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Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School Main Menu: Primitive Living Skills, Sustainable Living Skills, Wildflowers & Weeds. Thomas J. Elpel's Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School Primitive Living Skills Page | Primitive Living Store Society of Primitive Technology | Food Insects Newsletter Sustainable Living Page | Home Builder's Store Wildflowers & Weeds Page | Wildflowers Store 3Rivers Park | What's New? | Search This Site! http://www.hollowtop.com/ [10/22/2003 6:10:34 PM] HOPS Press, LLC and Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC: Working for a better World "In order to create a truly sustainable economy we must mimic the ecosystem so that the waste of every household and business becomes resource inputs to other enterprises, and the only waste produced is diffuse, low-grade heat from renewable resources like solar." HOPS Press --Thomas J. Elpel Direct Pointing to Real Wealth Main Menu Thomas J. Elpel's HOPS Press / Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC Primitive Living Skills Tom's Journals & Articles --Working for a Better World-- Tom's Class Schedule Schools of North America If you have read my books, then you know that making the world a better place is Calendar of Schools the one thing that motivates me to get up and go to work each day. I write and teach about plants and primitive skills to bring people closer to nature. We built our own home for maximum resource efficiency, and wrote about next generation home- Primitive Living Store building in my book Living Homes. I research and write on economics and ecology Stone Age Skills to help steer the world towards sustainable development. My whole reason for Nature Awareness writing books or being in business is to help make a greener world. The way I see it, Books, Videos, business and money are powerful tools with the potential to make positive change Tools & Supplies in the world. Society of Primitive Technology All this leads to the question: What is our environmental record in business? How Bulletin of Primitive effective have we been at closing the loop on waste and supporting earth-friendly Technology causes? On-line Articles Subscription Information Food Insects Newsletter On-line Articles About HOPS Press Subscription Information & Video Productions Sustainable Living HOPS Press is our publishing business. When you place a wholesale order for my Alternative Construction books (call us at 406-685-3222), then you are purchasing directly from HOPS House-Building Classes Press. At first we didn't worry too much about the recycled content in our books, Articles & Resources Ecological Economics simply because we were learning the ropes of the publishing business and had all we could handle at once. But each time we returned to the printer we asked for more earth-friendly production. Direct Pointing to Real Wealth includes about 30% post-consumer recycled content. With Living Homes, everything but the cover is Home-Builder's Store printed with soy ink on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, bleached without Stone, Log & Strawbale chlorine. Botany in a Day is now printed with soy ink on 100% recycled content as And Many More Creative House-Building Books, well. And the newest printing of Participating in Nature (November 2002) is our Videos & Resources greenest book yet. Even the cover is printed on 100% recycled paper. Wildflowers & Weeds ● $1 from every copy of Living Homes sold is donated to the Institute for Solar Plant Identification & Edible Plants Living to support their work promoting sustainable living through inspirational Rangeland Ecology environmental education. Weed Control Alternatives ● $1 from every copy of Direct Pointing to Real Wealth sold is donated to the Alternative Energy Resources Organization in Helena, Montana to support their work promoting "smart growth" planning and transportation alternatives, renewable energy and conservation, environmental quality, and community http://www.hollowtop.com/hopsstore_html/environment.htm (1 of 3) [10/22/2003 6:10:37 PM] HOPS Press, LLC and Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC: Working for a better World Wildflowers Store self-reliance. Plant & Mushroom Guides ● $1 from every copy of Participating in Nature sold is donated to 3Rivers Park Holistic Management to help purchase habitat for people and wildlife in the Missouri Headwaters Grazing Resources watershed in southwest Montana. In our previous printing of Participating in Books & Videos Nature we donated $1.00 from every copy sold to the Montana Wilderness 3Rivers Park Association, raising about $2,500 in three years to support their support their A Place for People work protecting our last best places. Help us Secure the Rivers! ● $1 from every copy of Botany in a Day sold is donated to 3Rivers Park to help purchase habitat for people and wildlife in the Missouri Headwaters What's New? watershed in southwest Montana. In our previous printing of Botany in a Day See what's new we donated $1.00 from every copy sold to United Plant Savers, raising on all our websites! $4,556 in two years to support their work to protect medicinal plants and their Thomas J. Elpel's habitat for future generations. Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC Shipping: Most of our wholesale orders are shipped in second-hand boxes, padded PO Box 697 with second-hand peanuts, or crumpled newspapers and magazines. We rarely Pony, MT 59747-0697 406-685-3222 purchase any additional shipping boxes. E-mail Contact Page Videos: We also produce educational videos tapes. A critical concern to us was that we did not want to consume new resources for our video tapes. Fortunately, we found a supplier of quality reusable tapes. This Website Created on a lovable EcoMedia Recycling accepts all grades of magnetic media tape Macintosh computer! (video cassettes/audio cassettes) for recyling. Most of the tapes are destroyed and used as feedstock for new products. However, EcoMedia also collects many "duplication grade one- pass video tapes". These tapes have been manufactured for professional, high quality duplication and have been recorded once but never played. Instead of disassembling the tapes for salvage, they are diverted for reuse. The tapes are visually inspected, erased, cleaned and burnished. Then the audio and video tracks are are mechanically inspected for quality. Finally, the tapes are erased again, to insure that all copyrighted material has been thoroughly erased. The tapes are guaranteed error free. Participating in Nature Our videos The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry and the Art of Nothing Wilderness Survival Video Series are produced on these recycled video tapes for a truly green video product. Now we are in a position to recommend recycled tapes to the other vendors we purchase video tapes from. About Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC When you place a retail order using our on-line shopping cart system, then you are Botany in a Day purchasing directly from Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC. Besides my titles, we also carry books and videos from outside publishers and vendors. Most of them have little or no recycled content in them, but we carry them as tools for people to get closer to the natural world. Other items we sell include primitive friction fire sets, which are made from ethically wild-crafted natural materials, except for the nylon cords. Eventually we will give each product an environmental rank to highlight those that are especially earth-friendly. We will also encourage the http://www.hollowtop.com/hopsstore_html/environment.htm (2 of 3) [10/22/2003 6:10:37 PM] HOPS Press, LLC and Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC: Working for a better World vendors that we buy from to increase the recycled content of their products. Shipping: Most of our retail orders are shipped in Jiffy Padded Mailers manufactured from 77% recycled paper, including 62% post-consumer fiber. Other retail orders within the USA are shipped in Priority envelopes and boxes provided by the United States Postal Service, made from 100% recycled paper, including 80- 100% post-consumer fiber, and printed with soy inks. Be sure to recycle your own papers to help close the loop on waste! Direct Pointing to Real Wealth Thomas J. Elpel's Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC PO Box 697 Pony, MT 59747-0697 406-685-3222 E-mail Contact Page Return to the Primitive Living Store Return to the Home-Builder's Store Return to the Wildflowers & Weeds Store Living Homes Main Menu Primitive Living Skills Page | Primitive Living Store Society of Primitive Technology | Food Insects Newsletter Sustainable Living Page | Home Builder's Store Wildflowers & Weeds Page | Wildflowers Store 3Rivers Park | What's New? | Search This Site! Participating in Nature Botany in a Day http://www.hollowtop.com/hopsstore_html/environment.htm (3 of 3) [10/22/2003 6:10:37 PM] Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School: Earth Skills, Nature Awareness, and Wilderness Survival Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC Main Menu Primitive Living Skills Tom's Journals & Articles Tom's Class Schedule Schools of North America "Primitive living is a metaphor we participate in and act out. Calendar of Schools Life is simplified down to the bare essentials: physical and mental well-being, shelter, warmth, clothing, water, and food. We