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.

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

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

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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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Sustainability Books

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

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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

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Lists

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō

The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine Jay

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Minimalism

86 books — 70 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Stories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T. Powers

Best Sustainability Nonfiction

421 books — 331 voters

The Quest for College Heights by Sherman Lewis

Learn to Live Forward by Chidi Iwuchukwu

Landscape as Urbanism by Charles Waldheim

Influential Books on Urban Ecology and Climate Responsive Design

14 books — 5 voters

Best Books on Saving Our Environment and Ultimately Our Planet

21 books — 5 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

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

Green Politics

107 books — 88 voters

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“ Go and be fish again. ”
― Ernest J. Gaines

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“ Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety. ...more ”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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