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For the serious journalist, educator, activist, & student

There is no guide to the social change movements comparable to this: It seems destined to become indispensable.
Utne Reader

This book has serious potential as a tool for making connections.

The New MillenniumWhole Earth Catalog

Over the years a number of activist directories, most more limited in scope, have been published. Macrocosm USA is bigger and more useful.

Russ Baker, Village Voice

...big book compiled by people who understand complexity and change. Pulling together the threads of ten thousand gestures to show us our greatness, it offers us the inspiration and resources to improve the garden wherever we may be.

Marilynn Ferguson
author of The Aquarian Conspiracy

Macrocosm USA, Possibilities for a New Progressive Era... is an exciting handbook that has been likened to "a huge issue of the Utne Reader" and called "the best resource guide since the Whole Earth Catalog." A directory and interdisciplinary reader that contains fourteen chapters, it will assist you in understanding the issues and getting involved. Readers will discover how to take part in rearranging economic priorities; improving our environmental, political and social landscape; and making democracy more than an empty promise for future generations.

Topics covered: bioregionalism, economic conversion, water monitoring, bartering, recycling, renewable energy, solar box cookers, cohousing, land trusts, regional currencies, green tax; food co-ops, Green Party, vegetarianism; getting good press, community investment, men-against-violence, activist artists, and hundreds of diverse ways to prepare for the 21st century.

Authors include: Denis Hayes; Jim Hightower; John Bowker; Carl Pope; Rosalie Bertell; Theodore Roszak; Francis Moore Lappé; Marilyn Ferguson; Mary Catherine Bateson; Donella Meadows; Winona LaDuke; Lois Gibbs; Hazel Henderson; Helen Caldicott; Ram Dass; Fritjof Capra; William Greider; Richard Neville; Chief Lyons; Terry Tempest Williams; John Stockwell; Thomas Berry; John Gatto; and many more.

Articles from: Amicus Journal; E Magazine; Ms.; Greenpeace; Common Cause; Bay Guardian; Utne Reader; Zero Population Growth; Village Voice; Barricada Internacional; Earth First!; Christic Institute; Amnesty International; Z Magazine; New Internationalist; Environmental Action; The Egg; Sierra; third world; Seva; City Limits; The Catholic Worker; Co-op America Quarterly; The Sun: and over 180 alternative and progressive press excerpts.

5000 Directory listings include: Organizations; Periodicals; Media, Computers, and Related Sources; Publishers and Publications Catalogs and Lists; Businesses and Catalogs; Directories and Guides; plus 3000 people are cross-indexed. Illustrated, indexed, 432p., 8.5x11, paperback, $24.95, ISBN 0-9632315-5-3. Publisher: Macrocosm USA, Inc. (501 3c), Box 185, Cambria, CA 93428 (805)927-8030. Donations are tax-deductible.

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