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123. Personal correspondence with Kevin Gallagher, August 2009.
124. “This is USAID,” USAID (usaid.gov/about_usaid/).
125. Marc Lacey, “Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger,” The New York Times, April 18, 2008 (nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/americas/18food.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1).
126. Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewi, Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia (Boston: South End Press, 2004).
127. “100 Mile Diet: An interview with James and Alisa” (100milediet.org/faqs). Find out more in their book: Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon, Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007).
128. Bill McKibben, Deep Economy (New York: Times Books, 2007), p. 128.
129. David Kupfer, “Table for Six Billion, Please: Judy Wicks on her plan to change the world, one restaurant at a time,” The Sun Magazine, iss. 392, August 2008 (thesunmagazine.org/issues/392/table_for_six_billion).
130. Ibid.
131. Rob Hopkins and Peter Lipman, Who We Are and What We Do, Transition Network, February 1, 2009 (transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/who_we_are_high.pdf).
132. Anderson, Cavanagh, and Lee, Field Guide to the Global Economy, p. 52.
133. Barbara Ehrenreich, foreword to Anderson, Cavanagh, and Lee, Field Guide to the Global Economy, p. viii.
Chapter 4: Consumption
1. Robert D. McFadden and Angela Macropoulos, “WalMart Employee Trampled to Death,” The New York Times, November 28, 2008 (nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html).
2. Ken Belson and Karen Zraick, “Mourning a Good Friend and Trying to Make Sense of a Stampede,” The New York Times, November 29, 2008 (nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/30walmart.html).
3. Christian Sylt, “Christopher Rodrigues: Visa is far more than just a card, says its Cambridge Blue boss,” The Independent [UK], November 6, 2005 (independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/christopher-rodrigues-visa-is-far-more-than-just-a-card -says-its-cambridge-blue-boss-514061.html).
4. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004: Special Focus—Consumer Society (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), p. 5.
5. John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, 2nd ed. (San Francico: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2005), p. 13.
6. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 10.
7. Benjamin Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008), p. 8.
8. Paul Lomartire, “The Monster That Is the Mall of America,” Chicago Tribune, May 11, 2003 (chicagotribune.com/travel/midwest/minnesota/
chi-071219twincities-monstermall,0,1792859.story).
9. Mellody Hobson, “Mellody’s Math: Credit Card Cleanup,” ABC News, February 28, 2009 (abcnews.go.com/GMA/FinancialSecurity/story?id=126244&page=1).
10. De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor, Affluenza, p. 41.
11. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 4.
12. Margot Adler, “Behind the Ever-Expanding American Dream House,” National Public Radio, July 4, 2006 (npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525283).
13. Juliet Schor, “Cleaning the Closet,” essay in Duane Elgin’s The Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Course (Portland: Northwest Earth Institute, 2008), p. 35.
14. Michelle Hofmann, “The s-t-r-e-t-c-h Garage,” Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2006 (articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/01/realestate/re-garages1).
15. SSA Industry Report and SSA Update for 2009, Self Storage Association (selfstorage.org/SSA/Home/AM/ContentManager
Net/ContentDisplay.aspx?Section
=Home&ContentID=4163).
16. See the transcript of Bush’s speech in Atlanta on November 8, 2001; the quote is “People are going about their daily lives, working and shopping and playing, worshipping at churches and synagogues and mosques, going to movies and to baseball games. Life in America is going forward, and as the fourth grader who wrote me knew, that is the ultimate repudiation of terrorism.” (archives.cnn.com/2001/US/11/08/
rec.bush.transcript/).
17. Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry David Thoreau: His Character