Going Green

by Pritchett, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780806140131
• ISBN10: 0806140135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-30
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

What re-using- or not- says about our culture and priorities

Author Biography

Laura Pritchett is the author of the award-winning novels Sky Bridge and Hell's Bottom, Colorado and is the co-editor of Home Land and Pulse of the River. Pritchett earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature at Purdue, but now happily lives in her home state of Colorado, where she enjoys Dumpster diving, raising chickens, hiking, and writing.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Good Circulation: Gleaning Food and Things
Gleaning with Mac	p. 3
Intimmensity	p. 13
Blacktop Cuisine	p. 23
Gleaning for Lillie	p. 31
Good Circulation	p. 39
All That We Leave Behind	p. 43
Second Thoughts	p. 51
Every Popsicle Stick Counts	p. 59
Of Rags and Bags	p. 67
Less	p. 72
Bin Diver	p. 83
Why I Love the Dump	p. 92
The Turf, the Game, and the Radio	p. 99
It Keeps the Heart Happy	p. 108
Home Recycling: Gleaning from and for Our Homes
Just Imagine	p. 119
Wood Blues	p. 127
Throwing Out the Dishwater	p. 137
Home Recycling	p. 141
Teach Me: Gleaning for and from People
What I Have Gleaned	p. 149
My Father's Last Fortune	p. 163
Handprints in the Canyon	p. 173
Things the Color of Stone	p. 187
Hoş geldiniz, hoş bulduk: How Turkey Taught Me to Just Say Thanks	p. 194
The Vanishing	p. 203
Publication Credits	p. 209
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