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by Rebecca Solnit


  shrimp, shrimping industry, 112, 114–115, 117, 121, 124

  snails, 21, 59, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 319, 320, 321

  vultures, 49

  walruses, 5, 12, 14, 20, 21

  whales, whaling, 9, 14, 20, 21, 120, 211

  wolf (Ulfur), 212

  antinuclear (actions, activists, see also nuclear), 45, 143, 190, 192, 194

  Apple Computer, 249–251, 265, 268

  Arab Spring, 22–31, 57, 194, 213–215, 217, 220, 221, 258

  Arcadia, 48

  Arctic, 5–21

  Arctic Circle, 7, 8, 174

  Argentina, 27, 29, 45, 81, 175, 179–181, 222

  Armstrong, Louis, 242

  Atlason, Vífill, 159

  Avengers (band), 40, 47

  Badger, Bill, 27

  Ban Mercury Working Group, 106–107

  Barnacle, Nora, 152

  Bastille, 23, 26

  Bear Flag Revolt, 53

  Bechtel Corporation, 65, 66, 95

  Berger, John (writer), 204

  Björk (rock star), 171, 172

  Black, Michael (historian), 100, 101

  Black Panthers (activist group), 37, 43, 289–290

  Boggs, Grace Lee (activist), 79–80

  Bolivia, 65, 95, 168, 319

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 148, 207–208, 211–212

  Bornstein, David (social Darwinist), 139, 140

  Bouazizi, Mohamed, 23, 24, 213, 217

  BP spill, 109–124

  Branch, Michael (scholar), 276

  Brass Liberation Orchestra, 264

  Buddhists, Buddhism, 23, 140, 190, 191, 192, 196, 197, 200, 201, 291

  Bush, George W., and his administration, 85, 88, 110, 116, 119, 130, 159, 160, 187, 216, 237–239, 301, 302, 306–307

  Butterfly, butterflies: see animals

  Cairo (see also Egypt), 22, 28

  California, 32–47, 48–53, 62, 64, 67, 92, 95–99, 100–105, 108, 144, 249–250, 252–254, 283

  California Gold Rush: see Gold Rush

  cannibalism, 13, 121, 232

  capitalism, 80, 102, 134, 156, 175, 180, 181, 223, 237, 245, 255, 312, 313

  Carnival, 113, 240–247

  Cash, Johnny, 85

  Catholic Charities, New Orleans, 115

  Charter 77, 27

  Chavez, Cesar, 37, 250

  Chile, 194, 214–215, 220

  Churchill, Winston, 285, 297

  City of Refuge, 267

  City Slicker Farms, Oakland, 292–293, 297

  civil society, 28, 29, 168, 175, 178, 180, 188, 194, 213, 218, 220, 223, 238, 240, 252, 317

  Clamshell Alliance (antinuclear group), 45

  Clausewitz, Carl von, 299–300

  Cleveland, Ohio, 111, 294–295

  climate change, 56–59, 62–64, 67, 94, 100, 116, 117–118, 160, 194, 219, 223, 237, 278–279, 283, 295, 297

  CNN (Cable News Network), 28, 111, 116, 129

  Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 241

  Colorado River, 60–67, 95

  compassion, 139–140

  Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society, 273, 274, 282, 283

  Conner, Bruce, 32, 39, 46, 277

  Constantino, Renato Redentor, 136

  Conway, Daniel (abolitionist), 282

  country music, 84–94

  cowboys, 92, 204

  creeps, 34–35

  Czechoslovakia, 22, 27, 220

  Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé, 308

  Dead Kennedys (band), 33–34

  Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, 61–67

  Dederich, Chuck (cult leader), 40–41

  democracy, 23, 24, 36, 47, 72, 160–162, 164, 165, 167–171, 173, 176, 214, 218, 220, 222, 243, 258, 305, 319

