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The Age of Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 856 ratings — published 2015
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,846 ratings — published 2017
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,378 ratings — published 2017
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,946 ratings — published 2008
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,824 ratings — published 1972
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,370 ratings — published 2020
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,276 ratings — published 2021
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,805 ratings — published 2020
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,229 ratings — published 2013
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,647 ratings — published 1997
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,255 ratings — published 2005
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,075 ratings — published 1973
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,004 ratings — published 2004
The Limits to Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 930 ratings — published
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,268 ratings — published 2022
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,629 ratings — published 2011
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,793 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,172 ratings — published 2021
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,851 ratings — published 2014
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 22,931 ratings — published 2008
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,040 ratings — published 2014
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,861 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,510 ratings — published 1962
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,089 ratings — published 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,053 ratings — published 2019
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,531 ratings — published 2014
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,245 ratings — published 2018
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,066 ratings — published 2006
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,373 ratings — published 1993
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,060 ratings — published 2009
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 257 ratings — published 1996
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 419 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,750 ratings — published 1949
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.87 — 629 ratings — published 2000
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,544 ratings — published 2007
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,995 ratings — published 1986
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,192 ratings — published 1961
Environmentalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2006
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2012
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,503 ratings — published 2025
Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food―and Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.38 — 50 ratings — published 2025
Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change — in 50 Questions and Answers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 233 ratings — published
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,654 ratings — published 2018
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,894 ratings — published 2019
Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Behaviour Change and Communication (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2010
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 749 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.55 — 120 ratings — published 2021
End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken – and how we can fix it (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 146 ratings — published
Economical Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 906 ratings — published 1999
“In the Permaculture Economics model, businesses enhance ecosystems, rather than degrading them.”
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“The Carnivore (Sonnet 1406)
Be a gentle giant like the elephant,
not an opportunistic carnivore like the wolf.
The elephant doesn't harm anyone
to prove its greatness, while the wolf
doesn't think twice to devour another wolf.
Greatness unfolds through gentleness,
Illumination unfolds through expansion.
Coldness is the mark of cowardly animal,
Cruelty is cover for beastly degeneration.
Worst of all carnivores are the humans,
There is no end to their appetite.
Animals no longer partake once they are full,
While human greed knows no sane height.
More clothes, more cars, more cash,
Just how much will you consider enough!
Till you put a cork on cocky abundance,
Not felicity but disparity wreaks havoc.
Savagest carnivore of all is the human.
Uncorked materialism is new cannibalism.”
― Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Be a gentle giant like the elephant,
not an opportunistic carnivore like the wolf.
The elephant doesn't harm anyone
to prove its greatness, while the wolf
doesn't think twice to devour another wolf.
Greatness unfolds through gentleness,
Illumination unfolds through expansion.
Coldness is the mark of cowardly animal,
Cruelty is cover for beastly degeneration.
Worst of all carnivores are the humans,
There is no end to their appetite.
Animals no longer partake once they are full,
While human greed knows no sane height.
More clothes, more cars, more cash,
Just how much will you consider enough!
Till you put a cork on cocky abundance,
Not felicity but disparity wreaks havoc.
Savagest carnivore of all is the human.
Uncorked materialism is new cannibalism.”
― Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
