Affluenza

by de Graaf John

  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: Signet 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.

  5. Michael Brylawski, “Car Watch: Move Over, Dinosaurs,” RMI Solutions Newsletter, Rocky Mountain Institute, Spring 2000: 12.

  6. Lester R. Brown, “Europe Leading World into Age of Wind Energy,” Earth Policy Institute Web site, April 8, 2004, http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update37.htm.

  7. Howard Geller in discussion with David Wann, June 2000.

  8. David Morris in discussion with David Wann, September 2000.

  9. Tom Chappell, The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good (New York: Bantam, 1993), 12.

  10. Terrance O’Connor, “Therapy for a Dying Earth,” in Ecopsychology, ed. Roszak, Gomes, and Kanner, 153.

  CHAPTER 26

  1. Benjamin R. Barber, A Place for Us (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998), 73.

  2.Ibid., 10.

  3. Michael Moore, “Bush and Gore Make Me Wanna Ralph,” Michael Moore Web site, July 19, 2000, http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2000-07-19.

  4. Quoted in Harry C. Boyte, “Off the Playground of Civil Society,” Duke University Press, October 1998, 5.

  5. Dick Roy in discussion with David Wann, August 2000.

  6. Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith, Fostering Sustainable Behavior (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1999), 49.

  7.Ibid., 53.

  8. Personal interview, October, 2000.

  9. Gary Gardner, “Why Share?” World Watch magazine, July-August 1999: 10.

  10. Leah Brumer, “Capital Idea,” Hope magazine, Fall 1999: 43-45.

  CHAPTER 27

  1. Kalle Lasn in discussion with John de Graaf, November 1996.

  2. Malory Graham in discussion with John de Graaf, April 2000.

  3. Gerald Celente in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1996.

  CHAPTER 28

  1. Jon Messenger, senior research officer, International Labour Organization, Geneva, in discussion with John de Graaf, August 2004.

  2. All-Consuming Passion, 16 (see chap. 1, n. 2).

  3.AFL-CIO, “Ask a Working Woman” report, 2004, available at http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/women/index.cfm.

  4. De Graaf, Take Back Your Time, 78.

  5. From the documentary Green Plans, by Jack Hamann, David Davis, and John de Graaf (Seattle: KCTS Television), 1995.

  6. Speech by Jim Hightower at Santa Barbara, California, May 13, 2000.

  7.Hayden, Sharing the Work, 36.

  CHAPTER 29

  1. Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy (New York: Basic Books, 1980), 12.

  2. Lee Hatcher in discussion with David Wann, October 1998.

  3. Linda Storm in discussion with David Wann, October 1998.

  4. Redefining Progress, Why Bigger Isn’t Better: The Genuine Progress Indicator—1999 Update (San Francisco: Redefining Progress), http://www.rprogress.org/projects/gpi/updates/gpi1999.html.

  5.Ibid.

  6. Michel Gelobter in discussion with David Wann, February, 2005.

  7. Mathis Wackernagel in discussion with David Wann, November 1999.

  CHAPTER 30

  1. Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1998), 27.

  2.Ibid., 40.

  3. Betsy Taylor in discussion with David Wann, October 2000.

  4. Paul Hawken, “Natural Capitalism,” interview with Allan Hunt Badiner, Yoga Journal, September/October 1994: 68, 70.

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