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Ackerman, Diane, 283

Acton, Sir Harold, 401

Adams, Charles, 162

Africa:

    great apes in, 249, 263–64; see also chimpanzees

Alexander, Christopher, A Pattern Language, 397–98

Alinsky, Saul, 141

American Academy, Rome, 430–31, 433–34

American Geographical Society, 112

American Medical Association (AMA), 75–77

Amerika, 140, 145, 156

Andrews, Colman, 395

animals:

    behaviors of, 227, 260, 262–63, 266–68, 273, 283, 305, 306, 451; see also ethology

    being-ness of, 307

    cruelty to, 403

    as dangerous to humans, 272, 317–18

    destruction of, 41, 51, 326–28, 444

    direct observation of, 307, 309–11, 451

    exploitation of, 263, 443, 445, 450

    as individuals, 267, 283–84, 451

    social interactions of, 267, 284, 307, 449

    specimen collecting, 267

    sportsmen and hunters, 40–41, 50

    survival of species, 14

    zoological studies of, 298–99, 451

    in zoos, 13, 14, 451

Anstey, David, 268–70

Aratow, Paul, 358–59, 365, 367

Arbus, Diane, 7, 203

Architectural Forum, 115, 120, 122, 145–46, 149, 169, 177, 198, 208

Atkinson, Brooks, 94–95

Atlantic, The, 42, 57

atomic bombs, 1–3, 47, 72, 80–81, 89, 445

Audubon, John James, 41

Bacon, Edmund, 116–19, 120, 147

Badillo, Herman, 215

Baez, Joan, 4, 206, 340

Baker, James, 325

Baldwin, James, 204

Bandora, Charles, 268

Barr, Luke, 345

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 433

Batali, Mario, 411

Bates, Caroline, 385

Beard, James, 373, 383

Beats, 4–5, 144–45, 156

Belasco, Warren, 350, 367, 447–48

Berkeley, California:

    collective community in, 398, 403, 424–25

    counterculture in, 349–51, 363, 368, 445–46, 447–48, 449

    Free Speech Movement in, 206, 339–41, 345–48, 351, 366, 400, 432

    Montessori school in, 354

    People’s Park in, 447–48

    Waters at UC, 338–41, 346–47, 348, 352, 441, 446

    Waters cooking in, 348–54

Berrigan, Daniel and Philip, 191

Berry, Wendell, 432, 444

Bertino, Eleanor, 338, 348, 349, 350, 352, 358, 369

Bertolli, Paul, 401

Bikini Atoll, 1–3, 81

Bingham, Harold C., 263–64, 266

Bishop, Willy, 381–82, 384

Black Sunday, 39

Blum, Elisabeth, 26

Boone and Crocket Club, 41

Boulud, Daniel, 411

Boyer, David, 312

Brandel, Catherine, 405

Breece, Hannah, 133

Briggs, Shirley, 49, 50, 54, 55–56, 93

Brillat-Savarin, 421–22

Brooks, Paul, 58, 66, 67, 73, 75, 77, 84–86, 88, 105, 321

Browning, Geoffrey, 259

Brownmiller, Susan, 220

Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 449

Bryceson, Derek, 331

Buckley, William F., 347

Budrick, Jerry, 364, 378, 384, 387, 391, 394, 398

Burnham, Daniel, 117

Burros, Marian, 406

Butzner, Bess Robinson, 129–30

Butzner, Betty, 123, 129, 136–37

Butzner, Jane, see Jacobs, Jane

Butzner, John, 129–31, 132, 134

Caen, Herb, 383

California cuisine, 406–8

Cannard, Bob, 405–6

Cannon, Poppy, 372

Carlitz, Barbara, 354, 355, 359, 392

Caro, Robert A., 92

Carrau, Bob, 403, 420, 427, 428

Carson, Maria, 19–20, 21, 22, 26–30, 31–33, 38, 55, 70, 74, 75

Carson, Marian, 20–21, 27, 28, 37–38, 42

Carson, Rachel, 19–27, 235, 337, 390, 402

    awards and honors to, 58, 62, 112

    birth and childhood of, 28–31

    critics of, 91, 93, 95–96, 103, 311, 449

    death of, 113

    and Dorothy, see Freeman, Dorothy

    The Edge of the Sea, 66–67, 69

    education of, 30, 31–36, 38

    and fame, 60, 61, 64, 93, 96, 207

    family background of, 27–28

    “Guarding Our Wildlife Resources,” 51

    health issues of, 3, 58, 84–88, 89, 103–5, 106, 108, 110–13

    influence of, ix, xii, 10, 11, 14, 194, 197, 200, 207, 307, 329, 349, 439, 441–44, 448, 450, 452

