1. What Is Sustainability?
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Barnofsky, Anthony D. et al. “Approaching a State Shift in Earth’s Biosphere.” Nature (June 7,
2012): 52–58.
Boström, Magnus, ed. “Special Issue: A Missing Pillar? Challenges in Theorizing and Practicing
Social Sustainability.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, vol. 8 no. 12 (winter
2012).
Brown, J. and M. Purcell. “There’s Nothing Inherent about Scale: Political Ecology, the Local
Trap, and the Politics of Development in the Brazilian Amazon.” Geoforum, vol. 36 (2005):
607–24.
Clark, William C. “Sustainability Science: A Room of Its Own.” Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, vol. 104 no. 6 (February 6, 2007):1737–38.
Costanza, Robert et al. “The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital.”
Nature, vol. 387 (1997): 253–60.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Peter M. Kareiva, and Gretchen C. Daily. “Securing Natural Capital and
Expanding Equity to Rescale Civilization.” Nature, vol. 486 (June 2012): 68–73.
Folke, Carl et al. “Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and
Transformability.” Ecology and Society, vol. 15 no. 4 (2010).
Heinberg, Richard. “What Is Sustainability?” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, ed. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 13–20. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Holdren, John P., Gretchen C. Daily, and Paul R. Ehrlich. 1995. “The Meaning of Sustainability:
Biogeophysical Aspects.” In Defining and Measuring Sustainability: The Biogeophysical
Foundations, ed. M. Munasinghe and W. Shearer, 3–17. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Holling, C. S. “Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Social and Ecological Systems.”
Ecosystems, vol. 4 (August 2001): 390–405.
Jerneck, Anne et al. “Structuring Sustainability Science.” Sustainability Science, vol. 6 no. 1
(January 2011): 69–82.
Kates, R. et al. “Sustainability Science.” Science, vol. 292 (2001): 641–42.
Kates, Robert W. “What Kind of a Science Is Sustainability Science?” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108 no. 49 (December 6, 2011): 19449–50.
Keen, Mike F. and Krista Bailey. “The Natural Step for Colleges and Universities.”
Sustainability: The Journal of Record, vol. 5 no. 3 (June 2012): 147–51. DOI:
10.1089/sus.2012.9956.
Leach, Melissa et al. “Transforming Innovation for Sustainability.” Ecology and Society, vol. 17
no. 2 (2012).
Lovejoy, Thomas. “State of the Living Planet.” Sustainability: The Journal of Record, vol. 6 no.
4 (August 2013): 183–85.
McClure, Max. “Stanford Biologists Call for Humanity to ‘Scale Itself Back.’” Stanford Report,
June 8, 2012. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/june/daily-ehrlich-sustainability060812.html
Penfield, Paul, Jr. “What Is a Discipline?” Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 2002. http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~penfield/pubs/abet-02.html
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Pulliam, H.R. and N.M. Haddad. “Human Population Growth and the Carrying Capacity
Concept.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 75 (1994): 141–57.
Rees, William E. “Thinking ‘Resilience.’” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, ed. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 25–40. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Rockström, Johan et al. “A Safe Operating Space for Humanity.” Nature, vol. 461 no. 7263
(2009): 472–75
Rockström, Johan et al. “Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for
Humanity,” Ecology and Society, vol. 14 no. 2 (2009).
Stiglitz, Joseph, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. “Report of the Commission on the
Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress,” 2009. http://www.stiglitzsen-fitoussi.fr/documents/rapport_anglais.pdf
Walker, Brian et al. “Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions.” Science,
September 11, 2009: 1345–46.
Warde, Paul. “The Invention of Sustainability.” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8 (2011): 153–
70.
Westley, Frances et al. “Tipping Towards Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of
Transformation.” Ambio, vol. 40 no. 7 (2011): 762–80.
Wilson, Edward O. “Bottleneck.” Scientific American, February 2002: 84–91.
Books
Birkeland, Janis. Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions.
London: Earthscan Publications, 2000.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2009.
Commoner, Barry. The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. New York: Knopf, 1971.
Corcoran, Peter Blaze, ed. The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World. KIT
Publishers, 2007.
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Devall, Bill and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Layton, UT:
Gibbs Smith, 1985.
deVries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edwards, Andrés R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola Island,
BC: New Society Publishers, 2005.
Edwards, Andrés R. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola
Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010.
Ehlers, Eckart and Thomas Karfft, eds. Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging
Issues and Problems. New York: Springer, 2006.
Gunderson, L.H. and C.S. Holling, eds. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human
and Natural Systems. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.
Hawken, Paul. Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, revised edition. New
York: Harper Collins, 2010.
Hawken, Paul, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2008.
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Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Jenkins, Willis. Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Volume 1: The Spirit of Sustainability.
Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2010.
Komiyama, Hiroshi, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Hideaki Shiroyama, and Takashi Mino, eds.
Sustainability Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Tokyo: United Nations University
Press, 2011.
Kunstler, James. The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st
Century. London: Atlantic Books, 2005.
McLennan, Jason F. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design. Bainbridge Island, WA: Ecotone
Publishing Co., 2004.
Meadows, Donella, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year
Update. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004.
Meadows, Donella. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. White River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomare. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the
Evolutionary Corporation. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1999.
______. Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step. Gabriola Island,
BC: New Society Publishers, 2002.
Nordhaus, Ted, Michael Shellenberger, and Linus Glomqvist. The Planetary Boundaries
Hypothesis: A Review of the Evidence. Oakland, CA: Breakthrough, 2012.
Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. New
York: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2008.
Steffen, Alex, ed. World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, revised ed. New York:
Abrams, 2006.
______. World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, revised ed. New York: Abrams,
2011.
Stibbe, Arran, ed. The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. Devon,
UK: Green Books, 2009.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012. http://cnx.org/content/col11325/latest/
United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (known as the Brundtland
Commission). Our Common Future. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987.
http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm
Walker, Brian and David Salt. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a
Changing World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
Withgott, Jay and Scott Brennan. Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, 3rd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2009.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Wright, Richard T. and Dorothy F. Boorse. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable
Future, 11th ed. Boston: Benjamin Cummings, 2011.
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Websites
Donella Meadows Institute. http://www.donellameadows.org/
Originally known as the Sustainability Institute. Founded by the late Donella Meadows to
apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental, and social
challenges.
Earth Policy Institute. http://www.earth-policy.org/
Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development. http://sustainabilityscience.org
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). http://www.iisd.org/
An international public policy research institute for sustainable development.
International Society for Sustainability Professionals (ISSP).
http://sustainabilityprofessionals.org
An organization of practitioners in sustainability planning.
Resilience, a program of the Post Carbon Institute. http://www.resilience.org/
Resilience Alliance. http://www.resalliance.org/1.php
Sustainability Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://sustainability.pnas.org/
Complete collection of papers in sustainability science published in PNAS to date.
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. http://sspp.proquest.com/
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal.
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy: Researcher’s Toolkit.
http://sspp.proquest.com/toolkit/home.html
Researcher’s toolkit from this open-access online journal, including a database of academic
programs, a network of sustainability scholars and experts, sustainability datasets from US
Government agencies, and a database of sustainability theses and dissertations.
The Natural Step. http://www.naturalstep.org/
The Natural Step: Toolkits for Sustainability. http://www.naturalstep.org/en/toolkits-aroundworld
Handbooks of best practices developed by the Natural Step for individuals, businesses,
nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and planners.
World Resources Institute. http://wri.org/
A large and robust research and policy organization. Collaborates via partnerships with
governments, the private sector, and nonprofit organizations. Issues scholarly reports on a
range of topics related to environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
World Resources Institute: Earth Trends online database. http://earthtrends.wri.org/
Worldwatch Institute. http://www.worldwatch.org/
A public policy research organization working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable
world. Publishes World Watch magazine, the annual Vital Signs and State of the World
reports, as well as reference guides, blogs, and reports on particular issues. Excellent source
of detailed information about sustainability issues.
Worldwatch Institute: Vital Signs. http://vitalsigns.worldwatch.org/
Data and analysis of global trends in energy and transportation, environment and climate,
food and agriculture, global economy and resources, and population and society.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
2. A Brief History of Sustainability
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Griswold, Eliza. “How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement.” New York Times,
September 21, 2012.
Mackenbach, Johan P. “René Dubos and Jared Diamond Dream of Dutch Polders.” European
Journal of Public Health, vol. 16 no. 6 (2006): 575. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckl122
Sims, Mike. “Case Study: Silent Spring.” In Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: The Spirit
of Sustainability, ed. Willis Jenkins, 452–55. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing
Group, 2010.
Warde, Paul. “The Invention of Sustainability.” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8 (2011): 153–
170.
Books
Burke, Edmund, III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds. The Environment and World History. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2009.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2011.
Commoner, Barry. The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. New York: Random
House, 1971.
Edwards, Andres R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Gabriola Island,
BC: New Society Publishers, 2005.
Goldsmith, Edward. Blueprint for Survival. New York: Signet, 1974.
Grafton, R. Quentin, Libby Robin, and Robert J. Wasson, eds. Understanding the Environment:
Bridging the Disciplinary Divides. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.
Lazarus, Richard J. The Making of Environmental Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2004.
Magoc, Chris J. Environmental Issues in American History: A Reference Guide with Primary
Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Merchant, Carolyn. American Environmental History: An Introduction. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2007.
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr., and Scott E. Spoolman. Living in the Environment: Concepts, Connections,
and Solutions, 16th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2009.
Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
Poole, Robert. Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2010.
Sitarz, Daniel. Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet. New York: Nova,
1994.
United Nations. Earth Summit Agenda 21: The United Nations Programme of Action from Rio.
New York: United Nations Department of Public Information, 1992.
United Nations. Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg,
A/CONF.199/20. New York: United Nations, 2002.
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Ward, Barbara and René Dubos. Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet.
Toronto: Report on the Human Environment, 1972.
World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1987.
Websites
NASA: The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
The best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
3. The Biosphere
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Ackerman, Jennifer. “The Ultimate Social Network.” Scientific American, June 2012: 36–43.
Angier, Natalie. “Listening to Bacteria.” Smithsonian, July/August 2010: 77–82.
Barabási, Albert-László and Eric Bonabeau. “Scale-Free Networks.” Scientific American, May
2003: 50–59.
Casey, Constance. “The Zip-Code-Sized Fungus.” Landscape Architecture Magazine, December
2011: 28–30.
Casselman, Anne. “Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus.” Scientific
American, October 2007.
Christian, David. “Big History for the Era of Climate Change.” Solutions, March 2012.
Collins, Dwight E., Russell M. Genet, and David Christian. “Crafting a New Narrative to
Support Sustainability.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Worldwatch Institute, 218–24. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
McLeish, Todd. “Deep Carbon Observatory Seeks to Discover Secrets of Carbon inside Earth.”
University of Rhode Island Today, March 11, 2013.
http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=6568
Folke, Carl. “Respecting Planetary Boundaries and Reconnecting to the Biosphere.” In State of
the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 19–27. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2013.
Folke, Carl et al. “Reconnecting to the Biosphere.” Ambio, vol. 40, no. 7 (2011): 719–38.
Grant, M. and J. Mitton. “Case Study: The Glorious, Golden, and Gigantic Quaking Aspen.”
Nature Education Knowledge, vol. 1 no. 8 (2010): 40.
Hazen, Robert M. “Evolution of Minerals.” Scientific American, March 2010: 58–65.
Jabr, Ferris. “How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence.” Scientific American,
November 2012.
Pimm, Stuart L. and Clinton Jenkins. “Sustaining the Variety of Life.” Scientific American,
September 2005: 66–73.
Ricardo, Alonso and Jack W. Szostak. “Life on Earth.” Scientific American, September 2009:
54–61.
Roth, Charles E. “Education for Life in the Sky.” The Environmentalist, vol. 1 no. 4 (Winter
1981): 293–97.
Stahler, Steven W. “The Inner Life of Star Clusters.” ’Scientific American, March 2013: 44–51.
Zimmer, Carl. “Slime Molds: Ancient, Alien, and Sophisticated.” New York Times, October 4,
2011.
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Books
Barlow, Connie. Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science. New York: Copernicus, 1997.
Beattie, Andrew and Paul R. Ehrlich. Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity Is Money in the Bank, 2nd
ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Bonner, John Tyler. The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2008.
Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. New
York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
Callicott, J. Baird. In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
______. The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions
of Life Into a Science of Sustainability. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
Cleveland, C., ed. Encyclopedia of Earth. Washington, DC: Environmental Information
Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment, 2007.
Crist, Eileen and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Davies, Paul and John Gribbin. The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries that Challenge Our
Understanding of Physical Reality. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
de Vries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Gribbin, John and Mary Gribbin. James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2009.
Harding, Stephan. Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.
Harte, John. Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving. Sausalito,
CA: University Science Books, 1988.
Hazen, Robert M. The Joy of Science. Chantilly, VA: Great Courses, 2001.
______. The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet. New
York: Viking, 2012.
