INDEX
abused children
acetaminophen
Acronym of Death (AoD)
acrylonitrile butadiene rubber
action v. inaction
activism
action v. inaction in
California redwood forest
child-like passivity in
effective strategy needed in
forests saved through
as infantile
as lonely
ocean needing
acts of commission
acts of omission
addictions
advanced technologies
advice columnist
Agent Orange
agents of change
agricultural raw materials
agriculture, monotechnic
Akosombo Dam
Alamosa River
aluminum
Amaru (dog)
Amazon River
Ambrose, Rona
The American Frugal Housewife
anaerobic organisms
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (Fromm)
Ancient Egyptian mummification
ancient procedure, recycling
anger
animals, organic matter fed to
Antebellum slaves
antibiotics
AoD. See Acronym of Death
applied technologies
Après nous le deluge
aquatic caddisfly larva
aquatic life
Arab-Israel war
architect, sustainable development
Arctic
POPs in
women living in
Argentina, local recycling in
Armillaria ostoyae
Armstrong, Jeannette
Aronowitz, Stanley
arterial embalming
asphalt, roads covered with
asymmetric warfare
Audubon
authoritarian system
social/economic disruptions and
authoritarian technics
autolysis
autonomy
awards
Axelrod, Herbert R.
bacteria
digestion specialty of
hydroponic plants not needing
plant’s roots with
in soil
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Baia Mare gold mine
Bakelite
Bancroft, Lundy
Ban Ki-moon
Baring Witness
bartering
materials and
women and
bathtub, overflowing
berm, stream blocked by
Bertel, Rosalie
Bettelheim, Bruno
bilirubin
billiard balls
bin Laden, Osama
biodegradable plastics
biological cycles
biologically-derived materials
biologically synthesized fuels
biopimpologist
bioplastic
as biodegradable
energy required producing
environmental impact producing
manufacturing
scale matters in
biosphere
birds, magical thinking of
birth control pills
bisphenol A (BPA)
Black Hawk
board of supervisors
body burden
of chemicals
persistent
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
bottom ash
BPA. See bisphenol A
brain cells, digesting selves
Brave Buffalo
breast milk
bullets
burn barrels
Bush, George W.
business as usual scenario
butterflies
Butterfly: A Tiny Tale of Great Transformation (Huddle)
by-product waste
California Department of Forestry
California Forest Practice Act
cancer
capitalism
car
culture
new smell of
carbohydrates
carbon
appropriation
in cellulose
cycle
offset schemes
sequestration mechanism
carbon dioxide
carcinogenic
carrying capacity
of human beings
of rabbits
cartoneros
cascara leaves
caste attitudes
caterpillars
transformation of
cattle
Catton, William R.
causality
causation, correlation equal
C. difficile infection
cell phone batteries
cells
brain
new molecules in
cellucotton
cellulose
carbon in
indigestability of
plants building block of
cellulose nitrate
centralized decision-making
centralized dumping
centralizing control/externalizing consequences
ceremonies, of indigenous people
chanterelles (mushrooms)
Chase, Richard Trenton
cheap energy
chemicals
body burden of
human body with
industrial
Cheney, Dick
Chevron
chickens
waste eaten by
worm density from
childish behaviors
child-like passivity
children
abused
ensalved
ill-behaved
laws protecting
self-destructive behaviors of
sheltering
swill
children’s health advocates conference
chlorine, PVC largest use of
Churchill, Ward
Chutter, Myke
cipro
citizens
capitalism redefining
collapse faced by
earth’s defense by
fluoride ingested by
land and
civilizations. See also industrial civilization; real physical world
collapse common outcome of
complex society difference with
constructed history of
early metal recycling of
as expansionist
externalizing consequences
globalization of
human survival in
living outside of
modern
as monopolies
sociopolitical complexity loss in
sustainable economics of
unsustainable
civilized selves
Clarke, Arthur C.