    job with Fish and Wildlife, 21, 26, 39, 48, 58, 123, 263

    in Maine, 3–4, 6, 55, 63, 72, 92, 93, 110, 111

    as outsider, 101–2

    personal traits of, 5, 22, 33, 36–37, 38, 53, 61, 78–79, 84, 282, 283, 354

    public speaking by, 61–63, 65, 95, 97, 103–4, 111

    radio scripts by, 20–21, 38, 41–42, 123

    research done by, 21–27, 50, 73, 74, 76, 99–100, 292, 307

    The Sea Around Us, 53–61, 63, 66

    in Senate subcommittee meeting, 91–92, 108–10

    Silent Spring, ix, x, xii, 3, 5, 10, 12, 31, 89–103, 107–9, 152, 153, 197–98, 204–5, 307, 319, 326, 338, 441, 447

    “Undersea,” 42–43

    Under the Sea-Wind, 44, 58

    as writer, 48–51, 60, 88, 94, 98–99, 101, 111, 444, 445, 449

Carson, Robert (brother), 20, 27, 28, 29, 70

Carson, Robert (father), 27–28, 31–32, 38

Cary, Sally and Susie, 238, 239, 240, 242, 245, 322

CBS Reports, 95, 105–8

Cerf, Bennett, 199

Chaney, James, 339

Chapman, Priscilla, 185

Charles, Prince, 433

Chase, Edward, 200

Chez Panisse:

    anniversaries of, 393, 408, 419, 427

    as destination, 379, 385

    development over time, 363–71, 376–79, 384, 386–87, 391–96, 406, 411, 434

    employee benefits in, 410

    finances of, 364–69, 376, 378, 382, 388, 392, 396, 406, 410, 413

    fire in, 396–98, 399

    the food in, 337, 362–63, 370–77, 381, 382, 386, 388–90, 391–96, 404–6, 413

    menus for, 360, 377, 381, 382, 386, 388–89, 392

    opening of, 361–63

    political engagement in, 391, 405, 407, 409–15

    preparations for, 358–61

    reviews of, 378, 383–84, 385, 395, 406

    second life of, 388–91, 396, 398

    staff as community in, 377–79, 387–88, 392, 393, 397–98, 408–9, 427

    and Tower, 379–87, 391, 394, 403

    upstairs café, 394–95, 396

    vision for, 366–67, 368, 369, 376, 386, 389, 394, 398, 406, 408, 410

Chez Panisse Foundation, 423

Child, Julia, 348, 352, 362, 373

chimpanzees:

    behavior patterns of, 280–82, 283–84, 286–88, 295–97, 306, 317, 324–25

    conservation of, 325–29, 332

    dangerous behavior of, 272, 317–18, 319, 324–25

    differing approaches toward, 264, 267, 284, 305–6

    fearful response to humans, 264–65

    in Gombe, see Gombe, Tanzania

    Goodall’s study of, 227–31, 257–60, 261–62, 265–68, 274–75, 277, 278–82, 283–90, 312, 314–19

    habituation of, 295–98, 315, 316–19, 320

    as individuals, 267, 284, 285, 295–97, 299, 305–6, 311; see also “David Greybeard”

    killed in bush meat trade, 325

    Leakey’s interest in, 227, 230–31, 249, 252–53, 257–60, 261, 312

    as meat eaters, 286–87, 289, 290, 297, 308–9, 310, 312, 320

    “rain dance” of, 293–94, 297–98

    scientific significance of chimp study, 312, 316

    social interactions of, 267, 283–84, 294, 296, 298, 307, 317, 443

    tool use by, 12, 231, 287–88, 289, 290, 297, 308, 312, 320

Christie, Roger Allen (Rachel Carson’s nephew), 70, 72, 74, 75, 84, 85, 86, 88, 92, 104, 106, 110

cities:

