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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| State of the World: A Year in Review | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Consumer Cultures | |
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| Traditions Old and New | |
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| Engaging Religions to Shape Worldviews | |
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| Ritual and Taboo as Ecological Guardians | |
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| Environmentally Sustainable Childbearing | |
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| Elders: A Cultural Resource for Promoting Sustainable Development | |
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| From Agriculture to Permaculture | |
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| Education's New Assignment: Sustainability | |
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| Early Childhood Education to Transform Cultures for Sustainability | |
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| Commercialism in Children's Lives | |
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| Rethinking School Food: The Power of the Public Plate | |
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| What Is Higher Education for Now? | |
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| Business and Economy: Management Priorities | |
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| Adapting Institutions for Life in a Full World | |
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| Sustainable Work Schedules for All | |
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| Changing Business Cultures from Within | |
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| Social Entrepreneurs: Innovating Toward Sustainability | |
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| Relocalizing Business | |
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| Government's Role in Design | |
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| Editing Out Unsustainable Behavior | |
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| Broadening the Understanding of Security | |
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| Building the Cities of the Future | |
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| Reinventing Health Care: From Panacea to Hygeia | |
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| Earth Jurisprudence: From Colonization to Participation | |
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| Media: Broadcasting Sustainability | |
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| From Selling Soap to Selling Sustainability: Social Marketing | |
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| Media Literacy, Citizenship, and Sustainability | |
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| Music: Using Education and Entertainment to Motivate Change | |
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| The Power of Social Movements | |
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| Reducing Work Time as a Path to Sustainability | |
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| Inspiring People to See That Less Is More | |
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| Ecovillages and the Transformation of Values | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Boxes | |
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| Do High Consumption Levels Improve Human Well-being? | |
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| The Essential Role of Cultural Pioneers | |
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| A Global Ecological Ethic | |
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| Deepening Perceptions of Time | |
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| Dietary Norms That Heal People and the Planet | |
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| Sustainability and the Human-Nature Relationship | |
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| Toy Libraries | |
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| Transformation of the California Academy of Sciences | |
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| Unresolved Questions in Environmental Education | |
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| Maximizing the Value of Professional Schools | |
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| A New Focus for Scientists: How Cultures Change | |
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| The Folly of Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet | |
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| Upgrading the Corporate Charter | |
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| Cradle to Cradle: Adapting Production to Nature's Model | |
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| A Carbon Index for the Financial Market | |
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| The U.N. Marrakech Process on Sustainable Consumption and Production | |
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| Making Social Welfare Programs Sustainable | |
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| Principles of Earth Jurisprudence | |
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| The Evolving Role of Environmental Journalism in India | |
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| Lights, Camera, Ecological Consciousness | |
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| Art for Earth's Sake | |
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| Growing a Degrowth Movement | |
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| The Slow Food Movement | |
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| Tables | |
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| Sustainable World Population at Different Consumption Levels | |
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| How Industries Have Shifted Cultural Norms | |
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| Media Access by Global Income Group, 2006 | |
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| Reference Works on Religion and Nature | |
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| Selected Religious Perspectives on Consumption | |
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| Economic Precepts of Selected Religious and Spiritual Traditions | |
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| Childhood Marketing Efforts from Around the World | |
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| Examples and Features of Choice Editing | |
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| Health Care Performance, Selected Countries, 2006 | |
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| Selected Successful Product and Social Marketing Campaigns | |
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| Efforts to Promote Media Literacy, Selected Countries | |
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| Figures | |
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| Humanity's Ecological Footprint, 1961-2005 | |
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| Aspirations of First-Year College Students in the United States, 1971-2008 | |
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| U.S. Gross Domestic Product versus Genuine Progress Indicator, 1950-2004 | |
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| Annual Hours of Work in Selected Countries, 2007 | |
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| Culture Change Model | |