clean coal technologies
cleanliness
closed-loop cycles
coal burning
coal/wood ash
Cofan people
COINTELPRO (FBI counter intelligence program)
collapse
asymmetric warfare and
citizens faces with
of civilization’s common outcome
complexity costs causing
of industrial civilization
industrial civilization’s ecological
industrial/factors for
as one big system breaking down
real world
of Roman Empire
sociopolitical complexity loss causing
of this culture
war accelerating
waste production decrease/industrial
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Tainter)
collective mass, of human beings
colonialism
Colorado
columnist, advice
commerce/nature conflict
commercial fisherman
communities
large-scale
waste decisions of
compartmentalization
in concentration camps
interviewer with
complex societies
civilizations difference with
complexity costs collapsing
computers
electronic waste from
sub-atomic level optimizing
computronium
concentration camps
compartmentalization in
of Nazis
Cone, Marla
Confederacy of the Haudenosaunee
Connett, Paul
conquerors, resource
conquest
consumer goods, more expensive
consumers
capitalism defining
consumption reduced by
environmental issues and
garbage byproducts of
consumption
consumers reducing
decreasing
glorifying
population and
contraceptives
copper
corn
cornucopia
corporate airport
corporate flight center
corporations
eliminating
exploitation by
profits sought by
railways modern
transnational
correlation, equal causation
Cosmeticism
cows
crap
creatures
decay mechanism of
relationships of
cremators
Crisis Coalition
Crohn’s disease
this culture. See also human cultures; industrial civilization
abandoning
business as usual scenario for
business as usual unsustainable of
collapse of
compartmentalization by
conquest basis of
culture valued over life in
damage control for
diversions in
does not give back
earth being destroyed by
earth more important than
earth will only be changed by
exploit/destroy right of
fighting back/against
future scenarios for
good citizen of
human-first value structure of
immortality quest of
information/theory concentration of
internal consistency of
is killing the planet
less destructive
linear thinking of
living simply in
lying to each other
magical thinking of
morality of
pain from
permanence valued by
plastic fabrication of
profits/morality in
real physical world and
resource extraction basis of
romantic relationship with
scalped the forests
sheltering children from
short attention span of
short term decisions of
this world is not
tidal wave of destructiveness in
waste production of
The Culture of Make Believe (Jensen)
culture of resistance
building
in concentration camps
fighting back with
long term thinking needed in
risks involved in
threat represented by
cyanide
mines using
river poisoned with
uses of
damage
control
of earth
dams
on Elk Creek
free-flowing water and
for logging
rivers killed by
The Dark Ages
death
-camp culture
fear of
of horses
scavengers eating from
decay
creatures mechanism for
experiment on
fascination with
materials resisting
recirculation of compounds in
stopping body from
decision-making, centralized
decolonization
decomposing garbage
decomposing organic matter
deforestation
Deloria, Vine
the Delta, explosions in
delusional thinking
democracy
participatory
democratic technics
demonstrations
Denver Nuggets
depleted uranium (DU)
Gulf War veterans symptoms from
tests applied to
Yugoslavia’s use of
despair
destruction
activities of
developer’s
of diversity
earth’s
factories and
government and
government protecting
by industrial civilization
by industrial economy
industrial facilities’
of life
message of
pain caused by
real physical world
this culture’s
developer(s)
environmental/planning regulations avoided by
as greedy/destructive
intimidation by
judicial system and
keep fighting
landowner desires and
lies of
neighborhood fighting
planet dismembered by
settlement violation of
title company and
development
Dewailly, Eric
Diamond, Stanley
dictionary, translation
digestion
dioxin
disposal, garbage
diversions
diversity, destruction of
Dixie Cup
double-bind
Douglas fir
Douglas, Frederick
downcycle
Draffan, George
drilling rights
DU. See depleted uranium
Dudok, Willem
dumping
centralized
ocean
strategies of
dumpster diving
food recovered by
for fun
as political act
dumpsters, grocery stores locking
Dunnville, Ontario
