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Brief Bibliography : Web Links and Books
General knowledge about the environment
In bookstores, libraries and on the web:
BARTILLAT, Laurent, RETALLECK, Simon, Stop, Seuil, 2003.
CHAIB, Jérôme, THOREZ, Jean-Paul, Eco citoyen au quotidien, Sang de la terre, 2000.
COCHET, Yves, SINAÏ, Agnès, Sauver la terre, Fayard, 2003.
DAY, Martyn, Environmental Action: A Citizen's Guide, Ed. ..., 1998, 429 Pages / $35.95 CDN, $21.95 US DE
DOBRE, Michèle, L’écologie au quotidien : éléments pour une théorie sociologique de la résistance ordinaire, Collection Sociologies et environnement, L’harmattan, 2002.
HULOT, Nicolas, Combien de catastrophes avant d’agir, Points, 2002
LAMY, Michel, La photosynthèse du chat ou L’écologie expliquée à ma fille, Le pommier, 2004
PELT, Jean Marie, L’avenir droit dans les yeux, Fayard, …
REEVES, Hubert, LENOIR, Frédéric, Mal de terre, collection « science ouverte », Seuil, 2003
SHIVA, Vandana, La biopiraterie ou le pillage de la nature et de la connaissance, Alias ETC, 2002.
The Ecologist (magazine): http://www.theecologist.org (based in London)
Equiterre : http://www.equiterre.qc.ca Cycling activism and mobility: MORRISETTE, Claire, Deux roues, un avenir: le vélo en ville (Two Wheels, One Future: The Urban Cyclist), 1994, Montréal, 263 Pages / $19.95 CDN, $14.50 US LOWE, Marcia, The Bicycle: Vehicle for a Small Planet, 1989, 64 Pages / $8.00 CDN, $5.00 US AARON, Becky, OLDHAM, Glenn, WHELDRAKE Sean, The BUG Network: A Five Year Plan for Bicycle User Groups, 2001 KERR Sarah, KRANIAS, Gillian, Get Rolling: A Manual for Community Bicycle Programming, 1994, 16 Pages / Illustrations / $5.00 CDN BOBO Kim et allii, Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s, 1996, $27.95 CDN Transportation Options, Sustainable Transportation Organizing & Action Resource Kit, 1996, 160 Pages (8.5 x 11)/ $20 CDN, $15 US Ibike, international bicycle ... : http://www.ibike.org/america.htm Initiatives de collecte de vélos/Bicycle collecting initiatives: Bikes Not Bombs : http://www.bikesnotbombs.org
One of the oldest initiatives, created in 1985. BNB has shipped more than 18.000 bicycles, generating local businesses that produce delivery bicycles and vehicles for war victims. BNB is presently active in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The initiative also features the "Earn-a-Bike" and "Girls Initiative"programs for disadvantaged youngsters in Boston.
Bikes Not Bombs
Pedals For Progress : http://www.p4p.org
is a more recent initiative, based in New Jersey. With the participation of a sub-group located in Washington D.C., it has collected as for 31 December 2002 more than 62,000 bicycles since 1991 and shipped them to 19 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. PFP has impressively demonstrated the potential of collecting used bikes.
Pedals For Progress
A few other resources:
Bicycle Community Network, Toronto, Bicycles Crossing Borders, Canada
Re-Cycle, United Kingdom Another ingredient of the alternative transportation coktail: Car sharing InFrance
-Strasbourg : | http://autotrement.com | | -Lyon | http://lavoitureautrement.free.fr | | -Marseille : | http://www.autopartage-provence.com | | -Paris : | http://www.caisse-commune.com |
In Quebec : | www.communauto.com | In Switzerland | www.mobility.ch | | In Germany | www.cambiocar.com www.stattauto.de | | In the United-States | www.flexcar.com | European organization : | www.carsharing.org |
For information about car-sharing world wide: http://ecoplan.org/carshare/cs_index.htm Social justice HENDERSON Hazel, Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare, 1997, 320 Pages / $28.95 CDN, $19.95 US MCKENZIE-MOHR, Doug, SMITH William, Fostering Sustainable Behaviour. An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing, 1999, 176 Pages, 20 B&W Photos / $17.95 CDN, $14.95 US | |
