. Must pay nominal fee (about $10/cord, usually) for permit to remove the wood. Depending on the type of wood, 1 cord has the heat energy of between 135 and 200 gallons of heating oil.
Produce ethanol from starch/sugars from plants you grow. (Until recently, most cars in Brazil ran on ethanol produced from the sugar cane grown there.)
Produce ethanol from cellulose from plants you grow.

There are many sources of free heat energy. Aside from solar energy, various wastes and scrap materials may be burned. The combustion of many of these products can cause substantial release of pollutants if conditions aren't good. In many cases, preheating (to make a type of charcoal) in the absence of oxygen reduces harmful emissions considerably. Also, combustion at elevated temperatures helps.

There are many simple things that one can do to increase the use of solar energy in current dwellings. Simply being aware that heat radiation is a source of heat _loss_ can help. In other words, for heating, if no sunlight can get in a window (at night, for example) closing the shades to prevent heat from escaping through windows helps. For cooling, do the opposite: close shades to sun, open shades to dark.

Links related to fuels you can make:

SOLAR ENERGY DATA by Geographic Region and Time of Year
Fuel-Grade Ethanol from Corn Mash is a procedure for a student to make a small quantity using readily available, inexpensive materials.
How Much Energy Does It Take to Make a Gallon of Ethanol? This is a report based on current practices in agriculture as of 1995. Using Cellulose feedstock and crop rotation are among suggestions for reduced energy input for a given amount of ethanol (energy output).
Renewable Aviation Fuels Development Center has information on renewable fuels and using ethanol to power a gasoline based airplane engine. Engine experiments and modifications are described. Why Ethanol Is A Superior Fuel For Aviation is explained, also.
Conversion of Cellulose Into Fuel: "AN APPLE A DAY CREATES A WASTE PROBLEM, AND CORNELL TURNS IT INTO FUEL" tells how a mold (Aspergillus foetidus) enzyme (Beta-Glucosidase) breaks down cellulose (most abundant plant matter, much of which is waste product currently) into sugars digestible by yeast for producing ethanol. Other most other methods use starch or sugar (foods with market value) to convert to ethanol.
Biodiesel can be made from soybean, rapeseed and algae oil.
Biofuels Research (USDA NRICGP 1996 Program Description) has email and telephone numbers.
Alternative Fuel Powered Vehicles Page

Waste oil burner venders:

Black Gold Corp, Nashville TN 615-251-0680
Dashair, Collingwood, Ont. Canada (705)444-5678
Reznor, Mercer PA

Clothing

Make your own or buy durable, fashionless (clothes people have been able to get away with wearing every decade for the last century) and stain resistant. Though cotton is a "natural" fiber, the cotton industry is one of the largest users of pesticides because cotton fibers are very tastey to many insects. In contrast, flax and hemp need little protection from bugs.

Fibers:

Hemp: An alternative to Cotton and Petroleum Based Fibers."
Linen (Genuine Flax Based): Another alternative to Cotton and Petroleum Based Fibers." linum usitatissimum is the industrial species. "Blue Flax" is the garden variety.

Light

Instead of petroleum based paraffin candles, try a simple plant oil based lamp. Rapeseed oil has been used from the start of recorded history for lamps. Canola oil, available in most grocery stores, is the oil of a variety of rapeseed which was developed to be free of natural toxins. I've found it for as little as $4.50 a gallon. One square inch lasts for about 4 hours at moderate brightness. Growing your own rapeseed is of course and option.

A simple lamp with typical candle brightness can be made from a small candle holder filled with oil and a wick dipped in the holder. I've found thistle seed fiber to make an excellent wick. The fibers soak up the oil as it burns in a manner that requires no adjustment of the wick as the oil level falls. The wick only burns a little when first lit, and then the oil coats it in a way that protects it from burning until the oil has been totally depleted from the lamp. I use a hair pin as a clip to pinch the wick and hold it in place. The hair pin is placed horizontally across the top of the candle holder. This prevents the candle holder from getting too hot.

