Includes bibliographical references.

Who ate tomorrow? -- The rude awakening -- The biotic film: the layer of life -- U.S.S. Earth -- U.S.S. Earth II -- The fusion torch -- Mineral bankruptcy -- Future fossils -- Water resources: the planned famine -- Timber trends: shaving the planet -- The continuing energy crisis -- Food: America's anomaly -- Protein piracy -- Making ends meet in the gross national product -- The eternal depression -- De-advertising the gross national product -- Reusable rose -- Discovering the last trash mine -- Our packaged society -- The song of the plastic bottle -- Newspaper: save the paper, change the news -- Trash is cash -- On to the recycled society -- Moving societyy and turning the future -- Action and reaction versus a behavioral laser -- They're doing it in Sweden -- Start with a stamp -- Local action groups -- Feeding the family -- Clean it up -- Buy less of it -- Kitchen conservation -- Preventing solid waste by saving money -- Reusing containers: metal and glass -- The plastic paradox -- Reusing papes -- Reusing fabric -- Around the house -- Building ecological systems -- Disposing of sewage disposal -- Ecological washday -- Whiter-than-white versus greener-than-green -- The body ecologic -- In the garden -- Defending ecological systems -- Energy ecotips and kilowatt capers -- Energy ecotips and infernal combustion -- Protecting ourselves from urban air -- Urban defense against poisoned ears -- Poisoning the last well -- Wildlife and the smell of smoke: a final chapter.