by John de Graaf; David Wann; Thomas H Naylor; David Horsey; Vicki Robin
13. Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, in discussion with David Wann, February 2000.
14. Jeff Milchen, Boulder Independent Business Alliance, in discussion with David Wann, February 2000.
15. Al Norman in discussion with David Wann, February 2000.
16. Peter Calthorpe in discussion with David Wann, October 1998.
17. Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder, Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997).
18. Dyan Machan, in an interview with Daniel Yankelovich, Forbes, November 16, 1998, 194.
19.Putnam, Bowling Alone.
20. Marc Miringoff in discussion with David Wann, May 2000.
CHAPTER 9
1. Harry Boyte in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1999.
2. John Beal in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1999.
3. Robert Seiple in discussion with John de Graaf, September 1996.
4. Lee Atwater and T. Brewster, “Lee Atwater’s Last Campaign,” Life magazine, February 1991, 67.
5. Michael Lerner, The Politics of Meaning (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996), 5-8.
6.Myers, The American Paradox, 6-7.
7.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Substance Abuse News,” December 15, 2004.
8. Tim Kasser and Richard Ryan, “A Dark Side of the American Dream,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65, no. 2 (1993): 410-422.
9. Tom Hayden, Reunion (New York: Random House, 1988), 82.
10. Studs Terkel in discussion with John de Graaf, May 1998.
11. William Willimon and Thomas Naylor, The Abandoned Generation: Rethinking Higher Education (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995), 7-8.
12. Wilhelm Ropke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund, 1971), 102.
13.Ibid., 113.
14.Ibid., 114.
15. Ernest van den Haag, “Of Happiness and of Despair We Have No Measure,” in, Eric Josephson and Mary Josephson, eds., Man Alone (New York: Dell, 1970), 184.
16.Ibid., 197.
CHAPTER 10
1. Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2003 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 88-89.
2. From the film Affluenza, 1997.
3. Personal interview, November, 1996.
4. Sylvia Nasar, “Even among the Well-Off, the Richest get Richer,”New York Times, May 24, 1992.
5. Felicity Berringer, “Giving by the Rich Declines,” New York Times, May 24, 1992.
6. Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein, The Widening Income Gulf (Washington, D.C.: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 4,1999), http://www.cbpp.org/9-4-99tax-rep.htm.
7.“Millions Still Going Hungry in U.S., Report Finds,” Reuters, September 9, 2000.
8. Associated Press, August 17, 2004.
9. Ken Silverstein, “Trillion-Dollar Hideaway,” Mother Jones, November-December 2000, http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/11/offshore.html.
10.“Study: Bush Tax Cuts Favor the Wealthy,” CBSNews.com, August 16, 2004, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/16/politics/main636398.shtml.
11. Jennifer Reingold and Ronald Grover, “Special Report: Executive Pay,” Business Week, April 19, 1999, http://www.businessweek.com/datedtoc/1999/9916.htm.
12. David Broder, “To Those Who Toil Invisibly amid Billionaires,” Seattle Times, April 16, 2000.
13. Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order,” Harper’s, April 2000: 59-70.
14.Ibid.
15. Gerald Celente in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
16.Ibid.
17. Barry Yeoman, “Steel Town Lockdown,” Mother Jones, May/June, 2000, http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/05/steeltown.html. See also Drew Leder, “It’s Criminal the Way We’ve Put 2 Million in Cages, San Francisco Examiner, February 10, 2000.
18. David Korten in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
CHAPTER 11
1. Paul Hawken with Amory and Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 51-52.
2. Sandra Postel, Dividing the Waters: Food, Security, Ecosystem Health, and the New Politics of Security, Worldwatch paper 132 (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1996).
3. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 1997, DOE/EIA-0384(97) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 1998), Tables 1.5 and 5.1.
4. John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1997), 43.
5. Donella Meadows, “How’s a Green Group to Survive without Junk Mail?” Global Citizen, June 2000.
6. Ryan and Durning, Stuff, 55.
7. Gary Gardner and Payal Sampat, “Forging a Sustainable Materials Economy,” in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 47.
8.Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins, Natural Capitalism; Consumers Union, “How Green Is Your Pleasure Machine,” April 20, 2000, http://www.grist.org/advice/possessions/2000/04/20/possessions-cars/; Clifford Cobb, W. “Roads Aren’t Free: The Estimated Full Social Cost of Driving and the Effects of Accurate Pricing,” Working Paper Number 3. San Francisco: Redefining Progress, July 1998.
9. Ryan and Durning, Stuff, 8.
10. Alan Durning in discussion with David Wann, July 1999.
11. Mathis Wackernagel in discussion with David Wann, August 2000.
12.A. Ricciardi and J.B. Rasmussen, “Extinction Rates of North American Freshwater Fauna,” Conservation Biology 13 (1999): 1220-22.
13.Ibid.
14. For more information, see the World Conservation Union’s list of threatened species at http://www.iucn.org/redlist/2000/animals.html.
