Keyword: sustainable development

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents
Dissimulating the Sustainable City
by Andrés Duany & Emily Talen

In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, …
related subjects: Urban Issues

Toward Sustainable Communities
Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition
by Mark Roseland

The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of …
related subjects: Urban Issues

Mobilizing the Green Imagination
An Exuberant Manifesto
by Anthony Weston

Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature - today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

Thriving Beyond Sustainability
Pathways to a Resilient Society
by Andrés R. Edwards

Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

Maintaining Whole Systems on Earth's Crown
Ecosystem-Based Conservation Planning for the Boreal Forest
by Herb Hammond

Boreal forests account for nearly one quarter of the total carbon storage in Earth's biosphere. Protecting them is a key tool in the mitigation of global climate change.
Beautifully illustrated and easily accessible, Maintaining Whole Systems on …
related subjects: Environment & Economy

Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns
by Sim Van der Ryn & Peter Calthorpe

This classic text is a practical vision of how different types of communities can make the transition to a sustainable way of life that balances production and consumption, reduces resource waste and produces long-term social and ecological health.
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related subjects: New Catalyst Books

The Ecology Of Hope
Communities Collaborate for Sustainability
by Ted Bernard & Jora Young
foreword by Wes Jackson

The Ecology of Hope is a remarkably upbeat account of a number of communities where collaboration among different factions and interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful …
related subjects: New Catalyst Books

Evolution's Edge
The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World
by Graeme Taylor

It is now 5 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, reflecting the fact that we are closer to assuring the obliteration of our species than we have been at any time since the early eighties. We are rapidly approaching a tipping point, where we …
related subjects: Post Carbon Prep / Peak Oil