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DESCRIPTION:  Please join us for a reading by Heather Rogers, author of  Gone Tomorrow: 
 The Hidden Life of Garbage    MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE  888 Valencia Street, 
 San Francisco  Wednesday, November 2, 7:30 pm    This is a book that 
 refuses to be dumb, that   investigates the unmentionable and quietly (its  
  voice is gentle) shows how the liberal economy is   savaging the entire 
 world. Pass it from hand to   hand: it will clear minds.  --John Berger    
 If you've ever wondered why our society spits out   so much garbage - I 
 know I have! - then read   Heather Rogers' brilliant new book. With 
 terrific   storytelling she uncovers one of the most   invisible but 
 troubling aspects of modern life.   GONE TOMORROW cuts to the heart of what 
 ails the   planet.  -Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop    The United 
 States is the number one producer of   garbage on the planet; with just 5% 
 of the global   population we generate 30% of the world's trash.   The 
 average American throws away a staggering 4.5   pounds of rubbish daily, 
 that's 1600 pounds each   year. But garbage is also a global problem; today 
   the middle of the Pacific Ocean is six times more   abundant with plastic 
 waste than zooplankton.    Everyone generates garbage, but few of us know   
 what happens to it after we've throw it away. So   where does our garbage 
 go? And what is its impact   on the planet?    In Gone Tomorrow journalist 
 Heather Rogers   addresses these questions by guiding us through   the 
 grisly, oddly fascinating underworld of   trash. Excavating the history of 
 rubbish handling   from the 1800s-an era of garbage-grazing urban   hogs 
 and dump-dwelling rag pickers-to the   present, with its high-tech 
 "mega-fills" operated   by multi-billion-dollar garbage corporations,   
 Rogers investigates the roots of today's   waste-addicted culture.    Over 
 the past 30 years, world wide garbage output   has exploded, doubling in 
 the U.S. alone.Gone   Tomorrow explains that, despite popular wisdom,   
 this torrent of rubbish is not primarily the   responsibility of the 
 consumer. In fact, shoppers   often have little choice in the wastes they   
 generate. Consider packaging: tossed cans,   bottles, boxes and wrappers 
 now take up more than   a third of all U.S. landfill space. More prolific   
 today than ever before, packaging is garbage   waiting to happen.  Once 
 buried or burned, trash is hardly benign.   Landfills, even the most 
 state-of-the-art, are   environmental time bombs. They spew greenhouse   
 gases, and leach hazardous chemicals and heavy   metals into groundwater 
 and soil. Waste   incinerators are no less disastrous. They emit   70% of 
 the world's dioxin, and pollute the air   with toxic particulate matter and 
 a host of gases   that cause acid rain.    Gone Tomorrow also explores the 
 politics of   recycling. Though widely embraced-more Americans   recycle 
 than vote-it has serious limitations,   and, as Rogers points out, should 
 only be seen as   a first step toward more fundamental solutions.    Part 
 exposé, part social commentary,Gone Tomorrow   traces the connection 
 between modern industrial   production, consumer culture, and our 
 disposable   lifestyle. Read it and you'll never think of   garbage the 
 same way again.    Heather Rogers is a writer, journalist, and   filmmaker. 
 Her documentary film Gone Tomorrow:   The Hidden Life of Garbage(2002) 
 screened in   festivals around the globe. Her articles have   appeared in 
 Utne Reader, Z Magazine, the Brooklyn   Rail, Bad Subjects, Punk Planet, 
 Third Text, and   Art and Design. She currently lives in Brooklyn,   New 
 York.    The New Press / October 6, 2005  Hardcover / $23.95 / 224 pages  
 ISBN: 156584-879-9    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/01/79763.php
SUMMARY:Reading: Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
LOCATION:  MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE  888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/01/79763.php
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