CHAPTER 12
1. Theo Colburn, Diane Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story (New York: Dutton, 1996), 137.
2. Suzanne Wuerthele in discussion with David Wann, March 2000.
3.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Information and Data Development Web site, http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemtest/index.htm.
4. Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 99.
5.Ibid., 6-7.
6. Worldwatch Institute, “Phasing Out Persistent Organic Pollutants,” State of the World 2000 (New York: W. W. Norton), 85.
7. Ruth Rosen, “Polluted Bodies,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 3, 2003.
8. Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity, Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999), 43.
9. Trish Riley, “How Healthy Is Your Home?” South Florida Parenting, 2004, http://www.southflorida.com/sfparenting/sfe-sfp-healthy-home, 0,851127.story.
10. Chris Bowman, “Medicines, Chemicals Taint Water: Contaminants Pass through Sewage Plants,” Sacramento Bee, March 28, 2000, http://www.wallofhope.org/articles_032800.htm.
11. Quoted in Bowman, “Medicines, Chemicals Taint Water.”
12. Douglas Frantz, “E.P.A. Asked to Crack Down on Discharges of Cruise Ships,” Ameriscan online, March 20, 2000.
13. Colburn et al., Our Stolen Future, 24.
14.Ibid., 236.
15. Webster Donovan, “The Stink about Pork,” George, April 1999: 94.
CHAPTER 13
1. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Md., http://www.nida.nih.gov/.
2. Scott Cohen, “Shopaholics Anonymous,” Elle magazine, May 1996:120.
3.“News and Trends,” Psychology Today, January/February 1995: 8.
4. David Myers, “Wealth, Well-Being, and the New American Dream,” Center for a New American Dream Web site, July 4, 2000, http://www.newdream.org/live/column/2.php.
5. Herman Daly in discussion with David Wann, August 1997.
6.“Money Changes Everything,” American Behavioral Scientist, July/August 1992: 809.
7.Ibid.
8. Alex Prud’Homme, “Taking the Gospel to the Rich,” New York Times, February 14, 1999: BU 13.
CHAPTER 14
1. Richard Ryan in discussion with David Wann, June 2000.
2. Donella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers, Beyond the Limits (Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992), 216.
3. Taichi Sakaiya, The Knowledge-Value Revolution; or, A History of the Future (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1991), 43.
4. Edward Hoffman, The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow (Wellingborough, UK: Crucible Press, 1989), 122, 128.
5. Andrew Weil, Eating Well for Optimum Health (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 21.
6. Eric Fromm, To Have or to Be? (New York: Bantam, 1982), 155.
7. Jane Brody, “Cybersex Gives Birth to a Psychological Disorder,” New York Times, May 16, 2000: D7.
8. Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (New York: William Morrow, 1978), 118.
9. Eric Schlosser, “Fast Food Nation: The True Costs of America’s Diet,”Rolling Stone magazine, September 3, 1998: 3.
10.D. J. Forman in discussion with David Wann, December 2000.
11. Lester Brown, “China Replacing the United States as World’s Leading Consumer,” Earth Policy Institute, February 16, 2005, http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update45.htm.
12. American Society of Plastic Surgeons, “2003 Cosmetic Surgery Trends,” Arlington Heights, Ill.: 2004, as found at www.plasticsurgery.org/; Sandra G. Boodman, “For More Teenage Girls, Adult Plastic Surgery,” Washington Post, October 26, 2004.
13. Rocky Mountain News editorials, June 20, 2000: 31.
CHAPTER 15
1. Marshall Sahlins, “The Original Affluent Society,” in The Consumer Society, ed. Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997), 18-20.
2. Allen Johnson in discussion with John de Graaf, May 1993.
3. Cited in James Childs Jr., Greed: Economics and Ethics in Conflict (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000), 1.
4. Jerome Segal, Graceful Simplicity (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 167.
5. Daniel Schwarz in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
6. In Segal, Graceful Simplicity, 6.
7.Ibid., 189.
8.Ibid.
9. Matthew 19:22.
10. Richard Swenson in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
11. Calvin DeWitt in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
12.T. C. McLuhan, Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence (New York: Touchstone, 1976), 90.
CHAPTER 16
1. David Shi in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
2.Segal, Graceful Simplicity, 13.
3.Ibid.
4.Ibid., 14.
5. From the documentary Running Out of Time, 1994.
6. Juliet Schor, The Overworked American (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
7. Rodney Clapp, ed., The Consuming Passion (Downer’s Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 1998), 173.
8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto,” in Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy, ed. Lewis Feuer (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1959), 1-41.
9. Karl Marx, “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844,” Marx’s Concept of Man, by Erich Fromm (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1971), 55.
10.Ibid., 107.
11.Ibid., 37.
12. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Capital III (New York: Modern Library, 1906), 954.
13. Perry Miller, ed., The American Transcendalists (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1957), 313.
14.Ibid., 309-310.
15.Ibid., 310.
CHAPTER 17
1. Jeremy Rifkin in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
2. Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1989), 40.
3. William Morris, in Political Writings of William Morris, ed., A. L. Morton (New York: International Publishers, 1973), 112.