    adapting over time, 197–98, 435–36, 450

    anti-urban planners in, 195–96; see also urban planners

    car traffic in, 168

    diversity in, 162, 204, 213

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of, 119

    “Garden City” concept, 119

    neighborhoods in, see neighborhoods

    New Urbanism, 450

    slums in, see slums

    sustainability of, 14, 449, 450

    top-down policies in, 152–53, 194, 443, 444, 450

    vertical, 117

Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council, 186–87

City Planning Commission, 193–94

civil disobedience, 191–92, 339–41, 346, 366, 447

Clinton, Bill and Hillary, 426–27, 433

Cold War, 11, 60, 78, 80, 89–91, 95, 100–101, 140–43, 440, 445–46

commons, plundering, 11

Connor, Bull, 339

consciousness, shifts in, xiii, 449–52

conservation, 14, 29, 41, 48, 50–52, 326–28, 332, 419, 439, 444

Coolidge, Cora, 33–34

Cooper, Gordon, 106, 108

Coppola, Francis and Eleanor, 358

Coryndon, fossil studies in, 247, 249, 253, 254, 256, 285

Crane, Stephen, 156

Crile, George Jr., 87

Crocker, Betty, 372

Cummings, E. E., 125

Curtan, Patty, 378, 386, 399, 402, 403

Curtis, Olga, 373

Daily Bread Project, 415

Dalai Lama, 433

Danch, Betsy, 350

David, Elizabeth, 348, 360–61

David, Saulo, 292

“David Greybeard” (chimp), 288–90, 295, 296–97, 306, 315, 316, 317, 322, 324

David Rose Associates, 190, 192–94

Davies, J. Clarence Jr., 179, 180, 182–83, 184, 188–89, 194

Davis, Ruth, 324

DDT, xi-xii, 3, 4, 18–19, 44–47, 49–50, 70–72, 73–78, 91, 92, 103, 235, 349, 447

de Kooning, Willem, 125

Denis, Armand and Michaela, 313

DeSalvio, Louis, 189, 190, 209–10, 214, 216

De Sapio, Carmine, 166–67, 189

DeVore, Irven, 308, 309

Diggers, 346–47, 367

Douglas, William O., 95

Dunn, Derrick, 279, 291

Dust Bowl, 39

Dwan, Lois, 395

Dylan, Bob, 4, 145, 206–7, 215, 340

East Harlem, urban renewal in, 116, 120–23, 147

ecology, 25–26, 34, 52, 326, 438, 447, 448, 449

Edible Schoolyard, 417–19, 421–26, 429–30, 433

Ehrlich, Paul, 447

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 82, 102

Eisner, Lester, 183–84, 187

endangered species, 326–28, 444, 450

environmental bank, 222–23

environmental movement, 10, 26, 52, 91, 98, 103, 107, 437–38, 441, 443, 447, 448, 449, 450, 452

Ephron, Nora, 373

Epstein, Jason, 168, 169, 223

ethology, 290–91

    cultural shift in, 307–8, 311, 449

    language of, 305–6, 311

    traditions of, 267, 306, 307, 319

Exploding Metropolis, The, 168

extinction, 328

Fancher, Ed, 164

Farm Restaurant Project, 404–6

FBI, 93

FDA (Food and Drug Administration), 93, 94

Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 204

Felt, Robert, 4, 19, 179, 180, 182–83, 186, 188–91

field zoology, early practices in, 267

Fisher, M. F. K., 345, 373

Flanders, Sara, 333–34, 335, 338, 341–44, 348, 350, 352–53

Flint, Anthony, Wrestling with Moses, 188, 192, 194

food:

    additives in, 5, 97, 403–4, 411–12, 428

    affordable, 411, 451

    for children, 407, 451

    and community, 353, 451

    ethics and politics of, 400–401, 405, 407, 431, 432, 450

    ethnic, 372

    farm-to-table, 401, 404–6, 419, 425, 437, 451, 452

    fast food, 375, 412–13, 421–22, 436–37

    finding ingredients for, 353–54, 363–64, 370–77, 382, 386, 388–90, 394, 395, 400, 402, 403–4, 425, 431, 437–38, 443, 452

    foraging for, 370–71, 376, 382, 404–5

    French, 385–86

    genetic modification of, 14, 450

    industrial agriculture, 364, 371, 375, 389, 403–4, 409, 411–15, 426, 429, 442, 443, 444–45

    local, 12–13, 370–71, 388–90, 391–96, 404–5, 406, 429, 451

    and obesity, 375, 412, 422

    organic, 349, 390, 392, 405, 410, 431, 436

    pesticides in, 375, 403, 437, 442

    real, 417–18

    school lunches, 426–27, 428

    specialty shops, 373–74

    and sustainability, x, 12–13, 419, 433, 436, 437, 449, 451

    terroir of, 370, 390

    “white,” 350

    writers about, 373

Food First Institute, 415

food production, 100

food safety, 95–97, 374, 403

Fortune Magazine, 149, 151, 168

Freedom Riders, 205, 339

Freeman, Dorothy, 63–70, 72, 78, 79, 84, 86, 87–88, 89, 103, 104–5, 106, 108, 110–13

