Index 335
development rights, 125
Diamond, Jared, 236–37
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT),
137–38, 306
digging ditches, 101
dioxin, 306
Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment, 215
Direct Sale Subaccount, 182
disappearance of frontier, 70
diverse energy systems, 283
Division of Forestry, 41
doctrine, 59, 138
Doheny, Edward, 86
domestic-policy initiatives, 168
Dominion Transmission, 252
Dorph, Ole, 281–82
doubling time, 128
Doucett, James, 215
Douglas, William O., 116, 142–43
Downing, Andrew Jackson, 40, 45
drift net, 306
Ducks Unlimited (1937), 87
Dunhame, John, 11
Durand, Asher B., 42
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Earth Day celebration, 115
Earth Week, 139
East Coast barrier islands, 265
Ebell, Myron, 223–26
Ecological Society of America, 96
ecology, 148, 306; concept of, 74, 103; deep, 161–62;
defined, 39; economics of, 122; Law of, 148–49;
principles of, 149; restoration, 308; sensitive
science of, 122
economic growth, 206; and development, urban
residents, 86–87; and quality of life, 135; and
resource policy, Materials Policy Commission on,
104–5
economy/economies: activity, 158; agricultural, 125;
American, 151; cowboy, 126; of ecology, 122;
Ecotopian, 146; efficiency, 151, 156; greenhouse
gases in, 194; and industrial constraints, 86;
mature, 105; miserable, 52; model, 262; notions
of, 82; oil-based, 158; petroleum-and chemical-
dependent, 247; philosophy, motivated by, 204;
services-based, 150; short-term, 149; and social
issues, 206; “spaceman,” 126; spaceship, 126–27
ecosophy, 161
ecosphere, 139–40, 306
ecosystem-based approach, 253
eco-system-based management, 254
ecosystems, 148, 161, 306; clash, 3; concept of,
96–97; destabilization of, 116; fitness of, 131–32;
global, 148; Kissimmee River-Lake Okeechobee-
Everglades, 164–65; sensitive, 155
ecotheology, development of, 127
Ecotopia (Callenbach), 146–47
Ecotopian: economy, 146; forestry policies, 147;
lumber industry in, 146
Educated Americans, 21
education, and public regulation, 98
Edwards, Jonathan, 17, 43, 53, 99
efficiency, trade-off between, 157
efficient transportation infrastructure, development
of, 22
EGUs. See electric generating units
Egypt of the Pyramids, 97
Ehrlich, Paul, 30, 117, 128, 158
Eisenhower, Dwight, 123; administration, 115
electric generating units (EGUs), 276, 277
electrification, 245
electronic waste, 214–16. See also e-waste
Elliott, Paul, 258
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 23, 43–44
emissions: carbon dioxide, 276; and fuel-efficiency,
186; greenhouse gas, 276–78; reductions, 199;
smoke, 76
emulation, 167
Endangered Species Act (ESA), 145–46, 156, 160, 222,
223–26, 306
The End of Nature (McKibben), 193, 255
energy, 159, 233, 306; efficiency, 260; harnessing
of, 259; and human well-being, 189; intensive
production, 199; saving technologies, 117; society
interaction, 189; system, 260
Energy & Atmosphere category, 240
England, 15; improvement, 60; king of, 20
English Crown, 20
English law, 98
enormous magnitude, 131
entropy, 306
environment, 306; biotechnology and, 201–2;
chemical, 247–49; community, 217; concept of,
219; consciousness, development, 101; controls,
151; and development, 191–92; human
impact on, 26–27, 158; industry and, 185–86;
legislation, 115, 150; and natural resources, 192;
notion of, 219
environmental activism, 112; industrial and urban
growth, 37–38; infrastructure problems, 38;