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
The World Is Flat by Thomas L. FriedmanAll About Asset Allocation by Richard A. FerriPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeOn Borrowed Time by John TiltonBoom, Bust, Boom by Bill Carter
Global Investing Research
32 books — 1 voter
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

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
Designing Your Life by Bill BurnettThe Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition by Paul HawkenMore Than Money by Mark AlbionSustainable Excellence by Aron CramerPassion at Work by Lawler Kang
Careers in Sustainability
14 books — 2 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,072 books — 1,201 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A.    CoxThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of Experiments
237 books — 99 voters


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