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Gene Savino

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THE ECOLOGICAL LIFE SYSTEMS INSTITUTE PROUDLY PRESENTS:

"ACHIEVING ECO-NOMIC SECURITY ON SPACESHIP EARTH"

BY JIM BELL, ECOLOGICAL DESIGNER


        Quite simply, Achieving Eco-nomic Security On Spaceship Earth is 
a nuts and bolts, how to, common sense book about how to use 
free-market-forces to revitalize our national and world economies in ways 
that are completely ecologically sustainable.  

        Although the book is written for the average reader, it has over 
800 footnotes for those who want to explore the subjects discussed in the 
book in more depth.

The book is presented in five parts.

        Part one is a short description of our situation, as a species, 
on our planet.  It also suggests an encompassing goal to guide us in the 
creation of a more eco-nomically secure future.

        Part Two explains why the ecology or life-support system of our 
planet is the foundation upon which all our actions as a species rest.  
It also shows that if we use eco-nomically sustainable methods to supply 
ourselves with the things we need and want, it will strengthen our 
economies, aid in bringing population growth under control, and make us 
less vulnerable to natural phenomenon like earthquakes, floods, fires, 
diseases, etc. and to intentional human acts of destruction.

        Part Three introduces Eco-nomically Integrated Planning (EIP).  
EIP is a land use planning method aimed at achieving eco-nomic 
sustainability on our planet.  Part Three also describes how to develop 
and use the tools needed in this effort.  

        Part Four is the how to part of the book.  The primary aim of 
this section is to focus on how we can maximize our energy, water, and 
food security in ways that are eco-nomically sustainable.  Part Four also 
shows why our present strategies for getting and using energy, water, 
food, and the products of industry are not in our short or long term 
interests.      

        Part Five offers some suggestions on what we can do as 
individuals, families, business people, artists and scientists, through 
our educational institutions, governments, religious, philosophic 
organizations, and the media to help ourselves on the path to achieving 
eco-nomic sustainability in the first half of the 21st. Century.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

        Jim Bell is an internationally recognized expert on ecologically 
sustainable development. As an ecological designer, Jim works with 
developers and various public and private agencies.
 
        As of this publication he is a Co-Project Director for 
Eco-Parkque, a prototype wastewater recycling plant in Tijuana, Mexico, 
and a Design Consultant for the DeAnza Group. He has also worked as a 
consultant for the Otay Ranch Joint Planning Project, the East Lake 
Development Company, and was the director of the San Diego Center for 
Appropriate Technology for 7 years.

        As a lecturer, Jim speaks to as many 100 groups each year, 
ranging from third grade classes to graduate student seminars, business 
groups, and environmental organizations.  He is frequently interviewed by 
members of the television, radio, and print media, and was a recent guest 
on National Public Radio's "TALK OF THE NATION."  This year Jim lectured 
at the Society for International Development's 1994 World Conference in 
Mexico City and at the American Institute of Architecture's California 
conference in Santa Barbara.  

        Jim also works with and serves on the Board of Directors of 
numerous eco-nomically oriented organizations.


THE AUTHOR ABOUT THE AUTHOR

        I'm just a person who's trying to make things better.  I work 
through ecology because ecology encompasses everything.  If we don't 
figure out how to live and make a living on our planet, in ways that are 
eco-nomically sustainable, anything else we may accomplish will at best 
be temporary.  I'm not saying that we will necessarily go extinct as a 
species, though that is a possibility.  But if we don't rectify the basic 
conflict between how we currently satisfy our needs and desires, and the 
damage that these methods cause to our planet's life support system, we 
are clearly in for some hard times.  

        I don't happen to think that this is in inevitable.  I believe 
that if conscious people work together, our present situation can be 
turned around.  I believe we have the capability to turn our world into a 
virtual planetary Garden of Eden -- that we are ultimately intelligent 
enough to use the many strategies and technologies available today, and 
those yet to be discovered, to live quite comfortably on our planet, 
until the sun burns out some 5 billion years from now.  

        Helping this to happen is basically what I'm about, but as my 
friends will tell you I also like to party, especially when there's good 
dancing music.

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