Henson, Robert. The Rough Guide to Weather. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002.
Hölldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and
Strangeness of Insect Societies. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Keller, Edward A. and Daniel B. Botkin. Essential Environmental Science. New York: John
Wiley, 2008.
Kump, Lee R., James F. Kasting, and Robert G. Crane. The Earth System, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990.
Lovelock, James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
__________. The Revenge of Gaia. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
__________. The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
__________. What Is Life? Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Prigogine, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos. New York: Bantam, 1984.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Rolston, Holmes, III. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in The Natural World.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989.
Smil, Vaclav. The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2002.
Smolin, Lee. The Life of the Cosmos. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Trefil, James and Robert Hazen. The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, 6th ed. New York: John
Wiley, 2010.
Walker, Brian and David Salt. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a
Changing World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. London: Abacus, 2002.
__________. The Diversity of Life. Boston: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Withgott, Jay and Scott Brennan. Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, 3rd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2009.
WWF et al. Living Planet Report 2012. Gland, Switzerland: WWF, 2012.
Websites
Deep Carbon Observatory. http://deepcarbon.net/
A grant-funded research institute investigating the nature and extent of the deep microbial
biosphere.
Global Environmental Governance Project. http://environmentalgovernance.org/.
A joint initiative hosted by the College of William and Mary and the Yale Center for
Environmental Law and Policy.
International Environmental Agreements website. http://iea.uoregon.edu/.
Hosted by the University of Oregon. Provides a storehouse of information on environmental
agreements.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Biology handbook.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/biology.html
World Resources Institute, Earth Trends online database. http://earthtrends.wri.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
4. The Human Sphere
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Assadourian, Erik. “The Path to Degrowth in Overdeveloped Countries.” In State of the World
2012, Worldwatch Institute, 22–37. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
______. “Re-engineering Cultures to Create a Sustainable Civilization.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 113–25. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Attaran, A. “An Immeasurable Crisis? A Criticism of the Millennium Development Goals and
Why They Cannot Be Measured.” PLoS Medicine (2005).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201695/
Center for Sustainable Systems Factsheets. Social Development Indicators. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan, 2012. http://css.snre.umich.edu/facts/.
Cohen, David. “Earth’s Natural Wealth: An Audit.” New Scientist, vol. 2605 (May 23, 2007).
Cohen, Joel E. “Human Population Grows Up.” Scientific American, September 2005: 48–55.
______. “Human Population: The Next Half Century.” In State of the Planet 2006–2007, ed.
Donald Kennedy. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
______. “Data Points: The New Boomers.” Scientific American, July 2009: 28.
Cook, Simon, Myles Fisher, Tassilo Tiemann and Alain Vidal. “Water, Food and Poverty:
Global- and Basin-scale Analysis.” Water International, vol. 36 no. 1 (2011): 1–16.
Costanza, Robert et al. “Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature.”
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 126–42.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Crutzen, Paul J. “Geology of Mankind.” Nature, vol. 415 (January 2002): 23
Crutzen, Paul J. and Steffen W. “How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene Era?” Climate
Change, vol. 61 no. 3 (2003): 251–57.
Daly, Herman E. “Economics in a Full World.” Scientific American, vol. 293 no. 3 (September
2005): 100–107.
Daly, Lew. “Moving Beyond GDP.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Worldwatch Institute, 37. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Douthwaite, Richard. “Money and Energy.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 279–82. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Ehrlich, Paul R. and John P. Holdren. “Impact of Population Growth.” Science, vol. 171 (1971):
1212–17.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Peter M. Kareiva, and Gretchen C. Daily. “Securing Natural Capital and
Expanding Equity to Rescale Civilization.” Nature, vol. 486 (June 2012): 68–73.
doi:10.1038/nature11157
Engelman, Robert. “Nine Population Strategies to Stop Short of 9 Billion.” In State of the World
2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 121–28. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2012.
______. “Toward a Sustainable Number of Us.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability
Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 9. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
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Farley, Joshua. “Ecological Economics.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 259–78. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Funke, Nikki, Karen Nortje, Kieran Findlater, Mike Burns, Anthony Turton, Alex Weaver, and
Hanlie Hattingh. “Redressing Inequality: South Africa’s New Water Policy.” Environment:
Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, vol. 49 no. 3 (April 2007): 10–23.
Galvin, Mary. “Participating in Urban Myths about Women’s Rural Water Struggles.” Agenda:
Empowering Women for Gender Equity, vol. 25 no. 2 (2011): 87–100.
Heinberg, Richard. “Beyond the Limits to Growth.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 3–12.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Jerneck, Anne et al. “Structuring Sustainability Science.” Sustain Sci, vol. 6 (2011): 69–82.
Kennedy, Donald. “Life on a Human-Dominated Planet.” In State of the Planet 2006–2007, ed.
Donald Kennedy. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
Klein, Naomi. “Capitalism vs. the Climate.” The Nation, November 21, 2011.
Kubiszewski, Ida and Robert Costanza. “Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Prosperity.” In
State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute,
177–82. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
McKibben, Bill. “Breaking the Growth Habit.” Scientific American, April 2010: 63–65.
Mattar, Helio. “Public Policies on More-Sustainable Consumption.” In State of the World 2012:
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 137–44. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2012.
Mazur, Laurie. “Empower Women, Build Resilience.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 356. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Moore, Jennie and William E. Rees. “Getting to One-Planet Living.” In State of the World 2013:
Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 39–50. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Musser, George. “The Climax of Humanity.” Scientific American, September 2005: 44–47.
Pulliam, H.R., and N.M. Haddad. “Human Population Growth and the Carrying Capacity
Concept.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 75 (1994): 141–57.
Raworth, Kate. “Defining a Safe and Just Space for Humanity.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 28–38. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Rees, William E. “The Human Nature of Unsustainability.” In The Post Carbon Reader:
Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch,
194–203. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Ryerson, William N. “Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 153–74. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Sachs, Wolfgang. “Development and Decline.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 125. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Shuman, Michael H. “The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 283–91. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
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Speth, James Gustave. “The Social Costs of the U.S. Banking System.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 136. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2013.
Spratt, Stephen, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, and Josh Ryan-Collins. “The Great Transition: A
Tale of How It Turned Out Right.” London: New Economics Foundation, 2010.
Steffen, Will, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill. “The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now
Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?” Ambio, vol. 36 no. 8 (December 2007).
Sutton, Mark A. et al., “Too Much of a Good Thing.” Nature (April 10, 2011): 159–61.
ten Brink, P., L. Mazza, T. Badura, M. Kettunen, and S. Withana. “Nature and Its Role in the
Transition to a Green Economy.” Final report for The Economics of Ecosystems &
Biodiversity, Institute for European Environmental Policy, 2012.
Thrasher, Rachel Denae. “Free Trade.” In Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: The Spirit of
Sustainability, ed. Willis Jenkins, 239–42. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing
Group, 2010.
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “The Millennium Development Goals Report
2013.” New York: United Nations, 2013.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP). “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable,
Low-carbon World.” Nairobi: United Nations, 2008.
UN Population Division. “World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision, Volume I:
Comprehensive Tables.” New York: United Nations, 2011.
Vidal, John. “How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Landgrab.” Observer,
March 7, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/food-water-africaland-grab
Vital GEO Graphics. UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 2009.
Weinthal, Erika, Jessica Troell, and Mikiyasu Nakayama. “Water and Post-conflict
Peacebuilding: Introduction.” Water International, vol. 36 no. 2 (2011): 143–53.
Whybrow, Peter C. “Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches
of Modern America.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 177–83. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Zalasiewicz, Jan et. al. “Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?” Geological Society of
America, vol. 18 no. 2 (February 2009): 4–8.
Books
Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do? White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013.
Assadourian, Erik. State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, from Consumerism to
Sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
______. State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2012.
Bellwood, Peter. First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell,
2005.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2009.
______. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2011.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Chandy, L. and G. Gertz. Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty form 2005
to 2015. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2011.
Costanza, Robert, John H. Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard B.
Norgaard. An Introduction to Ecological Economics, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press,
2011.
Czech, B. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a
Plan to Stop Them All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Daly, Herman E. and Joshua Farley. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.
Daly, Lew and Stephen Posner. Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy. New York:
Demos, 2012.
de Vries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Dietz, Rob and Dan O’Neill. Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of
Finite Resources. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2013.
Dillard, Jesse, Veronica Dujon, and Mary C. King, eds. Understanding the Social Dimension of
Sustainability. London: Routledge, 2009.
Elkington, John. The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier. New York: Routledge,
2012.
Giancoli, Douglas C. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 2005.
Gilding, Paul. The Great Disruption. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Goodstein, Eban S. Economics and the Environment. New York: John Wiley, 2010.
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism. New York: Little,
Brown and Company, 1999.
Hawken, Paul. Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, revised edition. New
York: Harper Collins, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Gabriola
Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2011.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
IEA. Energy for All: Financing Access for the Poor. Paris, 2011.
Jackson, Tim. Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London: Earthscan,
2009.
Kareiva, Peter, Heather Tallis, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, and Stephen Polasky, eds.
Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011.
Kennedy, Donald, ed. Science Magazine’s State of the Planet 2006–2007. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2006.
Korten, David C. When Corporations Rule the World, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler,
2001.
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
Meadows, Donella, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year
Update. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004.
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Ponting, Clive. A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great
Civilizations. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Princen, Thomas, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, eds. Confronting Consumption.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Randers, Jorgen. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green, 2012.
Redman, Charles L. Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 2001.
Rubin, Jeff. Why Your World Is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller. Toronto, ON: Vintage Canada
Editions, 2010.
Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. New York: Harper &
Row, 1973.
Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
______. The Bridge at the Edge of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
______. America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2012.
Stern, Nicholas. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
United Nations University, International Human Dimensions Programme, and UNEP. Inclusive
Wealth Report 2012: Measuring Progress toward Sustainability. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Wessels, Tom. The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future. Burlington: University of
Vermont Press, 2006.
World Bank. Moving Beyond GDP. Washington, DC: WAVES Partnership, 2012.
World Resources Institute (WRI) in collaboration with United Nations Development
Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and World Bank. World Resources
2008: Roots of Resilience—Growing the Wealth of the Poor. Washington, DC: World
Resources Institute, 2008.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to
Sustainability. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
_______. State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2012.
Websites
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). http://steadystate.org/
Center for Environment and Population. http://www.cepnet.org/
Center for Sustainable Economy. http://www.sustainable-economy.org/
Nonprofit organization for research, education, and advocacy related to ecological
economics.
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_revie
w_report.cfm
Download the entire Stern Review.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Foreign Policy. Failed States Index. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/failedstates
Fund for Peace. http://www.fundforpeace.org/
Fund for Peace. Failed States Index. http://ffp.statesindex.org/
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. http://www.uvm.edu/giee/
International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.ifpri.org/
Nonprofit organization: conducts research on food, poverty, land grabs, trade, and other
issues; publishes reports; provides advocacy.
International Society for Ecological Economics. http://www.ecologicaleconomics.org
Maryland’s Genuine Progress Indicator. http://www.green.maryland.gov/mdgpi
Oakland Institute. http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/
Research and advocacy related to land grabs, poverty, climate change, and international aid.
Population Action International (PAI). http://www.populationaction.org
Population Council. http://www.popcouncil.org/
Population Reference Bureau. http://www.prb.org/
Redefining Progress. http://rprogress.org/index.htm
Website for the Genuine Progress Indicator.
Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. “Green Economy.”
http://www.uncsd2012.org/greeneconomy.html
Sustainable Scale Project: Carrying Capacity.
http://www.sustainablescale.org/ConceptualFramework/UnderstandingScale/MeasuringScal
e/CarryingCapacity.aspx
Sustainable Scale Project: Limits to Growth.
http://www.sustainablescale.org/ConceptualFramework/UnderstandingScale/MeasuringScal
e/LimitstoGrowth.aspx
United Nations Population Division Home Page. http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
United Nations Development Programme Millennium Development Goals.
http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml
United Nations Development Programme Resource Efficiency.
http://www.unep.org/resourceefficiency/
Formerly known as the Sustainable Consumption Programme.
United Nations Environment Programme. http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Millennium Development Goals. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals
United Nations Population Fund. http://www.unfpa.org/public/
U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html
U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. http://www.ussee.org
World Population Clock. http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
5. Putting Sustainability into Practice
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Bäckstrand, K. “Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policy-Makers
and Citizens in Environmental Governance.” Glob. Environ. Politics, vol. 3 no. 4 (2003):
24–41.
Banerjee, S. “CSR: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Critical Sociology, vol. 34 (2008): 51–79.
Davies, John and the editors of GreenBiz.com. “State of the Profession 2013.” GreenBiz Group,
January 2013.
Global Footprint Network. “What Is the Ecological Footprint?” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 41. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Hohensee, Jeff. “Corporate Reporting and Externalities.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 154–60. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
King, Carey W. and Charles A.S. Hall. “Relating Financial and Energy Return on Investment.”
