NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. Center for a New American Dream, New American Dream Survey Report (Charlottesville, VA: September 2004), http://newdream.s3.amazonaws.com/19/e3/b/2268/ND2004Finalpollreport.pdf.

CHAPTER 1

1. For an example, see the version in John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971).

2. US Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2004–2005 (Washington, DC: US Census Bureau, 2004), 431, http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/income.pdf.

3. New Road Map Foundation in partnership with Northwest Environment Watch, All-Consuming Passion: Waking Up from the American Dream (Seattle: New Road Map Foundation, 1998), 6.

4. Interviews broadcast on KCTS Seattle, October 1995.

5. Michael Jacobson, interview by John de Graaf, Affluenza, produced by KCTS Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting (1997; Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films), DVD/VHS.

6. New Road Map Foundation, All-Consuming Passion, 6.

7. “List of Largest Shopping Malls in the World,” Wikipedia, last modified August 14, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_world.

8. “2013 Protests in Turkey,” Wikipedia, last modified August 17, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Turkey.

9. David Sharp, “Online Sales Fail to Slow Onslaught of Catalog Mailings,” Associated Press, December 25, 2004, http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041225/news_1b25catalogs.html.

10. “E-Commerce Sales Top $50 Billion in First Quarter,” Balboa Capital, May 30, 2012, http://www.balboacapital.com/e-commerce-sales-top-50-billion-in-first-quarter.

11. Bonnie Kavoussi, “Average Home Size Rose 4 Percent in 2011,” Huffington Post, June 7, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/average-home-size-2011_n_1575617.html.

12. Keith Bradsher, “G.M. Has High Hopes for Vehicle Truly Meant for Road Warriors,” New York Times, August 6, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/business/gm-has-high-hopes-for-vehicle-truly-meant-for-road-warriors.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

13. Paul Andrews, “Compaq’s New iPaq May Be the PC for Your Pocket,” Seattle Times, November 5, 2000, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20001105&slug=4051350.

14. Monica Guzman, “Is This the End of Waiting?” Seattle Times, May 11, 2013, http://mobile.seattletimes.com/story/today/2020969786.

15. New Road Map Foundation, All-Consuming Passion, 4.

16. Juliet Schor in discussion with John de Graaf, May 1997.

17. Sheldon Garon, Beyond Our Means (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 4.

18. Stefano Bartolini, Manifesto per la Felicità: Come Passare dalla Società del Ben-avere a quella del Ben-essere [Manifesto for Happiness: Shifting Society from Money to Well-Being] (Rome: Donzelli, 2010); English translation to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2013.

19. National Institute on Drug Abuse, North Bethesda, Maryland.

20. Scott Cohen, “Shopaholics Anonymous,” Elle, May 1996, 120.

21. “News and Trends,” Psychology Today, January/February 1995, 8.

22. David G. Myers, “Wealth, Well-Being, and the New American Dream,” Enough! 12 (Summer 2000): 5, http://community-wealth.org/sites/clone.community-wealth.org/files/downloads/article-myers.pdf.

23. Ronald J. Faber, “Money Changes Everything: Compulsive Buying from a Biopsychosocial Perspective,” American Behavioral Scientist 35 (1992), 809–819.

24. Ibid.

25. James Lardner and Elise Ackerman, “The Urge to Splurge,” US News & World Report, May 24, 1999, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/990524/archive_001070.htm.

CHAPTER 2

1. La Nita Wacker, interview by Vivia Boe, September 1996.

2. Beth Johnson, interview by David Wann, February 2000.

3. Self Storage Association fact sheet, http://www.selfstorage.org/ssa/content/navigationmenu/aboutssa/factsheet.

4. Tim Lomax, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, interview by David Wann, May 1, 2013.

5. “New York Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference: Building Sustainable Cities” (conference, The TimesCenter, New York City, NY, April 25, 2013).

6. “Table 1-45: Air Passenger Travel Arrivals in the United States from Selected Foreign Countries by Flag of Carriers,” US Department of Transportation, http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_45.html.

7. Ellen Goodman, as quoted in New Road Map Foundation, All-Consuming Passion (see chap. 1, n. 3).

8. John Naisbitt, High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Accelerated Search for Meaning (London: Nicholas Brealey, 2001), 57.

CHAPTER 3

1. Ray B. Williams, “Workaholism and the Myth of Hard Work,” Psychology Today, March 15, 2012, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201203/workaholism-and-the-myth-hard-work.

