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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
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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Sustainability Books

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
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 Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Dirty Life by Kristin KimballGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker
Gardening/Farming/Sustainability
48 books — 42 voters
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniWriting Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-LughodThe Resonance of Unseen Things by Susan LepselterSwamplife by Laura A. OgdenThe Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
MSU Cultural Anthropology
58 books — 3 voters

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonoughFolks, This Ain't Normal by Joel SalatinThe STREAM TONE by T. GillingMaking Good by Dev AujlaNext Generation Democracy by Jared Duval
Inspirations for Change
66 books — 56 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieElly In Love by Colleen OakesLovefools by Avery Hale
Summer Reading 2014 - Ahtobeyoung.com
16 books — 4 voters

Pedal It! by Michelle MulderEvery Last Drop by Michelle MulderFashion Forward by Raina DelisleBrilliant! by Michelle MulderBetter Together by Nikki Tate
Orca Footprints
20 books — 1 voter
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy BlumeIt's Fun to Run by Brigitte CutshallBicycles, Airships and Things that Go by Bernie McAllisterTrain by Elisha CooperLittle Black, a Pony by Walter Farley
Sustainable Mobility For Kids
52 books — 3 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

Terence McKenna
“ Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. ”
― Terence McKenna
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
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― Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Videos Tagged “Sustainability”

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Groups Tagged "Sustainability"

Green Group The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environm…more
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The Earth Book Club Dear Earthlings, Welcome to the Earth Book Club. The Earth Book Club is 🌎 🌱A place for inquis…more
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JWGR Book Club Welcome to the JW Marriott Grand Rapids Book Club! Here we are highlighting books that are on to…more
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Sustainability Book Club Jacqueline, Willow, Michaela, & Bridget…more
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