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128. Oil for Nothing: Multinational Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and Impunity in the Niger Delta, a U.S. nongovernmental delegation trip report, September 6–20, 1999, p. 18 (essentialaction.org/shell/Final_Report.pdf).
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130. David Morris and Irshad Ahmed, The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1992). This and many other titles about alternatives to petroleum are listed on the website of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance at ilsr.org/pubs/pubscarbo.html.
131. Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative website: sustainablebiomaterials.org.
132. “Electricity Overview,” based on data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), Key World Energy Statistics 2008, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (pewclimate.org/technology/overview/electricity).
133. Shaila Dewan, “T.V.A. to Pay $43 Million on Projects in Spill Area,” The New York Times, September 14, 2009 (nytimes.com/2009/09/15/us/15ash.html).
134. Jeff Goodell, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006), p. 146.
135. Ibid., p. 10.
136. Ibid., p. xx.
137. “National Memorial for the Mountains,” iLoveMountains.org (ilovemountains.org/memorial).
138. Deborah Bräutigam, Taxation and Governance in Africa, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, April 2008 (aei.org/outlook/27798).
139. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the General Assembly September 13, 2007 (un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html).
140. “Sustainable Development and Indigenous Peoples,” International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (iwgia.org/sw219.asp).
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143. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (eiti.org/ru/node/614).
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145. “World Bank Bonds Boycott,” Center for Economic Justice (econjustice.net/wbbb/).
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147. “The State of Consumption Today,” Worldwatch Institute (worldwatch.org/node/810).
148. “Earth Overshoot Day,” Global Footprint Network (footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN
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page/national_assessments/).
149. One Planet Living website: oneplanetliving.org/index.html.
150. Ibid.
151. Hawken and Hunter, Natural Capitalism, p. 8.
152. “1994 Declaration of the Factor 10 Club” Factor 10 Institute (techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~walter/f10/declaration94.html).
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1. Many references, including: Our Stolen Future (Ourstolenfuture.org); State of the World 2006, Worldwatch Institute; Nancy Evans, ed., State of the Evidence 2006, executive summary, Breast Cancer Fund, p. 4 (breastcancerfund.org/atf/cf/%7BDE68F7B2–5F6A-4B57–9794-AFE5D27A3CFF%7D/State%20of%20the%20Evidence%202006.pdf); Gay Daly, “Bad Chemistry,” OnEarth, Winter 2006 (nrdc.org/onearth/06win/chem1.asp).
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