Sustainability, vol. 3 no. 10 (2011): 1810–32.
Meadows, Donella. “Dancing with Systems.” Whole Earth, Winter 2001.
http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2106/article/2/dancing.with.systems
Meadows, Donella. “Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development.” Four
Corners, VT: The Sustainability Institute, 1998.
Pascale, Richard Tanner and Jerry Sternin. “Your Company’s Secret Change Agents.” Harvard
Business Review, May 2005: 73–81.
UNEP. “Communicating Sustainability: How to Produce Effective Public Campaigns.” United
Nations Environment Programme, 2005.
Books
AtKisson, Alan. The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational
Performance and Transform the World. London: Earthscan, 2008.
Bell, Simon and Stephen Morse. Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing. Sterling, VA:
Earthscan, 2003.
______. Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable? Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008.
Bennett, M., P. James, and L. Klinkers. Sustainable Measures: Evaluation and Reporting of
Environmental and Social Performance. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 1999.
Brown, Lester R. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
Cassio, Jim and Alice Rush. Green Careers: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future. Gabriola
Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2009.
de Vries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Esty, Daniel C. and Andrew S. Winston. Green to Gold. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Ewing B., D. Moore, S. Goldfinger, A. Oursler, A. Reed, and M. Wackernagel. The Ecological
Footprint Atlas 2010. Oakland: Global Footprint Network, 2010.
Friend, Gil. The Truth about Green Business. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press, 2009.
Gilding, Paul. The Great Disruption. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Hart, Maureen. Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, 2nd ed. West Hartford, CT:
Sustainable Measures, 2006.
Hitchcock, Darcy and Marsha Willard. The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning.
Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008.
______. The Business Guide to Sustainability. New York: Earthscan, 2009.
Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White
River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
______. The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain
Times. White River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2011.
Jones, Van. The Green Collar Economy. New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Makower, Joel. Strategies for the Green Economy. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009.
Petts, J., ed. Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Volume 1, Environmental Impact
Assessment: Process, Methods and Potential. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Raskin, Paul et al. Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead. Boston:
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2002.
Senge, Peter, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, and Sara Schley. The Necessary
Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. New York: Broadway Books,
2010.
Stibbe, Arran, ed. The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. Devon,
UK: Green Books, 2009.
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on
the Earth. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1995.
Willard, Bob. The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: How to Transform Your Company.
Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2009.
Websites
The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project. http://www.accountingforsustainability.org
AXIS Performance. Sustainability Planning and Reporting Kit (SPaRK™).
http://www.axisperformance.com/
Carbon footprint calculators. http://buildcarbonneutral.org, http://www.carboncounter.org/, and
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
Donella Meadows Institute, formerly Sustainability Institute. http://www.donellameadows.org/
Provides research, tools, workshops, and activities to apply systems thinking and
collaborative learning to economic, environmental, and social challenges.
European Environment Agency: Indicators. http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/
Indicators and fact sheets about Europe’s environment.
Global Footprint Network: Ecological Footprint. http://www.footprintstandards.org/
Provides footprint calculator, data on ecological footprints of countries, research and
information on a wide variety of related topics.
Global Footprint Network: Ecological Footprint Atlas. http://www.footprintnetwork.org/atlas
The atlas itself.
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). http://www.globalreporting.org/
Greenhouse Gas Protocol. http://www.ghgprotocol.org/
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). http://www.iema.net/
International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). http://www.theiirc.org
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP).
http://www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org/
An organization of practitioners in sustainability planning.
Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment. http://www.gdrc.org/uem/lca/life-cycle.html
Overview and some helpful cautions from the nonprofit Global Development Research
Center.
Gapminder, Hans Rosling. http://www.gapminder.org/world/
Website that illustrates global trends using clear, attractive displays of data.
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. http://www.sasb.org
Sustainable Measures: Sustainability Indicators 101.
http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/indicators
Sustainable Seattle. http://www.sustainableseattle.org/
United Nations Millennium Development Goals 2000. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
United Nations Environmental Programme: Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable,
Low-Carbon World.” Worldwatch Institute, 2008.
http://www.unep.org/labour_environment/features/greenjobs.asp
Water Footprint Network. http://www.waterfootprint.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
6. Climate
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Anderson, K., A. Bows, S. Mander, S. Shackley, P. Agnolucci, and P. Ekins. “Decarbonising
Modern Societies: Integrated Scenarios Process and Workshops.” Technical Report 48,
Tyndall Centre, 2006. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/theme2/final_reports/t3_24.pdf
Arndt, D. S., M. O. Baringer, and M. R. Johnson, eds. “State of the Climate in 2009.” Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc., vol. 91 (2010): S1–S224. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-theclimate/2009.php
Arrhenius, Svante. “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the
Ground.” The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of
Science, April 1896.
Bauman, Yoram and Shi-Ling Hsu. “The Most Sensible Tax of All.” New York Times, July 5,
2012: A19.
Benson, M. “Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions
of Scale.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers vol. 100 (2010): 1025–35.
“The Biological Effects of Ocean Acidification,” Princeton University.
http://www.princeton.edu/grandchallenges
Blok, Kornelis, Niklas Höhne, Kees van der Leun, and Nicholas Harrison. “Bridging the
Greenhouse-gas Emissions Gap.” Nature Climate Change, vol. 2 (July 2012).
Bulkeley, H. and S. Moser. “Responding to Climate Change: Governance and Social Action
beyond Kyoto.” Global Environmental Politics, vol. 7 (2007): 1–10.
Coulter, Liese, Josep G. Canadell, and Shobhakar Dhakal, eds. “Carbon Reductions and
Offsets.” Earth System Science Partnership Report No. 5, Global Carbon Project Report No.
6. Canberra: Global Carbon Project, 2008.
Crutzen, Paul. “Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to
Resolve a Policy Dilemma?” (essay). Climatic Change, August 2006: 212, 217.
Davidson, E.A. and I.A. Janssens. “Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Carbon Decomposition and
Feedbacks to Climate Change.” Nature, vol. 440 (2006):165–173.
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. “Even Soil Feels the heat: Soils Release More
Carbon Dioxide As Globe Warms.” ScienceDaily, March 25, 2010.
Douthwaite, Richard. “The International Response to Climate Change.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 53–62. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Fleming, J. “The Climate Engineers: Playing God to Save the Planet.” Wilson Quarterly, Spring
2007: 46.
German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). “Solving the Climate Dilemma: The
Budget Approach.” Berlin: German Advisory Council on Global Change, 2009.
Hansen, James E. “Climate Change Is Here—and Worse Than We Thought.” Washington Post,
August 3, 2012.
Hansen, James et al. “Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?” 2008.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126 and http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1135
Paper that establishes 350 ppm as the safe limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentration.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Harvey, Fiona. “Black is the New Green.” Financial Times, March 3, 2009.
Article discussing the carbon sequestration potential of biochar.
Heller, Nicole E. and Erika S. Zavaleta. “Biodiversity Management in the Face of Climate
Change: A Review of 22 Years of Recommendations.” Biological Conservation, vol. 142
(2009): 14–32.
Hönisch, Bärbel et al., “The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification.” Science, March 2,
2012: 1058–63.
Kump, Lee R. “The Last Great Global Warming.” Scientific American, July 2011: 56–61.
Lackner, Klaus S. “Washing Carbon Out of the Air.” Scientific American, June 2010: 66–71.
Lehmann, Johannes. “A Handful of Carbon.” Nature vol. 447 (May 10, 2007): 143–144.
Lehmann, J., J. Gaunt, and M.Rondon. “Bio-char Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A
Review.” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, vol. 11 (2006): 403–27.
Lenton, Timothy M. et al. “Tipping Elements in the Earth’s Climate System.” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105 (2008): 1786–93.
McKibben, Bill. “A New World.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 43–52. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2010.
______. “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” Rolling Stone, August 2, 2012.
Meinshausen, M. et al. “Greenhouse-Gas Emission Targets for Limiting Global Warming to 2
Degrees C.” Nature, vol. 458 (April 2009): 1158–62.
Nicholson, Simon. “The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 317–31. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Olajire, A. “CO2 Capture and Separation Technologies for End-of-Pipe Applications: A
Review.” Energy vol. 35 (2010): 2610–28. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.02.030
Orr, David. “The Ecological Deficit: Creating a New Political Framework.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 63–73. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Pacala, S. and R. Socolow. “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50
Years with Current Technologies.” Science, vol. 305 no. 5686 (August 13, 2004): 968–72.
Pielke, R., T. Wigley, and C. Green. “Dangerous Assumptions.” Nature, vol. 452 (April 3,
2008).
A discussion of IPCC projections.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics. “Turn Down the Heat:
Why a 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided.” Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012.
Reed, Christina. “Hot Trails.” Scientific American, vol. 295 (September 2006): 28.
Renner, Michael. “Climate Change and Displacements.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 343–52. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Rice, J. “Cimate, Carbon and Territory: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Seattle, Washington.”
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 100 no. 4 (2010): 929–37.
Roberts, K. et al. “Life Cycle Assessment of Biochar Systems: Estimating the Energetic,
Economic, and Climate Change Potential.” Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 44
no. 2 (2010): 827–33.
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. “Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions.” New York Times,
November 17, 2009: A1.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Rosenzweig, C. et al. “Attributing Physical and Biological Impacts to Anthropogenic Climate
Change.” Nature, vol. 453 (May 15, 2008): 353–57.
Rydin, Y. “Indicators as a Governmentality Technology? The Lessons of Community-Based
Sustainability Indicator Projects.” Environment and Planning D, vol. 25 no. 4 (2007): 610–
24.
Schellnhuber, J. H., W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe. “Avoiding Dangerous
Climate Change.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/internet/pdf/avoid-dangercc.pdf
Schmidt, H. et al., “Solar Irradiance Reduction to Counteract Radiative Forcing from a
Quadrupling of CO2: Climate Responses Simulated by Four Earth System Models.” Earth
System Dynamics, vol. 3 (2012): 63–78.
Shakhova, N., I. Semiletov, A. Salyuk, V. Yusupov, D. Kosmach, and O. Gustafsson. “Extensive
Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic.” Science,
vol. 327 no. 5970 (March 5, 2010): 1246–50.
Sherbinin, Alex de, Koko Warner, and Charles Ehrhart. “Casualties of Climate Change: Sealevel Rises Could Displace Tens of Millions.” Scientific American, January 2011.
Socolow, Robert H. and Stephen W. Pacala. “A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check.” Scientific
American, September 2006: 50–57.
Stephens, J.C. and D.W. Keith. “Assessing Geochemical Carbon Management.” Climatic
Change, vol. 90 (2008): 217–42. doi: 10.1007/s10584-008-9440-y
Turner, Will R., Michael Oppenheimer, and David S. Wilcove. “A Force to Fight Global
Warming.” Nature, vol. 462 no. 19 (November 2009): 278–79.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP). “The Emissions Gap Report 2012.” Nairobi: UNEP,
2012.
U.S. Geological Survey. “Sea Level Rise.” 2010. http://cegis.usgs.gov/sea_level_rise.html.
Wang, T. and J. Watson. “Who Owns China’s Carbon Emissions?” Tyndall Briefing Note no.
23. http://tyndall.webapp1.uea.ac.uk/publications/briefing_notes/bn23.pdf
Weber, C.L. and H.S. Matthews. “Embodied Environmental Emissions in US International
Trade, 1997–2004.” Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 41 no. 14 (2007): 4875–81.
Books
Barnosky, Anthony. Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2009.
Biermann, F., P. Pattberg, and F. Zelli. Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Blockstein, David E. and Leo Wiegman. The Climate Solutions Consensus: What We Know and
What To Do About It. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Boswell, Michael R., Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale. Local Climate Action Planning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Braasch, Gary. Earth under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2009.
Bruges, James. The Biochar Debate: Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build
Soil Fertility. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2010.
Bulkeley, H. and P. Newell. Governing Climate Change. London: Routledge, 2010.
DARA International, Climate Vulnerability Monitor: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot
Planet, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: 2012.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Dessler, A.E. and E.A. Parson. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to
the Debate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Flannery, Tim. Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a
Sustainable Future. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009.
______. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on
Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2001.
Goodall, Chris. How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual’s Guide to Tackling Climate
Change, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010.
GRID-Arendal. Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality. Nairobi, Kenya: United
Nations Environment Programme, 2008.
Hambrey, Michael and Jürg Alean. Glaciers, 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Hansen, James. Storms of My Grandchildren. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Henson, Robert. The Rough Guide to Climate Change, 3rd ed. New York: Rough Guides, 2011.
Houghton, John. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 4th ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2009.
IPCC. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to
the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds. S.
Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H.L.
Miller. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
______. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to
the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds. Core
Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri, and A. Reisinger. Geneva, Switzerland: IPCC, 2007.
______. Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES): Summary for Policymakers. A Special
Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds.
Nebojša Nakićenović et al. Geneva, Switzerland: IPCC, 2007.
______. Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds. B. Metz, O.R.
Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, and L.A. Meyer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
Kintisch, E. Hack the Planet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2010.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New
York: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Kump, Lee R., James F. Kasting, and Robert G. Crane. The Earth System, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Lingl, Paul, Deborah Carlson, and the David Suzuki Foundation. Doing Business in a New
Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
London: Earthscan, 2010.
Mann, Michael E. and Lee R. Kump. Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming—The
Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the IPCC. New York: DK Publishing, 2008.
Newman, Peter, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer. Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil
and Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
Orr, David W. Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2009.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Royal Society. Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty. London:
2009.
Stanley, Steven M. Earth System History, 2nd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2004.
Stern, Nicholas. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
______. The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and
Prosperity. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009.
Vogt, K.A. et al., eds. Forests and Society: Sustainability and Life Cycles of Forests in Human
Landscapes. CAB International, 2007.
Volk, Tyler. CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 2010.
Ward, Peter. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What
They Can Tell Us about Our Future. New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.
Wolfson, Richard. Earth’s Changing Climate. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2007.
______. Energy, Environment, and Climate. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World. New York: W.W.
Norton, 2009.
Websites
350.org. http://www.350.org/
Founded by Bill McKibben and dedicated to stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations at 350 ppm.
Carbon Disclosure Project. http://www.cdproject.net/
Carbon Trust. http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/
City of Chicago Climate Action Plan. http://www.chicagoclimateaction.org/
City of Seattle Climate Action Plan. http://www.seattle.gov/environment/climate_plan.htm
ClimateCHECK. http://climate-check.com/
A greenhouse gas management services provider. Main author of the ISO 14064
International Standard.
The Climate Registry. http://theclimateregistry.org
Sets standards and establishes protocols for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas
emissions in North America.
Climate Trust. http://www.climatetrust.org/
Carbon offset broker. Assesses, coordinates and facilitates offset projects and programs.
Provides education, consulting, and advocacy.
ClimatePrediction.net. http://www.climateprediction.net/
A cooperative citizen science project led by a team at Oxford University and joined by
universities from around the world. Computer models help identify what is likely to happen
as the Earth warms. Running climate models requires massive computing power, and
signing up allows your computer to run a climate model in background mode at times when
it is turned on but not being used at full capacity. You can watch the weather patterns on
your model’s version of the world evolve.
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets/index_en.htm
The system for trading greenhouse gas emission allowances in the 28 countries of the
European Union plus the three EEA-EFTA states of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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Global Carbon Project. http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
Research, reports, and advocacy to support the international scientific community through a
partnership known as the Earth Systems Science Partnership.
Global Carbon Project provides links to current Internet resources relating to climate change
at http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/products/internetResources.htm
Global Reporting Initiative. http://www.globalreporting.org/
Gold Standard for carbon offsets. http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/
An international certification scheme to ensure that carbon offset projects meet certain
quality standards.
Greenhouse Gas Protocol for reporting GHG emissions. http://www.ghgprotocol.org/
Calculation tools and reporting protocols.
Hadley Centre for Climate Change, a division of the British Meteorological Office.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). http://www.ipcc.ch/
National Climatic Data Center. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
Large archive of climate data from the U.S. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service (NESDIS) from NOAA.
Pew Center on Global Climate Change. http://www.pewclimate.org/
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate
Neutrality. http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/kick-the-habit/Pdfs.aspx
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Includes the Kyoto Protocol.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Green Purchasing Guides.
http://www.epa.gov/epp/pubs/greenguides.htm
Links to green purchasing guides through the EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
program.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/index.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator.
http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html
Calculator that converts miles traveled or electricity consumed into greenhouse gas
emissions and into familiar units: driving a particular number of cars, using a particular
amount of gasoline or barrels of oil, using a particular number of tanker trucks’ worth of
gasoline, providing energy to a particular number of homes, and growing trees across a
particular number of acres for a year. Also converts various greenhouse gases to CO2e
equivalencies.
World Glacier Monitoring Service. http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/
World Resources Institute. “Working 9 to 5 on Climate Change: An Office Guide.”
http://www.wri.org/publication/working-9-5-climate-change-office-guide
World Wildlife Fund Climate Savers. http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/climatesavers2.html
Partnering with corporations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
7. Water
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Barnett, Cynthia. “Wet Dreams: A New Water Ethic Is Not Only Essential—It’s Possible.” Utne
Reader, March/April 2012: 50–57.
Bourne, Joel K. “California’s Pipe Dream.” National Geographic, vol. 217 no. 4 (April 2010):
132–53.
Campbell, Robert Wellman, ed. 2001. “Aral Sea, Central Asia: 1964, 1973, 1987, 1999.”
Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change. U.S. Geological Survey, February
14, 1997, revised August 14, 2000 and August 14, 2001. http://earthshots.usgs.gov
“Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater.” Environmental Building News. BackPage Primer,
August 1, 2009.
DePalma, Anthony. “City’s Catskill Water Gets 10-Year Approval.” New York Times, April 13,
2007.
Echavarria, Marta. “Protecting Watersheds to Build Urban Resilience.” In State of the World
2009: Into a Warming World, Worldwatch Institute, 162. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework
for Agriculture and Food Security.” Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, 2013.
Grossman, David. “Breaking the Bottled Water Habit.” USA Today, September 22, 2008.
Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science, 162. no. 3859 (December 13, 1968):
1243–48. DOI: 10.1126/science.162.3859.1243
Heintz, Jim. “Aral Sea Almost Dried Up: UN Chief Calls It ‘Shocking Disaster.’” Huffington
Post, June 4, 2010.
Lyons, Cara, Robert Traver, and Bridget Wadzuk. “Applying Stormwater Control Measures in
Series: The Villanova University Treatment Train.” Stormwater, November/December 2012.
Palaniappan, M. and P.H. Gleick. “Peak Water.” In The World’s Water, The Biennial Report on
Freshwater Resources: 2008–2009, eds. P. Gleick, H. Cooley, M.J. Cohen, M. Morikawa, J.
Morrison, and M. Palaniappan. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
Postel, Sandra. “Water: Adapting to a New Normal.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, eds., 77–94.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
______. “Sustaining Freshwater and Its Dependents.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 51–62. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Rafter, Dan. “Less Energy, More Conservation: Realizing the Many Benefits of CHP for Water
and Wastewater Utilities.” Water Efficiency, January/February 2013, 38–43.
UNICEF and World Health Organization. “Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: 2012
Update.” New York: United Nations, 2012.
United Nations. “Water in a Changing World: United Nations World Water Development
Report,” 3rd ed. Paris: UNESCO, 2009.
White, I. and J. Howe. “Planning and the European Union Water Framework Directive.” Journal
of Environmental Planning and Management, vol. 46 (2003): 62–131.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Books
Balmori, Diana and Benoit, Gaboury. Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines
for Sustainable Land Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Banks, Suzy and Heinichen, Richard. Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged.
Dripping Springs, TX: Tank Town Publishing, 2004.
Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA). Start at the Source:
Design Guidance Manual for Stormwater Quality Protection. New York: Forbes, 1999.
Black, Maggie and Jannet King. The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World’s Most Critical
Resource, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Briscoe, John and R.P.S. Malik. India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2009.
Cahill, Thomas H. Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. New
York: John Wiley, 2012.
Campbell, Craig S. and Michael Ogden. Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape.
New York: John Wiley, 1999.
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (CA). Water for Food, Water
for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. London:
Earthscan and Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, 2007.
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Dunnett, Nigel and Andy Clayden. Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden
and Designed Landscape. Timber Press, 2007.
Ferguson, Bruce K. Introduction to Stormwater: Concept, Purpose, Design. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Fishman, Charles. The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. New York:
Free Press, 2012.
France, Robert L. Wetland Design: Principles and Practices for Landscape Architects and LandUse Planners. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
Gleick, Peter. The World’s Water, The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources: 2004–2005.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
______. Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2011.
______. The World’s Water 2011–2012: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Green, Deborah. Water Conservation for Small- and Medium-Sized Utilities. Denver: American
Water Works Association, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society. Routledge, 2013.
Hoekstra, Arjen Y. and Ashok K. Chapagain. Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s
Freshwater Resources. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Hoekstra, Arjen Y., Ashok K. Chapagain, Maite M. Aldaya, and Mesfin M. Mekonnen. The
Water Footprint Assessment Manual: Setting the Global Standard. London: Earthscan,
2011.
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Kats, Greg. Greening Our Built World: Costs, Benefits, and Strategies. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2010.
Kinkade-Levario, Heather. Forgotten Rain: Rediscovering Rainwater Harvesting. Granite
Canyon, 2004.
______. Design for Water. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007.
Kostigen, Thomas M. The Green Blue Book. New York: Rodale Press, 2010.
Kwok, Alison G. and Walter T. Grondzik. The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental
Strategies for Schematic Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2007.
Lohan, Tara, ed. Water Consciousness. San Francisco: AlterNet Books, 2008.
Mendler, Sandra, William Odell, and Mary Ann Lazarus. The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable
Design, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley, 2006.
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr., and Scott E. Spoolman. Living in the Environment: Concepts, Connections,
and Solutions, 16th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2009.
Molden, David, ed. Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water
Management in Agriculture. London: Earthscan, 2007.
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRDC). Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles,
Processes, and Practices. Washington, DC: Natural Resources Conservation Service, 1998.
Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
Postel, Sandra and Brian Richter. Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.
Sandford, Robert William. Restoring the Flow: Confronting the World’s Water Woes. Surrey,
BC: Rocky Mountain Books, 2009.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
Thompson, J. William and Kim Sorvig. Sustainable Landscape Construction, 2nd ed.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008.
University of Arkansas Community Design Center. Low Impact Development: A Design Manual
for Urban Areas. University of Arkansas Press, 2011.
Venhuas, Heather. Designing the Sustainable Site. New York: John Wiley, 2012.
Vickers, Amy. Handbook of Water Use and Conservation. Amherst, MA: WaterPlow Press,
2001.
Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. London: Abacus, 2002.
Withgott, Jay and Scott Brennan. Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, 3rd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2009.
Websites
Alliance for Water Efficiency. http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/
American Waterworks Association. http://www.awwa.org/
Aral Sea Foundation. http://www.aralsea.org/
Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association. Start at the Source: Design Guidance
Manual for Stormwater Qualtiy Protection. 1999.
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/stormwater/startatsource.pdf
Center for Watershed Protection. http://www.cwp.org
City of Portland: Stormwater Management Manual.
http://www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=47952
City of Portland: Sustainable Stormwater. http://www.portlandonline.com/sustainablestormwater
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Georgia Stormwater Management Manual. http://www.georgiastormwater.com/
Harvest H2O. http://www.harvesth2o.com/
Resources dealing with rainwater harvesting.
International Water Management Institute. http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/
A consortium of governments, private foundations, international organizations, and
researchers.
Low Impact Development Center. www.lowimpactdevelopment.org
NASA Earth Observatory: World of Change: The Shrinking Aral Sea.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php.
Pacific Institute: The World’s Water. http://www.worldwater.org/
Texas Water Development Board. Texas Manual on Rainwater Harvesting, 3rd ed.
http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/brochures/conservation/doc/RainwaterHarvestingM
anual_3rdedition.pdf
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Aquastat Database.
http://www.fao.org/NR/WATER/AQUASTAT/main/index.stm
United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Arendal: Vital Climate Change Graphics
Update. http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/climate2
United Nations Millennium Development Goals. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Federal Energy
Management Program., Water Efficiency.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/program/waterefficiency.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): WaterSense. http://www.epa.gov/watersense/
Good source of water efficiency information for residential consumers.
U.S. Geological Survey: USGS Water Science School.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/drinkseawater.html.
U.S. Geological Survey: Water Resources of the United States. http://water.usgs.gov/
Water Education Foundation. http://www.watereducation.org/
Water Footprint Network. http://www.waterfootprint.org/
Water Wiser Water Efficiency Clearinghouse. http://www.waterwiser.org/
World Bank. Kazakhstan – First Phase of the Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea Project.
Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/15404043/kazakhstan-first-phase-syrdarya-control-northern-aral-sea-project
World Resources Institute: Earth Trends online database. http://earthtrends.wri.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
8. Ecosystems and Habitat
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Assadourian, Erik. “Environmental Impact of Pets.” In State of the World 2012: Moving Toward
Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 124. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Berkes, F. “Rethinking Community Based Conservation.” Conservation Biology, vol. 18 (2004):
621–30.
Chapin, F.S., III et al. “Building Resilience and Adaptation to Manage Arctic Change.” Ambio,
vol. 35 no. 4 (June 2006): 198–202.
Chapin, F. Stuart, III et al. “Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability Strategies for a Rapidly
Changing Planet.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution, November 24, 2009: 241–49.
Costanza, Robert et al. “The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital.”
Nature, vol. 387 (1997): 253–60.
Costanza, Robert et al. “Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans.” Science, July 10,
1998: 198–99.
Council on Environmental Quality. “Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine
Spatial Planning.” Washington, DC: White House, 2009.
