Sustainable Development


The Age of Sustainable Development
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Limits to Growth
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
Thich Nhat Hanh
Turning on the Water Water flows from high mountain sources. Water runs deep in the Earth. Miraculously, water comes to us and sustains all life. Even if we know the source of our water, we often take its appearance for granted. But water is what makes all life on Earth possible. Our bodies are more than 70 percent water. Our food can be grown and raised because of water. Water is a good friend, a bodhisattva, which nourishes the many thousands of species on Earth. Its benefits are infinite. Rec ...more
Thich Nhat Hanh

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Too much consumption is not the problem. Actually it's the opposite. The problem is that we don't consume enough. The problem is waste - which only exists when something is produced but not consumed. So what we need is a system whereby everything produced is consumed. That system is Permaculture Economics. ...more
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Principles of a Permaculture Economy

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