Freeman, Stan, 63–68, 112

Free Speech Movement (FSM), 206, 339–41, 345–48, 351, 366, 400, 432

Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, xi-xiii, 10–11, 200

Frye, Bob, 35–36

Gandhi, Mohandas K. “Mahatma,” 331, 433

genetic engineering, 14, 450

Gibbons, Euell, 349, 380

Gilka, Robert E., 301, 303, 315

Gilpatric, Chadbourne, 168–69

Ginsberg, Allen, 143–45, 156, 157, 219

Glazer, Nathan, 168

Goines, David, 350–53, 355, 357, 382, 393, 402, 409

Goldwater, Barry, 339

Gombe, Tanzania, 265, 325, 332

    Goodall’s activism in, 326–27

    Goodall’s animal studies in, 227–29, 268, 270–303, 306–7, 312, 314–20, 321, 324

    Goodall’s ties to, 291

    permanent research center in, 319, 322–24

    polio epidemic in, 324

    see also chimpanzees

Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, 259, 268–71, 294–97

Goodall, Jane, 227–332, 402

    activism of, 325–32, 390, 433, 443, 451

    animal studies of, see animals; chimpanzees

    arrival in Africa, 244–46, 265–70, 441

    awards and honors to, 312, 322, 323

    birth and early years of, 231–41

    breakthrough discoveries of, 298–99, 306–7, 316, 451

    The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior, 325

    critics of, 310, 311, 319, 449

    doctoral program of, 290–91, 303–7, 312, 322, 323–24

    early jobs of, 242–44, 260, 262

    education of, 13, 240

    and fame, 320–22, 323, 331

    in Gombe, see Gombe, Tanzania

    health problems of, 240–41, 277–78, 295, 303

    and Hugo, 313–18, 321–22, 323, 324, 331

    influence of, x, xii, 14, 329, 439, 441–44, 448, 451, 452

    Innocent Killers (with Hugo), 324

    In the Shadow of Man, 321, 324

    and Leakey, see Leakey, Louis

    mother of, see Morris-Goodall, Vanne

    My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees, 311, 323

    “My Life Among Wild Chimpanzees,” 319–22

    personal traits of, 245–46, 294, 313, 329, 331, 354

    photography and funding, 299–303, 312–16, 323

    and primatology, 262–65

    public speaking by, 307–10, 312, 323–24, 329, 331

    solitary work of, 292–94, 295, 298, 299, 311, 319, 321

    study of vervet monkeys, 266–68

    as writer, 312, 319, 323, 338, 444

Goodall, Judith Daphne (sister), 234, 237, 238, 260, 302–3

Goodall, Mortimer (father), 232–38, 241, 260

Goodman, Andrew, 339

Goodman, Paul, 200

Granada Television, 260, 262

Gratz, Roberta, 153, 198

Graves, William, 316

Great Depression, 20, 37, 123

Green Bronx Machine, 451

green movement, 11, 13, 451

Greenwich Village, 8, 10, 124–26, 136, 138–40, 145, 154–69, 177–95

Gropius, Walter, 147

Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 262, 302, 312

Gruen, Victor, 147

Gruening, Ernest, 100

Guenzel, Linda, 402–3

Guernsey, Tom, 379, 409

Guthrie, Arlo, 353

Guthrie, Woody, 156

Halle, Louis, 54

Hannah-Jones, Nikole, 204

Hargraves, Malcolm, 73

Harriman, Averell, 167

Harrington, Michael, 200

Harvard University, 146, 149, 150, 161, 168

Haskell, Douglas, 115, 145–47, 150, 151

Hayes, Shirley, 157–61

Helgesen, Sally, 224, 283

herbicides, 14, 76

