An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists,anti-consumerists,do-it-yourselfers,bargain hunters,and treasure seekers of all stripes.You can see it in the enormous popularity of websites like freecycle.org,freegan.info,freeswapper.org,and freesharing.org:millions of Americans are breaking free from the want-get-discard cycle by which we are currently producing approximately 245 million tons of waste every day(that's 4.5 pounds per person,per day!).And they're ready for a manifesto……

In The Scavengers'Manifesto,Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson invite readers to discover one of the most gratifying(and inexpensive)ways to go green.Whether it's refurbishing a discarded wooden door into a dining room table;finding a bicycle on freecycle.org;or giving a neighbor who just had a baby that cute never-used teddy bear your child didin't bond with,in this book Rufus and Lawson chart the history of scavenging and the world-changing environmental and spiritual implications of "scavenomics,"and offer readers a framework for adopting scavenging as a philosophy and a way of life.

Anneli Rufus is the critically acclaimed author of Stuck:Why We Can't(or Won't)More On and Party of One:A Loner's Manifesto.An award-winning journalist,she has written for numerous publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com.She lives in Berkeley,California,with her husband,the coauthor of this book,Kristan Lawson.

Kristan Lawson is the award-winning author of Darwin and Evolution for Kids and several other critically acclaimed nonfiction books.He has worked as a stringer for AP and UPI,and his travel and feature articles have been published in many newspaper and magazines nationwide,including The Boston and The Denver Post.