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9. Ibid., 10.
10. See http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/chb-eoc031605.php.
11. Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life (New York: Harper Perennial: 2007), 126–27.
12. See www.sweetsurprise.com.
13. See http://www.sweetsurprise.com.
14. Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, 150–52.
15. Richard Rohr, Simplicity (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2003), 99–100.
Month Two: Clothes
1. Benjamin R. Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (New York: WW Norton, 2007), 9.
2. Ibid., 9–11.
Month Three: Possessions
1. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 113–14.
2. See http://www.safeplace.org/page.aspx?pid=341.
3. Benjamin R. Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (New York: WW Norton, 2007), 11, 281.
4. Richard Rohr, Simplicity (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2003), 59–60.
Month Four: Media
1. See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all.
2. Ibid.
Month Five: Waste
1. Wendell Berry, What Are People For? (New York: North Point, 1990), 98.
2. See http://kprojectmlf.wordpress.com.
3. See http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/eatlocal.
4. See http://www.localharvest.org/buylocal.jsp.
5. See http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903632,00.html.
6. See http://sustainableconnections.org/thinklocal/why.
7. See http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/index.htm.
8. See http://www.ehow.com/about_5125376_bottled-water-statistics.html.
9. See http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/rrr/reduce.htm.
10. Tracey Bianchi, Green Mama (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), 18–19.
11. See http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/current.shtml.
12. See http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byfueltype.htm.
13. See http://e85vehicles.com/e85/index.php?topic=467.0.
14. Steven Bouma-Prediger, For the Beauty for the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010), 20.
15. Ibid., 182.
Month Six: Spending
1. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consumerism.
2. See http://www.ota.com/organic/mt/business.html.
3. “The State of Human Development,” United Nations Human Development Report 1998, chapter 1, 37.
4. Human Development Report 1998 Overview, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
5. J. Matthew Sleeth, Serve God Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007), 83.
6. Benjamin R. Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (New York: WW Norton, 2007), 292.
7. Ibid., 293–94.
8. See http://www.christiancadre.org/member_contrib/cp_charity.html.
9. Epistles of Julian, 49.
10. See http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2010/04/why_im_not_an_organic_purist.php.
Month Seven: Stress
1. Macrina Wiederkehr, Seven Sacred Pauses ( Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2008), 13.
2. Ibid., 14.
3. Ibid., 17.
4. Ibid., 29.
5. Ibid., 32.
6. Ibid., 138.
7. Ibid., 8, 26.
8. Ibid., 177.
9. Ibid., 147.
10. Henri Nouwen, Seeds of Hope (New York: Doubleday, 1997), 112.