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"

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

La moda justa: Una invitación a vestir con ética

Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

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

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

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

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

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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 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 — 3 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

17 books — 1 voter

Your Body Is the Portal to Your Soul by Iris Angellys

Books That Heal People and Planet

2 books — 2 voters

Design Is The Problem by Nathan Shedroff

On Sustainable Material Design

50 books — 1 voter

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

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Bicycles, Airships and Things that Go by Bernie McAllister

Sustainable Mobility For Kids

52 books — 3 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ The more stitches, the less riches. ”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“ People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it. ...more ”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

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