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

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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

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

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

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

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

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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

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

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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Lists

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 — 69 voters

This Book Is a Retreat by Marianne Richmond

The People Pleaser’s Recovery Journal by Ellie Summers

Physical & Emotional Decluttering

12 books — 3 voters

The Land of Open Graves by Jason De León

Writing Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-Lughod

The Resonance of Unseen Things by Susan Lepselter

MSU Cultural Anthropology

58 books — 4 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy

The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas

All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The Social Palm's Eco-Friendly Reading List

20 books — 3 voters

The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition by Paul Hawken

Careers in Sustainability

14 books — 2 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

297 books — 36 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people. ”
― Steven M. Greer

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“ We need to spread more seeds and fill this Planet with love to be surrounded by flowers just everywhere! It starts by simply opening up our hearts and hands to one another. It's in simple things where true Happiness may flourish. ...more ”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

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