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95. Ibid.
96. “1.02 Billion People Hungry: One Sixth of Humanity Undernourished, More than Ever Before,” Science Daily, June 20, 2009 (sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/
090619121443.htm).
97. Andrew Pollack, “Disease of Rich Extends Its Pain to Middle Class,” The New York Times, June 12, 2009 (nytimes.com/2009/06/13/health/13gout.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=disease%20of%20kings&st=cse).
98. “More than Half the World Lives on Less than $2 a Day,” Population Reference Bureau (prb.org/Journalists/PressReleases/2005/
MoreThanHalftheWorldLiveson
LessThan2aDayAugust2005.aspx), citing data from the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/2001.
99. Robert Frank, “Market Failures,” Boston Review, Summer 1999 (bostonreview.net/BR24.3/frank.html) and in Luxury Fever, New York: Free Press, 1999.
100. World Resources Institute, quoting Josette Sheera, executive director of the World Food Programme (earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/349).
101. William Greider, “One World of Consumers,” in Consuming Desires, p. 27.
102. Carbon Footprint of Nations website, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: carbonfootprintofnations.com.
103. Elgin, The Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Course, p. 16.
104. Alan Durning, How Much Is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1992), p. 150.
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1. Jerry Seinfeld live on tour, 2008. (My friend, Andre Carothers, was in attendance and reported this to me.)
2. The automotive information website Edmunds.com states, “A car loses roughly a quarter of its value the moment it leaves the dealer’s lot” (edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10
/122630/article.html), but 10 percent is the figure usually referred to as “common knowledge.”
3. “George Carlin Talks About ‘Stuff’” (youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac).
4. Personal correspondence with Paul Connett, June 2008.
5. “The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Solid Waste Services,” Solid Waste Association of North America (swanacal-leg.org/downloads/SWANA%20LTF%20white%20paper%20on%20letterhead.pdf).
6. Maria Elena Baca, “One Silver Lining of the Economic Downturn,” Star Tribune, August 2, 2009 (startribune.com/local/north/52269857.html).
7. “U.S. Waste Management Industry Overview,” Themedica, February 23, 2009 (themedica.com/articles/2009/02/us-waste-management-industry-o.html).
8. Joel Makower, “Industrial Strength Solution,” Mother Jones, May/June 2009 (motherjones.com/environment/2009/05/industrial-strength-solution).
9. Ray Anderson, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009), pp. 64–65.
10. “Non-Hazardous Waste,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/).
11. Joel Makower, “Calculating the Gross National Trash,” March 17, 2009 (readjoel.com/joel_makower/2009/03/calculating-the-gross-national-trash.html).
12. Makower, “Industrial Strength Solution.”
13. Ibid.
14. “A Natural Step Network Case Study: Interface, Atlanta, Georgia,” The Natural Step (naturalstep.org/en/usa/interface-atlanta-georgia-usa).
15. Ray Anderson, “The business logic of sustainability,” TED talk filmed February 2009, posted May 2009 (ted.com/talks/ray_anderson_on_the_business_
logic_of_sustain ability.html).
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Charles Fishman, “Sustainable Growth—Interface, Inc.” Fast Company, December 18, 2007 (fastcompany.com/magazine/14/sustaing.html).
19. Kate Fletcher, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles (London: Earthscan, 2008), p. 158.
20. Personal correspondence with Ray Anderson, August 2009.
21. Personal communication with Dan Knapp, August 2009.
22. Municipal Solid Waste in the United States 2007 Facts and Figures, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, November 2008, p. 3 (epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw07-rpt.pdf).
23. Ibid.
24. Research by Renee Shade based on data from Statistics Canada (40.statcan.gc.ca), the United Nations Statistics Division (unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/wastetreatment.ht), Index Mundi (indexmundi.com/),