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3. Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World, p. 62.
4. Herman E. Daly and Joshua Farley, Ecological Economics (Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2003), p. 433.
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8. Robert Gilman’s definition of sustainability is widely quoted, by organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (yosemite.epa.gov/R10/OI.NSF/5d8e619248fe0b
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4007842da!OpenDocument) and the Center for World Leadership (earthleaders.org/sii/goal).
9. Center for Sustainable Communities, quoted in Sustainable Sonoma County’s “Key Concepts: Defining Sustainability” (sustainablesonoma.org/keyconcepts
/sustainability.html).
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3. Bill Chameides, “Pulse of the Planet: U.S. Whiffs on Climate Change While Rain Forests Burn,” The Huffington Post, July 14, 2008 (huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/pulse-of-the-planet-us-wh_b_112588.html).
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5. Peter Rillero, “Tropical Rainforest Education” (ericdigests.org/2000–1/tropical.html).
6. Ibid.
7. “Cancer Cured by the Rosy Periwinkle,” The Living Rainforest (livingrainforest.org/about-rainforests/anti-cancer-rosy-periwinkle).
8. Ibid.
9. “Rainforest Facts,” Raintree (rain-tree.com/facts.htm). Raintree is an informational website founded by Leslie Taylor, author of The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs (Square Garden City Park One Publishers, 2005) and founder of the company Raintree Nutrition, which markets rainforest botanicals.
10. Ibid.
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13. Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd. ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005); Available online from Bucknell University’s Mammal Species of the World database (bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000691).
14. “Promoting Climate-Smart agriculture” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (fao.org/forestry/28811/en/).
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19. State of the World’s Forests 2007, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (fao.org/docrep/009/a0773e/a0773e00.htm).
20. “Old Growth,” Rainforest Action Network (ran.org/what_we_do/old_growth/
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21. State of the World’s Forests 2007.
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23.