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Why I wrote this book | p. xi |
Our Challenge Developing an EcoMind | p. 1 |
Can we remake our mental map? | p. 3 |
We're living an aberration | p. 4 |
We already know how | p. 4 |
It's not all locked up | p. 8 |
And a lot of people care | p. 9 |
So why are we moving backward? | p. 10 |
The power of ideas | p. 10 |
The Gipper and Gekko | p. 11 |
The trap | p. 13 |
The seven thought traps | p. 14 |
A liberating jolt | p. 17 |
No-Growth Is the Answer! | p. 19 |
But why the built-in waste and destruction? | p. 22 |
Privately held government | p. 24 |
Refocusing on what matters | p. 29 |
Beyond growth versus no-growth | p. 30 |
Measuring our progress with an eco-mind | p. 38 |
A clarification | p. 41 |
"Consumer Society" Is the Problem | p. 43 |
Born to buy? | p. 45 |
Materialism misdiagnosed? | p. 46 |
Inside "market demand" | p. 48 |
What is luxury? | p. 50 |
Out of the cafeteria line into the kitchen | p. 52 |
Waste before we buy. . . why? | p. 55 |
The "glory of the human"? | p. 57 |
We've Hit the Limits of a Finite Earth | p. 61 |
The limits of limits thinking | p. 62 |
Beyond limits to alignment | p. 63 |
Righting the balance | p. 68 |
"We stopped the desert" | p. 71 |
From ancient farmers, a soil secret | p. 73 |
Hunger as teacher of the eco-mind | p. 74 |
Flourishing as, or even because, we cut greenhouse gas emissions | p. 77 |
Have fossil fuels freed or enslaved us? | p. 80 |
And how else has oil enslaved? | p. 81 |
Distributing social power as we generate new and clean energy | p. 83 |
A different pathway, a different message | p. 85 |
We Must Overcome Human Nature to Save the Planet | p. 89 |
Six human traits we can count on | p. 91 |
Cooperation | p. 92 |
Empathy | p. 93 |
Fairness | p. 95 |
Efficacy | p. 96 |
Meaning | p. 99 |
Imagination and creativity | p. 100 |
If we're so great | p. 101 |
Speaking to our nature | p. 106 |
To Save Our Planet, We Have to Override Humanity's Natural Resistance to Rules | p. 111 |
Cues from nature | p. 113 |
Rule-making power: who, how, why | p. 14 |
Market mythology, market meltdown | p. 117 |
Only change is constant | p. 118 |
Possibility | p. 119 |
Good-bye to the fiction that corporations are persons | p. 121 |
Wildfires of common sense | p. 122 |
Rules that work | p. 124 |
Commons care | p. 126 |
Real freedom | p. 131 |
Humans Have Lost the Connection to Nature | p. 133 |
Soft-wired connection: The proof is in | p. 135 |
Humans meet nature, even in city centers | p. 136 |
Retrieving lives through the land | p. 140 |
"Teach them to long for the endless immensity" | p. 141 |
It's Too Late! | p. 145 |
The most worrisome deficit | p. 147 |
Why democracy now | p. 149 |
What works. . . what doesn't | p. 151 |
An ecology of democracy | p. 153 |
Who pays the piper | p. 156 |
If Deb can do it | p. 159 |
What accountable government can do | p. 159 |
Democracy, live it or lose it | p. 161 |
New ways of tapping the wisdom of crowds | p. 162 |
Democracy and dignity | p. 169 |
An Invitation--Thinking Like an Ecosystem | p. 173 |
The work of hope | p. 173 |
Our culture's food crisis through a relational lens | p. 174 |
Reconnecting, but this time with intention | p. 178 |
It's the context, stupid! | p. 180 |
Ready for surprises | p. 183 |
Upping our courage quotient | p. 186 |
Rethinking power | p. 191 |
Cultivating the EcoMind: Moving into Action | p. 195 |
Thought leaps for the eco-mind | p. 196 |
Lexicon for the eco-mind | p. 198 |
Upping our civil courage: The power of putting our eco-minds into action | p. 199 |
Making our own connections | p. 200 |
Connecting with organizations and campaigns that are . . . | p. 201 |
Engaging citizens in the work of planet healing | p. 201 |
Working to involve citizens and remove the power of private wealth in our democracy | p. 205 |
Engaging citizens in reclaiming our democracy | p. 206 |
Some favorite reading: Books, magazines, and websites for the eco-mind | p. 208 |
Acknowledgments | p. 211 |
Notes | p. 215 |
Index | p. 271 |
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