Sustainability

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Human Permaculture Life Design For Resilient Living New Society Publishers	As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to …	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	242	2020	View
NEW! I Want a Better Catastrophe Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor New Society Publishers	An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown …	Andrew Boyd	422	2023	View
Intrinsic Hope Living Courageously In Troubled Times New Society Publishers	Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, …	Kate Davies	203	2018	View
Peak Everything Waking Up to the Century of Declines New Society Publishers	A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of …	Richard Heinberg	240	2010	View
Power Limits and Prospects for Human Survival New Society Publishers	Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and …	Richard Heinberg	416	2021	View
Radical Transformation Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization Between The Lines	Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, …	Kevin MacKay	264	2017	View
NEW! The Case for Climate Capitalism Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis ECW Press	A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk: anti-market critics such as Naomi Klein …	Tom Rand	274	2020	View
The Culture of Nature North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Second Edition Between The Lines	Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson’s innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work …	Alexander Wilson	352	2019	View
The Imperilled Ocean Human Stories From a Changing Sea Goose Lane Editions	An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana …	Laura Trethewey	238	2020	View
The Memory We Could Be Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future New Society Publishers	Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	338	2018	View
The New Carbon Architecture Buiding to Cool the Climate New Society Publishers	"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when …	Bruce King	186	2017	View
NEW! The Next Generation of Impact Assessment A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act Irwin Law Inc.	Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and …	A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle	614	2021	View
NEW! The Sea Is Rising and So Are We A Climate Justice Handbook Between The Lines	The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our …	Bill McKibben; Cynthia Kaufman	193	2021	View
NEW! The Web of Meaning Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe New Society Publishers	This book lays out an entirely different foundation for a civilization that could lead us sustainably through this century and beyond. It reveals the flaws hidden within the current worldview, …	Jeremy Lent	530	2021	View
Thriving Beyond Sustainability Pathways to a Resilient Society New Society Publishers	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 …	Andrés R. Edwards	241	2010	View
Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition New Society Publishers	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, …	Marc Roseland	257	2012	View