2. Staffan Linder, The Harried Leisure Class (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970), 4.

3. Juliet Schor in discussion with John de Graaf, October 1992.

4. Wayne Parker, “Work Life Balance Statistics,” About.com, http://fatherhood.about.com/od/workingfathers/a/Work-Life-Balance-Statistics.htm.

5. Wendy Wang, Kim Parker, and Paul Taylor, “Breadwinner Moms,” Pew Research Center, May 29, 2013, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/29/breadwinner-moms.

6. Karen Nussbaum in discussion with John de Graaf, September 1993.

7. “Work Stress on the Rise: 8 in 10 American Are Stressed about Their Jobs, Survey Finds,” Huffington Post, last modified April 12, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/work-stress-jobs-americans_n_3053428.html.

8. Jessica Dickler, “$67 Billion in Vacation Days, Out the Window,” CNNMoney, May 25, 2011, http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/25/pf/unused_vacation_days/index.htm.

9. Jody Heymann and Alison Earle, Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth That We Can’t Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), 105.

10. Sarah Speck, interview by John de Graaf, April 2013.

11. Vatsal Chikani et al., “Vacations Improve Mental Health among Rural Women: The Wisconsin Rural Women’s Health Study,” Wisconsin Medical Journal 104 (2005): 20–23, https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/_WMS/publications/wmj/pdf/104/6/20.pdf.

12. David Friedman, “How Long Should a Man’s Vacation Be?” SundayMagazine.org, July 30, 2010, http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/07/how-long-should-a-mans-vacation-be.

13. Schor, October 1992.

14. Michelle Castillo, “Report: U.S. Life Expectancy Lowest among Wealthy Nations Due to Disease, Violence,” CBSNews.com, January 10, 2013, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57563279/report-u.s-life-expectancy-lowest-among-wealthy-nations-due-to-disease-violence; see also Damien Gayle, “How Long Will YOU Live?” MailOnline, November 30, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240855/How-does-nation-rank-world-map-life-expectancy.html.

CHAPTER 4

1. William J. Bennett, The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators: American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Touchstone, 1994), 68.

2. William Doherty, interview by John de Graaf, 2003.

3. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz, The Lonely American (Boston: Beacon, 2009), 102.

4. “Television Viewing (Most Recent) by Country,” NationMaster.com, http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_tel_vie-media-television-viewing.

5. Olds and Schwartz, Lonely American, 185.

6. Ibid., 118.

7. Ibid., 92.

8. Brad Edmondson, “All the Lonely People,” AARP: The Magazine, November/December 2010, http://www.aarp.org/personal-growth/transitions/info-09-2010/all_the_lonely_people.html.

9. Katie McDonough, “U.S. Ranks Near Bottom of UNICEF Report on Child Well-Being,” Salon, April 12, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/us_ranks_near_bottom_of_unicef_report_on_child_well_being.

10. See Juliet B. Schor, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).

11. Joan Chiaramonte, interview by Vivia Boe, 1996.

12. Susan Linn, Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (New York: New Press, 2004).

13. “Yearning for Balance,” The Harwood Group, July 1995, http://www.iisd.ca/consume/harwood.html.

14. David Walsh, interview by John de Graaf, 2000.

15. Alex Molnar, “Virtually Everywhere: Marketing to Children in America’s Schools,” National Education Policy Center, September 2004, http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/EPSL-0409-103-CERU.pdf.

16. “CDC: Teen Suicide Attempts on the Rise,” FoxNews.com, June 8, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/08/cdc-teen-suicide-attempts-on-rise.

17. David Korten, The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism (San Francisco: Kumarian/Berrett-Koehler, 2000), 33.

18. Olds and Schwartz, Lonely American, 86.

19. Edward Luttwak, interview by John de Graaf, 1996.

20. Ibid.

CHAPTER 5

1. James Kunstler, interview by David Wann, March 1997.

2. Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 49.

3. Sage Stossel, “Lonely in America,” Atlantic Unbound, September 21, 2000, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba2000-09-21.htm.

4. Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2011), 161.

5. “Top 100 Chains: U.S. Sales,” Nation’s Restaurant News, http://nrn.com/us-top-100/top-100-chains-us-sales.

6. Gregory Heires, “The Low-Wage Wal-Mart Business Model Has Ruined the Economy for Working Families,” Reader Supported News, June 23, 2013, http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/84-84/18080-the-low-wage-wal-mart-business-model-has-ruined-the-economy-for-working-families.

