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 Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
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Orca Footprints
20 books — 1 voter

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
401 books — 295 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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Paul   Newman
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman

Ana Claudia Antunes
We need to spread more seeds and fill this Planet with love to be surrounded by flowers just everywhere! It starts by simply opening up our hearts and hands to one another. It's in simple things where true Happiness may flourish. ...more
Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

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