go on an expedition to meet those needs with little more than our bare hands. Primitive Living Store Stone Age Skills "In our quest we learn to observe, to think, to reach inside Nature Awareness ourselves for new resources for dealing with challenging Books, Videos, and unfamiliar situations. We build up our personal Tools & Supplies strengths, and at the same time we interact with and learn Society of about the world around us. Primitive Technology Bulletin of Primitive "In a story we can only join a quest in our imaginations. But in primitive Technology living, we physically leave the contemporary world. We journey into the world On-line Articles of stone-age skills, and we return with knowledge, wisdom, and strength to Subscription Information enrich our lives in contemporary society." Food Insects Newsletter On-line Articles --Thomas J. Elpel, Author Subscription Information Participating in Nature Sustainable Living More About HOPS Alternative Construction Last Updated July 16th, 2003 House-Building Classes Articles & Resources Ecological Economics Updated! Primitive Living Skills Schedule Home-Builder's Store Classes with Thomas J. Elpel Stone, Log & Strawbale And Many More Creative Primitive Living Store House-Building Books, Videos & Resources - Books - Videos - Tools - Wildflowers & Weeds Plant Identification Check out the & Edible Plants On-Line Calendar of Schools Rangeland Ecology Weed Control Alternatives Directory of Primitive Living & Nature Awareness Schools Directory of Schools in Europe Directory of Primitive Skills Gatherings http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm (1 of 4) [10/22/2003 6:10:39 PM] Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School: Earth Skills, Nature Awareness, and Wilderness Survival Wildflowers Store Plant & Mushroom Guides New! Primitive Living FAQ's Holistic Management Grazing Resources Books & Videos 3Rivers Park Tom's Camping Journals A Place for People Help us Secure the Rivers! NEW! Harrison School 8th Grade Camping Trip What's New? (May 15th - 16th, 2003 See what's new on all our websites! Jefferson River Walk Thomas J. Elpel's (August 29th - September 3rd, 2001) Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC Jefferson River Canoe Trip PO Box 697 Pony, MT 59747-0697 (May 14-21, 2001) 406-685-3222 E-mail Contact Page A Wildlife Sanctuary in the Land of Cold (November 30 - December 4, 2000) Camping with the Kids (October 19-21, 2000) This Website Created on a lovable Macintosh computer! Missouri River Canoe Trip (July 2-14, 2000) Missouri Moonlight (February 17-22, 2000) Tobacco Roots Trek II (September 28-October 2, 1999) Participating in Nature Green River Canoe Trip (July 1-14, 1999) A Father-Daughter Camp-Out (February 27-28, 1999) Island in the Sky (September 29-30 1998) Tobacco Roots Trek Botany in a Day (September 1-6 1998) The artwork on this page was produced by Roger J. Yazzie, Copyright 1998. http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm (2 of 4) [10/22/2003 6:10:39 PM] Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School: Earth Skills, Nature Awareness, and Wilderness Survival Primitive Skills & Awareness Articles by Thomas J. Elpel Primitive Living as Metaphor Tire Sandals Direct Pointing The Atlatl and Dart to Real Wealth Artifacts & Ethics The Art of Nothing Bear Summer Some Thoughts on Awareness Other Articles and Items of Interest Living Homes Primitive Living Skills Links Storytelling: Painting Pictures With Your Tongue NEW! A Friction Fire Inquiry: Bow Drill (752K) NEW! Making Horsetail Pan Flute NEW! The Quartz Crystal Handdrill Participating in Nature Hello, Two weeks ago I received your book Participating in Nature. I have already read it 4 times and each time I find something new. This book is a wonderful guide to living the type of life I would like to live. I don't mean that I am interested in living through stoneage technology but I am interested in becoming more knowledgeable about nature and my interaction with it. I find myself hungry for more and thus have ordered two more of your books. I was very happy to discover that your books are more than just "how-to". I find the use of story intertwined with skills puts things in Botany in a Day context and makes for a richer learning experience and one that is easy to remember. I am looking forward to reading your next books! -- Michael M. living in Japan (used with permission) http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm (3 of 4) [10/22/2003 6:10:39 PM] Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School: Earth Skills, Nature Awareness, and Wilderness Survival Thomas J. Elpel's Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC PO Box 697 Pony, MT 59747-0697 406-685-3222 E-mail Contact Page Direct Pointing