Resources
Recommended Reading:
All of these titles are available through the Lewis and Clark Library System

HOUSEHOLD GREENING
Living Simply With Children / Marie Sherlock. 
350 Ways To Save Energy ... In Your Home And Car, by Henry R. Spies
Energy Efficiency [video] episode of Today's Homeowner. 
Greening Your Home :Sustainable Options For Every System In Your House / Clayton Bennett 

HOME GARDENING AND PERMACULTURE
How To Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables [video], "Yardening with Jeff Ball"  
How To Grow Cool-Weather Vegetables [video] "Yardening with Jeff Ball" 
The Self-Sufficient Suburban Garden / by Jeff Ball
How To Grow More Vegetables (And Fruits...) / by John Jeavons
Compost / Ken Thompson.  Thompson 
Designing And Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally / by Robert Kourik 
Gaia's Garden : A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture / Toby Hemenway
Gardening With Children / Beth Richardson
Gardening When It Counts : Growing Food In Hard Times / Steve Solomon
Guide To Illinois Vegetable Gardening / James A. Fizzell
The New Organic Grower's Four-Season Harvest / Eliot Coleman
Noah's Garden : Restoring The Ecology Of Our Own Back Yards / Sara Stein
The Forgotten Pollinators / Buchmann and Nabhan
Natural Beekeeping / Ross Conrad

HARVESTING 
Preserving Food Without Freezing Or Canning /Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante with Deborah Madison
Seed To Seed : Seed Saving Techniques .../ by Suzanne Ashworth
Root Cellaring : The Simple .. Way To Store Fruits And Vegetables / Mike & Nancy Bubel

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Growing Greener Cities : A Tree-Planting Handbook / Gary Moll & Stanley Young
The Environment Equation / Alex Shimo-Barry with Christopher J. Maron
Alternative Energy Sources / Darrin

GLOBAL WARMING: A PLANETARY VIEW
Hot, Flat, And Crowded : Why We Need A Green Revolution.. / Thomas L. Friedman
An Inconvenient Truth / Al Gore
Plan B 3.0 : Mobilizing To Save Civilization / Lester R. Brown
Common Wealth : Economics For A Crowded Planet / Jeffrey D. Sachs
Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed/ Jared Diamond

WATER SCARCITY AND CONSERVATION
Slow The Flow [video] / Madison County Soil & Water Conservation District
Fresh Water / E.C. Pielou
Water Wars : Privatization, Pollution And Profit / by Vandana Shiva
Water : A Natural History / Alice Outwater ; illustrations by Billy Brauer

BELLEVILLE AREA MUNICIPALITIES
Belleville, City of: (618) 233-6810
Governed by Township Board
City Council meetings first Monday of each month, 7p.m.
Council Chambers, City Hall, 101 S. Illinois St.
http://belleville.wliinc2.com/city/departments/index.asp

Collinsville, City of: (618) 346-5200
Governed by City Council/Manager/Mayor
City Council meetings fourth Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
City Hall, 125 S. Center St.
http://www.collinsvilleil.org/

Fairview Heights, City of: (618) 489-2000 
1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month
Municipal Complex, 10025 Bunkum Rd.
www.fairviewheightscity.com

Mascoutah, City of: (618) 566-2964
Governed by City Council/Manager/Mayor
City Council meetings first and third Mondays, 7 p.m. 
Council Chambers, 3 W. Main St.
www.mascoutah.govoffice2.com

Shiloh, Village of: (618) 632-1022 ext. 110 (Village Clerk)
Governed by Board of Trustees/Mayor 
Regular Board Meetings, first Monday of each month, 7 p.m.,
in the Shiloh Municipal meeting room, 1 Park Dr. 
http://www.shilohil.org/

Swansea, Village of: (618) 234-0044
Governed by Board of Trustees/Mayor
Regular Board Meetings first and third Monday of every month, 6 p.m.
Government Offices, 1400 N. Illinois St.
http://swanseail.org

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For further information contact Amy Funk: (618) 215-2011 or Peg Rombach-Riggs: (618) 234-5583
or email: info@metroeastleaf.org.
 
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