Herne, Brian, 254–56, 258, 259, 279

Herzog, Werner, 395–96

Higgins, Elmer, 38, 39–40, 41–42

Hinde, Robert, 290–91, 304–6

Hines, Bob, 53

Hoover, J. Edgar, 47

Hovington, Brian, 243

Howard, Ebenezer, 119, 195

Howe, Kay, 49, 50

Howe, Quincy, 42, 43

Huckins, Olga, 70–71

Huxley, Sir Julian, 321

Huxley, T. H., 321

hypermasculinity, 11, 41, 59, 77–78, 151

insecticides, 45, 76, 91–92, 97

interconnectedness, 14, 25–26, 34, 43, 51, 52, 100, 126–29, 153, 267, 326–29, 361, 390–91, 400, 405, 409, 419, 421–22, 425, 437–38, 442, 445, 448–49

interstate highway system, 101, 117, 209

Iron Age, 135–36

Jack, Hulan, 157, 159, 167

Jackson, C. D., 152

Jacobs, Jane, 6–10, 115–225, 267–68, 283, 390, 402, 414–15

    aging and death of, 224–25

    arrest of, 218–20

    birth and childhood of, 129–34

    Cities and the Wealth of Nations, 221

    clerical jobs held by, 125–26, 127, 135

    critics of, 198–202, 216, 311, 449

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities, ix-x, xi, 7, 10, 12, 169–77, 195–99, 202, 203–5, 207, 216, 223, 227, 292, 319, 435–36, 441, 450

    “Downtown Is for People,” 150–51, 152, 168–69, 444

    and East Harlem, 116, 120–23, 147

    The Economy of Cities, 221

    education of, 13, 132, 133–35

    and Eugene, Oregon, 222–23

    and fame, 202–3, 207–8

    government investigation of, 140–43, 145

    in Greenwich Village, 8, 10, 124–26, 136, 145, 155–57, 160

    influence of, x, xii, 10, 11, 14, 194–95, 198, 200, 204–5, 207, 214–15, 223, 307, 329, 398, 436, 439, 441–44, 448, 450, 452

    and Lower Manhattan Expressway, 7, 9–10, 208–20

    move to Canada, 220–21, 447

    and New York City neighborhoods, 126–29, 450

    PEN award to, 221

    public speaking, 6, 9–10, 146–49, 161, 168, 224

    Systems of Survival, 221

    and Washington Square Park, 153–57, 160–69, 181, 182

    and West Village, 177–78, 180–82, 184–88, 190, 192–95, 201, 211, 213, 220

    as writer, 126–28, 135–36, 151, 156, 171, 196, 221, 223, 354, 444

Jacobs, Robert Hyde, 137–38, 139, 146, 156, 163, 182, 212, 220–21, 224

Jacobs v. New York City, 187

James, Henry, 156

Jane Goodall Institute, 329, 331

Johnson, Judy, 355

Johnson, Lady Bird, 203

Johnson, Lyndon B., 339

Jones, Sharon, 361, 366, 428

Kalins, Dorothy, 417, 433

Kamp, David, 349

Kellogg, Winthrop and Luella, 263

Kennedy, John F., 5, 89, 95, 111–12, 205, 339

Kerouac, Jacques, 156

Kerr, Kelsie, 377

Kikwale, Rashidi, 271, 272, 274, 276, 278, 279

King, Martin Luther Jr., 205, 445, 446–47

Kirk, William, 115–16, 120–23, 169

Klinkenborg, Verlyn, 442

Köhler, Wolfgang, 263–64

Kortlandt, Adriaan, 298, 308

Kramer, Jane, 195

Kraus, Sibella, 404, 405, 414

Kroyer, Victoria, 362, 363, 378, 379

Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 205

Ku Klux Klan, 339

Kummer, Corby, 369

Labro, Claude and Martine, 357, 359, 385, 392

La Mountain, Father Gerard, 208–11, 213–14, 217

Landmarks Preservation Commission, 179

Leakey, Louis, 229–31, 246–54

    and chimpanzee study, 227, 230–31, 249, 252–53, 257–60, 261–62, 290–91, 299, 312, 318, 323