7. Al Norman, interview by David Wann, November 2004.

8. Sudhir Venkatesh, “Adventures in Ideas: Conversation with Al Norman, Author of Occupy Walmart,” Freakonomics, LLC, August 8, 2012, http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/10/adventures-in-ideas-conversation-with-al-norman-author-of-occupy-walmart.

9. Ibid.

10. Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder, Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997).

11. Robert B. Reich, “Secession of the Successful,” New York Times, January 20, 1991, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/magazine/secession-of-the-successful.html.

12. Putnam, Bowling Alone, 325.

13. Nicole A. Flotteron, “New Gun Laws Could Mean Economic Woes for Booming Gun Industry,” Daily Caller, March 29, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/29/new-gun-laws-could-mean-economic-woes-for-booming-gun-industry.

14. Diane Mapes, “Bury Me with My Cell Phone,” MSNBC.com, December 16, 2008, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28182292/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/bury-me-my-cell-phone.

15. Alice Waters, “Slow Food Nation,” The Nation, September 11, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/article/slow-food-nation.

CHAPTER 6

1. Harry Boyte, interview by John de Graaf, October 1999.

2. Robert Seiple, interview by John de Graaf, September 1996.

3. Lee Atwater and T. Brewster, “Lee Atwater’s Last Campaign,” Life, February 1991.

4. Cindy Wooden, “Pope Francis Warns of the Dangers of ‘Unbridled Capitalism,’ “Catholic Herald, May 22, 2013, http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/05/22/pope-francis-warns-of-the-dangers-of-unbridled-capitalism.

5. Michael Lerner, The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), 5–8.

6. Daniel Goleman, “A Rising Cost of Modernity: Depression,” New York Times, December 8, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/08/science/a-rising-cost-of-modernity-depression.html.

7. Tim Kasser and Richard M. Ryan, “A Dark Side of the American Dream: Correlates of Financial Success as a Central Life Aspiration,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 65 (1993): 410–412.

8. Tom Hayden, Reunion: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1988), 82.

9. Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1971), 102.

10. Ibid., 113.

11. Ibid., 114.

12. Ernest van den Haag, “Of Happiness and of Despair We Have No Measure,” in Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society, ed. Eric Josephson and Mary Josephson (New York: Dell, 1970), 184.

13. Ibid., 197.

CHAPTER 7

1. Julia Philips, “Bangladesh Building Collapse: Why It Should Scare Americans,” PolicyMic, n.d., http://www.policymic.com/articles/39931/bangladesh-building-collapse-why-it-should-scare-americans.

2. “Bangladesh Ends Search for Collapse Victims; Final Toll 1,127,” The Associated Press, May 13, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/13/bangladesh-to-end-search-for-collapse-victims/2154753.

3. “List of Countries by Income Equality,” Wikipedia, last modified August 9, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality.

4. For a wide range of data documenting inequality trends in the United States, see Emmanuel Saez, “Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States,” University of California, Berkeley, January 23, 2013, http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2011.pdf.

5. Felicity Barringer, “Giving by the Rich Declines, on Average,” New York Times, May 24, 1992.

6. Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein, “The Widening Income Gulf,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 5, 1999, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2204.

7. For a range of hunger data, see “Hunger in America,” Feeding America, http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america.aspx.

8. Timothy Pilgrim, “America’s Rich Get Richer,” posted on Pilgrim’s personal webpage, http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190/richgetricher.html.

9. Chuck Marr and Nathaniel Frentz, “Federal Income Taxes on Middle-Income Families Remain near Historic Lows,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, last modified April 11, 2013, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3151.

10. “Poverty in the United States,” Wikipedia, last modified August 18, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States.

11. Sanjay Bhatt, “Cashing In,” Seattle Times, June 23, 2013.

12. David Broder, “To Those Who Toil Invisibly amid Billionaires,” Seattle Times, April 16, 2000.

13. Barbara Ehrenreich, “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women’s Work,” Harper’s Magazine, April 2000, 59–70.

14. For prison data, see “Rough Justice,” The Economist, July 24, 2010, http://www.economist.com/node/16640389.

15. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009); see also “Poverty,” The World Bank Group, last modified April 2013, http://go.worldbank.org/VL7N3V6F20.

16. David Korten, inteview by John de Graaf, October 1996.

17. “Poverty,” World Bank Group.

