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

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

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

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

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

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

More most read this week tagged "sustainability"...

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

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

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

More sustainability books...

Lists

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Best Fiction Books about the Environment and Sustainability

228 books — 210 voters

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

Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov

Best Progressive Reads

1,071 books — 728 voters

Your Body Is the Portal to Your Soul by Iris Angellys

Books That Heal People and Planet

2 books — 2 voters

The Land of Open Graves by Jason De León

Writing Women's Worlds by Lila Abu-Lughod

The Resonance of Unseen Things by Susan Lepselter

MSU Cultural Anthropology

58 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

285 books — 9 voters

Best Books on Saving Our Environment and Ultimately Our Planet

21 books — 5 voters

Related Genres

Nonfiction
Environment

Featured News & Interviews

Readers’ Most Read Books of the Reading Challenge (So Far)

Read »

Quotes Tagged “Sustainability”

“ The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ...more ”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

55 likes