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4. Michael Maniates, “Going Green? Easy Doesn’t Do It,” The Washington Post, November 22, 2007 (washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/
AR2007112101856.html).
5. John Talberth, Clifford Cobb, and Noah Slattery, The Genuine Progress Indicator 2006,” Redefining Progress, p. 9 (rprogress.org/publications/2007/GPI%202006.pdf).
6. Personal correspondence with John Talberth, July 2009.
7. Associated Press, “Global Arms Spending Up, Study Shows,” The New York Times, June 9, 2009 (query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E2DD1530F93AA35755C0A96F9C8B63).
8. National Priorities Project website: nationalpriorities.org.
9. The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the earth, The New Economics Foundation, 2009, p. 28.
10. National Priorities Project Cost of War counters: costofwar.com.
11. Ibid.
12. Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up,” The New York Times, July 24, 2009 (nytimes.com/2009/07/25/science/earth/25tribe.html).
13. Sarah van Gelder, “The Next Reformation,” an interview with Paul Hawken, In Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture, no. 41, Summer 1995 (context.org/ICLIB/IC41/Hawken1.htm).
14. Lester Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008), p. 7.
15. Personal correspondence with Dave Batker, July 2009.
16. Juliet Schor, “Downshifting to a Carbon Friendly Economy,” in Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness (Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009), p. 231.
17. “Americans Eager to Take Back Their Time,” Take Back Your Time Poll highlights, Center for a New American Dream, August 2003 (newdream.org/about/polls/time poll.php).
18. Schor, “Downshifting to a Carbon Friendly Economy,” p. 233.
19. David Wann, “Why Isn’t This Empire Sustainable?” in Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness (Canada: New Society Publishers, 2009), p. 217.
20. “More of What Matters Poll,” Center for a New American Dream, September 2004 (newdream.org/about/polls.php).
21. Influenced especially by the work of Paul Hawken, the Global Scenario Group convened by the Stockholm Environment Institute, Tim Jackson of the Sustainable Development Commission, and ecological economist Hermann Daly.
22. Wann, “Why Isn’t this Empire Sustainable?” p. 217.
23. Penny Herscher, “Will the Rising Personal Savings Rate Boom the US Recovery?” The Huffington Post, January 13, 2009 (huffingtonpost.com/penny-herscher/will-the-rising-personal_b_157526.html).
24. “National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections 1960–2008,” Infoplease.com, from the Federal Election Commission, based on data from Congressional Research Service reports, Election Data Services Inc., and state election offices (infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html).
25. Paul Hawken, “Commencement: Healing or Stealing?” 2009 commencement address at the University of Portland (up.edu/commencement/default.aspx?cid=9456).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Over the last twenty years, many dedicated and knowledgeable people all over the world helped me understand elements of the Story of Stuff.
Davis Baltz, Charlotte Brody, Barry Castleman, Gary Cohen, Tracy Easthope, Ken Geiser, Lois Gibbs, Judith Helfand, Michael Lerner, Stacy Malkan, Pete Myers, Peter Orris, Arlene Rodriguez, Kathy Sessions, and Sandra Steingraber educated me about the environmental health impacts of toxic chemicals. Marni Rosen and Sharyle Patton helped me conduct my own body burden testing and Ted Schettler helped me analyze the results.
Bradley Angel, Paul Connett, Pat Costner, Charlie Cray, Jorge Emmanuel, Mike Ewall, Rick Hind, Josh Karliner, Gary Liss, Glenn McRae, Pierre-Emmanuel Neurohr, Brenda Platt, Elizabeth Royte, Neil Seldman, and Alan Watson have spent two delightful decades talking trash with me. Hats off to Martin Bourque, Eric Lombardi, Dan Knapp, Jack Macy, and Dave Williamson, visionary