Sustainability by Design : A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
by John R. EhrenfeldFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2009-08-25
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
Treating the symptoms of global ecological stress isn't enough: we need to address the root causes of unsustainability, says philosopher/scientist John Ehrenfeld in this thought-provoking book. He offers a new model of sustain ability along with a set of strategies for creating a world in which human and other life can flourish forever. Book jacket.
Author Biography
John R. Ehrenfeld, who before his retirement was affiliated with the MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development and the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, now serves as executive director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and is senior research scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In 1999 he became the first recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Resources Institute. He lives in Lexington, MA.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xii |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| Is the Sky Falling, and, If So, Does Anyone Care? | p. 1 |
| Solving the Wrong Problem: How Good Habits Turn Bad | p. 10 |
| Uncovering the Roots of Unsustainability | p. 22 |
| Consumption: A Symptom of Addiction | p. 35 |
| A Radical Notion of Sustainability | p. 48 |
| The Tao of Sustainability | p. 58 |
| Change, Transformation, and Design | p. 64 |
| Culture Change: Locating the Levers of Transformation | p. 78 |
| A New Story for Nature | p. 99 |
| The Importance of Being | p. 108 |
| Consumption and Need | p. 123 |
| To Care Is Human | p. 133 |
| Creating Possibility with Products | p. 146 |
| Presencing by Design | p. 157 |
| Creating Possibility Through Institutional Design | p. 170 |
| Implementing Adaptive Governance | p. 182 |
| The Special Role of Business | p. 197 |
| Epilogue | p. 210 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 233 |
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