Main Menu to Real Wealth Primitive Living Skills Page | Primitive Living Store Society of Primitive Technology | Food Insects Newsletter Sustainable Living Page | Home Builder's Store Wildflowers & Weeds Page | Wildflowers Store 3Rivers Park | What's New? | Search This Site! Living Homes http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm (4 of 4) [10/22/2003 6:10:39 PM] The HOPS Primitive Living Store: Books, Videos & Tools for Stone Age Living, Nature Awareness & Wilderness Survival Primitive Living Store Main Menu Primitive Living Skills Tom's Journals & Articles Tom's Class Schedule Schools of North America Primitive Living Store Calendar of Schools Updated September 6th, 2003 Click on any link to learn more about the product. Most items ship within 24 - 48 hours.... Primitive Living Store except when we are out in the woods for a few days! Stone Age Skills Nature Awareness Take a look at our Environmental Record in business. Books, Videos, Tools & Supplies Unique Books & Videos by Thomas J. Elpel Society of -Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Technology Primitive Living Skills Bulletin of Primitive Technology -Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant On-line Articles Families Subscription Information -Direct Pointing to Real Wealth: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide Food Insects Newsletter to Money On-line Articles -Living Homes: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Integrated Subscription Information Design & Construction -The Art of Slipform Stone Masonry Video Companion to Sustainable Living Living Homes Alternative Construction House-Building Classes Articles & Resources The Art of Nothing Wilderness Survival Video Series Ecological Economics with Thomas J. Elpel & Special Guests (Recorded on quality recycled VHS video tapes.) -3 Days at the River with nothing but our bare hands. Home-Builder's Store -Mountain Meadows camping with almost nothing but the dog. Stone, Log & Strawbale NEW! -Mountain Lakes a survival fishing trip. And Many More Creative House-Building Books, Videos & Resources Wildflowers & Weeds Plant Identification & Edible Plants Rangeland Ecology Weed Control Alternatives http://www.hollowtop.com/hopsstore_html/index.html (1 of 5) [10/22/2003 6:10:40 PM] The HOPS Primitive Living Store: Books, Videos & Tools for Stone Age Living, Nature Awareness & Wilderness Survival Wildflowers Store Primitive Fire-Making Tools Plant & Mushroom Guides -Flint & Steel Kits Holistic Management Grazing Resources -Bowdrill Fire Sets Books & Videos -Handdrill Fire Sets NEW! -Fire Plow Sets 3Rivers Park -Fire Pistons A Place for People -Oakum Tinder Help us Secure the Rivers! What's New? Water Purification See what's new -Iodine Crystals for water purification on all our websites! Thomas J. Elpel's Primitive Canoeing and Fishing Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC -Building a Birchbark Canoe by David Gidmark PO Box 697 -Canoecraft: Woodstrip Construction by Ted Moores Pony, MT 59747-0697 -Indian Fishing by Hilary Stewart 406-685-3222 E-mail Contact Page Primitive Shelter -Authentic Mongolian Felt Gers (Popularly known as "yurts".) Primitive Skills Books & Videos This Website Created on a lovable -Earth Knack by Bart & Robin Blankenship Macintosh computer! -Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry D. Olsen -Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat -Survival Skills of Native California by Paul D. Campbell -Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills Edited by David Wescott -Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills Edited by David Wescott -Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills by John & Geri McPherson -Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied & Advanced by John & Geri M. Participating in Nature -Eight Primitive Wilderness Skills Videos by John McPherson -Woodsmoke, The Best of Edited by Richard & Linda Jamison -Woodsmoke: Primitive Outdoor Skills Edited by Richard & Linda Jamison -Woodsmoke: Collected Writings Compiled by Richard & Linda Jamison -Six Woodsmoke Videos by Richard & Linda Jamison -Five Videos from Northwest Video Productions -Thirteen Woodsmaster Videos by Ron Hood -Three Cave Cooking Videos by Karen Hood -Primitive Technology: Practical Guidelines by Errett Callahan -How to Make Primitive Pottery by Evard Gibby Botany in a Day Northern Skills Books & Videos -Bush Craft by Mors Kochanski -16 Wilderness Survial Pocketbooks by Mors Kochanski -Four Wilderness Skills Videos by Mors Kochanski -7 Plant Videos + Master Tape by Mors Kochanski -Snow Caves by Ernest Wilkinson http://www.hollowtop.com/hopsstore_html/index.html (2 of 5) [10/22/2003 6:10:40 PM]
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