earth. See also real physical world
better because I was born
citizens defending
creature relationships on
damage caused of
developers dismembering
enlightened stance toward
God giving dominion over
greenhouse gases on
harm reduction of
healing the
healthier stronger
human beings killing
industrial civilization destroying
industrial facilities destructive to
listening to
natural evolution of
personalizing destruction of
photosynthesis budget of
this culture and
this culture destroying
this culture is not
this culture will only change
in trouble
truly wild percentage of
unlimited resources of
earthworms
Eastern Garbage Patch
eaves trough
Ebbesmeyer, Curtis
ecological apocalypse
The Ecological Basis for Revolutionary Change (Catton)
ecological principles
economic disruptions
economic power
economic system
conquest basis of
salmon killed by
trees as resources in
effective writing
Eichmann, Adolf
electricity tapping (abuse)
electronic waste
elephants, killing of
Elk Creek
berm blocking stream to
small dam on
stream running into
email exchange
embalming
arterial
formaldehyde used in
emissions
endangered species
Endgame (Jensen)
endocrine disruptors
enemy infrastructure
energy
bioplastic requiring
cheap
declining/industrial complexity and
gasoline needed to produce
green
industrial agriculture needing
paper industry requiring
waste to, schemes
enlightened stance, earth
enlightenment
enslaved child
entertainment industry
entitlement
environment
bioplastic production impacting
consumers addressing
modern movement of
PDBEs dumped in
plastic bags impact on
problems not real
socially responsible management of
styrofoam fast-food containers impact on
Environmental Defense Fund
environmental regulations
environmental test
ephemeralization
essence of life
estrogen, fish exposed to
ethereal
ethnocentrism
excrement
expansionism
exploitation
by corporations/government
culture’s right of
lifestyle of
rationalized
by Roman Empire
exporting, garbage
externalizing consequences
external morality
extraction chemicals, for gold
extralegal force (violence)
exudates
factories
farm
McDonough’s work concerning
Facts and Frauds in Woman’s Hygiene (Palmer/Greenberg)
fairness, guiding principle of
fair-trade products
fantasies
realities v.
technologies fulfilling
fascism
fat
fear
of death
people oppressed by
feces
feminine hygiene
feminine power
feminist theorist
fertilizer
fighting back
culture of resistance
against developers
resistance groups
against this culture
Fish and Wildlife
fish, estrogen exposure of
floods
fluoride
cattle influenced by
in drinking water
food
dumpster diving for
throwing away
foraging
Forbes, Jack
Ford Rouge Dearborn Truck Plant
forests
activism for
in eaves trough
fungus in
organization of
shitting in
this culture scalping
formaldehyde
free-flowing water
free garbage collection systems
free-market environmentalism
Fresh Kills Landfill
Friendly Fascism
frogs
red-legged
slugs eaten by
Fromm, Erich
fuels, biologically synthesized
Fuller, Buckminster
fungi
Douglas fir with
in forest
soil’s relationship with
furans
future scenarios, this culture
Gabor, Dennis
Gaia theory
garbage
burning of
byproducts of
coal/wood ash as
collection
decomposing
disposal strategies of
exporting
history of
large quantities of
pickers, rules of
piling up
real physical world’s growing
strategies for
trash workers and
garbage collection system
free
Milwaukee’s
municipal
urban
gas flaring
gasoline
Gearhart, Sally Miller
genetic engineering
genocide
Germans
middle class
Gerngross, Tillman
ghost net
gift of life
Gingrich, Newt
Glick, Brian
global garbage production
globalization
of humanity
industrial civilization basis of
global production
global warming
Crisis Coalition details of
industrial civilization causing
solutions suggested for
goal of life, Native Americans
God
gold, extraction process of
Goldman, Emma
Goldstein, Marc
Gore, Al
Gottleich, Paul
government
cultures of resistance dangerous to
destructive activities protected by
destructive to life
exploitation by
resource extraction by
sponsored terrorism
wastefulness encouraged by
Grand Canyon
grease/oils
Great Blue Heron Rookery
Great Depression
greedy
Greenberg, Sarah K.
green energy
A Green History of the World (Ponting)
greenhouse gases
Greenpeace UK
green plastics
green technology
grocery stores
growing up
guerillas
Gulf War
habitat (reduction)
Hair, Jay
Haldane, J.B.S.
