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"

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

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

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

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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Orca Footprints

20 books — 1 voter

Your Body Is the Portal to Your Soul by Iris Angellys

Books That Heal People and Planet

2 books — 2 voters

Summer Reading 2014 - Ahtobeyoung.com

16 books — 4 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Environmental Books

1,088 books — 1,235 voters

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

Bluest Book Club

17 books — 1 voter

The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan

Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber Richards

Gardening/Farming/Sustainability

48 books — 42 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ Go and be fish again. ”
― Ernest J. Gaines

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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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