Candles have been made from soy oil. The soy candles also burn longer than paraffin wax based candles. In addition, they are edible, so they make a good birthday cake candle. Here's a quote from LA Times-Washington Post Service (Wed, Sept. 25, 1996):

	"The candles were invented by Amy Khal, Adam Watkins
	and Rahul Nair, students in the department of agriculture
	and biological engineering at Purdue University.  The
	threesome recognized that the chains of carbon and
	hydrogen atoms that make up paraffin, a petroleum 
	byproduct, closely resemble the chemical structure
	of several fats and oils, including soybean oil.
	In fact, soy oil and paraffin both are excellent sources
	of energy..."

Glycerol, a fat byproduct, was added to make the soy oil malleable and sweet.

Misc. (includes transportation) to sustain above

Transportation

Here are some ideas on reducing your dependence on mainstream transportation (gasoline powered automobiles). It is likely that no single item serves all your needs, but a combination of the following may work quite well:

In general, the more you produce what you need where you live, the less you need transportation.
Simply living close to the source of what you need.
Walk or use a bicycle.
- How to Commute by Bicycle is a page geared towards enlightening employers, but may be useful to all.
- Cycling Facts is a page that lists information regarding commuting statistics, cost, resource expense and other related facts regarding bikes vs cars.
- Oregon Bicycle Information Resources is what it says it is, though it mostly covers the Portland area.
- Palo Alto bikes to work at a 5.3 percent (and rising) rate.
- Portable (folding) bikes have new designs which are essentially equivalent in safety, efficiency and comfort to standard frame bikes. it mostly covers the Portland area.
- Oregon's new law says employers must help: It requires employers with more than 50 emplyees to implement programs that encourage their employees to use alternatives to driving alone. After implementing a program, an employer has three years (from August 1st, 1996) to achieve a 10% reduction in the number of commuter auto trips taken to a work sites.
- (Inexpensive rain suits {click here for another source} and other gear can be used to compensate for bad weather.)
Power your internal combustion engine with home grown ethanol or other alternative fuels. (This generally requires a fine fuel filter to trap any residue that managed to stay in the ethanol during production. Verify that your engine can use ethanol without damage, of coarse.)
If you are ambitious, you may want to look into steam engines (the Stanley Steamer was a steam powered, kerosene fueled automobile that could go faster than 120m.p.h. Combinations of solar heating and alternative fuels might produce a useful result.
Telecommuting can save a great deal of resources, including money and effort.
Here's a more opinionated Automobile Alternatives page.
Your tax dollars may no longer fund automobile alternatives unless the interested public becomes aware of The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Congress must decide whether or not to allow Federal funds to be spent on bicycle lanes and public transportation, or exclusively for automobile traffic. Here's a page that encourages and outlines how to support the continuation of the auto alternative funding ISTEA has provided: It's up to cyclists everywhere to save ISTEA. Even if you have no interest in giving up your car, encouraging others to use bikes can lead to saving taxes buy causing much less wear on roads and less congestions, pollution, etc.

I haven't included electric cars in this list simply because they use either photovoltaic cells and/or they use batteries charged from another source. Photovoltaics still require more energy to make than they convert over the useful lifetime. Using alternative electricity other than photovoltaic, fossil fuel or nuclear reactor generated may allow you to become somewhat more independent with an electric car.

