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Introductions | |
Footprints: Me and My Stuff | p. 3 |
Gold: A Lodestone for My Journey | p. 10 |
My Food | |
Coffee: Throwing a Hand Grenade into the Cozy World of Fair Trade | p. 21 |
Wild Things: The Last Roundup on the High Seas and in the Hills | p. 29 |
Curried Crustaceans: The Weird World of Mr. Prawn | p. 40 |
Scorched Earth: A Sticky End with Palm Oil and Sugar | p. 50 |
Unzipped: When the Banana Lost Its Seeds and Other Tales from the Orchards | p. 55 |
Montezuma's Magic: How Joseph the Cocoa Farmer Became an Unlikely Green Warrior | p. 63 |
Air Miles: Why Eating Kenyan Beans Is Good for the Planet | p. 69 |
My Clothes | |
Drought and Dirty Secrets in the World of King Cotton | p. 85 |
Behind the Label: Bless My Cotton Socks | p. 93 |
Trouser Truths: The Unscrupulous World of Sweatshops | p. 102 |
White Gold: My T-Shirt, Slave Labor, and the Death of the Aral Sea | p. 109 |
The Chinese Dragon | |
Computing Power: Mice, Motherboards, and the New Emperors of Suzhou | p. 117 |
Zhangjiagang: The World Capital of Rain-Forest Destruction | p. 126 |
The Great Mall: Toothpicks to Placentas, Everything Must Go | p. 134 |
Mines, Metals, and Power | |
My Beer Can: Giant Footprints in Bloke Heaven | p. 143 |
Shock and Ore: Where My Metal Comes From | p. 153 |
Footprints in the Snow: Finding the Last Oil | p. 164 |
My Electricity: Old King Coal Lives On at Drax | p. 175 |
Downstream | |
My Rubbish: Down the River and across the World | p. 183 |
Trade Not Aid: Joining the Great Global Rummage Sale | p. 194 |
Beyond the Grave: A New Life for Joe's Old Phone | p. 199 |
Unexpected Heroes: The Queen of Trash and Other Chinese Titans of Recycling | p. 209 |
E-waste: What to Do with That Old Computer | p. 215 |
My Species and Saving the Planet | |
Good News from Africa: Why We Can Feed the World | p. 231 |
Beyond the Clockwork Orange: Why We Can Green Our Cities | p. 240 |
Zero Carbon: Why We Can Halt Climate Change | p. 248 |
Defusing the Bomb: Why We Can Halt Population Growth-and Save the World | p. 253 |
Sources and Acknowledgments | p. 265 |
Index | p. 269 |
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