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4 Decoder Department, Sierra magazine, May/June 2006, 34-35.
5 Kenneth Berger, “The Role of Packaging in Society and the Environment,” University of Florida IFAS Extension, May 10, 2005, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE20.
6 Http://www.epa.gov/boston/communities/shopbags.html.
7 Worldwatch Institute, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1499.
8 Worldwatch Institute, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1479.
9 “The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret” Container Recycling Institute, http://www.container-recycling.org/aluminum/dirty.htm.
10 “More Aluminum Cans Trashed Last Year Than Recycled,” http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/2003/Aluminum-Cans-RecycledSep03.htm; Jenny Gitlitz, conversation with author, August 14, 2006.
11 Jim Motavalli, “The Case Against Meat,” emagazine.com, http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142January/February2002.
12 Ibid.
13 Nina Planck, “Leafy Green Sewage,” New York Times, September 21, 2006,
14 Worldwatch Institute, “This Little Piggy Went to the Global Market,” 2006, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1480.
15 Ibid.
16 “Hardee’s Serves Up 1,420-calorie Burger,” MSNBC, November 16, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6498304/?GT1=5809 .
17 Andrew Weil, Question and Answer department, DrWeil.com, October 8, 2004, http://www.drweil.com/u/QA/QA342569/
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Dean Ornish, Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 35.
21 Ibid.
22 Jeff Otto, http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/511/511370p1.html.
23 Ibid.
Chapter 15. Infinite Information
1 Stephanie Saul, “Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales,” New York Times, November 28, 2005, http://prorev.com/healthdrugs.htm.
2 Family Safe Media, http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html.
3 “Unplug Your Brain,” Jerry Mander, YES! Magazine, September 2001, http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=460.
4 Jeanne Sather, “TV: How Much Is Too Much?” http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elementary/default.aspx?article=toomuchtv>1=8138.
5 Alicia Gooden, “Textbook Lawsuit ‘Silly,’ Board Member Says,” (Galveston, Texas) Daily News, November 2, 2003, http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14798.
6 Ibid.
7 Campaign Contributions. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00026892&cycle=2006.
8 David W. Orr, Earth in Mind (Washington DC: Island Press, 1994), 108.
9 Alisa Gravitz, “Commentary: 12-Step Program to Stop Climate Change,” Yes! Magazine, Winter 2007, http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=194.
10 Janine Benyus, interview, Big Picture TV, http://www.bigpicture.tv/index.php?id=82&cat=&a=216.
Chapter 16. Historical Dividends
1 Staff writer, “New Poll Finds 86 Percent of Americans Don’t Want to Have a Country Anymore,” Onion, March 13, 2006, http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46227.
2 Marianne Williamson, The Healing of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 38.
3 Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (New York: Jeremy Tarcher Publishers, 2004), 126.
4 Tijn Touber, “Think Global, Act Natural,” interview with Elisabet Sahtouris in Ode magazine, no. 35, http://www.odemagazine.com/backIssue.php.
5 Alfie Kohn, No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992), 25.
6 Michael Hopkin, Nature, June 1, 2005, http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/trust.html.
7 Natalie Angier, “Why We’re So Nice: We’re Wired to Cooperate,” New York Times, July 23, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com.
8 Williamson, The Healing of America, 38-39.
9 Hawken, in Imagine, ed. Williamson, 6, 7.
10 Robert Hinkley, “28 Words to Redefine Corporate Duties: The Proposal for a Code for Corporate Citizenship,” in Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life,” by Frances Moore Lappé (San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), 86.
11 Jonathan Rowe, “How to Create a Real Ownership Society,” Ode magazine, no. 31, http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4245&PHPSESSID=d96c4eb7e5f60d71d4a409606eefdd4d.
12 The National Coalition on Health Care, http://www.nchc.org/facts/coverage.shtml.
13 Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999).
14 Wangari Maathai, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, City Hall, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2004, posted on the Green Belt Movement Web site, http://greenbeltmovement.org/a.php?id=34&t=p.
