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

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

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

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

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

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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

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

Green Politics

104 books — 87 voters

Orca Footprints

20 books — 1 voter

How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee

Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)

Climate Justice Squad

13 books — 4 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Sustainability Nonfiction

401 books — 294 voters

Touring Italy by Train by Elena Rossetti

Eco-Travel New Mexico by Ashley M. Biggers

Sustainable Travel

4 books — 3 voters

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... by Daniel Defoe

The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Marta McDowell

William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design by Thomas Hallock

Nature Lit — Literature & Oral Tradition, with regard to the Natural World

282 books — 6 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ Joey was surprised that plants could be used to clean water. Then, he had a funny thought. He imagined a dandelion standing at a sink while it washed Water just like his parents when they washed the dishes. He started to laugh. ”
― Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

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