    early years of, 246–47

    “Finding the World's Oldest Man,” 262

    fossil studies of, 229–30, 247, 250–51, 252, 261–62, 291

    and Jane, 229, 247–48, 249–54, 256–57, 260–62, 265, 273, 290, 303, 312, 322

Leakey, Mary, 230, 248–53, 261–62

Lear, Linda, 26, 60, 96

Le Corbusier, 14, 117–18, 119, 149, 195

Leonard, John, 59

Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac, 51–52, 439

Levitt, William J., 100

Levittown, 14, 47, 138

Lincoln Center, New York, 151–52, 179

Lindsay, John V., 163, 181, 203, 214

Lolui Island, Tanganyika, 265–66, 281, 284

London Zoo, 260, 265

Longworth, Alice, 59

Lower Manhattan Expressway “Lomex,” 7, 9–10, 208–20

Luce, Henry, 149

Lucky Dragon, 81–83, 91

Luddy, Tom, 352, 357–58, 359, 365, 379, 386, 392

Lyons, Edith, 158

MacDonald, Malcolm, 321

Mailer, Norman, 101, 164

Mange, Clo, 244–45, 297

Manhattan Project, 82–83

Marcus, Greil, 359, 366, 386, 409, 411, 418

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 415–19, 428

Marx, Leo, 206

Matata, Iddi, 269

McCarthy, Joseph, 60, 142, 166

McDonald’s, x-xi, 100, 337–38, 375, 421, 437

McKibben, Bill, 331

McMullen, Jay, 105

McNamee, Thomas, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 338, 359, 370, 400, 444

Mead, Margaret, 161

Meese, Edwin III, 340

Micove, 185–86, 192

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 119

Miller, Mark, 391

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (CBS-TV), 323

modernism, 118, 119–20, 147, 445

Monk, Thelonius, 156

Montessori, Maria, 354–55, 361, 376

Moore, Marianne, 62

Morris, Desmond, 308, 309, 310

Morris, “Uncle Eric,” 237, 244

Morris-Goodall, Valerie Jane, see Goodall, Jane

Morris-Goodall, Vanne (mother), 231–38, 241, 242–44, 246, 254–57

    in Africa, 258–59, 265, 268–70, 276–78, 280, 313, 320

Moses, Robert, 7, 10, 92, 116, 120, 145, 152–54, 157–67, 168, 179, 180, 190, 198–99, 208–10, 215, 216, 217

Moullé, Jean-Pierre, 391, 401

Muir, John, 41

Müller, Paul, 18, 19, 237

Mumford, Lewis, 119, 149, 161–62, 167, 195, 198, 200–201, 216

Murphy, Sue, 403, 420

Nader, Ralph, 200

Napier, John, 262

National Geographic, 262, 291, 299–302, 313, 316, 319, 323, 338

National Geographic Society, 262, 300, 312–16, 318, 319, 322–23

national park system, 41, 78, 432, 434

nature:

    competing definitions of, 41

    interconnectedness in, see interconnectedness

    mankind disconnected from, 62–63, 107–8, 445

    reengineering of, 39, 40, 73, 95, 97, 98, 443, 445

    shift in attitudes toward, 448, 449

nature-study movement, 29

neighborhoods, 8, 9, 14, 116–23, 126–29, 147–48, 152–53, 155–57, 170–77, 178, 180, 182–88, 194, 211–13, 267, 436, 443–44, 450

New American Cuisine, 406

New Yorker, The, 4, 57–61, 69, 71, 73, 88, 89, 90, 92–94, 149, 161, 216

New York Post, 162

New York Times, 44, 92, 94, 177, 181, 187–88, 198

New York World's Fair (1964), 180

1950s, 11, 60, 372–73, 375, 436, 439–45

1960s, 14–15, 103, 145, 152, 191–92, 194, 200, 205–7, 339, 439–49

Nissen, Henry W., 264–65, 266, 283, 285

nuclear fallout, 4, 5, 60, 79–80, 81, 83, 91, 97, 101, 439, 440, 445

“Nutcracker Man” fossil, 261–62

Nutt, Danny and Major, 234, 235, 237–38

Oakland Museum of California, 407, 414

O’Harrow, Dennis, 199

Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika, 230, 248, 249–52, 256–57, 258, 261–62

Oliver, Edith, 57

Olney, Richard, 361, 391

Opton, Gene, 367–68, 370, 378–79

Osborn, Rosalie, 248–49, 285, 308

Pagnol, Marcel, 358, 367, 385, 408, 427

Paley, Grace, 219

Palmer, Michael, 380

Paris, France, Waters in, 334–35, 341–45

Parker, Charlie, 156

Passannante, Bill, 167

Patuxent Research Refuge, 44–45, 49–50

Payne, Melvin, 318

Peale, Norman Vincent, 161, 162

PEN, 221

pesticides, 4, 14, 71, 73, 75–77, 83–84, 91–93, 97, 100, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108–10, 375, 403, 437, 442, 443, 444

