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 SUSTAINABILITY / ENOUGHNESS 

Unrestrained growth threatens Earth’s biosphere. I believe we need sustainable development: meeting present needs without compromising the future. Each generation should leave the next at least as much wealth per capita as it inherited, where wealth includes both manmade & natural capital.  Economies should be based on people & environment friendly technologies, renewable energy use, and resource recycling. Their health should be gauged by indicators of sustainability and human well being. To transition to future sustainability, we need education that promotes new values and a long-term, global perspective.  (Note: Some valuing sustainability will value “enoughness-- maximizing well-being, while minimizing consumption--and embrace a lifestyle based on “small is beautiful” philosophy.)

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 45 entries     

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #23A: Sustainability 

Sustainability (from online encyclopedia)
Various Definitions of Terms Related to Sustainability  
Sustainability Now (references, links, etc from engineering perspective)
Links on Sustainable Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development
The Worldwatch Institute
The Sustainability Institute (founded by Donella Meadows)
Links on Sustainability and Corporate Environmentalism
Climate Change (from online encyclopedia)
Global Warming (from online encyclopedia)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (from online encyclopedia)
Earth Observatory (NASA website)
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (at UC Berkeley)
National Resources Defense Council -- global warming
NY Times archive of articles on global warming and climate change
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Rocky Mountain Institute
The Ethic of Zero Growth
The Limits to Growth (from online encyclopedia, about 1972 book: lead author Donella Meadows)
Engineers for a Sustainable World
Sustainable World Coalition
World Resources Institute
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, by Lester R. Brown (entire book online)
Earth Trends: Environmental information (includes detailed searchable database, from World Resources Institute)
The Unsustainability of Development
Energy Use and Sustainable Development
"Facing the Freshwater Crisis" by Peter Rogers (Aug 2008 article re: sustainable use of water from Scientific American
"Uncle Sam Needs to Solve the Energy Crisis" by Jeffrey Sachs (in Time June 9, 2008)
Earth: The Sequel, by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn (more about this 2008 book on treehugger website)
Special Issue Scientific American Magazine:  Energy Solutions for a Sustainable World (Sep, 2006 issue)
"21st Century Strategies for Sustainability" by Hazel Henderson (2005 article / economic focus)
Special Science Magazine Series on the State of  the Planet (written late 2003)
Climate Ark's Sustainability Initiatives Solutions
books Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg  
Correcting Myths from Bjorn Lomborg
quotes about sustainability from the Sustainable Communities Network

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #23B: Enoughness 

Simple Living (from online encyclopedia)
Sustainable Living (from online encyclopedia)
Ecosharing (from online encyclopedia)
Small is Beautiful  (from online encyclopedia)
How Much is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth, by Alan Durning (summary of book)
"How Much is Enough?", by Vicki Robin (article) 
"How to Live With Just 100 Things," by Lisa McLaughlin (article in Time June 16 2008)
The Enoughness Pledge
Calculate Your Ecological Footprint
Small is Beautiful: An Introduction to E.F. Schumacher, by Noah Enelow
The E.F. Schumacher Society
Enoughness, by Bill McKibbon  (natural world perspective)
The Not So Big Life, by Sarah Susanka (2007 book by architect and author of The Not So Big House)
For American Consumers, How Much is Enough? by Jeffrey Shaffer (May, 2007 CSM article)
Yahoo Directory: Voluntary Simplicity
Yahoo Directory: Budget Management--Thrift
Frugal Family -- Advice and Tips for the Tightwad
Frugal Families (emphasizing simple living, homesteading)
The Dollar Stretcher
Thrift Store (from online encyclopedia)
Garage Sale (from online encyclopedia)
The Simplicity Resource Guide
quotes related to simplicity
quotes related to material possessions

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