A greywater wetland. Drawing by Annie Danger

Greywater Plans

Here are our plans for "do it yourself" greywater and wetland projects, a sampling from Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground.

• How to make an ecotoilet
• Cultivating a pond with edible plants and mosquito-eating fish
• How to construct your own greywater wetland!

Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories Of The Struggle For Land And Justice

Urban Wilds was released in 2002. It is avaliable from AK Press.

Under pavement. Under a shimmering crust of broken glass and weeds, the dark earth endures. We are dispossessed of our most basic human rightto cultivate the land. But in cities across North America, people are taking back this right and resisting corporate control of food and livelihood. Here are some of their stories.

From the Motor City to Cuba, Oakland to the Bronx, here are the tales of digging for revolution in the belly of the beast, of radical rural organizing, guerilla gardening, and community development. All in a dense, oversized, copiously illustrated tome. A veritable feast. Now in a newly expanded and updated lavish second edition featuring the best of The Guerilla Graywater Girls Guide to Water, urban beekeeping, medicinal herbs, balcony gardening, and an illustrated guide to urban perma-culture.

"...an inspirational compilation that encourages people to transform cities into greener places."

Sink or Swim: A history of Sausal Creek

Sink or Swim is avaliable from AK Press.

Say you woke up one morning and the city was gone.

If you stood uwhere the Fruitvale BART station is now, you would be in the middle of a large grove of willow trees (sausal in Spanish) that give the creek its name. Looking west towards Alameda, you would see a huge wetlands instead of warehouses, the freeway, and railroad tracks. The cries of thousands of birds would fill the sky.

This is the story of how that world became this one, of the people who lived in the watershed of Sausal Creek and changed it into a very different place.