Peterson, Dale, 239, 294, 299, 310

Petrini, Carlo, 429, 433

Peyraud, Lulu and Lucien, 385–86, 392

Philadelphia, slum clearance in, 116–19, 120, 122

Poe, Edgar Allan, 156

Pollan, Michael, 349, 412, 413, 425, 432

Pollock, Jackson, 125

Port Huron Statement, 206

preservation movement, 10, 13, 41, 52, 162, 179

primatology, 262–65, 309–11

Puck, Wolfgang, 411

radioactivity, 2, 5, 72, 79–84, 90, 97–98

Reagan, Ronald, 447

Redford, Robert, 432

Reichl, Ruth, 361, 383, 387, 410, 418

Ribicoff, Abraham, 108–9

Richards, Mary, 71

Roberts, Joseph, 301

Rockefeller Foundation, 168–69, 173

Rodale, J. I., Organic Farming and Gardening, 349

Rodell, Marie, 54, 55, 56, 57, 72, 84, 88

Rodgers, Judy, 393

Rodwin, Lloyd, 198

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 161, 162, 210

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 39

Roosevelt, Theodore, 41

Roots & Shoots, 329–30, 332, 451

Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture, 207, 347

Rubinow, Raymond, 160, 161, 167

Salimu, Hassan, 266

Sanger, Margaret, 7, 195

Savio, Mario, 206, 340–41

Schaller, George, 285–86, 292

Scheer, Robert, 348

Schofield Productions, 242–43

Schwab, Charlotte, 185–86

Schwartz, Delmore, 125

Schweitzer, Albert, 98

Schwerner, Michael, 339

science:

    insularity of, 62, 439

    misuse of, 79, 439–40

    paradigm shifts in, 449–52

Seeger, Pete, 4, 156, 206

Seidel, Leon, 184, 185, 210

Sert, Josep Lluis, 147

Sevareid, Eric, 95, 107, 108

Share Our Strength, 415

Shawn, William, 57–58, 72, 73, 88

Shere, Charles, 351–52, 369, 370, 407

Shere, Lindsey, 351, 363, 370, 407

Sierra Club, 41

Simons, Nina, 273

Sinclair, Upton, 141

Singer, Fanny, 399–400, 401, 403, 407, 408, 414, 416, 419, 421, 429, 434

Singer, Stephen, 399–400, 403, 407–8, 414, 419, 420–21, 427–28

Siwezi, Adolf, 270–71, 272, 274–76, 278, 279

Skinker, Mary Scott, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 54–55

Slow Food Movement, 429, 433, 451

slums, 14, 115–23, 154, 178–79, 180, 183–84, 187, 188, 192–94, 436

Smith, Patti, 432

Smithsonian Folklife Festival, 433

Snyder, Gary, 367

Soil Conservation Act (1935), 39

Solnit, Rebecca, 438, 442

Sontag, Susan, 219

Souder, William, On a Farther Shore, 40, 51, 69, 80, 83

Space, Time and Architecture, 120

Spellman, Cardinal Francis, 217

Spock, Benjamin, 219

Spock, Marjorie, 71, 73, 85–86

Staggs, Bill, 384

Starr, Roger, 186–87, 201–2

Stein, Gertrude, 383, 391

Steinem, Gloria, 422–23

Steiner, Rudolph, 71

Steingraber, Sandra, 99

Stevenson, Adlai E., 101, 440

Styron, William, 60

sustainability:

    food and, x, 12–13, 419, 433, 436, 437, 449, 451

    in land-use policies, 437–38

    long-term, 444–45, 449–50

TACARE, 326–28

Talbott, Mona, 431

technology:

    blind embrace of, 11, 14, 48, 52, 78, 100, 101, 102–3, 443, 447

    misuse of, 79, 97, 145, 443

    and modernity, 118, 439

    in New York World’s Fair, 120

    outpacing knowledge, 84

thalidomide, 5, 94

Thorpe, William, 303–4

Thurman, Judith, 235

Title I (urban renewal), 116, 154, 158, 183, 184, 193

Tower, Jeremiah, 379–87, 391, 394, 403

Trace, Gillian, 230, 250–52

Troisgros, Jean, 393

Tullis, Paul, 329

Twain, Mark, 132

Unterman, Patricia, 395

urban planners, xii, 7, 8–9, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 152–53, 162, 195, 198, 199–202, 204, 442, 450

urban renewal, 7, 10, 115–23, 147, 154, 157–58, 178–83, 187–90, 192–93, 197, 210, 443, 450

