Contents -- Part One: Introductions -- 1: Footprints: Me and My Stuff -- 2: Gold: A Lodestone for My Journey -- Part Two: My Food -- 3: Coffee: Throwing a Hand Grenade into the Cozy World of Fair Trade -- 4: Wild Things: The Last Roundup on the High Seas and in the Hills -- 5: Curried Crustaceans: The Weird World of Mr. Prawn -- 6: Scorched Earth: A Sticky End with Palm Oil and Sugar -- 7: Unzipped: When the Banana Lost Its Seeds and Other Tales from the Orchards -- 8: Montezuma's Magic: How Joseph the Cocoa Farmer Became an Unlikely Green Warrior -- 9: Air Miles: Why Eating Kenyan Beans Is Good for the Planet -- Part Three: My Clothes -- 10: Drought and Dirty Secrets in the World of King Cotton -- 11: Behind the Label: Bless My Cotton Socks -- 12: Trouser Truths: The Unscrupulous World of Sweatshops -- 13: White Gold: My T-Shirt, Slave Labor, and the Death of the Aral Sea -- Part Four: The Chinese Dragon -- 14: Computing Power: Mice, Motherboards, and the New Emperors of Suzhou -- 15: Zhangjiagang: The World Capital of Rain-Forest Destruction -- 16: The Great Mall: Toothpicks to Placentas, Everything Must Go -- Part Five: Mines, Metals, and Power -- 17: My Beer Can: Giant Footprints in Bloke Heaven -- 18: Shock and Ore: Where My Metal Comes From -- 19: Footprints in the Snow: Finding the Last Oil -- 20: My Electricity: Old King Coal Lives On at Drax -- Part Six: Downstream -- 21: My Rubbish: Down the River and across the World -- 22: Trade Not Aid: Joining the Great Global Rummage Sale -- 23: Beyond the Grave: A New Life for Joe's Old Phone -- 24: Unexpected Heroes: The Queen of Trash and Other Chinese Titans of Recycling -- 25: E-waste: What to Do with That Old Computer -- Part Seven: My Species and Saving the Planet -- 26: Good News from Africa: Why We Can Feed the World -- 27: Beyond the Clockwork Orange: Why We Can Green Our Cities.

28: Zero Carbon: Why We Can Halt Climate Change -- 29: Defusing the Bomb: Why We Can Halt Population Growth-and Save the World -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index.