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"

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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

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

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

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

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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

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

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

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

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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Lists

Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen

Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast by Peter del Tredici

Nature in the Suburban and Urban Environment

294 books — 34 voters

The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Memoirs of Experiments

237 books — 99 voters

The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan

Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber Richards

Gardening/Farming/Sustainability

48 books — 42 voters

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō

The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine Jay

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Minimalism

85 books — 68 voters

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Speculative Systems Novels That Audit Civilization

3 books — 1 voter

Books That Heal People and Planet

1 book — 1 voter

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. ”
― Paul Newman

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“ 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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