  Democracy Now!, 235

  Detroit, Michigan, 2, 68–83, 87–88, 153, 289, 294, 295

  Diablo Canyon Power Plant, 45

  Diamond, Jared, 166

  Dōgen Zenji (priest, monk, writer), 201

  domestic violence, 116, 149, 317

  Douglas, Mary, 110

  Dowley, Jennifer, 49, 51

  dreams, 11, 19, 153, 300, 304

  drones, 52, 224, 265, 300, 304

  drugs, 224–230

  Dubček, Alexander, 22

  Eagles (band), 33

  Earth First!, 66, 67, 89

  Egypt, Egyptian revolution, 22–30, 57, 194, 213, 215

  Eight Mile Road, 69

  Eliade, Mircea (scholar), 155, 156

  Eliot, T. S., 61

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 305

  empathy, 139, 140, 275, 306

  Encalade, Byron (head, Louisiana Oysterman Association), 123

  Evans, Derrick, 120

  Exxon Mobile Corporation, 58, 118

  EZLN: see Zapatistas

  Facebook, 23, 25, 26, 30, 111, 179, 218, 249, 257, 258, 260, 264, 265, 266, 272, 273, 276, 282

  farms, farmers, farmworkers, farming, 30, 37, 47, 61–62, 67, 68, 75, 81, 89, 90–93, 102, 170, 185, 241, 250, 279, 280, 285–297, 313

  feminism, feminists, 35–36, 43, 45, 47, 134, 207, 244, 282, 317

  Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 295

  Fleetwood Mac (band), 47

  food (see also farms, gardens), 19, 23, 43–44

  Ford automobiles, manufacturing, 73–75, 78, 79

  Fort Pontchartrain, 68, 69

  Fortune magazine, 177

  Frankenstein (novel), 8

  French Revolution, 23, 30, 58, 220

  Fukushima, Japan, nuclear catastrophe in, 183, 186–191, 193, 195

  Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto (shrine), 197–202

  Futurefarmers, 293

  gays, lesbians, queers, rights and politics, 35–36, 44, 45, 47, 140, 174, 267

  Gallant, Mavis, 30

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 25, 283

  gardens (see also farms), 8, 80–82, 94, 143, 191, 200, 262, 277–278, 285–297

  Gates, Bill (mogul), 265

  Gibson-Graham, J. K. (economists), 134–135

  Giffords, Gabrielle, 26–27

  glaciers, 7, 8, 10, 13, 21, 68

  Glen Canyon Dam, 61, 63, 65, 66

  gold, 95–108

  Gold Rush, in California, 46, 60, 96–107, 249, 253–254, 269, 270

  Golden Gate National Recreation Area: see Marin Headlands

  Google Corporation, Google bus, 248–255, 261, 264–271

  Google glasses, 261–262

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 194

  graves, 8

  Great Salt Lake, 107

  Grímsson, Ólafur Ragnar (president), 159–162, 164, 168, 171, 174

  Gross, Anisse, 271

  Gulf of Mexico, oil spill in, 109–124

  Gundersen, Arnie, 186–187

  Haiti, 125–132

  Handel-Bajema, Ramona, 191

  Hansdóttir, Elín, 203–212

  “Harrison Bergeron” (short story), 261

  Hearst, Patti, 41, 42–43

  Helgason, Haukar Már, 181

  Herrington, Donnell, 233–234, 235, 237

  Hirani, Kozo, 182–183, 184, 185

  Hiroshima, Japan, 76, 189, 192–194, 195–197

  home, 142–158 (see also labyrinth)

  Hoover Dam, 61, 65

  hope, 23, 31, 45, 79, 82, 94, 133–141, 149, 157, 181, 213–224, 240–242, 285, 318, 319, 321