15 Wangari Maathai, “Trees for Democracy,” New York Times, December 10, 2004, A41.
16 Louise Bernikow, “Night of Terror Leads to Women’s Vote in 1917,” Women’s News, October 29, 2004, http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2048/context/ourstory.
Chapter 17. Cultural Prosperity
1 Williamson, The Healing of America.
2 Marilyn Ferguson, Aquarius Now: Radical Common Sense and Reclaiming Our Personal Sovereignty (York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2005).
3 Mariano Grondona, “A Cultural Typology of Economic Development,” in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, ed. Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel Huntington (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 54.
4 Taichi Sakaiya, The Knowledge-Value Revolution: or a History of the Future (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991), 311, 312.
5 Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005).
6 Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (New York: Jerem P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004).
7 John de Graaf “What’s the Economy for, Anyway?” Center for a New American Dream, http://www.newdream.org/newsletter/economy_for.php.
8 Rifkin, 13.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., 22.
11 Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes, “The Problem of American Exceptionalism,” Pew Research Center, May 9, 2006, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/23/the-problem-of-american-exceptionalism.
12 Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, The Cultural Creatives (New York: Harmony Books, 2000), 340-41.
13 “Discovering the Cultural Creatives,” LOHAS Journal, March/April 2000, http://www.LOHASJournal.com.
14 Fareed Zakaria, “Does the Future Belong to China?” Newsweek, May 9, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693580/site/newsweek/.
15 Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006).
16 Ornish, 16.
17 Paul Hawken, “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming” (New York: Viking, 2007), 134.
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Index
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Abbey, Edward
Ackerman, Diane
Adbusters
advertising, taxing
affluenza
and environmental protection
Affluenza (PBS program)
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Wann et al.)
Age of Enlightenment
agriculture
food mileage
industrial agriculture
organic
water and
Algonquin Hotel (NYC)
Allen, Paul
Allen, Woody
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Altshuler, Michael
America on the Move program
American Association of Retired People (AARP)
American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, The
American Sociological Review
Anatomy of Resources Wars, The (Renner)
Anderson, Sherry Ruth
Appleton High School
Aristotle
Armour, J. Ogden
Association of National Advertisers
Astaire, Fred
Atkins diet
Authentic Happiness (Seligman)
automobile dependency, remedies for
Autrey, Wesley
Avandia
average-income household, rethinking priorities
Bateson, Gregory
Batman and Robin (film)
Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon
Bennett, William
Benyus, Janine
Berra, Yogi
Berry, Thomas
Berry, Wendell
Beyond the Limits (Meadows)
Bhutan, Gross National Happiness (GNH) and
biophilia
Black, Bob
Boone, Daniel
Boulder (CO)
Green Points ordinance
Holiday neighborhood
Norwood-Quince neighborhood
Boulder Housing Partners
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
Bowling for Columbine (documentary)
BP, financial benefits of efficiency measures
Bradley, David
Brand, Stewart
Brown, Cindy
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.
Brown, Lester
Buber, Martin
Buchwald, Art
Burn, Lucy
Business and Consciousness Conference
Buy Nothing Days
Cabell, James Branch
Campbell, Joseph
capitalism
“do-no-harm” clauses
and health benefits
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Center for Science i
n the Public Interest
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Charles II
Cheetos
Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
China
economic growth of
per capita energy consumption
rain forest destruction in
Chiras, Dan
Cicero
Clark, Sandy
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Club of Rome
cohousing communities
meeting human needs
Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves (Durrett/McCamant)
Cole, Rick
Colgan, Michael
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Diamond)
Common Sense (Paine)
Compact
compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL)
ConAgra
Congressional Budget Office
Consumer Reports
consumption. See affluenza; overconsumption
Contact (film)
Container Recycling Institute (CRI)
Costa Rican rain forest
Cosu, Alice
Cowley, Abraham
Crisco
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
cultural creatives
lifestyles of
Cultural Creatives, The (Ray/Anderson)
cultural prosperity
cultural change
cultural-shifts, learning from