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 Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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
De mens is een plofkip
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Le Monde sans fin
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
La moda justa: Una invitación a vestir con ética
This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
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
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
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
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Duurzaam reizen by Zoë van LiereTouring Italy by Train by Elena  RossettiTouring France by Train by Sophie PicotEco-Travel New Mexico by Ashley M. Biggers
Sustainable Travel
4 books — 3 voters

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldField Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt TsingSlow Down by Kōhei SaitōThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TuftePractice Practice by Ashton Hamm
Bluest Book Club
17 books — 1 voter
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

Common Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  L. NelsonLet That Sh*t Go by Monica SweeneyManifest That Sh*t by Monica SweeneyThis Book Is a Retreat by Marianne RichmondThe Secret Method for Growing Younger by Ellen  Wood
Physical & Emotional Decluttering
14 books — 13 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Jared DiamondPapyrus by John Gaudet
Green Politics
104 books — 86 voters


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George Washington Carver
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

Peter Singer
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

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