Related Information

Rocky Mountain Institute "is a nonprofit research and educational foundation with a vision across boundaries. Its mission is to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security." It has links to pages on home energy use and alternatives, as well as water, economic, renewal, agriculture, global, security, green, development, transportation / hypercars.
IGC: Economics: Internet-Resources Collection.
Miscellaneous Boycott Links
Buy Nothing Day is a coordinated consumer muscle flex that occurs twice a year: on September 24 and the Friday after Thanksgiving. This is the link to the original Buy Nothing Day folks. The idea was taken from them and hi-jacked from September 24 to the day after Thanksgiving by Ad Busters Magazine.
US National Green Program of The Greens/Green Party USA encourages sustained self-reliance up to the community level with consideration given to global cooperation.
IISD is the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
OVERCOMING CONSUMERISM: lots of opinionated commentary and interesting links.
HOW TO LIVE - FREE AT LAST or SUSTAINABLE HOME ENGINEERING is an Australian take on things. Other sources of information are mentioned.
Consumer Information Center of the U.S. Government (Pueblo, CO).
Some of these approaches are common to The Frugal Corner which has tips if you are interested. Also, see Frugal Living Resources's Frugal Living Resources link: "The purpose of EcoNet's Frugal Living Resources section is to provide information sources for better, healthier, more satisfying living with less."
The Sustainable Times list of 'Net sites on sustainability' .
Macrobiotics page addresses, among other things, "the selection, preparation, and manner of eating of our daily food." Examination of the influence on the source and processing of food on health is included.
Search for free stuff (mostly product samples and ads) at alt.consumers.freestuff
Public Lands For Sale

Other misc.:

Making soap with fats/oils and lye. Soap was made with olive oil and natron (used in mummies, a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, sodium cloride or table salt, and sodium sulfate) in ancient times in Greece.


Books:

(information via Powell's Books, may be in your local library)

Food Coops Alternative to Shopping by Ronco, William 
Published by Beacon Press (0807008818,unknown) 
Subject: Cooking, Section: Consumer Reference
In Stock: 2 at 0.50 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Home Made an Alternative to Supermarket by Oddo, Sandra 
Published by Galahad Books (0883652501,unknown) 
Subject: Cooking, Section: General 
In Stock: 1 at 7.50 (used, hardcover, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative Energy Handbook by Rosenberg, Paul 
Published by Prentice Hall Reference & (013029117x,unknown) 
Subject: Home Construction, Section: Alternative Energy
In Stock: 1 at 74.00 (new/sd, hardcover, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative Energy Sourcebk 2 Ed by Schaeffer, John 
Published by (0916571017,unknown) 
Subject: Home Construction, Section: Alternative Energy
In Stock: 1 at 8.50 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Earthwood Building Low Cost Alternative by Roy, Robert 
Published by Sterling Publishing Company (0806977647,unknown) 
Subject: Home Construction, Section: Alternative Housing
In Stock: 1 at 5.50 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative Communal Life in New America by Hedgepeth, William 
Published by (1111015570,unknown) 
Subject: Home Construction, Section: Alternative Living
In Stock: 1 at 8.95 (used, hardcover, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative to Private Property by Grossi, Paolo. 
Published by University of Chicago Press (0226310027,unknown) 
Subject: Italy, Section: General
In Stock: 1 at 16.95 (used, hardcover, City of Books / Burnside) 

Trumpet to Arms Alternative Media in a by Armstrong, David 
Published by South End Press (0896081931,unknown) 
Subject: Journalism, Section: General
In Stock: 1 at 14.00 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Dissident Press Alternative Journal by Kessler, Lauren 
Published by Sage Publications Inc (0803920873,unknown) 
Subject: Journalism, Section: General
In Stock: 1 at 7.95 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative Housebuilding by Mcclintock, Michael 
Published by Sterling Publishing Company (0806969954,1990) 
Subject: Sale, Section: Remainders
In Stock: 2 at 10.95 (remainders, trade paper, Technical) 

Bicycle a Commuting Alternative by Wolfe, Frederick L. 
Published by Signpost Books (0913140341,unknown) 
Subject: Sports, Section: Bicycling General
In Stock: 1 at 4.50 (used, trade paper, City of Books / Burnside) 

Alternative Hydrocarbon Fuels Combustion by Bowman, C. 
Published by American Inst Aeronaut & Austr (6001220565,1978) 
Subject: Upstairs in the Attic, Section: General
In Stock: 1 at 10.00 (used, hardcover, Technical) 

Alternative Energy Sources 2 V4 by Veziroglu, T. 
Published by Hemisphere Publishing Co (6001148430,1979) 
Subject: Upstairs in the Attic, Section: General
In Stock: 1 at 16.00 (used, hardcover, Technical) 

