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.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Le Monde sans fin
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
De mens is een plofkip
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
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
Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A.    CoxEchoes in the Walls by Katrina MorganThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
Memoirs of Experiments
238 books — 112 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

The Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Dirty Life by Kristin KimballGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker
Gardening/Farming/Sustainability
48 books — 42 voters
Doughnut Economics by Kate RaworthHow to Read the Akashic Records by Linda  HoweFor the Common Good by Herman E. DalyBeyond Growth by Herman E. DalyLimits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Regenerative Economics
23 books — 2 voters



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Susan Freinkel
Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use.
Susan Freinkel, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story – An Engaging Analysis of Cultural Dependency and the Resulting Environmental Crisis

Terence McKenna
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
Terence McKenna

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