Twelve by Twelve (35 page)

fast food,
10
,
25
,
206

Federal Bureau of Investigation,
122

Ferris, Tim,
208

financial planning,
209–10

Flat World

Adams County resistance to,
18–19
,
21
,
40–41
,
245

advantages/disadvantages of,
6–7

cultural diversity lost through,
175–80

Global South pillaged by,
47–48
,
198

inner,
196–97

laptops and,
99

psychological effects of,
45–46

rural-to-urban movement and,
153–54

strength to resist,
180–81

suburbia and,
84

See also
globalization
;
monoculture

Foer, Jonathan Safran,
185

Forbes
,
249

forgiveness,
105
,
119
,
124

Fort Bragg (NC),
219
,
220

Four-Hour Workweek, The
(Ferris),
208

Fourth of July,
82–83

Frankl, Viktor,
233

Franz, Tom,
37

Frazier, Charles,
13

Freetown (Sierra Leone),
62

Fresh Air
(NPR program),
70

Friedman, Thomas,
6

Fromm, Eric,
223

fruition, abandoning hope of,
231–35

G

Gaia (animate earth),
143
,
145

Gambia,
150–51

Gandhi, Mohandas,
74
,
89
,
93–94
,
215
,
235

garbage,
208

Garlic Testament, A
(Crawford),
86
,
88

Gates, Bill,
249

Gauguin, Paul,
132

Germany,
96

gift-giving, and soft economy,
207–8

Glendinning, Chellis,
72
,
198

globalization

cheap labor in,
108

as colonialism,
203

effects of,
6–7
,
194

mindfulness in,
258

noncooperation with,
89–92
,
204–5

suburbia and,
84

See also
Flat World
;
monoculture

Global South,
44

author’s humanitarian work in,
56

car ownership in,
62

corporate colonization of,
76

environmental refugees in,
198

Flat World pillaging of,
47–48
,
198

learning from,
57

leisure ethic in,
150–51

rural-to-urban movement in,
153–54

subsistence cultures in,
88

“vernacular aid” from,
154

See also
Bolivia
;
Liberia
;
specific country

global warming,
7
,
84–85
,
169
,
234

God,
48
,
156
,
214

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
203

Gold Kist Poultry Center

animal cruelty at,
42–43

health effects of chicken from,
44

Latino workers at,
40
,
101
,
107–9

smell from,
36
,
42
,
46
,
73
,
93
,
162
,
170
,
230
,
245

grace,
48

Graciela (neighbor),
101–2
,
112
,
163
,
187–88
,
259

Green Party,
90
,
96

Greensboro (NC),
118–19
,
122

Greensboro Police Department,
122

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
122

Gross, Terry,
70

growth,
145

Guarasug’wé: Chronicles of Their Last
Days
(Riester),
176–77

Guarasug’wé people,
176–80
,
191–92
,
198

Guatemala,
142–43
,
153

Guerrero (Mexico),
115–16

Guevara, Che,
21
,
188–89

gusanos
(worms),
21
,
96

H

Habitat for Humanity,
39
,
40
,
102
,
115
,
167

habituation,
60

happiness

in developed vs. underdeveloped countries,
151–52

as general well-being,
151

the least thing as sufficient for,
16
,
19–20

suchness and,
183

Happy Planet Index,
151

hawks,
41–42
,
43–44
,
110
,
142

healing,
188–89

Helms, Jesse,
96

Hitler, Adolf,
169–70

holistic teaching,
160–61

Holman, James,
121

Holocaust,
127
,
169–70

Homebody/Kabul
(Kushner),
213

homeschooling,
159–60
,
161

Hudson & Manhattan Railroad,
83

Humanure Handbook, The
,
28

humility

of Benton,
212–13
,
214–15

challenges to,
212
,
216–17

gratefulness and,
217–18

simplicity and,
214–16

hunting,
128–29

I

identity niches,
212

Idle Majority,
150
,
157
,
158
,
205
,
210
,
256

idleness

living well and,
150–52

open-ended chats resulting from,
155–57

poverty and,
152–53

as “underdeveloped,”
149–50
,
153

wildcrafting and right to,
155

illegal immigration,
115–18

Inca culture,
256

individualism,
153–54
,
216–17
,
224
,
234

Indonesia,
176

industrial agriculture,
7
,
35
,
43
,
44
,
202
,
230

See also
Gold Kist Poultry Center

industrial parks,
6
,
7
,
24–25

intentional communities,
21
,
66

interconnectedness,
132

internet,
6
,
161

intuition,