Library:


 TITLE         Weatherization and alternative resource incentives for
                   Oregonians : tax credits, exemptions, low cost loans, free
                   home inspections and technical advice plus special programs
                   for alternate energy devices. /  
 AUTHOR: Oregon. Dept. of Energy.
 PUBLISHED     [Salem] : Oregon Dept. of Energy, [1980]
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. Documents Desk                    Checked In      Central
      OR-Ene.2W37


 TITLE         The health insurance alternative : a complete guide to
                   health maintenance organizations / / by Thomas R. Mayer and
                   Gloria Gilbert Mayer. / 
 AUTHOR   Mayer, Thomas R.
 PUBLISHED     New York, N.Y. : Perigee Books, c1984.
 DESCRIPT.     187 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.



 TITLE         The bicycle : a commuting alternative / / Frederick L.
                   Wolfe. / 
 AUTHOR   Wolfe, F. L. (Frederick L.)
 PUBLISHED     Edmonds, WA : Signpost Books, c1979.
 DESCRIPT.     vi, 154 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Traffic safety -- United States.
 Author Wolfe, F. L. (Frederick L.)
  Title The bicycle : a commuting alternative /                Holds:   0
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 388.3472 W855b                    Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Simple food for the good life : an alternative cookbook / /
                   by Helen Nearing. / 
 AUTHOR   Nearing, Helen.
 PUBLISHED     New York : Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, c1980.
 DESCRIPT.     x, 309p. ; 22 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Cookery (Natural foods)
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 641.5637 N354s                    Checked In      Central
 2. 641.5637 N354s                    Checked In      Capitol Hill


 TITLE         Convert your car to alcohol / / by Keat B. Drane ;
                   [photography, Lanny Lush ; ill., Dennis Smith]. / 
 AUTHOR   Drane, Keat B.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     Louisville, Ky. : Love Street Books, c1980.
 DESCRIPT.     60 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Automobiles -- Motors -- Modification.
               Alcohol as fuel.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 629.253 D764c                     Checked In      Central
 2. 629.253 D764c                     Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Alternative home heating / / Dan Browne. /
 AUTHOR   Browne, Dan.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1980.
 DESCRIPT.     ix, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation.
               Dwellings -- Energy conservation.
               Solar heating.
               Fuelwood.
               Heat pumps.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 697 B882a                         Checked In      Central
 2. 697 B882a                         Lost            Central



 TITLE         Heat pumps : an efficient heating & cooling alternative / /
                   Dermot McGuigan with Amanda McGuigan ; [illustrations by Bob
                   Vogel]. / 
 AUTHOR   McGuigan, Dermot, 1949-
 PUBLISHED     Charlotte, Vt. : Garden Way Pub., c1981.
 DESCRIPT.     v, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 697 M148h                         Checked In      Central


 TITLE         Alternative energy sourcebook / / Real Goods Trading
                   Corporation. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Ukiah, Calif.] : Real Goods, 
 DESCRIPT.     v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Real Goods Trading Corporation.
               Power (Mechanics) -- Equipment and supplies -- Catalogs.
              Renewable energy sources -- Catalogs.
 ADDAUTHORS     Real Goods Trading Corporation.
 ADD.TITLES     Alternative energy sourcebook /
 NOTES      1)"A comprehensive catalog of the finest low-voltage
               technologies"--P. [1] of cover. 
                2)Description based on: 1990.
                3)Updated annually, with complete rewrite every 3 years.
                4)Some issues designated only as eds.
                /Began in 1984?
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 333.7916 R288a 1992               Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Replacing gasoline : alternative fuels for light-duty
                   vehicles. /  
 PUBLISHED     Washington, D.C. : Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology
               Assessment, [1990] 
 DESCRIPT.     x, 136 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Internal combustion engines, Spark ignition -- Alternate fuels.
               Automobiles -- Fuel systems.
               Motor fuels -- United States.
               Energy policy -- United States.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
 NOTES      1)Shipping list no.: 90-631-P.
                2)"September 1990--P. [4] of cover.
                3)"OTA-E-364"--P. [4] of cover.
                4)052-003-01206-5 b GPO.
                5)Item 1070-M.
                6)Includes bibliographical references.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 629.253 U58r                      Checked In      Central
   2. 629.253 U58r                      Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Alternative energy projects for the 1990s / / John A.
                   Kuecken. / 
 AUTHOR   Kuecken, John A.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     Blue Ridge Summit, PA : TAB Books, c1991.
 DESCRIPT.     x, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Energy development.
               Renewable energy sources.
 NOTES      1)Includes index.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 621.042 K95a                      Checked In      Central
   2. 621.042 K95a                      Checked In      Central