4. Susan Strasser in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
5. David Shi in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
6. Quoted in Benjamin Hunnicutt, Work without End (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), 82.
7.Ibid., 75.
8.Ibid., 88-97.
9.Ibid., 99.
10.Ibid., 53.
11. James Twitchell, “Two Cheers for Materialism,” Utne Reader, November/December 2000.
12. Benjamin Hunnicutt in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1993.
13. Quoted in the documentary Running Out of Time, by John de Graaf and Vivia Boe.
14.Ibid.
CHAPTER 18
1. From the documentary Affluenza, 1997.
2.Ibid.
3. Susan Strasser in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
4.Ibid.
5. From Affluenza, the film.
6. From Affluenza, the film.
7. From Affluenza, the film.
8. Gary Cross, An All-Consuming Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 169.
9. From the documentary Escape from Affluenza, 1998.
10.Ropke, A Humane Economy, 109.
11. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 258.
12.Ibid., 266.
13. Mario Savio, “Stop the Machine” address to the Free Speech Movement demonstration, Berkeley, California, 1964.
14. Quoted in Hayden, Reunion, 264.
15.Cross, All-Consuming Century, 261.
16. David Shi in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
CHAPTER 19
1. Pierre Martineau, Motivation in Advertising (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971), 190.
2. All-Consuming Passion, 6.
3. Kim Chapman, “Americans to Spend More on Media than Food in 2003,” Rocky Mountain News, December 17, 1999.
4. Quoted in Michael Jacobson and Laurie Ann Mazur, Marketing Madness (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1995), 131.
5. Laurie Mazur in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
6.Ibid.
7. Michael Jacobson in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
8. Pat Kearney, “Driving for Dollars, the Stranger, May 4, 2000.
9. Jacobson in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
10. Mazur in discussion with John de Graaf, April 1996.
11. Susan Faludi, Stiffed (New York: Morrow, 1999), 35.
12.Ropke, A Humane Economy, 128-9.
CHAPTER 20
1. Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam (New York: Eagle Brook, 1999), 27.
2. John Stauber in discussion with David Wann, April 2000.
3. Joel Makower, The Green Business Letter, March 1994: 1, 6-7.
4. Rob Walker, “The Hidden (in Plain Sight) Persuaders,” New York Times Magazine, December 5, 2004, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract. html?res=F20912FC3A5A0C768CDDAB0994DC404482&incamp=archive:search.
5.Walker, “Hidden (in Plain Sight) Persuaders”; Linda Tischler, “What’s the Buzz?” Fast Company 82 (May 2004): 76.
6. Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1997), 28-29.
7. John Stauber in discussion with David Wann, April 2000.
8. Mark Dowie, introduction to John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry (Common Courage Press, Monroe, Me., 1995), 1.
9. Stauber and Rampton, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, 28.
10.Beder, Global Spin, 32.
11. Jamie Lincoln Kitman, “The Secret History of Lead,” the Nation, March 20, 2000: 6.
12. Joyce Nelson, “Great Global Greenwash: Barston-Marsteller, Pax Trilateral and the Brundtland Gang vs. the Environment,” CovertAction 44: 26-33, 57-58.
13. George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Signe
t Books, 1981), 312.
14. Stauber and Rampton, Toxic Sludge, 28.
15.Beder, Global Spin, 112-113.
16.Meadows, Meadows, and Randers, Beyond the Limits, 1.
CHAPTER 22
1. Fred Brown in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1997.
2. Evy McDonald in discussion with John de Graaf, November 1996.
3. Joe Dominguez in discussion with John de Graaf, November 1996.
4. Vicki Robin in discussion with John de Graaf, November 1996.
5. See also the book Getting a Life (New York: Viking, 1997), by Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller.
6. Yearning for Balance (see chap. 7, n. 5).
CHAPTER 23
1. Gerald Celente in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.
2. Cecile Andrews in discussion with John de Graaf, November 1996.
3. Jeanne Roy in discussion with John de Graaf, September 1996.
4. Duane Elgin in discussion with John de Graaf, July 1996.
CHAPTER 24
1. Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information (New York: Random House, 1992), 70.
2.Ibid., 71.
3. Chellis Glendinning, “Recovery from Western Civilization,” in Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, ed. George Sessions (Boston: Shambala Press, 1995), 37.
4. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986), 24.
5. David Sobel in discussion with David Wann, October 2000.
6. David Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Great Barrington, Mass.: Orion Society, 1996), 34.
7. Robert Greenway, “The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsychology,” in Ecopsychology, ed. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995), 128-9.
8.Ibid.
9. Lana Porter in discussion with David Wann, March 2000.
10. Calvin DeWitt in discussion with David Wann, April 1996.
CHAPTER 25
1. Paul Hawken in discussion with David Wann, March 1997.
2. Howard Geller in discussion with David Wann, June 2000.
3. Warren Leon in discussion with David Wann, July 2000.
4. Michael Brower and Warren Leon, The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999), 134.
