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.

Abundance
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
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Le Monde sans fin
De mens is een plofkip
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
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
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
Let That Sh*t Go by Monica SweeneyManifest That Sh*t by Monica SweeneyThis Book Is a Retreat by Marianne RichmondPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat HanhThe People Pleaser’s Recovery Journal by Ellie Summers
Physical & Emotional Decluttering
11 books — 3 voters

How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-LeeRestoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)Entangled Life by Merlin SheldrakeMerchants of Doubt by Naomi OreskesA Song for the Earth by Shannon  Jade
Climate Justice Squad
13 books — 4 voters
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Great Displacement by Jake BittleThe Great Derangement by Amitav GhoshThe Story of More by Hope JahrenDesign Is The Problem by Nathan Shedroff
On Sustainable Material Design
50 books — 1 voter


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