 TITLE         The tightwad gazette : promoting thrift as a viable
                   alternative lifestyle / / written and illustrated by Amy
                   Dacyczyn. / 
 AUTHOR   Dacyczyn, Amy.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     New York : Villard Books, 1993.
 DESCRIPT.     vi, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Saving and thrift -- United States.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 332.024 D119t                     Due date        Central
                                        10 Sep 96
   2. 332.024 D119t                     Due date        Central
                                        24 Sep 96



 TITLE         The Mediterranean diet cookbook : a delicious alternative
                   for lifelong health / / Nancy Harmon Jenkins. / 
 AUTHOR   Jenkins, Nancy Harmon.
 PUBLISHED     New York : Bantam Books, 1994.
 DESCRIPT.     xx, 508 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Cookery, Mediterranean.
               Diet -- Mediterranean Region.
               Low-fat diet -- Recipes.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 641.5956 J52m                     Being Held      Central



 TITLE         Energy : the solar-hydrogen alternative / / J. O'M. Bockris.
 AUTHOR   Bockris, J. O'M. (John O'M.), 1923-
 PUBLISHED     London : Architectural Press, 1976.
 DESCRIPT.     xviii, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Solar energy.
               Hydrogen as fuel.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. Stack Call Desk (Stacks)          Checked In      Central
      R-621.47 B665e


 TITLE         The Real Goods solar living sourcebook. / 
 PUBLISHED     White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 1994-
 DESCRIPT.     v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Renewable energy sources -- Catalogs.
               Energy conservation -- Equipment and supplies -- Catalogs.
               Solar energy -- Catalogs.
 ADDAUTHORS     Schaeffer, John.
               Real Goods Trading Corporation.
 ADD.TITLES     Solar living sourcebook /
                /Alternative energy sourcebook
 NOTES      1)"The complete guide to renewable energy technologies and
               sustainable living." 
                2)Editor, John Schaeffer, 1994-
                /8th ed.-
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 621.47 R2884 1994                 Being Held      Central

   2. 621.47 R2884 1994                 Being Held      Central


 TITLE         Implementation Of Doe's Alternative Fuel Vehicle & Fleet,
                   Hearing, S.HRG. 103-825, Committee On Energy & Natural
                   Resources, U.S. Senate, 103RD Congress, 2ND Session /  
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural
               Resources. 

 NOTES      1)SHIPPING LIST #: 95-0170-M
                2)SHIPPING LIST DATE: 03/06/95
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. Documents Room                    Checked In      Central
      R-Y 4.EN 2:S.HRG.103-825


 TITLE         Alternative fuel information sources. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy
               Efficiency and Renewable Energy, [1995?] 
 DESCRIPT.     32 p. ; 23 cm.