Crutzen, Paul J. “Geology of Mankind.” Nature, vol. 415 (January 2002): 23.
Crutzen, Paul J. and W. Steffen. “How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene Era?” Climate
Change, vol. 61 no. 3 (2003): 251–57.
Daily, Gretchen et al. “Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural
Ecosystems.” Issues in Ecology, vol. 2 (Spring 1997): 1–18.
Daniel, Terry C. et al. “Contributions of Cultural Services to the Ecosystem Services Agenda.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109 no. 23 (June 5, 2012): 8812–19.
Deneven, W. “The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492.” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, vol. 82 (1992): 369–85.
Donlan, C. Josh. “Restoring America’s Big, Wild Animals.” Scientific American, June 2007: 70–
77.
Flora, Gloria. “Remapping Relationships: Humans in Nature.” In The Post Carbon Reader:
Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch,
184–93. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Galaz, Victor et al. “Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological
Crises.” Public Administration, June 2011: 360–80.
Gaskill, Melissa. “Rise in Roadkill Requires New Solutions.” Scientific American, May 16,
2013.
Hey, Donald L. and Nancy S. Philippi. “Flood Reduction through Wetland Restoration: The
Upper Mississippi River Basin as a Case History.” Restoration Ecology, March 1995: 4–17.
Holling, C.S. “Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Social and Ecological Systems.”
Ecosystems, vol. 4 (August 2001): 390–405.
______. “From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds.” Ecology and Society, vol. 9 (2004): 11.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). “Species Extinction: The Facts.” Gland,
Switzerland: IUCN, 2007.
Jenkins, Matt. “The Coral Nursery.” Nature Conservancy, Autumn 2010: 31–41.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
McPhee, John. “Atchafalaya.” In The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1989.
Mazur, Laurie. “Resilience Lost: The Coastal Mangroves of Vietnam.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 357. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2013.
Mills, Stephanie. “Peak Nature?” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 97–115. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Myers, Norman, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina G. Mittermeier, Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, and
Jennifer Kent. “Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities.” Nature, vol. 403,
February 2000: 853–58.
Nassauer, Joan I. “Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames.” Landscape Journal, vol. 14 (1995):
161–70.
Normader, Bo. “Biodiversity: Combating the Sixth Mass Extinction.” In State of the World
2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 169–76. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2012.
Orr, David W. “Walking North on a Southbound Train.” Conservation Biology, vol. 17 (2003):
348–351. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01722.x
Pauly, Daniel. “Major Trends in Small-Scale Marine Fisheries, with Emphasis on Developing
Countries, and Some Implications for the Social Sciences.” Maritime Studies, vol. 4 no. 2
(2006): 7–22.
Pimm, S.L. and C. Jenkins. “Sustaining the Variety of Life.” Scientific American, vol. 293 no. 3
(September 2005): 66–73.
Sohns, Antonia and Larry Crowder. “Sustainable Fisheries and Seas: Preventing Ecological
Collapse.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute,
63–72. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Steffen, Will, P.J. Crutzen, and J.R. McNeill. “The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now
Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?” Ambio, vol. 36 no. 8 (2007): 614–21.
Steffen, Will et al. “The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship.” Ambio,
vol. 40 (2011): 739–61.
Zalasiewicz, Jan, Mark Williams, Will Steffen, and Paul Crutzen. “The New World of the
Anthropocene.” Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 44 no. 7 (2010): 2228–31.
Zimmer, Carl. “Ecosystems on the Brink.” Scientific American, October 2012: 60–65.
Books
Apfelbaum, Steven I. and Alan W. Haney. Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Planning and Design.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Berkes, F., J. Colding, and C. Folke, eds. Navigating Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2008.
______. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,
2009.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Daily, Gretchen, ed. Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
de Vries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Dramstad, Wenech E., James D. Olson, and Richard T.T. Forman. Landscape Ecology Principles
in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.
Fearn, Eva, ed. State of the Wild 2010–2011: A Global Portrait. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2010.
Flannery, Tim. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples.
New York: Grove Press, 2001.
Gunderson, Lance H., Craig R. Allen, and C.S. Holling, eds. Foundations of Ecological
Resilience. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Helvarg, David. Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness. Sierra Club
Books, 2006.
Johnson, Bart R. and Kristina Hill, eds. Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.
Leopold, Luna B. A View of the River. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2005.
Mitsch, William J. and James G. Gosselink. Wetlands, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley, 2007.
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRDC). Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles,
Processes, and Practices. Washington, DC: Natural Resources Conservation Service, 1998.
Perlman, Dan L. and Jeffrey C. Milder. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and
Citizens. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
Primack, Richard B. A Primer of Conservation Biology, 4th ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer
Associates, 2008.
Riley, Ann L. Restoring Streams in Cities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998.
Rosenzweig, Michael L. Win-Win Ecology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Schaffer, Valentin, Hillary Rudd, and Jamie Vala. Urban Biodiversity: Exploring Natural
Habitat and Its Value in Cities. Captus Press, 2004.
Stone, Christopher. Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment, 3rd ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Vale, Thomas, ed. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2002.
Walker, Brian and David Salt. Resilience Practice. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Wilcove, David S. No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Willers, Bill. Learning to Listen to the Land. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991.
Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. London: Abacus, 2002.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Websites
“Anthropocene” Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/workinggroups/anthropocene/
Audubon Society. http://www.audubon.org/
Conservation International: Biodiversity Hotspots. http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). http://www.iucn.org/
The Nature Conservancy. http://www.nature.org/
Rewilding Institute. http://rewilding.org/rewildit/
Society for Conservation Biology. http://www.conbio.org/
Society for Ecological Restoration. http://www.ser.org/
Stockholm Resilience Centre. http://www.stockholmresilience.org/
Research and resources on the governance of social–ecological systems with a special
emphasis on resilience.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Surf Your Watershed. http://www.epa.gov/surf/
Find environmental information on any watershed in the U.S.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: National Biology Handbook.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/biology.html
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service: Stream Corridor Restoration Handbook.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/stream_restoration/newtofc.htm
World Resources Institute: Earth Trends online database. http://earthtrends.wri.org/
World Wildlife Fund: Living Planet Report.
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
9. Pollution
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Cooperative Extension, Washington State University. “Hybrid Poplars in the Pacific Northwest.”
Symposium Proceedings. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 1999.
Guillette, Elizabeth A. et al. “An Anthropological Approach to the Evaluation of Preschool
Children Exposed to Pesticides in Mexico.” Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 106
no. 6 (June 1998): 347–53.
Raver, Anne. “The Dead Zone Starts (Or Stops) Here.” Landscape Architecture Magazine,
November 2012: 88–103.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. “Global Status of DDT and Its
Alternatives for Use in Vector Control to Prevent Disease.” Geneva: UNEP Stockholm
Convention, 2008.
Books
Alexander, Martin. Biodegradation and Bioremediation, 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press,
1999.
Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peter Meyers. Our Stolen Future: Are We
Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story. New
York: Dutton, 1996.
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Dyer, Betsy Dexter. A Field Guide to Bacteria. Ithaca, NY: Comstock, 2003.
Frumkin, Howard. Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 2nd ed. New York: JosseyBass, 2010.
Hill, Marquita K. Understanding Environmental Pollution, 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Hollander, Justin B., Niall G. Kirkwood, and Julia L. Gold. Principles of Brownfield
Regeneration: Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2010.
Lasat, Mitch M. The Use of Plants for the Removal of Toxic Metals from Contaminated Soil.
Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000.
McCutcheon, Steven C. and Jerald L. Schnoor, eds. Phytoremediation: Transformation and
Control of Contaminants. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2003.
Mackova, Martina, David N. Dowling, and Tomas Macek, eds. Phytoremediation and
Rhizoremediation: Theoretical Background. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2006.
Myers, Nancy J. and Carolyn Raffensperger, eds. Precautionary Tools for Reshaping
Environmental Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Pepper, Ian L., Charles P. Gerba, and Mark L. Brusseau, eds. Environmental and Pollution
Science, 2nd ed. Boston: Academic Press, 2006.
Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2010.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Vesilind, P. Aarne, Susan M. Morgan, and Lauren G. Heine. Introduction to Environmental
Engineering. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2004.
Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments that Protect Human Health. Yale
University Press, 2010.
Withgott, Jay and Scott Brennan. Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, 3rd ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2009.
Websites
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
American Planning Association: Creating Community-Based Brownfield Redevelopment
Strategies. http://www.planning.org/research/brownfields/index.htm
Atlas of United States Cancer Mortality. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/other/atlas/atlas.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR). http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Air Pollution and Respiratory Health.
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution
European Commission Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/ippc/index.htm
European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (IPPCB). http://eippcb.jrc.es/
Interactive Cancer Atlas. http://www.cdc.gov/features/canceratlas/
Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx™). http://www.p2rx.org/
A consortium of regional pollution prevention information centers in the U.S., funded in part
through grants from the EPA. Centers provide pollution prevention information, networking
opportunities, and technical assistance.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
http://chm.pops.int/Convention/tabid/54/language/en-US/Default.aspx#convtext
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Learn the Issues: Pesticides, Chemicals, and
Toxics. http://www.epa.gov/gateway/learn/pestchemtox.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Nitrogen Dioxide: Health.
http://www.epa.gov/oaqps001/nitrogenoxides/health.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
(OPPT). http://www.epa.gov/oppt/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Pollution Prevention (P2).
http://www.epa.gov/p2/
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Toxic Substances Hydrology Program.
http://toxics.usgs.gov/index.html
Information on chemical contamination of ecosystems.
World Health Organization (WHO) Cancer Mortality Database. http://wwwdep.iarc.fr/WHOdb/WHOdb.htm
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
10. Energy
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Alcott, Blake. “Jevons’ Paradox.” Ecological Economics, vol. 54 (2005): 9–21.
doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.020
Attari, Shahzeen Z., Michael L. DeKay, Cliff I. Davidson, and Wändi Bruine de Bruin. “Public
Perceptions of Energy Consumption and Savings.” Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, vol. 107 no. 37 (2010): 16054–59. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001509107.
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/37/16054.abstract
Barabási, Albert-László and Eric Bonabeau. “Scale-Free Networks.” Scientific American, May
2003: 50–59.
Biello, David. “The False Promise of Biofuels.” Scientific American, August 2011: 59–65.
Broad, William. “Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins.” New York Times, August 2, 2010.
Campbell, Colin and Jean Laherrère. “The End of Cheap Oil.” Scientific American, vol. 278 no.
3 (March 1998): 78–83.
Cleveland, Cutler J. “Net Energy from Extraction of Oil and Gas in the United States.” Energy,
April 2005.
Crabtree, G. and J. Misewich. “Integrating Renewable Electricity on the Grid.” Washington, DC:
American Physical Society, 2010. http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popareports/upload/integratingelec.pdf
Danish Energy Agency. “Energy Statistics 2009.” http://www.ens.dk/enUS/Info/FactsAndFigures/Energy_statistics_and_indicators?Annual%20Statistics/Document
s/Tables2009.xls
Danish Energy Agency. “Danish Energy Policy 1970–2010: Vision: 100% Independence of
Fossil Fuels.” 2010. http://www.ens.dk/enUS/Info/news/Factsheet/Documents/DKEpol.pdf%20engelsk%20til%20web.pdf
Empire State Building, “Sustainability and Energy Efficiency.” June 24, 2013.
http://www.esbnyc.com/sustainability_energy_efficiency.asp
Epstein, P.R., J.J. Buonocare, K. Eckerle, M. Hendryx, B.M. Stout III, R. Heinberg, et al. “Full
Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
vol. 1219 (2011): 73–98.
Erickson, W.P., G. Johnson, D. Strickland, and D. Young. “Avian Collisions with Wind
Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian
Collision Mortality in the United States.” Portland: American Wind Energy Association
Conference, 2002.
European Commission. “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe.” Brussels: European
Commission, 2011.
European Union. “Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 19 May
2010 on the Energy Performance of Buildings.” Official Journal of the European Union,
vol. 53, 2010. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:153:SOM:EN:HTML
Fridley, David. “Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy.” In The Post Carbon Reader:
Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch,
229–46. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
GE Global Research. “How Loud Is a Wind Turbine?” GE Reports, November 18, 2010.
http://www.gereports.com/how-loud-is-a-wind-turbine/.
Harti, Jeffrey. “Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy Potential.” In State of the World 2009:
Into a Warming World, Worldwatch Institute, 111–14. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Hirsch, R.L., R. Bezdek, and R. Wendling. “Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts,
Mitigation and Risk Management.” National Energy Technology Laboratory, US
Department of Energy, 2005.
Hughes, J. David. “Hydrocarbons in North America.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 211–28.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
IEA. “Key World Energy Statistics 2012.” Paris, France: International Energy Agency, 2012.
doi: 10.1787/key_energ_stat-2012-en
Jacobson, M.Z. and M.A. Delucchi. “A Plan for a Sustainable Future.” Scientific American, vol.
301 (2009): 58.