USDA, 92, 93

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 21, 26, 39–40, 48, 58, 79, 123, 263, 329

van Lawick, Hugo, 313–18, 321–22, 323, 324, 331

van Lawick, Hugo Eric Louis “Grub” (son), 325, 331

van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 42, 43

Van Ronk, Dave, 156

Verdcourt, Bernard, 260, 297, 314, 317

Vietnam War, 206, 219, 220, 339, 345–48, 349, 446, 447, 448

Village Voice, 7, 156, 161, 164, 195, 203, 217

Vogue, 127, 134, 194

Vosburgh, Frederick G., 302

Wagner, Robert, 157, 159, 167, 179, 180, 181, 187, 188–89, 211, 214

Wallace, George J., 73–74

Washington Square Park, 153–69, 180, 181, 182, 208

Washington Square Village, 155, 161–62

Waters, Alice, 333–434

    and American Academy project, 430–31, 433–34

    birth and early years of, 335–39

    and cookbooks, 360–61, 373, 401–3, 406

    cooking, 348–54, 355, 357–59, 378, 402

    daughter of, 399–400, 401, 403, 407, 414, 419, 421, 429

    and Edible Schoolyard, 417–19, 421–26, 429–30, 433

    and fame, 407, 410–11, 419, 431, 433

    “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” 409, 425–26

    in France, 333–35, 341–45, 355–57, 359, 364, 370–71, 373, 385–86, 390, 392, 394

    influence of, x, xii, 14, 428–31, 439, 441–44, 448, 451–52

    and ingredients, see food

    and King Middle School, 415–19

    and Oakland Museum project, 407, 414

    personal traits of, 352, 361, 365–67, 369, 376, 387, 400, 407, 410–11, 419, 421, 431, 434, 444

    political engagement of, 409–19, 431–34, 449, 451

    public speaking, 419

    “restaurant fantasies” of, 353–54, 358–61, 406; see also Chez Panisse

    and Singer, see Singer, Stephen

    and Tower, 381–87, 391, 394, 403

    travels in Europe, 355–57

    at UC Berkeley, 338–41, 346–47, 348, 352, 441, 446

Waters, Charles Patrick “Pat” (father), 335, 338, 359, 396, 405–6

Waters, Ellen [Pisor] (sister), 336, 347, 359, 408

Waters, Margaret Hickman (mother), 335–36

Weinberg, Jack, 340

Weisner, Jerome, 95

Wells, Patricia, 396

Wensberg, Erik, 181, 193

West Village, urban renewal in, 177–95, 201, 209, 211, 213, 220

Wharton, Edith, 156

White, E. B., 4, 67, 71–72, 73, 93–94

White-Stevens, Robert H., 106–7

Whitman, Walt, 156

Whyte, William H. Jr., 149–51, 152, 161

Widnall, William B., 203

Wilkie, Leighton, 261, 262

Wilson, E. O., 46, 48, 439

Wolf, Dan, 164–65

women:

    changing roles of, 350

    education of, 327

    gender bias against, 35, 47–48, 59, 101, 136, 140, 200, 202, 241, 310–11, 440–41

    “head and master” laws, 441

    microcredit loans for, 327

    outsider status of, 101–2

    paternalistic medicine, 86–87

    possibilities for, 13, 443

    subjective experiences of, 443

    traditional roles of, 5, 11–12, 21, 27, 35, 47–48, 59, 101, 140, 241, 440–41

    in wartime, 47

women’s movement, 205–6, 207

Woods Hole, Marine Biological Lab, 36, 37

World War II, 17–18, 44, 235, 236, 238, 439

Wright, Carrie, 366–67

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 119

Yale Sustainable Food Program, 429

Yerkes, Robert, 263–64

Young, Robert, 260–61, 265, 291

Zoetrope Studios, 358

Zoll, Stephen, 190

Zoological Society of London, 307–10

Zuckerman, Solly, 308–11