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169. Ibid.
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Seafood/FoodbornePathogensContaminants/
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172. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, “FDA Moves to Advise Pregnant Women to Consume More Mercury-Laced Seafood,” Associated Press, December 15, 2008 (ewg.orgnode/27440).
173. Lyndsey Layton, “FDA Draft Report Urges Consumption of Fish, Despite Mercury Contamination,” The Washington Post, December 12, 2008 (washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/
12/11/AR2008121103394.html).
174. Ibid.
175. Research compiled by Renee Shade, from the official websites of the U.S. Office of Environmental Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of Commerce, and Environmental Protection Agency.
176. Geiser, Materials Matter, p. 140.
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178. “FDA Statement on Release of Bisphenol A (BPA) Subcommittee Report,” press release by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, October 28, 2008 (fda.gov/news events/newsroom/pressannouncements
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179. “NTP, FDA at Odds on Bisphenol-A,” Integrity in Science Watch, Center for Science in the Public Interest, week of September 8, 2008 (cspinet.org/integrity/press/200809081.html).
180. Kirsten Stade, Twisted Advice: Federal Advisory Committees Are Broken, Center for Science in the Public Interest, January 2009 (cspinet.org/new/pdf/twisted_advice _final_report.pdf).
181. Ken Geiser, “Comprehensive Chemicals Policies for the Future,” Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell, November 2008 (hhh.umn.edu/centers/stpp/pdf/
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182. M. King Hubbert, “Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels,” Drilling and Production Practice, American Petroleum Institute, 1956 (energybulletin.net/node/13630).
183. William McDonough quoted in Sidwell Friends Alumni Magazine, Spring 2005, p. 9 (sidwell.edu/data/files/news/AlumniMagazine/
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184. “Mobile Industry Unites to Drive Universal Charging Solution for Mobile Phones,” press release from the GSMA, February 17, 2009. GSMA (Groupe Special Mobile) is the association of the worldwide mobile communications industry.
185. Ibid.
186. Biomimicry Institute website: biomimicryinstitute.org.
187. Ibid.
188. Janine Benyus, “Janine Benyus shares nature’s designs,” TED talk filmed February 2005 (ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature
_s_designs.html).
Chapter 3: Distribution
1. Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, and Thea Lee, Field Guide to the Global Economy, rev. ed. (New York: New Press, 2005), p. 6.
2. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, Nike Culture: the Sign of the Swoosh (London: Sage Publications Ltd., 1999), p. 168.
6. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. William Greider, “A New Giant Sucking Sound,” The Nation, December 31, 2001 (thenation.com/doc/20011231/greider).
10. David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, 2nd ed. (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001), p. 216.
11. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
12. Gary Fields, Territories of Profit: Communications, Capitalist Development and the Innovative Enterprises of G. F. Swift and Dell Computer (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004), p. 208.
13. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
14. Personal communication with Patrick Bond, professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, August 2009.
15. Interview with Dara O’Rourke,