Ecology and Environment

An independent newspaper for the University of Washington community by the Ruckus Collective. We are for participatory democracy, social justice, collective liberation, and resistance to killing the planet.

Volume 10, Issue 2, covers community organizing to defend jobs and education, health care, relief efforts in Haiti, Chase Bank and move your money, chocolate, and queer youth space in Seattle. Plus, reportbacks from the Vancouver Olympics and an occupation at Evergreen State College, and poetry by Dee Allen.  read more »

"How Not to Kill Most Life on This Planet" is a brief (12 page) introduction to what the author calls "Radical Sustainability," written in question and answer format. This piece explores current misconceptions about sustainability and offers a coherent definition of this much misunderstood concept before going on to deal with some specific examples of what can and cannot be considered sustainable.

Excerpt from the text:

Q: Before we get started, why do we even need a new kind of sustainability in the first place? What's wrong with sustainability as we know it today?  read more »

During the 1930s, the American media ran many blatently false stories dipicting marijuana as an extremely dangerous drug. Because these lies went un-challenged, marijuana and hemp where effectively banned in 1938. Recently, hemp has been re-discovered as a natural resource that has great environmental potential. Ironically, it is possible the real reason marijuana was banned was to prevent hemp from ever becoming a major, renewable, natural resource. This booklet reveals many astonishing facts about marijuana and hemp-facts that will shock most people.

An independent newspaper for the University of Washington community by the Ruckus Collective. We are for participatory democracy, social justice, collective liberation, and resistance to killing the planet.

Volume 10, Issue 2, covers budget cuts in California and Washington; the exploitation of the Olympics; an analysis of The Vagina Monologues; details about climate disobedience; a report on the UW green fund; a local restaurant review; and a calendar of local events.

http://students.washington.edu/gaze/ruckus/Ruckusv10i2.pdf

newsletter of the the North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network

June/July 2001

Genetic Engineering and Techno-Industrial Agriculture

By Gyorgy Scrinis

Download at:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/colonizingseed.pdf (7.31. mb)

april 12, 2005

by Aaron Wielder Forest

Download At:

http://zinelibrary.info/files/bikecart.pdf (7.7 mb)

Common Sense Gardening

What it is

How it is made

What it does

by H. H. Koepf

by Clive Ponting

The United States’ most populous state, California is the world’s eighth largest economy. The state has some of the planet’s most productive farmland and in the 1990s enjoyed an extensive real-estate boom. But intensive, industrialised agriculture has polluted much of the environment and now, with more foreclosed homes than anywhere else in the world, it is also home to a growing number of tent cities. Gifford Hartman takes us on a road trip through California’s Central Valley to witness the toxicity: of mortgages and ecosystems, houses, drugs and human relations.

The Blueprint 2009

Fur Farm Intelligence Project: The Full Report

The Largest Collection of Fur Industry Intelligence to date.

Using Space is a zine about squats, social centres and alternative ways of living.

Issue four features a visit to a squatted land project in central Amsterdam, the UK national squat meet in Bristol, a rumination on social centres, a large squatting action in Sweden, a fotoreport from the Dutch national squatting day and some recycled newspaper reports.

A5, b&w, 36 pages inc. cover

This zine is exactly what the title implies, a fable with an undertone of green anarchism that hopefully teaches a very important moral. Written for adults and children alike!

Feel free to visit yggdrasildistro.wordpress.com for more free anarchist literature.

This zine is a DIY guide to skinning, tanning, and softening animal hides without the use of industrial chemicals.