 SERIES      1)Alternative fuel information
                2)Taking an alternative route
 SUBJECTS     Fuel switching -- United States -- Directories.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. E 1.2:AL 7/2                      Checked In      Central


 TITLE         Facts about CNG & LPG conversion. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy
               Efficiency and Renewable Energy, [1994] 
 DESCRIPT.     12 p. ; 23 cm.
 SERIES      1)Alternative fuel information
                2)Taking an alternative route
 SUBJECTS     Fuel switching -- United States.
               Gas as fuel.
               Diesel motor -- Alternate fuels.
               Internal combustion engines, Spark ignition -- United States --
               Alternate fuels. 
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
               Renewable Energy. 
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. E 1.2:AL 7/3                      Checked In      Central


 TITLE         Domestic alternative fuel vehicle outlook. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy
               Efficiency and Renewable Energy, [1995?] 
 DESCRIPT.     7 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

 SERIES      1)Alternative fuel information
                2)Taking an alternative route
 SUBJECTS     Fuel switching -- United States.
               Automobiles -- United States -- Fuel consumption.
               Trucks -- United States -- Fuel consumption.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
               Renewable Energy. 
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. E 1.2:AL 7/5                      Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Comparative alternative/clean fuels provisions of the Clean
                   Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Energy Policy Act of
                   1992. /  
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy
               Efficiency and Renewable Energy, [1995] 
 DESCRIPT.     12 p. ; 26 cm.

 SERIES      1)Alternative fuel information
	     2)Taking an alternative route
 SUBJECTS     United States. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
               United States. Energy Policy Act of 1992.
               Fuel switching -- United States.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
               Renewable Energy. 
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. E 1.2:AL 7/6                      Checked In      Central



 TITLE         State alternative fuel laws & incentives. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy
               Efficiency and Renewable Energy, [1995?] 
 DESCRIPT.     28 p. ; 22 cm.
 SERIES      1)Alternative fuel information
                2)Taking an alternative route
 SUBJECTS     Fuel switching -- United States -- States.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
               Renewable Energy. 
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. E 1.2:AL 7/7                      Checked In      Central



 TITLE         Creating your own cosmetics-- naturally : the alternative to
                   today's harmful cosmetic products / / Nikolaus J. Smeh. / 
 AUTHOR   Smeh, Nikolaus J.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     Garrisonville, VA : Alliance Pub., c1995.
 DESCRIPT.     xviii, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Cosmetics.
               Beauty, Personal.
               Herbal cosmetics.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 646.7 S637c                       Due date        Central
                                        21 Sep 96
   2. 646.7 S637c                       Due date        Central
                                        10 Sep 96


 TITLE         FunkyTowns USA : the best alternative, eclectic,
                   irreverent,and visionary places / / by Mark Cramer. / 
 AUTHOR   Cramer, Mark.
 PUBLISHED     Annapolis, Md. : TBS Pub., c1995.
 DESCRIPT.     184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Popular culture -- United States.
              Cities and towns -- Ratings -- United States.
               United States -- Description and travel.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 917.304 C889f 1995                Checked In      Central
   2. 917.304 C889f 1995                Checked In      Central



 TITLE         The tranquillity alternative / / Allen Steele. /
 AUTHOR   Steele, Allen M.
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     New York : Ace Books, c1996.
 DESCRIPT.     306 p. ; 24 cm.


 TITLE         Taking an alternative route : alternative fuels, fueling the
                   future. /  
 PUBLISHED     [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy : [Lemont, Ill.?] :
               Argonne National Laboratory, [1994?] 
 DESCRIPT.     32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Internal combustion engines, Spark ignition -- Alternate fuels.
               Fuel switching -- United States.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy.
               Argonne National Laboratory.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. E 1.2:F 95/4                      Checked In      Central


 TITLE         Alternative sources of energy. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Milaca, MN, etc., Alternative Sources of Energy, Inc.] 
 DESCRIPT.     v. ill. 28 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals.
               Power (Mechanics) -- Periodicals.
 ADD.TITLES     ASE /Alternative sources of energy /
 NOTES      1)Numbering ceased with no. 96, Dec. 1987.
                /Bimonthly <, Mar. 1976>-1985
                /-Oct. 1988.
       Library/Collection/Call Number           Format           Status 
    1.  Central                                  Text             Inactive
        Periodicals (Stacks) Reference
       book one is a cumulative edition including extracts from no.1-10.
       book one no.9 (1973:Feb); no.11 (1973:Jul)-no.104 (1988:Oct)


