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

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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

Value(s): Building a Better World for All

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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

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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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Time Management PRIVATE WORKSHOP Designed as a Book I Bit by ... by N. Sakr

POLIMI Executive MBA

13 books — 2 voters

Best Books on Saving Our Environment and Ultimately Our Planet

16 books — 4 voters

This Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe

Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases

132 books — 5 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Sustainability Nonfiction

401 books — 295 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov

Best Progressive Reads

1,063 books — 710 voters

Touring Italy by Train by Elena Rossetti

Eco-Travel New Mexico by Ashley M. Biggers

Sustainable Travel

4 books — 3 voters

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“ Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety. ...more ”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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“ Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable. ”
― George Washington Carver

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