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.

Ordures!: Journal d’un vidangeur
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Le Monde sans fin
De mens is een plofkip
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Carbon: The Book of Life
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Silent Spring
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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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Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money. This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mec ...more
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