48

Iraq War,
71
,
170
,
219–20
,
230

Ireland,
83

Iténez River,
176–77

Ivirehi Ahae (Amazon’s Seven Skies),
177
,
178
,
179

J

Jedis,
212

Jefferson, Thomas,
33
,
35

Jesus,
90
,
124
,
252

jobs, outsourcing of,
6

Johnson, Chalmers,
222

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
123

Journal of Happiness Studies
,
151

Jung, Carl Gustav,
49
,
50

K

Kenya,
176

Kerouac, Jack,
87–88

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
74
,
105
,
235

Kingsolver, Barbara,
86
,
206

Kinnell, Galway,
213
,
214

kinship networks,
151

knowledge, traded for bewilderment,
30–31

Koch, Ilse,
169

Krahn Bassa wilderness,
249

Ku Klux Klan,
118
,
122

Kusasu (last Guarasug’wé speaker),
176–80
,
191–92
,
198

Kusasu and the Tree of Life
(Powers),
180

Kushner, Tony,
213

L

Lamott, Anne,
111

language extinctions,
175–80

Lao-tzu,
125–27
,
234

La Paz (Bolivia),
62

Latinos

community among,
108–9

housing projects of,
107–9

as illegal immigrants,
115–18

as poultry processors,
40
,
107–9

racism against,
101–3
,
112–13
,
118
,
129
,
230

Lee, Spike,
106

Leela
(divine play),
245

leisure ethic,
150

See also
Idle Majority
;
idleness

Leopold, Aldo,
85

Liberia,
10
,
56
,
220
,
247–54

libertarianism,
202

life energy, and soft economy,
208–10

litter,
68–69

Little Rock (AR),
239–40

living well,
57–63

leisure ethic and,
150–52

living better vs.,
150–51

as underdevelopment,
149–50

wildcrafting and,
158

local economy,
205

logging,
198
,
249–50

loneliness,
50
,
195

Long Island (NY),
83
,
84

love,
185
,
186

loving-kindness,
238

M

Madidi National Park (Bolivia),
175

malaria,
251

Mali,
70

Mandela, Nelson,
123
,
235

materialism,
152–53

material possession,
60

maya
(illusion),
127
,
130

Mayans,
142–43
,
153
,
194

Mayordomo
(Crawford),
86

McCarthy, Cormac,
12

McDonald’s,
206

McKibben, Bill,
86
,
206

meaning,
60

meaninglessness,
155–56

media literacy,
90–91
,
96

meditation,
81
,
191
,
257–58

Mennonite homeschooling curriculum,
160

mental illness,
166
,
170

Merton, Thomas,
215

meth labs,
161–62

mindfulness,
131–32
,
203
,
258
,
259–60

“Mindfulness” (poem; Oliver),
20
,
259

“mini-retirements,”
208

Misael (Bolivian park ranger),
176
,
177

Mittal, Lakshmi,
249

Mittal, Vanisha,
248–49

Mollison, Bill,
140

monoculture

corporate colonization and,
75–77

deadness of,
24–25

and disconnect from nature,
44
,
72

escape from,
41
,
206
,
245

slow food movement and,
206

suburbia and,
84

Monrovia (Liberia),
248
,
249
,
253–54

Monte Verde cloud forest,
11

“moodling,”
157
,
208

motherhood,
185–86

Motley Fool (website),
210

Muir, John,
85

multitasking,
30

Murosuyo (Native American deity),
90

My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
(Glendin ning),
72
,
198

mystical experience,
132

N

Naipaul, V. S.,
84
,
174

National Alliance,
117

national Buy Nothing Day,
205

National Socialism,
169–70
,
196

natural foods,
205

nature

earth mentors and,
85

fears regarding,
17

living in harmony with,
xiii
,
85
,
151

manufacturing processes in,
73–74

monoculture and disconnect from,
44
,
72
,
82

permaculture and,
87

Nature
(magazine),
139

negativity,
74
,
124
,
231
,
233
,
252

neo-Nazis,
117
,
118

Nevada Atomic Test Site,
217
,
220–21
,
238

New American Dream,
18–19

New Economy Foundation,
151

New Mexico

carbon-neutral communities in,
95–96

media literacy programs in,
90–91
,
96

New Yorker
,
188

Nhat Hanh, Thich,
120
,
213
,
238

Nichols, John,
86

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
16
,
156

Noel Kempff National Park,
176–80

noise,
219
,
224–27
,
230

No Name Creek,
14

author’s meditations next to,
49–51
,
197–200
,
215–16