  Hotel Pontchartrain (Detroit), 68, 69, 72

  Hurricane Katrina, 87, 113–114, 119–123, 125, 130, 183, 186, 231–239, 242, 245

  Hussein, Saddam, 307

  hydropower (in Iceland), 163–165, 170, 174, 176

  Iceland, 15, 21, 29, 159–181, 203–212, 214, 225

  Indians: see Native Americans

  International Hotel (San Francisco), 36–37, 38

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 173, 175, 180

  Internet, 23, 25, 111, 116, 250, 256, 265, 269,

  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (film), 32, 33, 36, 37–38

  Iraq, 24, 51, 55, 62, 65, 119, 219, 221, 231, 239, 300, 306–309

  Ireland
, 215, 279–280, 284

  Irigaray, Luce, 207

  Japan, 26, 53, 182–202, 214

  2011 tsunami in, 182–195

  Japanese Americans, 143

  Jones, Tim (priest), 131

  joy, 23, 141, 184, 201, 219, 222, 239, 245

  Joyce, James, 152

  Juhasz, Antonia (writer), 118, 133

  Kaufman, Phil (film director), 32

  Keltner, Dacher, 139–140

  kindness, 135

  King, Martin Luther, 25, 44, 79, 204, 277, 283, 316

  King, Peter (congressman), 25

  Kinoshita, Seigo (disaster evacuee), 190

  Klare, Michael (writer), 117

  Klein, Naomi, 237

  Kristjánsson, Svanur, 168–170

  Kroll, Andy (journalist), 216

  Kyoto, Japan, 196–202

  labyrinths and mazes, 203–212

  Lake Powell, 63, 66

  laundry: see Thoreau

  Laursen, Eric, 243

  Leckart, Steven, 93

  Lenin, Vladimir (statue of), 18

  library, 18, 60, 260

  light, 6, 7, 11, 12

  Longyearbyen, Svalbard 5, 9, 11, 13

  Los Angeles, 38, 54, 61, 67, 95, 249, 291

  Los Angeles Times, 125, 131

  Louisiana, 109–124

  Lubbock, Basil, 14

  Mabuhay Gardens (punk club), 38–39

  Macondo blowout: see BP Blowout

  macramé, 32

  Madison, Wisconsin, 27, 30, 215

  Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, 30

  Magdalenafjord, 7, 18

  Magnason, Andri Snær, 171, 172, 176–177, 178

  Mahfouz, Asmaa, 25, 31

  Maisch, Patricia, 27

  Malek-Wiley, Darryl (Sierra Club activist), 111, 112, 114

  Mamas and the Papas (band), 32

  Mandela, Nelson, 312

  Manning, Bradley/Chelsea, 24, 258, 284

  Marin Headlands, 48–55

  Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (comic book), 25

  Martinez, Daniel, 27

  Martinsson, Tyrone, 9

  McWilliams, Carey, 97

  MDC (Millions of Dead Cops/Multi-Death Corporations, band), 34

  mercury, 95–108

  Mexican-American War, 53, 60, 105, 275, 311–321

  Mexico, 10, 30, 53, 98, 105, 128, 194, 215, 224–230

  Milk, Harvey (city supervisor, catalyst), 35, 36, 44–45, 47

  Misrach, Richard (photographer), 304

  Mississippi River, 1, 61, 112, 115

  Molina, David (musician), 240

  Monkey Wrench Gang (novel), 66

  Morris, William, 148, 167–168

  Muir, John, 91, 274

  Murosaki, Yoshiteru (disaster expert), 186, 187

  Muybridge, Eadweard (photographer), 200, 308–309

  9/11: see September 11, 2001

  Nabokov, Vladimir (writer), 138, 140

  Native Americans (see also Zapatistas [indigenous Mexicans]), 37, 52, 53, 68, 69, 86, 91, 97, 98, 101, 106, 108, 121–122, 166, 220, 244, 253, 255, 274, 313, 319

  Nevada, 52, 60, 62, 66–67, 87, 89, 98, 106–108, 298–300, 304

  Nevada Test Site, 11, 190, 273, 298

  New Almaden mercury mine, 105–106

  New Orleans, 87, 91, 109–110, 113–116, 120, 122, 130, 183, 231–247, 263

  New York City (see also Occupy Wall Street), 46, 76, 119, 187, 221–222, 236, 239, 268, 288