harassment, legal
harm reduction
Harris, Mike
harvested wood
Hawken, Paul
health
care facilities
of land
plastics and
heavy metals
hegemony
helminths. See whipworms
hermit crab
Hero for the Planet
Hippocratic oath
history, of ancient civilizations
Hitler, Adolf
Holmes, Thomas
Holocene mass extinction
horizontal hostility
household waste
of US
Huddle, Norie
human beings
carry capacity of
cellulose undigestable by
civilizations survival of
collective mass of
conditions improvement for
don’t need
ecological principles exemption of
fear oppressing
gift of life
impermeable boundaries of
indigenous people meeting needs of
industrial waste and
killing earth
landbase’s beneficial relationship with
more special notion of
most intelligent notion of
plastics and
real physical world better off without
social system benefiting
system valued over
human body
chemical groups in
decay and
decomposition of
gift of life
human cultures
industrial footprint in
landbase not damaged by
linear progressive
morality of
sustainability primary value in
humaneness test
human-first value structure
human waste
hundredth monkey story
hunter-gatherer society
Hunza Valley
Hurricane Katrina
Hyatt, John Wesley
hydrogen sulfide
hydroponic plants
Idaho
IDPs. See Internally Displace Persons
ill-behaved children
imaginal cells
imaginal discs
immobilization
immortality
impermeable boundaries
inaction v. action
incentives
incinerators
emissions of
higher temperatures of
as least efficient
medical waste in
indefinite performance
Indians. See Native Americans
indigenous people
advanced technologies of
ceremonies of
cleaning themselves
human culture’s morality comments of
human needs met by
industrial infrastructure replaced by
oil production influencing
technologies and
technologies of
warfare of
industrial agriculture
industrial capitalism
not sustainable
real physical world and
real world of
as social construct
solutions promoting
industrial chemicals
industrial civilization
BPA pumped out by
business as usual scenario for
centralizing control in
delusion of sustainability of
destructive message of
earth being killed by
earth better off without
earth laid to waste by
ecological collapse in
everyone loses in
globalization and
global warming caused by
habitat reduction of
impending crash of
inherently destructive
laws of ecology denied in
machine dependent
mass extinctions and
modern day
nature/commerce conflict in
our civilized selves must die getting rid of
oxygen reduction from
as planet’s natural evolution
problem solving drawbacks of
safe healthy regenerative
unsustainable technologies basis of
waste determined by
waste production of
industrial economy
getting rid of
as inherently destructive
omnicide basis of
Industrialization
industrial manufactures
industry
declining energy and
facilities of
footprint of
human beings/waste of
infrastructure of
scale/waste of
stopping waste production of
sustainability of
inferior races
infiltration
information
In Search of the Primitive (Diamond)
insects
intelligence
internal consistency
Internally Displace Persons (IDPs)
internal morality
slavery and
international humanitarian law
internet
modern civilizations use of
obsessions/addictions and
interviewer
compartmentalized thinking of
“real world” perspective of
intimidation
involuntary recycling
Iraq, invasion of
jellyfish
Jensen, Derrick
jhator
judicial system
Jung, Carl
junk
juvenile hormone
Keith, Lierre
Kimberly-Clark
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Klamath River
Kotex sanitary napkins
laboratory experiments
labor efficiency
Laing, R. D.
The Lake of Sleeping Children (Urrea)
land
access to
health of
people accommodating to
landbase
human cultures not damaging
human’s healthy beneficial relationship with
no good reason destroying
sustainability of
waste products and
landowner
A Language Older Than Words (Jensen)
large-scale communities
latex gloves
latrine
lavatory
laws
children protected by
non-existent
laws of ecology
leakage
Lebensraum (living space)
legacy
relationships better off as
what will you leave behind as
legal harassment
legal system
lemmings
levaquin
lies, developer and
life
-affirming
-birth-death-decay
destruction of
lifestyle, of exploitation
lifetime of experience
Lifton, Robert Jay
lignin (wood component)
linear thinking
listening
litter
living morality
living simply
logging
dams used for
spotted owl correlation with
logistical support
long term thinking
Louis XV, king
Lovelock, James
Lovins, Amory
Lynch, Kevin
Lysol
machines
ephemeralization of
industrial civilization dependent on
metals required for
Madame de Pompadour
magic
power relationships in
science v.