Kinter-Meyer, Michael, Kevin Schneider, and Robert Pratt. “Impacts Assessment of Plug-In
Hybrid Vehicles on Electric Utilities and Regional U.S. Power Grids, Part 1: Technical
Analysis.” Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US DOE, DE-AC05-76RL01830.
Lang, Kerryn. “The First Year of the G-20 Commitment on Fossil-Fuel Subsidies: A
Commentary on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward” Geneva: Global Studies Initiative,
International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2011.
Lerch, Daniel. “Making Sense of Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 207–10. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Lidula, N.S.A. and A.D. Rajapakse. “Microgrids Research: A Review of Experimental
Microgrids and Test Systems.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 15 no. 1
(2011): 186–202. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2010.09.041.
Lovins, Amory B. “Farewell to Fossil Fuels: Answering the Energy Challenge.” Foreign Affairs,
vol. 91 no. 2 (2012): 134–46. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/201201_FarewellToFossilFuels
Lovins, Amory B., E.K. Datta, J. Swisher, A. Lehmann, T. Feiler, K.R. Rábago, and K. Wicker.
“Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the
Right Size.” Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2002.
http://www.smallisprofitable.org/
Makhijani, Shakuntala and Alexander Ochs. “Renewable Energy’s Natural Resource Impacts.”
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 84–98.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Mooney, Chris. “The Truth about Fracking.” Scientific American, November 2011, 80–85.
Murphy, T.W., Jr. “Beyond Fossil Fuels: Assessing Energy Alternatives.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 172–83. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Network for New Energy Choices. “Freeing the Grid: Best Practices in State Net Metering
Policies and Interconnection Procedures.” Network for New Energy Choices, 2010.
http://www.newenergychoices.org/index.php?page=publications&sd=no
North American Electric Reliability Corporation. “2010 Long-Term Reliability Assessment.”
North American Electric Reliability Corporation, October 2010.
http://www.nerc.com/files/2010%20LTRA.pdf
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
North American Electric Reliability Corporation. “System Disturbance Reports.” North
American Electric Reliability Corporation, 2011. http://www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=5|66.
Ogden, Joan. “High Hopes for Hydrogen.” Scientific American, September 2006: 94–101.
Owen, Nick A., Oliver R. Inderwildi, and David A. King. “The Status of Conventional World
Oil Reserves: Hype or Cause for Concern?” Energy Policy, vol. 38 no. 8 (2010): 4743–49.
doi:16/j.enpol.2010.02.026.
Perlack, Robert, Lynn Wright, and Anthony Turhollow. “Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy
and Bioproducts Industry: Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply.” U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 2005.
http://www.scag.ca.gov/rcp/pdf/summit/billion_ton_vision.pdf
Princen, Thomas, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela Martin. “Keep Them in the Ground: Ending the
Fossil Fuel Era.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch
Institute, 161–71. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Putman, Andrea and Michael Philips. “The Business Case for Renewable Energy: A Guide for
Colleges and Universities.” National Association of College and University Business
Officers (NACUBO), 2006. Available for purchase at
http://www.nacubo.org/Products/Publications/Sustainability/The_Business_Case_for_Rene
wable_Energy_A_Guide_for_Colleges_and_Universities.html.
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). “Renewables 2010 Global
Status Report.” REN21, July 15, 2010.
http://www.ren21.net/REN21Activities/Publications/GlobalStatusReport/GSR2010/tabid/58
24/Default.aspx
Renewables International. “Cost of Turnkey PV in Germany Drops.” Renewables International:
The Magazine, January 14, 2011. http://www.renewablesinternational.net/cost-of-turnkeypv-in-germany-drops/150/452/29911/
Rudolf, John Collins. “News Corp. Is Carbon-Neutral, Murdoch Declares.” New York Times,
March 4, 2011. http://green-blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/news-corp-is-carbon-neutralmurdoch-declares/?hpw
Saieg, Phillip. “Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 184–89. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Sawin, Janet L. and William R. Moomaw. “An Enduring Energy Future.” In State of the World
2009: Into a Warming World, Worldwatch Institute, 130–50. New York: W.W. Norton,
2009.
U.S. Department of Energy and EPA. “Combined Heat and Power: A Clean Energy Solution.”
Washington, DC, August 2012.
U.S. Government Accounting Office. “Wind Power Impacts on Wildlife and Government
Responsibilities for Regulating Development and Protecting Wildlife.” GAO-050906,
September 2005.
van der Vleuten, E. and R. Raven. “Lock-in and Change: Distributed Generation in Denmark in a
Long-Term Perspective.” Energy Policy, vol. 34 no. 18 (2006): 3739–48.
Weber, C.L. “An Examination of Energy Intensity and Energy Efficiency.” Pittsburgh, PA:
Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Whipple, Tom. “Peak Oil and the Great Recession.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 247–58.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Zencey, Eric. “Energy as Master Resource.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 73–83. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Books
American Geological Institute (AGI). Environmental Science: Understanding Our Changing
Earth. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar, 2011.
Ayres, Robert U. and Edward H. Ayres. Crossing the Energy Divide. Philadelphia: Wharton
School Publishing, 2010.
Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. New
York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
Cunningham, William P. and Mary Ann Cunningham. Environmental Science: A Global
Concern, 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
de Vries, Bert J.M. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Few, Steven. Information Dashboard Design. O’Reilly Media, 2006.
Goldstein, D.B. Invisible Energy: Strategies to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet. Pt.
Richmond, CA: Bay Tree Publishing, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White
River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
Jevons, W.S. The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the
Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866.
Kwok, Alison G. and Walter T. Grondzik. The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental
Strategies for Schematic Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2007.
Landsberg, Dennis R. and Mychele R. Lord. Energy Efficiency Guide for Existing Commercial
Buildings: The Business Case for Building Owners and Managers. Atlanta: ASHRAE, 2009.
Lovins, Amory B. Reinventing Fire. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011.
MacKay, David J.C. Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air. Cambridge, England: UIT
Cambridge Ltd., 2009.
Available free online from http://www.withouthotair.com/.
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
McKinsey & Company. Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the US Economy. 2009.
Metz, B., O. Davidson, H. de Coninck, M. Loos, and L. Meyer, eds. Special Report on Carbon
Dioxide Capture and Storage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Muller, Richard A. Physics and Technology for Future Presidents. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2010.
Pahl, Greg. Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy
Projects. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
Randolph, John and Gilbert M. Masters. Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning,
Policy. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008.
Renne, John L. and Billy Fields, eds. Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal
Future. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Slavin, Matthew I., ed. Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011.
Smil, Vaclav. Energy at the Crossroads. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
______. Energy: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2006.
______. Crossing the Energy Divide. Philadelphia: Wharton School Publishing, 2009.
______. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate.
Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
Wengenmayr, Roland and Thomas Buhrke, eds. Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy
Concepts for the Future. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley VCH, 2008.
Wolfson, Richard. Energy, Environment, and Climate. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
______. Energy, Environment, and Climate, 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
Websites
American Wind Energy Association. http://www.awea.org/
ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007. http://www.ashrae.org/publications/page/2728
Building Commissioning Association. http://www.bcxa.org/
California Commissioning Collaborative. http://www.cacx.org/
Resources and information about building commissioning.
Database on State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency, DSIRE. http://www.dsireusa.org/
A comprehensive list of local, state, federal, and utility incentives which promote renewable
energy and energy efficiency in the U.S.
Energy in Brief. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/
Explains energy topics succinctly, in non-technical language.
Energy Information Administration, EIA. http://www.eia.doe.gov/
Energy Performance Contracting Model. http://www.boma.org/sustainability/inforesources/Pages/boma-energy.aspx
A simplified contracting model to guide building owners and energy managers
implementing efficiency measures in collaboration with ESCOs. A joint project of the
Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) and the Clinton Climate
Initiative (CCI).
European Commission: Energy Strategy for Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/energy/index_en.htm
European Commission: Smart Grids.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/gas_electricity/smartgrids/smartgrids_en.htm
Gasland. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking
Documentary for popular audiences highlighting the risks of fracking.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: IEEE Draft Guide for Design, Operation, and
Integration of Distributed Resource Island Systems with Electric Power Systems, April
2011. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547.4/1547.4_index.html
International Energy Agency (IEA). http://www.iea.org/
National Solar Radiation Data Base. http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/
Solar radiation and meteorological data through 2010 for the U.S. from the Renewable
Resource Data Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
REN21: About REN21. http://www.ren21.net/ren21/default.asp
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Renewable Resource Data Center. http://www.nrel.gov/rredc/
Data, maps, and tools for solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal energy in U.S. locations
from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Rocky Mountain Institute: Reinventing Fire: Electricity. http://www.rmi.org/Electricity.
Rocky Mountain Institute: Reinventing Fire: Transportation. http://www.rmi.org/Transportation.
Total Energy. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/.
Links to the Annual Energy Outlook, Annual Energy Review, FAQs, and energy graphs.
University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems: Fact Sheet: U.S. Renewable Energy,
2010. http://css.snre.umich.edu/facts
U.S. Department of Energy: Smart Grid Project Information.
http://www.smartgrid.gov/smartgrid_projects?order=field_total_value_value&sort=asc&cate
gory=1
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Energy Calculators and
Software. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/calculators/
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Energy Savers.
http://www.energysavers.gov/
Information on how to conduct an energy assessment and ways to reduce energy
consumption at home, while driving, and at work.
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Federal Energy
Management Program. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/index.html
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Wind and Water
Program. http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA). http://www.eia.doe.gov/
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA): EIA annual
“International Energy Outlook.” http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo
U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. http://www.nrel.gov/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: ENERGY STAR. http://www.energystar.gov/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
11. Green Buildings and Sites
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Akbari, Hashem and A. Rosenfeld. “White Roofs Cool the World, Directly Offset CO2 and
Delay Global Warming.” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Heat Island Group, 2008.
http://coolcolors.lbl.gov/assets/docs/fact-sheets/Global-cooling-2pp.pdf
Biello, David. “Green Buildings May Be Cheapest Way to Slow Global Warming.” Scientific
American, March 2008.
Biomimicry Institute. “Ventilated Nests Remove Heat and Gas: Mound-Building Termites.”
http://www.asknature.org/strategy/8a16bdffd27387cd2a3a995525ea08b3.
Brown, Hillary. “Toward Zero-Carbon Buildings.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 322–34.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Erickson, W.P., G. Johnson, D. Strickland, and D. Young. “Avian Collisions with Wind
Turbines: A Summary of Existing Studies and Comparisons to Other Sources of Avian
Collision Mortality in the United States.” Portland: American Wind Energy Association
Conference, 2002.
European Union. “Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 19 May
2010 on the Energy Performance of Buildings.” Official Journal of the European Union,
vol. 53, 2010. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:153:SOM:EN:HTML
Mozingo, L.A. “The Aesthetics of Ecological Design: Seeing Science As Culture.” Landscape
Journal, vol. 16 no. 1 (1997).
Rosenwald, Michael. “Green Cement.” Smithsonian, December 2011: 53–56.
Sustainable Sites Initiative. “Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009.”
Taipale, Karrin. “From Light Green to Sustainable Buildings.” In State of the World 2012:
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 129–36. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2012.
Tennesen, Michael. “Bioacoustics: Calls of the Wild.” Scientific American, October 2008: 24.
Ulrich, Roger. “View through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery.” Science, New
Series, vol. 224 no. 4647 (April 27, 1984): 420–21.
Walker, Andy. “Solar Water Heating.” In Whole Building Design Guide. Washington, DC:
National Institute of Building Sciences, 2010.
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/swheating.php
Wendt, Allyson. “The Living Building Challenge: Can It Really Change the World?”
Environmental Building News, June 1, 2009.
Books
Balmori, Diana and Benoit, Gaboury. Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines
for Sustainable Land Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Barnett, Dianna Lopez and William D. Browning. A Primer on Sustainable Building, revised ed.
Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2007.
Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Bradshaw, Vaughn. The Building Environment: Active and Passive Control Systems, 3rd ed. New
York: John Wiley, 2006.
Brown, G.Z. and Mark DeKay. Sun, Wind & Light, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley, 2000.
Brown, Robert D. Design with Microclimate: The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Butti, Ken and John Perlin. A Golden Thread: 2,500 Years of Solar Architecture and
Technology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980.
Calkins, Meg. Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection,
and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Hamilton, D. Kirk and David H. Watkins. Evidence-Based Design for Multiple Building Types.
New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Hosey, Lance. The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2012.
Johnson, Bart R. and Kristina Hill, eds. Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.
Johnston, David and Scott Gibson. Green from the Ground Up: A Builder’s Guide. Newtown,
CT: Taunton Press, 2008.
Kats, Greg. Greening Our Built World: Costs, Benefits, and Strategies. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2010.
Keeler, Marian and Bill Burke. Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building.
New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Kellert, Stephen R., Judith H. Heerwagen, and Martin L. Mador, eds. Biophilic Design: The
Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life. New York: John Wiley, 2008.
