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Sustainability by Design : A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

by: John R. Ehrenfeld

Sustainability by Design : A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

by: John R. Ehrenfeld

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9780300158434
ISBN 10:
0300158432
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 08/25/2009
Publisher: Yale University Press

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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.

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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Sustainability by Design : A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

Sustainability by Design : A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

9780300158434

0300158432

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