magical technologies
magical thinking
birds manifesting
forms of
megalomania underlying
not delusional
rendered powerless by
in technotopia
this culture’s practice of
wishful thinking and
magnificent bribe
mainstream environmentalist
Manhattan Project
Manifest Destiny
manipulation
manufacturing
biologically-derived materials in
bioplastic
by-product waste from
closed-loop cycles and
maquiladoras
mass extinctions
mass movement
materials
agricultural raw
bartering of
decay resistance of
as food for biological cycles
non-toxic biodegradable
reusing
war needing
matter
maturity
Maze
McDonald’s
McDonough, William
awards won by
closed-loop cycles from
factories less destructive by
as Hero for the Planet
industrialization and
Nike European headquarters by
optimize used by
social equity phrase used by
solutions presented by
superficial cleaning up of
sustainability concepts of
as sustainable development architect
truck plant designed by
McMillan, Stephanie
medical waste
medications
meditation
megalomania
megamachines
MEND. See Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
metabolites
metal recycling
in early civilizations
in technotopia
metals
machines requiring
mining of
methanol
Mexico, subsistence farmers of
middle class status
military
technologies
US aggression of
mill ore
Milwaukee, garbage collection systems
mineralization
mines
Baia Mare gold
cyanide used in
metal
phasing out of
railways developed for
river/cyanide from
steam engine used in
streams killed by
Summitville
Zortman-Landusky
mine tailings
heaps of
toxic minerals in
Misseldine, Carol
molecules
cells with
mineralization breaking down
Monbiot, George
monopolies
monotechnic
Moore, Charles
Moore, Kathleen Dean
morality
foundation of
internal/external
living
of this culture
this culture’s profit
Morlan, Kinsee
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
movements
mass
modern environmental
natural burial
radical
resistance
MSWM. See Municipal Solid Waste Management
Mullen, Herb
Mumford, Lewis
democratic technics comments of
technological progress thoughts of
municipal dump
health issues from
in Tijuana
municipal garbage collection systems
municipal solid waste
Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM)
municipal waste production
mushrooms
chanterelles
turkey tails
The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (Mumford)
nakedness
narcissistic notion
Narcissus
National City Lines
national highway system
National Socialism
National Wildlife Federation
Native Americans
goal of life of
religion of
sacredness/values of
Natron
natural burial
natural gas infrastructures
natural polymers
natural selection
nature benefits
nature/commerce conflict
The Nazi Doctors (Lifton)
Nazis
concentration camps of
manipulation used by
middle class status and
slave factories of
superior Germans and
neighborhood
developer fought by
public hearings complaints of
net primary production (NPP)
New Jersey
New York city, dead horses in
Nike European headquarters
nature benefits of
negative aspects of
sweatshops and
nitrile rubber gloves
nitrogen
nonindustrialized nations
nonviolent action
NPP. See net primary production
nuclear technologies
nurdles (resin pellets)
nutrients
Oak Ridge
obsessions
oceans
activism needed for
dumping in
plastics in
off-gassing
oilfields, control of
oil production
gas flaring during
peaked
oil supply
omnicide
Operation Whitecoat
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
optimize/minimize
organic matter
animals fed
decomposing
extracting grease/oils from
hunter-gathers discarding
increased waste of
tossing away
organization, of forest
overhead expenses
oxygen
industrial civilization reducing
mask/breaking down of
Oxygen Revolution
Pacific Electric system
pacifism
packaging, disposable
pain
growing up requiring
from this culture
this cultures destructiveness causing
Palmer, Rachel Lynn
paper industry
energy intensive
large-scale propaganda campaigns of
wood pulp used in
Parker, Karen
Parkes, Alexander
Parks, Rosa
participatory democracy
Paul, Apostle
PAX. See Potassium Amyl Xanthate
PBDEs. See poly-brominated diphenyl ethers
Peace Pilgrim
peak oil
Peak Oil Survival: Preparing for Life After Gridcrash (Jensen)
peddlers
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
perception
of powerlessness
slavery and
Perlman, David
permanence
persistent body burden
persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
personal change
personal consumption
perspective
skewed
waste matter of
PETA. See People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
pharmaceuticals
PHAs. See polyhydroxyalkanoates
phosphate plant
photographic evidence
photosynthesis
biologically synthesized fuels needing
earth’s budget of
finite capacity of
warm-blooded animals possible from
phthalates
physical reality
phytoplankton
piggeries
pigs
street-cleaning activities of
whipworms supplied by
piss
placeness
planet. See earth
plants
bacteria/roots of
cellulose building block of
exudates released by
hydroponic
roots of
soil bacteria’s relationship with
waxy coating of
PLAs. See polylactic acids
plastic bags
downcycling of
environmental impact of
mistaken as jellyfish
menace of
production of
plastics. See also bioplastic
biodegradable
defining
earliest form of
fork made of
green
health issues from
humans living without
in oceans
phthalates softening
in phytoplankton
polymers
production rate of
in sea gulls
in sperm whale
this cultures fabrication of
turtle deformed by
US production of
poisonous
poker tournament
political act
of dumpster diving
living simply as
political speeches
The Politics of Experience (Laing)