Kibert, Charles J. Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery. New York:
John Wiley, 2005.
Kwok, Alison G. and Walter T. Grondzik. The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental
Strategies for Schematic Design. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2007.
Lechner, Norbert. Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects, 3rd ed.
New York: John Wiley, 2008.
LEED Visual GA, V3. The Modulus, 2009.
Lennertz, Bill and Aarin Lutzenhiser. The Charrette Handbook: The Essential Guide for
Accelerated, Collaborative Community Planning. Chicago: American Planning Association,
2006.
Macaulay, David R. and Jason F. McLennan. The Ecological Engineer. Volume One: KEEN
Engineering. Kansas City, MO: Ecotone, 2006.
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle. New York: North Point Press,
2002.
McLennan, Jason F. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design. Bainbridge Island, WA: Ecotone
Publishing Co., 2004.
Meisel, Ari. LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2010.
Mendler, Sandra, William Odell, and Mary Ann Lazarus. The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable
Design, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley, 2006.
Mumovic, Dejan and Mat Santamouris, eds. A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and
Engineering. London: Earthscan, 2009.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Nicol, Fergus, Michael Humphreys, and Susan Roaf. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and
Practice. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Roaf, Sue, David Crichton, and Fergus Nicol. Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate
Change. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005.
Smith, Gregory A. and Dilafruz R. Williams, eds. Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving
Education, Culture, and the Environment. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,
1999.
Smith, Peter F. Architecture in a Climate of Change, 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Architectural Press,
2005.
______. Building for a Changing Climate: The Challenge for Construction, Planning and
Energy. London: Earthscan, 2009.
Sullivan, Chip. Garden and Climate. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.
Thompson, J. William and Kim Sorvig. Sustainable Landscape Construction, 2nd ed.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008.
University of Arkansas Community Design Center. Low Impact Development: A Design Manual
for Urban Areas. University of Arkansas Press, 2011.
Venhuas, Heather. Designing the Sustainable Site. New York: John Wiley, 2012.
Wells, Malcolm. Recovering America: A More Gentle Way to Build. Malcolm Wells, 1999.
Whitson, Alan and Yudelson, Jerry. 365 Important Questions to Ask about Green Buildings.
Portland: Corporate Realty, Design & Management Institute, Inc., 2003.
Williams, Daniel E. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning. New York: John
Wiley, 2007.
Yudelson, Jerry. Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building.
Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007.
Websites
Architecture 2030. http://architecture2030.org
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
http://www.ashrae.org
ASHRAE: High Performing Buildings magazine. http://www.hpbmagazine.org/
BREEAM. http://www.breeam.org/
Empire State Building renovation. http://www.esbnyc.com/sustainability_energy_efficiency.asp
Fatal Light Awareness Program. http://www.flap.org/
An organization in Canada working to safeguard migratory birds. Provides education and
research about bird-safe design; and rescue and rehabilitation for injured birds.
GreenBookLive. http://www.greenbooklive.com/
Life-cycle assessment of building materials in the UK. Includes information about
ISO 14001 and BREEAM certification.
International Dark Sky Association. http://www.darksky.org/
Living Building Challenge. http://www.cascadiagbc.org/lbc
New York City: Sustainable Urban Site Design Manual.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/html/design/sustainable_home.shtml
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse. http://www.nonoise.org/
Rocky Mountain Institute: Reinventing Fire: Buildings. http://www.rmi.org/buildings
Sustainable Sites Initiative. http://www.sustainablesites.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
U.S. Department of Energy Buildings Energy Data Book.
http://buildingsdatabook.eren.doe.gov/ChapterIntro6.aspx
U.S. EPA: Green Building. http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/pubs/about.htm
U.S. Green Building Council. http://www.usgbc.org/
Whole Building Design Guide. http://www.wbdg.org/
A program of the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Whole Building Design Guide: Solar Water Heating.
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/swheating.php
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
12. Livable Cities
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Ash, Caroline, Barbara R. Jasny, Leslie Roberts, Richard Stone, and Andrew M. Sudden.
“Reimagining Cities.” Science, (special issue) vol. 319 no. 5864 (February 8, 2008): 739.
Belsky, Eric S. “Planning for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development.” In State of the
World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 38–52.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Gilbert, Richard and Anthony Perl. “Transportation in the Post-Carbon World.” In The Post
Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg
and Daniel Lerch, 347–60. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Grdadolnik, Helena. “Garden City.” Canadian Architect, November 11, 2005.
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/garden-city/1000199577/
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). “Case Study 77: Curitiba:
Orienting Urban Planning to Sustainability.” Toronto, ON: ICLEI, 2002.
Karlenzig, Warren. “The Death of Sprawl: Designing Urban Resilience for the Twenty-FirstCentury Resource and Climate Crises.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 295–313.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Kaufmann, John. “Local Government in a Time of Peak Oil and Climate Change.” In The Post
Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg
and Daniel Lerch, 335–44. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Kennedy, Christopher, John Cuddihy, and Joshua Engel-Yan. “The Changing Metabolism of
Cities.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 11 no. 2 (April 2007): 43–59. doi:
10.1162/jie.2007.1107
Levin, Kelly. “Developed Nations Must Cut Emissions in Half by 2020, Says New Study.” WRI
Insights, World Resources Institute, March 6, 2013.
http://insights.wri.org/news/2013/03/developed-nations-must-reduce-emissions-half-2020says-new-study
Lind, Diana. “Information and Communications Technologies Creating Livable, Equitable,
Sustainable Cities.” In State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity,
Worldwatch Institute, 66–76. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Makhijani, Shakuntala and Alexander Ochs. “Land Use Priorities and Land Rights
Considerations.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch
Institute, 98. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Melia, Steve. “On the Road to Sustainability: Transport and Carfree Living in Freiburg.” Bristol:
UWE Faculty of the Built Environment, 2006.
Newman, Peter. “Building the Cities of the Future.” In State of the World 2010: Transforming
Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 133–37. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2010.
Nobis, C. “The Impact of Car-free Housing Districts on Mobility Behaviour—Case Study.” In
International Conference on Sustainable Planning and Development, eds. E. Beriatos, C.A.
Brebbia, H. Coccossis and A. Kungolos, 2003, 701–20. WIT.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Norman, Jonathan, Heather L. McLean, and Christopher A. Kennedy. “Comparing High and
Low Residential Density: Life-cycle Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas
Emissions.” Journal of Urban Planning and Development, March 2006, 10–21.
Orr, David. “Resilience, Security, and Education.” Plenary presentation, annual conference of
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, October 10, 2011.
Pickett, S.T.A., M.L. Cadenassso, and J.M. Grove. “Resilient Cities: Meaning, Models, and
Metaphor for Integrating the Ecological, Socio-Economic, and Planning Realms.”
Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 69 no. 4 (2004): 369–84.
Popper, Deborah E. and Frank J. Popper. “Smart Decline in Post-Carbon Cities: The Buffalo
Commons Meets Buffalo, New York.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 314–21. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Replogle, Michael and Colin Hughes. “Moving Toward Sustainable Transport.” In State of the
World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 53–65.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Books
Agyeman, J. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. New York:
New York University Press, 2005.
Barlett, Peggy F., ed. Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2005.
Beatley, Timothy. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Benedict, Mark A. and Edward T. McMahon. Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and
Communities. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
Benton-Short, Lisa and John Rennie Short. Cities and Nature, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013.
Boswell, Michael R., Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale. Local Climate Action Planning.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Bulkeley, H., V. Castán Broto, M. Hodson, and S. Marvin, eds. Cities and Low Carbon
Transitions. London: Routledge, 2010.
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2009.
Condon, Patrick M. Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2007.
______. Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post-Carbon
World. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.
Design Centre for Sustainability. Greater Vancouver Green Guide: Seeding Sustainability.
Vancouver: Design Centre for Sustainability, University of British Columbia, 2006.
Ewing, Reid, et al. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change.
Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2008.
Faga, Barbara. Designing Public Consensus: The Civic Theater of Community Participation for
Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers. New York: John Wiley,
2006.
Farr, Douglas. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature. New York: John Wiley, 2008.
Girardet, Herbert. Cities People Planet: Urban Development and Climate Change, 2nd ed. New
York: John Wiley, 2008.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Hart, Maureen. Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, 2nd ed. West Hartford, CT:
Sustainable Measures, 2006.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hester, Randolph T. Design for Ecological Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. London: Routledge, 1994.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
______. The Economy of Cities. New York: Random House, 1969.
James, Sarah and Torbjorn Lahti. The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can
Change to Sustainable Practices. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2004.
Lerch, Daniel. Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. Post Carbon
Press, 2008.
Mees, Paul. Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age. London: Earthscan, 2010.
Newman, Peter, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer. Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil
and Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
Novotny, Vladimir and Paul Brown, eds. Cities of the Future. London: IWA Publishing, 2007.
Palazzo, Danilo and Frederick R. Steiner. Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative
Places. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Perlman, Dan L. and Jeffrey C. Milder. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and
Citizens. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
Register, Richard. EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature. Gabriola Island, BC:
New Society Publishers, 2006.
Renne, John L. and Billy Fields, eds. Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices for a Multimodal
Future. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Slavin, Matthew I., ed. Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011.
Stoyke, Godo. The Carbon Charter: Blueprint for a Carbon-Free Future. Gabriola Island, BC:
New Society Publishers, 2009.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
Toor, Will and Spenser W. Havlick. Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
UN Habitat. State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013. London: Earthscan, 2006.
Wells, Malcolm. Infra Structures. Malcolm Wells, 1994.
Wheeler, Stephen M. Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological
Communities, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Williams, Daniel E. Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning. New York: John
Wiley, 2007.
Websites
America 2050. http://www.america2050.org/
American Planning Association. http://www.planning.org/
American Planning Association: Creating Community-Based Brownfield Redevelopment
Strategies. http://www.planning.org/research/brownfields/index.htm
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Building Resilient Regions. http://brr.berkeley.edu/
Assessing and cultivating social resilience. Part of the Institute of Governmental Studies at
University of California, Berkeley.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/
C40 Cities: Clinton Climate Leadership Group. http://www.c40cities.org/
Center for Transit-Oriented Development. http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/public/tod
Congress for the New Urbanism. http://www.cnu.org/
ICLEI. Local Governments for Sustainability. http://www.iclei.org/
A consortium of worldwide cities, towns, and urban regions. Tools and resources for
community resilience and climate action planning.
International Council for Local Environmental Initiative: “Case Study 77: Curitiba: Orienting
Urban Planning to Sustainability.” Toronto, ON: ICLEI, 2002.
http://www.iclei.org.br/polics/CD/P2_4.../PDF106_EC77_Curitiba_ing.PDF
Masdar City: Masdar City Website. http://www.masdarcity.ae
National Complete Streets Coalition. http://www.completestreets.org/
LEED for Neighborhood Development. http://www.usgbc.org/leed/nd
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. http://www.lincolninst.edu/
National Charrette Institute. http://www.charretteinstitute.org
New York City Street Design Manual.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/streetdesignmanual.shtml
Oberlin Project. http://www.oberlinproject.org/
Oregon Encyclopedia: “Land Use Planning.” Portland State University.
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/land_use_planning/
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. http://www.railstotrails.org/
Smart Communities Network, National Center for Appropriate Technology.
http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/
Smart Growth Network. http://www.smartgrowth.org/
Sustainable South Bronx. http://www.ssbx.org/
An environmental justice organization that works to address economic and environmental
issues through a combination of green job training, community greening programs, and
social enterprise.
Transportation Demand Management, Victoria Transport Policy Institute.
http://www.vtpi.org/tdm
Vauban District, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.vauban.de/
Victoria Transport Policy Institute: Online TDM Encyclopedia. http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
13. Food
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Aiken, William. “Ethical Issues in Agriculture.” In Earthbound: Introductory Essays in
Environmental Ethics, ed. Tom Regan, 247–88. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1984.
Allen, Erika. “Growing Community Food Systems.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the
21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 140–50.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Altieri, Miguel A. and Fernando R. Funes-Monzote. “The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture.”
Monthly Review, January 2012.
Ballantyne, Coco. “Not All Sugars Are Created Equal.” Health & Medicine,
ScientificAmerican.com, April 20, 2009.
Belson, Ken. “The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall.” New York Times, November 19,
2009.
Biello, David. “Biofuels Are Bad for Feeding People and Combating Climate Change.” Scientific
American, February 2008.
Bomford, Michael. “Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing
the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 119–27.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Carter, Anna Marie. “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope.” YES! Magazine, March 31, 2003.
______. “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope.” In Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories for a Better
World, Jack Canfield et al. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2005.
CERT (Corporation for Educational Radio and Television). “Food From the ‘Hood.”
http://www.certnyc.org/ffth.html.
ChangeLab Solutions. “Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture.”
Download at http://changelabsolutions.org
Cimitile, Matthew. “Corn Ethanol Will Not Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Scientific
American, April 2009.
Claessens, Marilyn. “An Ecological Neighborhood.” The Berkeley Daily Planet, June 17, 2000.
