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I want to express my deepest gratitude and admiration to all the mentors and exceptional humans whose words and actions inspired me over the years. I learned from them that hope is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its true that the challenges that lie ahead are vast, but so are our talents, empathies, and collective imagination. We will do what needs to be done, because anything else is unthinkable.

Special thanks to the people directly involved in the completion of this book: my industry-savvy agent, Jane Dystel; the books intuitive editor, Michael Flamini, his very capable assistant, Vicki Lame, and others at St. Martins Press; and all the friends and family who supported me on my two-year journey. Thanks for believing in the project and giving me a chance to knead these thoughts and suggestions together.

It was such a pleasure to interview the many experts and everyday acquaintances that ground this book in direct experience. What a relief to discover how many of us are asking the same questions about new priorities and how to bring themquicklyinto our lives. My very significant other, Susan, was the manuscripts constant reality check before submission, and I credit her frank, literate instincts and adviceto throw out the first few, unsteady chapters and start over. The book was also greatly enriched by the librarians at the Golden Public Library, who miraculously met my online requests for more than 250 books and all but read them to me. What a phenomenal network of knowledge we share.

I took the work very seriously, telling a few close friends that if I were struck by lightning, I would want to have written this book first. (They gave me space to do it, maybe wary that I was having a premonition!) Anyway, I hope the book is useful and empowering. If so, Im delighted we made the climb together.

Chapter 1. Taking Stock

Anthony C. Woodbury, What Is an Endangered Language? Linguistic Society of America, http://lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-endanger.cfm .

Steven Greenhouse and David Leonhardt, Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity August 28, 2006, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/business/28wages.html?th&emc=th .

Robert J. Samuelson, The Next Economy, Washington Post, December 29, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32610-2004Dec28.html , A19.

Consumer Resistance to Marketing Reaches All-Time High; Marketing Productivity Plummets, According to Yankelovich Study, Yankelovich press release, April 15, 2004, http://www.yankelovich.com/ .

From War Zones to Shopping Malls: New Study Reveals Deadly Link Between Consumer Demand and Third World Resource Wars, Worldwatch Press release about Michael Renner book, The Anatomy of Resource Wars, October 17, 2002, http://www.worldwatch.org .

Paul Salopek, The Pay Zone, Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2006, http://www.chicagotribune.com/ .

Lester R. Brown, Plan B Book Byte 2006-6, May 5, 2006, http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch02_ss2.htm .

Dave Tilford, Why Consumption Matters, Sierra Club, 2000, http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption/tilford.asp .

Associated Press, Much Toxic Computer Waste Lands in Third World, February 25, 2002, http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10032 .

Alan Thein Durning and John C. Ryan, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, Northwest Environment Watch Report #4, Seattle, WA, 1997, 20-25.

Americans and Biodiversity: New Poll Shows Growing Awareness, Strong Support for Biodiversity, March 2002 Poll conducted by Belden, Russenello, & Stewart for the Biodiversity Project. http://www.biodiversityproject.org/newsletters/news0102.htm#Americans .

Global Footprint Network Web site, http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=national_footprints .

Chapter 2. Evolutionary Income

Darrin M. McMahon, Happiness: A History (New York, Atlantic Monthly Press 2006), 419.

Cara Buckley, A Man Down, a Train Arriving, and a Stranger Makes a Choice, New York Times, January 3, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?th&emc=th .

Rising from Ruin: Two Towns Rebuild After Katrina Posted: Thursday, November 3 at 10:12 pm CT by Sean Federico-OMurchu http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2005/11/for_soldiers_mo.html#comments .

Richard Ryan, in foreword to The High Price of Materialism .

Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Calming the Fearful Mind, in Calming the Fearful Mind (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2005), 17.

Richard Layard, lecture delivered at Brookings Institution, Washington DC, February 9, 2005, http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20050209happiness.htm .

Ibid.

John Geirland, Go with the Flow, Wired magazine interview with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, September 1996 Issue 4.09, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.09/czik.html .

Claudia Wallis, Elizabeth Coady, et al., The New Science of Happiness, Time , January 17, 2005.

Adam Phillips, Going Sane (New York; NY, HarperCollins 2005), 153, 158.

Darrin M. McMahon, Happiness: A History (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), 64-65.

Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Moving From the Informational Age to the Conceptual Age (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Pamela Chang, 10 Most Hopeful Trends, Yes! Magazine , March, 2006, http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1402 .

Chapter 3. Personal Growth

Allison Arthur, Islanders Pay Homage to Reddick, the Vashon Beachcomber Feb. 7, 2006, http://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=90&cat=23&id=&more .

Jonathan Daniel, interview with author, January 11, 2006. The people have been fictionalized to avoid violating confidentiality.

Ibid.

Bode Miller, interview, 60 Minutes, July 16, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml .

Chapter 4. Mindful Money

This passage is adapted from a Denver Post column.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/cex/csxann04.pdf .

Jim Merkel, Radical Simplicity (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2003), 181.

Ibid.

Sandy Clark, e-mail communication with author, May 5, 2006.

Shlomo Reifman, The Cost of Living Extremely Well Index, Forbes , October 9, 2006, http://www.forbes.com/

Chapter 5. The Bonds of Social Capital

Shankar Vedantam, Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says, Washington Post, June 23, 2006, A3.

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001).

The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, Saguaro Seminar Report, http://www.siliconvalleygives.org/communitysurvey/index.html .

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2000), 56-58.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1958), 26.

Dean Ornish, in Imagine by Williamson. Health, in Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century, by Marianne Williamson (Emmaus, PA: Daybreak, 2000), 50.

Ibid.

Dean Ornish, Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 35.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Social Relationships (New York: Bantam Books, 2006), 227.

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