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (Sharp)
poly-brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs)
polylactic acids (PLAs)
polymers
cellulose/plastics are
natural
polytechnic
polyvinylchloride (PVC)
Ponting, Clive
POPs. See persistent organic pollutants
populations
consumption and
songbirds collapsing
waste increase along with
Posada, Alfonso López
positive thinking
Potassium Amyl Xanthate (PAX)
Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich
Potemkin villages
pottery business
power
demand overcoming
diversity of tactics against
economic
feminine
magic and
passivity toward
privilege opposing
relationships
of symbols
white man’s goal of
powerlessness
printer ink
prisoners
privileged
problem solving drawbacks
problems, roots of
production rate
product waste
profits
propaganda campaigns
prostate infection
pseudodespair
pseudo-solutions
psychic distress
psychological warfare
pthalates
public hearings
putrefaction
PVC. See polyvinylchloride
pyrite
rabbits
radical movements
radioactive wastes
Raffensperger, Carolyn
rage
rags
collection of
recycling
routes
railways
mines developing
as modern corporation
resource extraction made possible by
standardization from
Ramos-Horta, José
rapture story
rationalization
rationalized exploitation
realities
real physical world
better off without humans
destroy what’s destroying
stopping destruction of
fighting for
garbage growing in
identify with living in
industrial capitalism and
life-birth-death-decay in
power of symbols in
rigged processes in
sustainability of
this culture more important than
real world
collapse
interviewer’s perspective of
reciprocity
recirculation of compounds
recycling
ancient procedure of
in Argentina
involuntary
large-scale
metal
rags
red-backed voles
Red Cloud
red-legged frog
reduction plants
reforms
regulations, environmental
relationships
better off from
long term mutually beneficial
with this culture
religion, of Native Americans
remicade
Republican Party
resin pellets (nurdles)
resistance. See also culture of resistance
anger/sorrow from
consequences of
culture of
effective
forms of
goals/group norms shared in
groups fighting back in
logistical support roles in
movement
organizing movement of
self-deception in
resource(s)
conquerors fighting for
earth’s unlimited
guerillas fighting for
trees as
US invading for
world consisting of
resource extraction
by government
railways assisting in
rewarding of
reuse, of materials
risks, culture of resistance
Rittenhouse Mill
river lampreys
rivers. See also streams
Alamosa
cyanide in
dams killing
domestic waste in
Rivers and Harbors Act
roads, asphalt
Roaring Twenties
robber economy
Rokke, Doug
Roman Empire
collapse of
exploitation by
rubbish
rubble
Rucker, Rudy
Saal, Frederick vom
sacredness
Sahtouris, Elisabet
salamanders
destroying of
slender
torrent
salmon
coho
economic system killing
sanitary landfill
Saro-Wiwa, Ken
Sawyer, Jim
scale
industrial
matter of
scavengers
Schultz, Ed
Schultz, George
science
cause/effect in
magic v.
science assignment
sea gulls
self-deception
self-destructive behaviors
settlement violation
SEX. See sodium ethyl xanthate
Sharp, Gene
Shatner, William
Sheehan, Bill
Shistar, Terry
shit
breaking down
composition of
in forest
soil nutrients from
toilet paper used for
word origin of
shopping bags
short attention span
short term decisions
Sierra Club
Silent Snow (Cone)
Simon, Julian
skewed perspective
Skinner, BF
skunk cabbages
skyscrapers
slavery
internal morality/perception and
by Nazis
slugs, frogs eating
Smith, Dale
board of supervisors appeal of
as deforester
planned development unimpeded of
snail’s shell
Snow Crash (Stephenson)
social change
social construct
social disruptions
social equity
socially-constructed self
socially responsible
social order
social system
societal changes
societies. See also civilizations; complex societies
hunter-gatherer
real alternative options of
trash workers in
sociopolitical complexity
sodium ethyl xanthate (SEX)
soil
bacteria in
fungi’s relationship with
human shit nutrients for
living/breathing
solutions
for global warming
global warming suggested
industrial capitalism promoted by
McDonough presenting
songbirds
sorrow
Speer, Albert
sperm whale
spider’s web
Spiegelman, Helen
spiritual existence
spotted owl
spotted owl surveys
Sri Lanka
Stamets, Paul
standardization
diversity destruction in
railway timetables requiring
steam engines
Stephenson, Neal
steroids
stormwater management system
strategy
streams
Street Cleaning Commissioner
street-cleaning, of pigs
stressors
struggle
A Study of History (Toynbee)
styrofoam fast-food containers
Suarez, Francisco
sub-atomic components
subsistence farmers
sulfide minerals
sulfuric acid
Summitville Mine
survival
of earth
sustainability
business as usual and
civilizations without
of corporate airport
economics of
first principle of
of harvested wood
human cultures primary value of
indefinite performance in
industrial capitalism and
industrial civilization
industrial civilization technologies and
of industry
of landbase
McDonough concepts of
real physical world
right to take whatever we want and
stressors influencing
transitional steps to
sustainable development architect
sweatshops
swill children
systems. See also authoritarian system; economic system; garbage collection system
breaking down of
free garbage collection
human beings and
judicial
legal
Milwaukee garbage collection
municipal garbage collection
national highway
Pacific Electric
social
stormwater management
urban garbage collection
working within
tactics, diversity of
Tainter, Joseph A.