Ehrenberg, Rachel. “It’s the Meat, Not the Miles.” Science News, vol. 173 no. 17 (May 24,
2008).
FamilyFarmed. “Building Successful Food Hubs: A Business Planning Guide for Aggregation
and Processing Local Foods in Illinois.” FamilyFarmed.org, 2012.
http://www.familyfarmed.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. “Food Security Indicators.”
http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-fs/fs-data/ess-fadata/en
______. “Livestock Impacts on the Environment.” Spotlight, November 2006.
http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm
______. “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options.” Rome: FAO, 2006.
______. “An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security.” EC-FAO Food Security
Programme, 2008. http://www.foodsec.org/docs/concepts_guide.pdf.
______. Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Extent, Causes and Prevention. Rome: FAO,
2011.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Goodland, Robert and Jeff Anhang. “Livestock Emissions: Still Grossly Underestimated?”
World Watch Magazine, vol. 23 no. 4 (July/August 2010).
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, Agriculture Issue. Living Architecture Monitor. Special issue,
Fall 2010.
“Hope Takes Root.” Garden Ideas & Outdoor Living Magazine, Fall 2004.
Jackson, Wes. “Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on
Soil.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds.
Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 128–39. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Khatchadourian, Raffi. “The Taste Makers: The Secret World of the Flavor Factory.” New
Yorker, November 23, 2009: 85–99.
Knoblauch, Jessica A. and Environmental Health News. “Some Food Additives Mimic Human
Hormones.” Health & Medicine, ScientificAmerican.com, March 27, 2009.
Kresge, Lisa. “California Water Stewards: Innovative On-farm Water Management Practices.”
Davis, CA: California Institute for Rural Studies, 2009.
Laurie Guevara-Stone. “La Revolucion Energetica: Cuba’s Energy Revolution.” Renewable
Energy World Magazine, April 2009: 2.
MacDonald, Mia. “Food Security and Equity in a Climate-Constrained World.” In State of the
World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 161–68.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
MacFarquhar, Neil. “Experts Worry about Feeding the World as Its Population Grows.” New
York Times, October 22, 2009.
McKibben, Bill. “The Cuba Diet: What Will You Be Eating When the Revolution Comes?”
Harper’s Magazine, April 2005.
Mikhail, Monique. “Growing a Sustainable Future.” In State of the World 2012: Moving Toward
Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 153–60. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Murphy, Pat and Faith Morgan. “Cuba: Lessons from a Forced Decline.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 332–42. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Nelson, Melissa K. “Protecting the Sanctity of Native Foods.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 201–09. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Nierenberg, Danielle. “Agriculture: Growing Food—and Solutions.” In State of the World 2013:
Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 190–200. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2013.
Normander, Bo. “Urban Farmers Can Reduce Biodiversity Loss.” In State of the World 2012:
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 173. Washington, DC: Island
Press, 2012.
Pérez, Louis A., Jr. “Cuba’s Special Period.” Cuba: Between Reform & Revolution.
http://HistoryofCuba.com
Perkins, Sid. “A Thirst for Meat: Changes in Diet, Rising Population May Strain China’s Water
Supply.” Science News, vol 173 no. 3 (January 19, 2008): 36.
Pirog, Rich and Andrew Benjamin. “Checking the Food Odometer: Comparing Food Miles for
Local Versus Conventional Produce Sales to Iowa Institutions,” Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture. Ames: Iowa State University, July 2003.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Raloff, Janet. “The Costs of Meat and Fish.” Science News. March 13, 2008.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31349/description/The_Costs_of_Meat_and_Fi
sh
______. “AAAS: Carbon-Friendly Dining . . . Meats: The Carbon Footprints of Raising
Livestock for Food.” Science News, February 15, 2009.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40934/description/AAAS_Climatefriendly_dining__meats
Raver, Anne. “The Dead Zone Starts (Or Stops) Here.” Landscape Architecture Magazine,
November 2012: 89–103.
Sachs, Jeffrey. “Transgressing Planetary Boundaries.” Scientific American, vol. 301 (December
2009): 36.
Scherr, Sara J. and Sajal Sthapit. “Farming and Land Use to Cool the Planet.” In State of the
World 2009: Into a Warming World, Worldwatch Institute, 30–50. New York: W.W.
Norton, 2009.
Steinfeld, Henning, Pierre Gerber, Tom Wassenaar, Vincent Castel, Maricio Rosales, and Cees
de Haan. “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options.” Rome: Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006. Download at
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
Stuart, Susan M. “Lifting Spirits: Creating Gardens in California Domestic Violence Shelters.”
In Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World, ed. Peggy F. Barlett, chapter 3.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Thompson, William. “Lots in Common.” Landscape Architecture Magazine, August 2000: 52–
59.
Townsend, Alan R. and Robert W. Howarth. “Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem.” Scientific
Americani vol. 302 (February 2010): 64–71.
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS). “Definitions of Food Security.” 2012.
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Wooten, Heather and Amy Ackerman. “Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban
Agriculture.” Public Health Law & Policy, October 2011.
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Books
Ackerman-Leist, Philip. Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and
Secure Food Systems. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013.
Agyeman, Julian and Alison Hope Alkon, eds. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and
Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Allen, Will, Diana Balmori, and Fritz Haeg. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd ed.
New York: Metropolis Books, 2010.
Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2009.
______. World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2011.
Bruges, James. The Biochar Debate: Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build
Soil Fertility. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2010.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Cockrall-King, Jennifer. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution.
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2012.
Conway, Gordon. One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2012.
Creasy, Rosalind. The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Sierra Club
Books, 2010.
Fukuoka, Masanobu. The One-Straw Revolution. New York: Rodale, 1978.
Funes, Fernando et al. Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production
in Cuba. Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2002.
Haeg, Fritz, Will Allen, and Diana Balmori. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd ed.
Metropolis Books, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hillel, Daniel. Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1992.
Hodgson, Kimberly, Marcia Caton Campbell, and Martin Bailkey. Urban Agriculture: Growing
Healthy, Sustainable Places. Washington, DC: American Planning Association Planning
Advisory Service, 2011.
Jackson, Wes. New Roots for Agriculture. University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
Johnson, Lorraine. City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing. Vancouver, BC:
Greystone, 2010.
Kimbrell, Andrew, ed. The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.
Lyson, Thomas A., G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh, eds. Food and the Mod-Level Farm.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Meadows, Donella, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year
Update. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2004.
Millstone, Erik and Tim Lang. The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2008.
Montgomery, David. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2007.
Mougeot, Luc J.A. Growing Better Cities: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Development.
Ottawa, ON: International Development Research Centre, 2006.
Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, 2nd ed.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Nierenberg, Danielle. Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry. Worldwatch Paper
121. Worldwatch Institute, 2005.
Nordahl, Darrin. Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2009.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York:
Penguin, 2007.
Randers, Jorgen. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green, 2012.
Rich, Sarah C. Urban Farms. New York: Abrams, 2012.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Ruppental, R.J. Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to YearRound Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green,
2008.
Sinclair, Minor and Martha Thompson. Cuba: Going Against the Grain—Agricultural Crisis and
Transformation. Boston: Oxfam America, 2001.
Stibbe, Arran, ed. The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. Devon,
UK: Green Books, 2009.
Viljoen, André, ed. CPULs: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes. Oxford: Architectural
Press, 2005.
Wolfe, David W. Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life. New
York: Basic Books, 2001.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet. Washington,
DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2011.
Websites
American Community Gardening Association. http://www.communitygarden.org/
AmpleHarvest.org http://www.ampleharvest.org/
A national database in the U.S. connecting gardeners and nearby food pantries.
Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC). http://www.foodsecurity.org/
EcoSchool Design. http://www.foodsecurity.org/
Edible Schoolyard. http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/
FAO: “FAOSTAT Statistical Database.” http://faostat.fao.org/
Farm to School. http://www.farmtoschool.org/
Food First Information and Action Network. http://www.foodfirst.org
FoodForward. http://foodforward.org/about/
FoodHub. http://www.food-hub.org/
Online clearinghouse from Ecotrust connecting farmers, ranchers, fishers, wholesale food
buyers, food processors, distributors in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
Incredible Edible Todmorden. http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/
A group promoting access to local food in a variety of ways, including community gardens,
school gardens, land share, food grown on public land, and food grown in unexpected
places.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. http://www.iatp.org/
International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.ifpri.org/
Nonprofit organization conducts research on food, poverty, land grabs, trade, and other
issues; publishes reports; provides advocacy.
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/
Monterey Fish Market: “Sustainable Fisheries Guide.”
http://www.montereyfish.com/media/pdfs/mfm_sustainblguide2011.pdf
Illustrated overview of different fishing methods and their impacts.
Not Far from the Tree. http://www.notfarfromthetree.org/about
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). http://www.peta.org/
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): “Vegetarian Starter Kit.”
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/free-vegetarian-starter-kit.aspx
Polyface Farms. http://www.polyfacefarms.com/
Portland Fruit Tree Project. http://portlandfruit.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Rodale Institute. “The Farming Systems Trial: Celebrating 30 Years.” Kutztown, PA: Rodale
Institute, 2011.
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/FSTbookletFINAL.pdf
A demonstration project comparing organic soil and conventional soil.
SPIN. http://www.spinfarming.com/
Small-plot intensive method of urban gardening website in Saskatoon, Canada.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). http://www.fao.org/
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): “Organic Agriculture.”
http://www.fao.org/organicag
United Nations Millennium Development Goals. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals
Urban Agriculture Network. http://www.urbanagriculturenetwork.org
UrbanAgLaw. http://www.urbanaglaw.org/
Resources related to legal issues surrounding urban agriculture initiatives.
Urban Farming. http://www.urbanfarming.org/
USDA Economic Research Service Food Environment Atlas. http://www.ers.usda.gov/dataproducts/food-environment-atlas.aspx
USDA National Organic Program. http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service “Soil Biology Primer.” Download at
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/concepts/soil_biology/biology.html
An introduction to soil ecosystems and their role in soil health. Printed copies can be
purchased at http://www.swcs.org/
World Resources Institute: Earth Trends online database. http://earthtrends.wri.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
14. Products
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Anastas, P.T. and J.B. Zimmerman. “The Twelve Principles of Green Engineering as a
Foundation for Sustainability.” In Sustainability Science and Engineering: Defining
Principles, ed. Martin A. Abraham, chapter 2. Elsevier B.V., 2006.
Arndt, Michael. “Caterpillar Remanufacturing.” Bloomberg Businessweek, December 5, 2005.
Atlee, Jennifer and Tristan Roberts, “Cradle to Cradle Certification: A Peek Inside MBDC’s
Black Box.” Environmental Building News, February 1, 2007.
Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry Discussion Guide. Bioneers, 2004.
Chertow, M. “The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing Views of Technology and
Environmental Impacts.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 4 (2001): 13–29.
Ehrenfeld, J.R. “Can Industrial Ecology Be the ‘Science of Sustainability?” Journal of Industrial
Ecology, vol. 8 no. 102 (2004): 1–3.
Ehrenfeld, J.R. and N. Gertler. “Industrial Ecology in Practice: The Evolution of
Interdependence at Kalundborg.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 1 no. 1 (1997): 67–79.
Erard, Michael. “Call of the Truck Stop: Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines.” New York Times,
March 7, 2007.
Frosch, Robert A. “Industrial Ecology: A Philosophical Introduction.” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, USA 89, February 1992: 800–03.
Frosch, Robert A. and Nicholas E. Gallopoulos. “Strategies for Manufacturing.” Scientific
American, vol. 261 no. 3 (1989): 144–55.
Gardner, Gary. “Conserving Nonrenewable Resources.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 99–110. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Geels, F., A. Monaghan, M. Eames, and F. Steward. “The Feasibility of Systems Thinking in
Sustainable Consumption and Production Policy: A Report to the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.” London: DEFRA, 2008.
Graedel, T.E. “The Evolution of Industrial Ecology.” Environmental Science and Technology,
vol. 34: 28A–31A. doi: 10.1021/es003039c
Hansen, E., R. Fletcher, B. Cashore, and C. McDermott. “Forest Certification in North
America.” EC 1518-E, February 2006.
Herman Miller. “Herman Miller Environmental Advocacy.” Zeeland, MI: Herman Miller, 2007.
Hosford, William F. and John L. Duncan. “The Aluminum Beverage Can.” Scientific American,
September 1994: 48–53.
Kay, J. “On Complexity Theory, Exergy, and Industrial Ecology.” In Construction Ecology:
Nature as the Basis for Green Buildings, eds. C.J. Kibert, J. Sendzimir, and G.B. Guy.
London: Spon, 2002.
Mathews, John A. and Hao Tan. “Progress Toward a Circular Economy in China: The Drivers
(and Inhibitors) of Eco-industrial Initiative.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, June 2011: 435–
57.
Piore, Adam. “The Ultimate Sustainability Index.” Scientific American, December 2012: 40–41.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Vital Forest Graphics. Nairobi, