Sustainability

Chapter 1: What Are the Foundations of Sustainability?

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

John Muir, "The American Forests"

Rachel Carson, "The Obligation to Endure"

Aldo Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain"

Fritjof Capra, "Ecology and Community"

David Suzuki, "The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature"

Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis L. Meadows, "Limits to Growth: Tools for the Transition to Sustainability"

Eric Zencey, "Theses on Sustainability"

Ethan Goffman, "Defining Sustainability, Defining the Future"

Chapter 2: How Is Sustainability a Political Issue?

World Commission on Environment and Development, "Our Common Future: From One Earth to One World"

Al Gore, "Climate of Denial"

David W. Orr, "Framing Sustainability"

Carolyn Merchant, "Earthcare: Women and the Environment"

Vandana Shiva, "Principles of Earth Democracy"

Kyle D. Brown, "Justice in the Context of Environmental Sustainability"

Bjorn Lomborg, "Yes, it Looks Bad, But…"

Kate Rogers, "Why People Opt Against Going Green"

Ron Ross, "Now Playing: The Sustainability Con"

Alex Zorach, "Sustainability: Building a Consensus between Liberals and Conservatives"

Chapter 3: How do Crises and Disasters Create Challenges for Sustainability?

Kaid Benfield, "Sustainable New Orleans: How Katrina Made a City Greener"

Bill McKibben, "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math"

David Biello, "How Did the BP Oil Spill Affect Gulf Coast Wildlife?"

Andrew B. Wilson, "BP One Year Later: Lessons of the Gulf Oil Spill"

Julia Whitty, "Animal Extinction: The Greatest Threat to Mankind"

Jared Diamond, "The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization"

Mark Kivener, "Study Links Biodiversity and Language Loss"

Chapter 4: How is Sustainability Connected to Local and Urban Environments?

Jeffrey Kaplan, "The Gospel of Consumption"

Richard Register, "The City in Nature"

Amy Westervelt, "Can Recycling Be Bad for the Environment?"

Michael Pollan, "Wendell Berry’s Wisdom"

Fritjof Capra, "The New Facts of Life"

Douglas MacMillan, "Switching to Green Collar Jobs"

Brian Handwek, "’Blue Jobs’ Key to Future Fisheries"

Dave Newport, "Campus Sustainability: It’s About People"

Leslie Kauffman, "A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics"

Jaymi Heimbuch, "How Cell Phones are Changing the Face of Green Activism"

Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris, "How Green is my iPad?"

Chapter 5: How is Sustainability a Transnational Issue?

Ker Than, "Americans Least Green—And Feel Least Guilt, Survey Suggests"

Caroline Spelman, "Rio +20 Summit Points the way to a Greener Future"

Ong Suan Ee, "After Rio +20: What is ‘The Future we Want’?"

Joshua Hammer, "Rain Forest Rebel"

Brendan Smith, "The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change"

Stuart Biggs, "Tsunami Cities Fight Nuclear Elites to Create Green Jobs"

Nathan Myhrvold, "After Fukushima: Now, More Than Ever"

Jeneen Interlandi, "A Tree Grows in Haiti: Recovery Efforts May Hinge on Something Green"

Paige Brown, "The Sustainability Paradox—Interview with Paul Ehrlich"

Jeremy Rifkin, "The Third Industrial Revolution: Toward a New Economic Paradigm"

Michael Moyer and Carina Storrs, "How Much is Left? The Limits of Earth’s Resources"

Chapter 6: How is Tourism and Recreation Connected to Sustainability?

Heather E. Lindsay, "Ecotourism: The Promise and Perils of Environmentally Oriented Travel"

Bob O’Brien, "Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability"

Rick Bass, "Why I Hunt"

Yvon Choinard, "Let My People Go Surfing"

Eric Brymer, Greg Downey, and Tonia Gray, "Extreme Sports as a Precursor to Environmental Sustainability"

Allen Hershkowitz, "Report on ‘Game Changer: How the Sports Industry is Saving the Environment’"

John Bowman, "The Debate Over Zoos"

William Conway, "Buying Time for Wild Animals with Zoos"

Auden Schendler, "Climate Revelations"