CHAPTER 8

1. Jim Meyer, “How to Make Gasoline from Tar Sands, in Six Simple Steps,” Grist, January 23, 2013, http://grist.org/basics/how-to-make-gasoline-from-tar-sands-in-six-simple-steps.

2. Ibid.

3. Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jørgen Randers, Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future (Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1992), 53.

4. Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, “Drought’s Winners and Losers,” Daily Yonder, September 14, 2012, http://www.dailyyonder.com/droughts-winners-and-losers/2012/09/13/4429.

5. Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 51–52.

6. Mathis Wackernagel, interview by David Wann, August 2000.

7. Vince Matthews, interview by David Wann, May 2013.

8. Judy Fahys, “U. Scientist: Kennecott Landslide Is One for the Record Books,” Salt Lake Tribune, last modified May 23, 2013, http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56317801-78/kennecott-slide-landslide-moore.html.csp.

8. Matthews, interview.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Bernice Napach, “Food Is the New Oil and Land the New Gold: Lester Brown,” Daily Ticker, October 5, 2012, http://www.cnbc.com/id/49301763.

12. Lester Brown, “Chapter 1. Food: The Week Link,” Grist, April 9, 2013, http://grist.org/article/chapter-1-food-the-weak-link/.

13. Ibid.

14. Stephanie Pappas, “Earth’s Ecosystems Nearing Catastrophic ‘Tipping Point,’ Warn Scientists,” Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0607/Earth-s-ecosystems-nearing-catastrophic-tipping-point-warn-scientists-video.

15. Melanie Jae Martin, “Newly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage,” Yes!, April 22, 2013, http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/tim-dechristopher-peaceful-uprising-movement-transformed-courage.

16. “Do the Math,” 350.org, http://math.350.org.

17. “Exxon Mobil CEO pivots on climate, slams ‘manufactured fear’ on fracking,” Muck Rack, June 28, 2012, http://muckrack.com/link/xFUJ/exxon-mobil-ceo-pivots-on-climate-slams-manufactured-fear-on-fracking.

18. Martin, “Newly Released Tim DeChristopher.”

CHAPTER 9

1. Suzanne Wuerthele, interview by David Wann, March 2000.

2. “Chemical Testing & Data Collection,” US Environmental Protection Agency, last modified August 8, 2013, http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemtest.

3. Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 99.

4. Quoted in Natural Solutions, “How Much Impact Do Toxic Chemicals Have on Society? Read the Statistics,” accessed September 16, 2013, http://www.non-toxic.info/Health_Statistics.htm.

5. 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, ME: Common Courage, 1999), 43.

6. Trish Riley, “How Healthy Is Your Home?” South Florida Parenting, 2004.

7. Anne Platt McGinn, “Phasing Out Persistent Organic Pollutants,” in State of the World 2000: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society, ed. Linda Starke (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 86, http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/ESW020.pdf.

8. “Body Burden: Methodology,” Environmental Working Group, http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/methodology.php.

9. Edward Furlough and Chris Bowman, “Medicines, Chemicals Taint Water: Contaminants Pass Through Sewage Plants,” Sacramento Bee, March 28, 2000.

10. Natural Resources Defense Council, “Bottled Water,” last modified July 15, 2013, http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap2.asp.

11. Ibid.

12. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story (New York: Plume, 1997), 137.

13. Tom Philpott, “How GMOs Unleashed a Pesticide Gusher,” Mother Jones, October 3, 2012, http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/how-gmos-ramped-us-pesticide-use.

14. Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Fairfield, IA: Yes! Books, 2007).

15. Ibid., 59.

16. Donovan Webster, “The Stink about Pork,” George 4 (1999), 94.

CHAPTER 10

1. Robert J. Samuelson, “Health Care’s Heap of Wasteful Spending,” Washington Post, September 13, 2012, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-09-13/opinions/35495674_1_health-care-insurance-premiums-runaway-health.

2. Joseph Mercola, “Americans Are Less Healthy, and Die Sooner than People in Other Developed Nations,” Mercola.com, January 23, 2013, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/23/united-states-health-ranking.aspx.

3. “OECD Factbook 2013,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-factbook-2013_factbook-2013-en.

4. Steven H. Woolf and Laudan Aron, eds., U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013), 2–3, http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13497.

5. David Korten, “Living Wealth: Better than Money,” Yes! (Fall 2007): 37–41, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/stand-up-to-corporate-power/living-wealth-better-than-money.

6. Richard Ryan, interview by David Wann, June 2000.

7. Meadows, Meadows, and Randers, Beyond the Limits, 216 (see chap. 8, n. 3).

8. David Wann, Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle (New York: St. Martin’s, 2007), 135.

9. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991), 54.

10. Ibid., 99.

11. Alan Durning, “How Much Is Enough?” The Social Contract (Spring 1993): 179, http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/three-three/Durning.pdf; originally published in Alan Durning, How Much Is Enough? (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992).

12. Tanja C. Adam and Elissa S. Epel, “Stress, Eating and the Reward System, Physiology & Behavior 91 (2007), 449–458, http://www.foodaddictionsummit.org/documents/StressEatingandtheRewardSystem.pdf.

13. Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (New York: William Morrow, 1978), 118.

CHAPTER 11

1. “Original Affluent Society,” Wikipedia, last modified February 16, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society.

2. Allen Johnson, interview by John de Graaf, May 1993

3. James M. Childs Jr., Greed: Economics and Ethics in Conflict (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000), 1.

4. Quoted in Jerome M. Segal, Graceful Simplicity: The Philosophy and Politics of the Alternative American Dream (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 167.

5. Ibid., 189.

6. Matthew 19:22 (New International Version).

7. T. C. McLuhan, Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence (New York: Touchstone, 1976), 90.

CHAPTER 12

1. Segal, Graceful Simplicity, 13 (see chap. 11, n. 4).

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid., 14.

4. Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1992).

5. Rodney Clapp, ed. The Consuming Passion: Christianity and the Consumer Culture (Downer’s Grove, IL: Intervarsity, 1998), 173.

6. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto,” in Basic Writings in Politics and Philosophy, ed. Lewis S. Feuer (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1959), 1–41.

7. Karl Marx, “The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844,” in Marx’s Concept of Man, ed. Erich Fromm (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1971), 55.

8. Ibid., 107.

9. Ibid., 37.

10. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume III, ed. Friedrich Engels (New York: Modern Library, 1906), 954.

11. Philip B. Smith and Manfred Max-Neef, Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good (Totnes, UK: Green Books, 2012), 120.

12. Perry Miller, ed., The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1957), 313.

13. Ibid., 309.

14. Ibid., 310.

CHAPTER 13

1. Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1989), 40.

2. A. L. Morton, ed., Political Writings of William Morris (New York: International Publishers, 1973), 112.

3. Ibid.,

4. “James Oppenheim,” Wikipedia, last modified April 13, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oppenheim.

5. James Oppenheim, The Nine-Tenths: A Novel (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911), 319, http://books.google.com/books?id=2qwcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=The+Nine-Tenths+Oppenheim.

6. Meredith Tax, The Rising of Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880–1917 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 241, http://www.amazon.com/The-Rising-Women-Solidarity-1880-1917/dp/0252070070.

7. Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Work without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (Philadelphia: Temple, 1988), 82.

8. Ibid., 75.

9. Ibid., 88–97.

10. Ibid., 99.

11. Ibid., 53.

12. James Twitchell, “Two Cheers for Materialism,” The Wilson Quarterly 23 (Spring 1999).

13. Ralph Borsodi, This Ugly Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929), http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030302borsodi.ugly/030302borsodi.ch16.html.

14. John de Graaf, “When America Came ‘This Close’ to Establishing a 30-Hour Workweek,” AlterNet, April 2, 2013, http://www.alternet.org/labor/when-america-came-close-establishing-30-hour-workweek.

15. Ibid.

CHAPTER 14

1. Susan Strasser, interview by John de Graaf, April 1996.

2. For excerpts from this film and TV ad, see Affluenza, produced by KCTS Seattle and Oregon Public Broadcasting (1997; Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films), DVD/VHS.

3. Gary Cross, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 169.

4. Röpke, Humane Economy, 109 (see chap. 6, n. 9).

5. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 258.

6. Ibid., 266.

7. “Johnson Introduces ‘Great Society,’“ audio recording, 2:54, from Lyndon B. Johnson’s commencement speech at the University of Michigan on March 22, 1964, http://www.history.com/speeches/johnson-introduces-great-society.

8. “Robert F. Kennedy Challenges Gross Domestic Product,” YouTube video, 2:12, audio recording from his speech at the University of Kansas on March 18, 1968, posted by “colinatpyramid,” September 11, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IdKFqXbUY&noredirect=1.

9. Cross, All-Consuming Century, 261.

10. “President Jimmy Carter—‘Crisis of Confidence’ Speech,” YouTube video, 5:17, from a national television broadcast from the White House on July 15, 1979, posted by “MCamericanpresident,” March 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IlRVy7oZ58.

CHAPTER 15

1. Pierre Martineau, Motivation in Advertising: Motives That Make People Buy (New York: McGraw Hill, 1971), 190.

2. New Road Map Foundation, All-Consuming Passion 6 (see chap. 1, n. 3).

3. Alex Konrad, “Even with Record Prices, Expect a $10 Million Super Bowl Ad Soon,” Forbes, February 2, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2013/02/02/even-with-record-prices-10-million-spot.

4. Christina Austin, “The Billionaires’ Club: Only 36 Companies Have $1,000 Million-Plus Ad Budgets,” Business Insider, November 11, 2012, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-35-companies-that-spent-1-billion-on-ads-in-2011-2012-11?op=1.

5. Kevin Armitage, “What Studying Nature Has Taught Us,” Solutions, December 2010, http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/814.

6. Michael F. Jacobson and Laurie Mazur, Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995), 31.

7. Michael Jacobson, interview by John de Graaf, April 1996.

8. Robert Hof, “Online Ad Spending Tops $100 Billion in 2012,” Forbes, January 9, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/01/09/online-ad-spending-tops-100-billion-in-2012.

9. Laurie Mazur, interview by John de Graaf, April 1996

10. Röpke, Humane Economy, 128 (see chap. 6, n. 9).

11. Stephen Foley, “Whoops!, by John Lanchester,” review of Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, by John Lanchester, The Independent, January 29, 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/whoops-by-john-lanchester-1882280.html.

CHAPTER 16

1. Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America (New York: Eagle Brook, 1999), 27.

2. John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Monroe, ME: Common Courage, 2002), 28.

3. David Knowles, “Senator Seeks to Overturn So-Called Monsanto Protection Act,” New York Daily News, May 22, 2013, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/push-overturn-monsanto-protection-act-article-1.1352178#ixzz2YNrWFqID.

4. Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change (New York: Random House, 2013), 104–105.

5. Ibid.

6. Myron Ebell, “Love Global Warming: What’s Wrong with Mild Winters, Anyway?” Forbes, December 8, 2006, http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1225/038.html.

7. Jill Fitzsimmons, “Meet the Climate Denial Machine,” Media Matters for America, November 28, 2012, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine.

8. George Orwell, “The Principles of Newspeak,” written in 1948 as an appendix to George Orwell, 1984 (London: Secker and Warburg, 1949), http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-prin.html.

9. John Sullivan, “PR Industry Fills Vacuum Left by Shrinking Newsrooms,” ProPublica, May 1, 2011, http://www.propublica.org/article/pr-industry-fills-vacuum-left-by-shrinking-newsrooms.

10. Craig Fehrman, “The Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite,” Boston.com, January 2, 2011, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/02/the_incredible_shrinking_sound_bite/.

11. Miranda Spencer, “Natural Gas and the News,” Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, February 1, 2012, http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/natural-gas-and-the-news.

12. “How Much Land Do All the Fracking Wells in the United States Take Up?” Artists against Fracking, accessed August 20, 2013, http://www.causes.com/actions/1712550-how-much-land-do-all-the-fracking-wells-in-the-united-states-take-up.

13. Elizabeth Royte, “Fracking Our Food Supply,” The Nation, November 28, 2012, http://www.thenation.com/article/171504/fracking-our-food-supply.

14. Meadows, Meadows, and Randers, Beyond the Limits, 1 (see chap. 8, n. 3).

CHAPTER 18

1. Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (New York: Viking, 1992).

2. Dominic Holden, “The Fight against Small Apartments,” The Stranger, May 8, 2013, http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-fight-against-small-apartments/Content?oid=16701155.

3. William Powers, “What’s Your 12 x 12? An Article by William Powers,” New World Library, https://www.newworldlibrary.com/ArticleDetails/tabid/230/ArticleID/177/Default.aspx#.UhOuQW28CSo, based on an excerpt from William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2010), 28–29.

4. Taken from the official book description for Colin Beavan, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009).

5. The Harwood Group, Yearning for Balance (Takoma Park, MD: Center for a New American Dream, 1995).

6. Rick Heller, “Slowing Down the Consumer Treadmill,” The Humanist, July-August 2011, http://thehumanist.org/july-august-2011/slowing-down-the-consumer-treadmill/.

7. Kirk Warren Brown and Richard M. Ryan, “The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 84 (2003): 822–848, doi:10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.822.

CHAPTER 20

1. John Upton, “Buzzkill: Huge Bee Die-Off in Oregon Parking Lot Blamed on Insecticide Spraying,” Grist, June 20, 2013, http://grist.org/news/huge-bee-die-off-in-oregon-parking-lot-blamed-on-insecticide-spraying.

2. Kaveri Subrahmanyam et al., “The Impact of Home Computer Use on Children’s Activities and Development,” The Future of Children 10 (Fall/Winter 2000): 123–144, https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/10_02_05.pdf.

3. Fred First, “The Wisdom of One Place: Why We Need to Know Where We Are,” The New Nature Movement, June 6, 2013, http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2013/06/06/the-wisdom-of-one-place-why-we-need-to-know-where-we-are.

4. “Leaf Litter Talks with Richard Louv,” Leaf Litter 10 (2012), http://www.biohabitats.com/newsletters/giving-children-the-gift-of-nature/#leaf-litter-talks-with-richard-louv.

5. As quoted in Wann, Simple Prosperity, 112 (see chap. 10, n. 8).

6. Gretchen C. Daily et al., “Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems,” Issues in Ecology 2 (1997): 1–18, http://www.esa.org/science_resources/issues/TextIssues/issue2.php.

7. Barbara J. Huelat, “The Wisdom of Biophilia: Nature in Healing Environments,” Journal of Green Building 3 (September 25, 2008), 1–13, http://www.aahid.org/assets-files/JGB_V3N3_a03_heulat.pdf.

8. Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information (New York: Random House, 1992), 70.

9. David Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education (Great Barrington, MA: The Orion Society and The Myrin Institute, 1996), 34.

10. Robert Greenway, “The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsychology,” in Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, ed. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner (New York: Sierra Club Books, 1995), 128–9.

11. Lana Porter, interview by David Wann, July 2012.

CHAPTER 21

1. Marianne Williamson, The Healing of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 50.

2. Bruce Upbin, “The 147 Companies That Control Everything,” Forbes, October 22, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-companies-that-control-everything/.

3. Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2012), 111.

4. Ibid., 42.

5. Ibid., 59.

6. John Maynard Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency,” The Yale Review 22 (June 1933), 755–769.

7. Judy Wicks, interview by David Wann, July 25, 2009.

8. Van Jones, “Crowdsourcing Our Economic Recovery,” CNN, last modified March 7, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/08/opinion/jones-share-economy.

9. “Solar Industry Data,” Solar Energy Industries Association, http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-industry-data.

10. Janet Larsen, “Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide,” Earth Policy Institute, April 25, 2013, http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2013/update112.

CHAPTER 22

1. “Buy Nothing Day,” Wikipedia, last modified May 12, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day.

2. The Story of Stuff, directed by Louis Fox (2007; Washington, DC: Free Range Studios), online video, http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff; see also Leslie Kaufman, “Video Warning of Pitfalls of Consumption Is a Hit in Schools,” New York Times, May 10, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

3. Jeffrey Kluger, “The Happiness of Pursuit,” Time, June 27, 2013, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2146449-6,00.html.

4. Greg Norris, interview by John de Graaf, June 2013.

CHAPTER 23

1. New Road Map Foundation, All-Consuming Passion 16 (see chap. 1, n. 3).

2. “Time to Care Public Policy Agenda,” Take Back Your Time, http://www.timeday.org.

3. Jody Heymann et al., The Work, Family, and Equity Index: Where Does the United States Stand Globally? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, 2004).

4. John de Graaf, “Life Away from the Rat-Race: Why One Group of Workers Decided to Cut Their Own Hours and Pay,” AlterNet, July 2, 2012, http://www.alternet.org/story/156126/life_away_from_the_rat-race:_why_one_group_of_workers_decided_to_cut_their_own_hours_and_pay.

5. John de Graaf and David K. Batker, “Americans Work Too Much for Their Own Good,” Bloomberg, November 3, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-03/americans-work-too-much-for-their-own-good-de-graaf-and-batker.html; see also Hanne Groenendijk and Saskia Keuzenkamp, “The Netherlands,” International Network on Leave Policies & Research, October 2010, http://www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/Leavenetwork/Country_notes/The_Netherlands.published.oct_2010.pdf.