 TITLE         Independent power. / 
 PUBLISHED     [Milaca, Minn. : Alternative Sources of Energy, Inc., c1988-
 DESCRIPT.     1 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Power resources -- Periodicals.
               Power (Mechanics) -- Periodicals.
               Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals.
 ADD.TITLES     Independent power /
                /Alternative sources of energy
 NOTES      1)Title from cover.
                2)Issued without volume numbering.
                /Nov. 1988-Mar. 1989.
 Library/Collection/Call Number           Format           Status 
  1.  Central                                  Text             Inactive
        Periodicals (Stacks) Reference
       1988:Nov-1989:Mar



 TITLE         Alternative energy devices / / Oregon Department of Revenue.
 PUBLISHED     Salem, OR : The Department, 1983-
 DESCRIPT.        v. ; 28 cm.
 SERIES      1)Information circular / Oregon Department of Revenue ;
                2)Information circular (Oregon. Dept. of Revenue) ;
               150-101-641
               150-101-641.
 SUBJECTS     Energy tax credits -- Oregon.
 ADDAUTHORS     Oregon. Dept. of Revenue.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. Documents Desk                    Checked In      Central
      OR-R.4In3:150-101-641 1995/11


 TITLE         Federal alternative fuel program-light duty federal
                   vehicles, trucks, and buses third annual report to Congress
                   for fiscal year 1993 / / U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of
                   Transportation Technologies, Office of Energy Efficiency and
                   Renewable Energy. /[microform] : 
 PUBLISHED     Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1994.
 DESCRIPT.     x, 114 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Internal combustion engines, Spark ignition -- United States --
               Alternate fuels. 
               Motor vehicle fleets -- Government policy -- United States.
 ADDAUTHORS     United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Transportation
               Technologies. 
               United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and
               Renewable Energy. 
 NOTES      1)Cover title.
            2)Shipping list: 95-0583-M.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. Documents Room (Microfiche)       Checked In      Central
      R-E 1.120:0033



 TITLE         Future of alternative fuels : hearing before the
                   Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on
                   Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth
                   Congress, first session, June 6, 1995. /  
 AUTHOR   United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce.
             Subcommittee on Energy and Power. 
 PUBLISHED     Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of
               Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995. 
 DESCRIPT.     iii, 95 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
 SUBJECTS     Internal combustion engines, Spark ignition -- Alternate fuels
               -- Government policy -- United States. 
               Diesel motor -- Alternate fuels -- Government policy -- United
               States. 
               Motor vehicle fleets -- Government policy -- United States.
               Energy policy -- United States.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. Documents Room (Microfiche)       Checked In      Central
      R-Y 4.C 73/8:104-29

 

 TITLE         Now hiring! ski resort jobs : the insider's guide to
                   seasonal and year-round employment at North America's top
                   ski resorts / / Steve Giordano, George Thomas. / 
 AUTHOR   Giordano, Steve, 1941-
 EDITION     1st ed.
 PUBLISHED     Seattle : Perpetual Press, c1995.
 DESCRIPT.     x, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
 SERIES      1)Alternative employment guides
 SUBJECTS     Ski resorts -- North America -- Employees -- Vocational guidance
               -- Directories. 
               Recreation -- Vocational guidance -- North America --
               Directories. 
               Seasonal labor -- North America -- Directories.
 ADDAUTHORS     Thomas, George, 1949-
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
   1. 650.14 G497n                      In Process      Central
   2. 650.14 G497n                      In Process      Central



 TITLE         Politics of alternative techno / 
 AUHOR   Dickson, David.
 CALL NUMBER                       STATUS          LIBRARY                
 1. 301.243 D545p                     Checked In      Central

Your Economic Vote: Your Influence On Politics And The Economy

Your Daily Purchases Have Much Greater Influence Than Your Political Votes

Introduction

Transportation

The Automobile Industry

Illegal Drugs Industry & The "Drug War" Industry

The Alcoholic Beverage Industry

The Credit Industry

Misc. Industry Information Links

Leisure "Industry"

Business Ethics Bureau of Investigation

Misc. (includes transportation) to sustain above