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
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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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