  New York Times, 139, 154, 232, 266

  News from Nowhere (novel), 167–168

  Nixon, Richard, 34, 99

  Njal’s Saga, 165–166

  nonviolence, 25, 30, 45, 213, 221, 311, 314

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 71, 140, 241, 313

  nuclear (power, weapons, see also antinuclear, radiation), 45, 50, 52, 54, 56, 62, 111, 186–195, 199, 202, 265, 272–273, 298, 305, 309

  Oakland, 37, 42, 43, 267, 292–293, 294

  Obama, Barack, 116, 117, 119, 123, 239, 243

  Obama, Michelle, 290

  Occupy (movement), Occupy Wall Street, 57, 213–217, 258, 269, 297

  Occupy Bernal Heights (San Francisco), 253

  Odyssey, 145–149, 154

  oil: see petroleum

  Olafsson, Haraldur (writer), 170

  Otsuchi, Japan, 182–185

  Paglen, Trevor, 298–310

  pain, 226–230

  Palinarus (Aeneid), 11

  paradise, 6, 48, 84, 106, 147

  petroleum, petroleum industry, 58–59, 69, 92, 109–124, 133, 134, 137, 226, 254–255, 238, 254

  Petrulionus, Sandra Harbert, 282

  Philippe, Rosina, 121–122

  Philippines, 29, 220

  Phoenix, Arizona, 61, 66–67

  plastic, 12, 39, 66, 199, 290

  Plastic People of the Universe (band), 27–28

  poison, poisoning (see also BP blowout, Gulf spill, mercury, oil, petroleum, radiation), 7, 43, 56, 105, 109–112, 114, 115–117, 119–122, 124, 197, 238, 263

  poison oak (plant), 50

  Porter, Eliot, 66

  Poussin, Nicholas (painter), 48, 49, 51

  Powell, James Lawrence (writer), 63–64, 66

  Powell, John Wesley (scientist, explorer), 63–64, 67

  Prague Spring, 22, 220

  privatization, 65, 88, 95, 155–158, 169, 170, 175, 177, 179–180, 216, 296

  Presley, Elvis, 86

  Proposition 13, 36

  public space, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 113, 154, 155–156, 171, 178, 234, 238, 242–247, 255, 258, 263, 270, 271, 296, 299

  punk rock (see also individual bands), 33, 37–40

  Pyramiden, Svalbard, 14, 17–18

  Quarantelli, Enrico (disaster sociologist), 128

  race, race politics, racism, 46, 69, 72–74, 76–79, 84, 85, 86–88, 93, 97, 231–236, 243–245

  radiation, radioactivity, 55, 62, 114, 186–190, 192, 199, 304

  radical, radicalization, radicals, 25, 45, 79, 88, 89, 119, 136, 187, 221, 228, 243, 246, 282, 289, 312

  definition, 297, 311

  radio, 29, 256, 257, 261

  Rahim, Malik (organizer), 235

  Ramones, 34

  Rasmussen, Knud, 9

  Reagan, Ronald, 34, 43

  Reclaim the Streets, 245–246, 247

  revolution (see also Egypt, Egyptian revolution), 22–31, 38, 42, 45–47, 58, 136, 143, 167, 194, 220, 222, 239, 243, 247, 258, 296, 297

  definition, etymology, 311

  food revolution, 290, 291

  green revolution, 289, 291, 293

  Industrial Revolution, 148

  Philippines revolution, 220

  Reagan revolution, 137

  revolutions per minute, 311

  Saucepan Revolution (in Iceland), 173–181

  sexual revolution, 34, 44

  Zapatista revolution, 312–321

  Richard Hell and the Voidoids (band), 33

  Rivera, Diego (painter, communist), 74, 75, 77, 82

  rock and roll (see also individual bands), 27–28

  Roman-Alcalá, Antonio (gardener), 286–288

  Ross, Captain, 14

  Rosse, Bill (activist, musician), 87

  Rudd, Mark (activist), 41–42

  ruins, 17–18, 39, 40, 51, 65, 66–67, 69–72, 75, 77–79, 82, 130, 132, 142, 153, 183, 185, 190, 191, 192–193, 294, 299

