Sustainability: Books

Trench warfare, not surgery -- Climate change and the fierce urgency of now -- Sustainability, fork-split -- Aspen : a canary in the coal mine and a shining city on a hill -- Finding your biggest lever -- Sustainable sustainability : creating lasting change -- Green energy : the key to solving climate change (and sometimes a scam) -- Green buildings : simple, elegant, and crucial -- Shameless self promotion and why it matters -- Afterword : the proximity of a sustainable world.

Sustainable living -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Home economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Environmental protection -- Citizen participation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Worrying about the future -- Five big issues toward 2052 -- The logic behind my forecast -- Population and consumption to 2052 -- Energy and CO2 to 2052 -- Food and footprint to 2052 -- The nonmaterial future to 2052 -- The Zeitgeist in 2052 -- Reflections on the future -- Five regional futures -- Comparison with other futures -- What should you do?.

Environmental policy; Environmental protection -- Political aspects; Conservation of natural resources -- Political aspects; Sustainability -- Political aspects

Preface -- How to use this book -- Fostering sustainable behavior -- Step 1: Selecting behaviors -- Step 2: Identifying barriers and benefits -- Step 3: Developing strategies -- Commitment : from good intentions to actions -- Social norms : building community support -- Social diffusion : speeding the adoption of new behaviors -- Prompts : remembering to act -- Communication : creating effective messages -- Incentives : enhancing motivation to act -- Convenience : making it easy to act -- Developing strategies revisited -- Step 4: piloting -- Step 5: Broad-scale implementation and evaluation -- Concluding thoughts -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the author.

Poverty and plunder -- Is nature priceless? -- Cursed by nature? : the politics of natural assets -- Discovering natural assets -- Capturing natural assets -- Selling the family silver -- Investing in investing -- Is a fish a natural asset? -- Natural liabilities -- Nature and hunger -- Restoring natural order.

"Psychology of Sustainability: An Applied Perspective examines the many psychological factors that lead to human behavioral effects on the environment. Because applied psychology is concerned with defining criteria and finding precursor variables that can be manipulated, this textbook is neatly structured to represent the principles of applied psychology. Each chapter will apply elements from a basic research area into the context of criteria specific to sustainability. Until recently, applied psychology received minimal attention from professors and professionals in sustainability. At the same time, increased interest has led many universities to offer courses on "Psychology of Sustainability." This book is the perfect text to provide an introduction to the subject. Throughout the book, readers will find new ways of framing questions related to human adaptability and evolutionary psychology. Psychology of Sustainability is ideal for students or professionals who are looking to contribute to the conversation"--

Loath this growth: sources of sustainability in the early modern world -- The industrial revolution and its discontents -- Eco-warriors: the environmental movement and the growth of ecological wisdom, 1960s-1970s -- Eco-nomics -- From concept to movement -- Sustainability today: 2000-present -- The future: 10 challenges for sustainability.

Building bridges to a sustainable future: understanding and creating a culture for sustainability -- Alcoa: connecting people to communities -- Alcatel-lucent: transforming communications for the twenty-first century -- BASF: creating chemistry for a sustainable future -- Bureau Veritas: leading by example -- Church & Dwight: product stewardship for sustainable prosperity -- Ingersoll Rand: integrating sustainability into the heartbeat of the company -- Pfizer: growing leaders through the global health fellows program -- Sanofi: putting the patient first -- Wyndham Worldwide: Wyndham green: one goal. one team. one earth -- People, planet, and profits in a new green economy.