Sustainability

In ecology, sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Sustainability"

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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Sustainability Books

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change

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Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

Green Politics

104 books — 86 voters

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... by Daniel Defoe

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Marta McDowell

William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design by Thomas Hallock

Nature Lit — Literature & Oral Tradition, with regard to the Natural World

284 books — 8 voters

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Memoirs of Experiments

247 books — 116 voters

Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases

136 books — 13 voters

Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen

Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast by Peter del Tredici

Nature in the Suburban and Urban Environment

298 books — 37 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

Bluest Book Club

18 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“ Joey was surprised that plants could be used to clean water. Then, he had a funny thought. He imagined a dandelion standing at a sink while it washed Water just like his parents when they washed the dishes. He started to laugh. ”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

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