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 308

  Russia, Russians, 17, 18, 56, 138, 175

  sadness, 228, 230

  Salton Sea (California), 64–65

  San Francisco, 32–37, 40, 43, 44, 53, 60, 88, 98, 222, 248–255, 264–271, 286–288, 289

  1906 earthquake in, 127, 190, 236

  San Francisco Bay, 96, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106

  San Francisco Bay Area, 48–55, 291–294

  San Francisco Estuary Institute, 103–104

  San Francisco Zen Center, 291

  San Quentin State Prison, 280–281

  Sassoon, Siegfried, 285

  Saudi
Arabia, 65, 119, 214

  Sendai, Japan, 188, 190–192

  Sennet, Richard, 146–147

  September 11, 2001, 36, 119, 187–188, 221–222, 239

  Sierra Club, 65–66, 91–92, 111, 114, 119, 133, 274

  Sierra Nevada, 96, 100, 103

  Sigurðardóttir, Jóhanna (prime minister), 173–174, 178

  Sigur Rós (band), 171, 172

  Silicon Valley, 54, 55, 248–271

  Sims, Michael (writer), 277–278, 281, 283

  slavery (United States), 244–245, 273–275, 277, 281, 282–283

  Smith, Patti, 43

  Snowden, Edward (whistleblower), 260, 266, 268

  social Darwinism, 139

  Sontag, Susan, 305–306

  Sorrow Fjord, 10

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 64–65

  Soviet Union, 28, 74, 75, 81, 162, 194, 302, 313

  Stanford, Leland, 253, 254

  Stanford University, 55, 140, 249–250

  Stegner, Wallace, 92

  Stewart, Martha (impresario, Circe), 147–150

  Stockholm (ship), 5, 16–17, 21

  Stormfront White Nationalist Community, 77

  Stranglers (band), 46

  Ström, Lisa, 9, 11, 13, 20, 21

  Subcomandante Marcos, 315

  suburbs, suburbia, 29, 69, 72, 74–76, 78, 154, 156, 250

  Svalbard, 5–21

  Sweden, 17, 19, 137, 151

  Sylvester (singer), 47

  Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA, cult), 41, 42–43, 47

  Syjuco, Stephanie (artist), 270

  Synanon (cult), 36, 40–41, 42

  Tahrir Square, 25, 28, 214

  technology (see also individual companies, nuclear, Silicon Valley), 55, 65, 96, 98, 114, 255, 257, 258–263, 300–301, 304, 309

  Teller, Edward (bomb maker), 62

  Thich Quang Duc, 23

  Thingvellir, Iceland, 165–166

  Thompson, A. C. (investigative journalist), 235–236, 237, 239

  Thoreau, Henry David, and Cynthia Dunbar, Sophia, and Helen Thoreau, 272–284

  toxic, toxins (see also poison), 15, 65, 90, 107, 109, 114, 187, 255, 289

  Tunisia, 23–25, 213–214

  Twitter, 25, 218, 257, 258, 268

  Ulysses (novel), 152, 157–158, 264

  United States (see also particular cities, states, movements), 24–25, 27, 29, 30, 33, 36, 42, 49, 52, 55, 56, 57, 60, 74, 157, 160, 176, 215–216, 221, 225–230, 243, 281, 294, 299, 301, 303–306, 319–320

  economic inequality in (see also Occupy Wall Street), 31, 36, 37, 57–58, 76, 137

  military, 24, 49–55, 162, 176, 265–266, 298–310

  Vietnam, 23

  violence (see also domestic violence, nonviolence), 27, 28, 26, 40, 41–42, 49, 51, 55, 56–59, 87, 97, 131, 139, 140, 151, 161, 166, 225, 238, 253, 287–288, 299–302, 305–306

  Virgil, 11

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 261

  Walker, Scott (governor), 30, 31

  war, 298–310

  water (see also BP Spill, climate change, Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam, Gulf of Mexico, Iceland, Mississippi River, Svalbard, tsunami), 57, 61–67, 92, 97–102, 163–165

 

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