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
technics
technocratic prison
technological progress
technologies
advanced
applied
autonomy and
clean coal
defining
fantasies fulfilled through
green
of indigenous people
indigenous people and
industrial infrastructure required for
magical
military
neutral myths of
nuclear
purpose of
technotopia and
tools creatively used as
technotopia
conditions required for
cornucopian overlap with
magical thinking in
metal recycling in
non-toxic biodegradable materials used in
out of touch
problems with
technology/utopia in
Tecumseh
temporal test
Tennis, Cary
territorial test
terrorism, government sponsored
theory
thimbleberry leaves
Thompson, David
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening From the Nightmare of Zoos (Jensen)
THP. See Timber Harvest Plan
threats, biopimpologist
thrush
Tijuana
Timber Harvest Plan (THP)
timetables
title company
toilet paper
breaking down
for human shit
toilets
Tolowa Indians
Tolowa land
tools
toxic pollution
in mine tailings
from phosphate plant
Toynbee, Arnold J.
transformation
transistors
transnational corporations
trash
trash workers
Treaty of Versailles
trees, as resources
trespassing
truck factory
Tubman, Harriet
turkey tails (mushrooms)
turtles
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
“Unintended Consequences: Municipal Solid Waste Management and the Throwaway Society”
United States (US)
acetaminophen consumption in
aluminum/copper being stolen in
DU stockpiled by
household waste in
industrial waste of
military aggression of
municipal solid waste production in
natural burial movement in
plastics production in
resource invasion of
waste production
uranium test rods
urban garbage collection systems
Urrea, Luis Alberto
US. See United States
utilitarianism
utopia
vacation advice
values
vanguardism
violence (extralegal force)
visualization
visualizing
Waka ‘ta ka (the Great Spirit)
walk away
Walt Disney
war
Arab-Israel
collapse accelerated by
Gulf
indigenous people and
materials needed for
overhead expense of
societal changes required in
War at Home: Covert Action Against US Activists and What We Can Do About It (Glick)
warfare, asymmetric
warm-blooded animals
Washington, George
waste
by-product
chickens eating
community decisions on
defining
domestic
electronic
elimination plan
good disposal sites of
governments encouraging
household
human
industrial
industrial civilization determining
industrial-scale
landbases and
management systems
medical
minimizing
municipal solid
organic matter
matter of perspective on
population increase along with
product
radioactive
sharing of
stopping industrial
value increasing of
what is
wastelands
waste production
of industrial civilization
industrial collapse decreasing
municipal
nonindustrialized nations
of this culture
US
World Trade Center measure of
“waste to energy” schemes
Wasting Away: An Explosion of Waste (Lynch)
water
fluoride in
free-flowing
soluble compounds
stormwater management system of
waxy coating
wetlands
Weyerhaeuser
whipworms
white man
poisoning the heart
power increase goal of
wisdom
wishful thinking
women
in Arctic
in barter system
feminine hygiene of
wood pulp
World Trade Center
World Wildlife Fund
worm density
Wright, Richardson
writing
effective
as propaganda
yellow boy
Youngquist, Walter
Yugoslavia
Zortman-Landusky mine