Paul Relis 
Out of the Wasteland [EPUB ebook] 
Stories from the Environmental Frontier

Foreword by Pico Iyer, 1 – Prologue, 2 – Awakening, 3 – The Realm of Ideas, 4 – Inspiration, 5 – Small is Beautiful, 6 – Design with Nature, 7 – The Garden of the Heart’s Delight, 8 – Santa Barbara Stands Fast, 9 – Mr. Pollock’s Challenge, 10 – Survival Times, 11 – The Garden as a Centering Force, 12 – Disputes at the Urban-Rural Border, 13 – Earth Day 1970, 14 – Standing Up to Power, 15 – A Farm in the City, 16 – El Mirasol Polyculture Farm, 17 – When Dreams Get Tough, 18 – A Beacon on the Hill , 19 – When You’re Blocked, Adapt, 20 – Building Community Gardens , 21 – How Big Should Our City Be?, 22 – In Defense of Agriculture, 23 – Building Our Dream, 24 – Between the Idea and the Reality: 
Early Sustainability Metrics, 25 – Making Use of the Lulls, 26 – A Design Competition, 27 – Inviting Art In, 28 – Garbage, 29 – At the Ground Floor of Recycling , 30 – The Power of the Word, 31 – Into Berkeley We Dared to Tread, 32 – Recycling Goes Mainstream, 33 – A Journey to the Far East, 34 – Taiwan: A Glimpse into the World’s Electronic Wasteland, 35 – China: A Recycling Dragon Awakens , 36 – Smokey Mountain, Manila, 37 – Using Less Stuff, 38 – Out of the Comfort Zone , 39 – Politics, 40 – Organics: The Magic of Biology, 41 – Regulation as Art, 42 – Waste and Renewable Energy , 43 – Biofiltration, 44 – The End of Landfills?, 45 – Biogas, 46 – On the Matter of Scale, 47 – Fossil-Free? , 48 – When Certainty is the Enemy, 49 – Community Energy Blueprints, 50 – Transportation Fuels, 51 – Wind , 52 – Sun, 53 – Sea, 54 – Post-Petroleum Economics, 55 – A Post-Oil Pattern Language, 56 – Renewable Technology Diffusion, 57 – Bio-based Packaging, 58 – Local Food, 59 – Bicycle and Foot Power, 60 – Rethinking Our Regulatory System, 61 – Scale, 62 – Perspective and Resolve, Acknowledgements, About the Author, Photo Credits, Notes