The Rhizome Collective's Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew have spent years figuring out how to provide basic needs – food, water, waste management, energy, and shelter – through affordable, environmentally sustainable systems that not only have a Mr. Wizard-esque wow factor but will actually help city dwellers someday survive a future in which energy and food are less easy to come by. In doing so, Kellogg and Pettigrew have helped turn Rhizome into a busy hub of scientific experimentation, community organization, and education. And as if that weren't enough, they've now written a book, Toolbox for Sustainable City Living. If you don't have time to attend Rhizome's Radical Urban Sustainability Training workshop – where you learn, among other things, how to run your car on veggie diesel, cook with solar power, recycle human waste, and even construct your own wetland system to filter your washing-machine water – this new "Do-It-Ourselves Guide" is the next best thing.
