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.

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.