6. “Tommy Douglas: ‘Greatest Canadian’ Brought Universal Healthcare to His Nation,” Alter+Care, August 20, 2009, http://www.altergroup.com/alter-care-blog/index.php/healthcare/tommy-douglas-greatest-canadian-brought-universal-healthcare-to-his-nation.

7. Robert Frank, “Progressive Consumption Tax,” Democracy 8 (2008), http://www.democracyjournal.org/8/6591.php.

8. “Mining Subsidies: $3.5 Billion a Year,” Third World Traveler, excerpt from Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman, Take the Rich off Welfare (Boston: South End Press, 1996), http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/Mining_Subsidies.html.

9. Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins, Natural Capitalism (see chap. 8, n. 5).

10. Speech by Jim HIghtower at Santa Barbara, California, May 13, 2000.

11. Juliet Schor, “Video: New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy,” Plenitude: The Blog, August 16, 2011, http://www.julietschor.org/2011/08/video-new-dream-mini-views-visualizing-a-plenitude-economy.

12. Anders Hayden, Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work, Time, Consumption, and Ecology (London: Zed Books, 1999), 36.

CHAPTER 24

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

2. Clifford Cobb, Gary Sue Goodman, and Mathis Wackernagel, Why Bigger Isn’t Better: The Genuine Progress Indicator—1999 Update, (San Francisco: Redefining Progress), 1, http://users.nber.org/~rosenbla/econ302/lecture/GPI-GDP/gpi1999.pdf.

3. Simon Kuznets, “National Income, 1929–1932,” National Bureau of Economic Research, S. Doc. No. 124, at 7 (1934).

4. “Genuine Progress Indicator,” Wikipedia, last modified August 15, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine_progress_indicator.

5. “Governor O’Malley Hosts GPI Summit,” Maryland Department of Natural Resources, June 17, 2013, http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2013/06/17/governor-omalley-hosts-gpi-summit.

6. “Cylvia Hayes, Governor Martin O’Malley and Jeffrey Sachs Discuss a More Prosperous and Beneficial Economy,” Clean Economy Bulletin, June 2013, http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Clean-Economy-Bulletin.html?soid=1101847878821&aid=E77ZPdv_5Pw.

7. Speech by Martin O’Malley at the Genuine Progress Indicators Conference, June 14, 2013, Baltimore, MD, http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=8837.

8. Pema Euden, Coming Home (Thimphu, Bhutan: Peden Press, 2008).

9. Laura Musikanski, “The UN Embraces the Economics of Happiness,” Yes!, April 12, 2012, http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/the-un-embraces-the-economics-of-happiness.

10. Alok Jha, “Happiness Doesn’t Increase with Growing Wealth of Nations, Finds Study,” Guardian, December 13, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/13/happiness-growing-wealth-nations-study.

11. Updates (not yet published) to John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, World Happiness Report (New York: The Earth Institute, 2012), http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/SachsWriting/2012/WorldHappinessReport.pdf.

12. Ibid. (original report).

13. “Canadian Index of Well-being,” University of Waterloo, https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-index-wellbeing.

14. Laura Musikanski and John de Graaf, “The Happiness Initiative: The Serious Business of Well-Being,” Solutions 4 (2013), http://happycounts.blogspot.com/2013/02/re-post-article-from-solutions-journal.html.

CHAPTER 25

1. Donella Meadows, “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System,” Solutions 1 (2009), 41–49, http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/419.

2. Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society, 1998), 27.

3. Terrance O’Connor, “Therapy for a Dying Earth,” in Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, ed. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner (New York: Sierra Club Books, 1995), 153.

4. Allan Hunt Badiner, “Paul Hawken, an Interview on Natural Capitalism,” Yoga Journal 118 (1994), 68, 70.

5. Wann, Simple Prosperity, 6 (see chap. 10, n. 8).

6. Lester Brown, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 49.

7. Dacher Keltner, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 8.

8. John Ydstie, “One Man’s Quest to Make Medical Technology Affordable to All,” National Public Radio, July 3, 2013, http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/03/198065436/one-mans-quest-to-make-health-care-accessible-and-affordable.

9. Susan Riederer, “Carbon Tax Is the Best Market-Based Solution,” Boulder Daily Camera, July 3, 2013, http://www.dailycamera.com/guest-opinions/ci_23585394/carbon-tax-is-best-market-based-solution.

10. The Giving Pledge website, http://givingpledge.org.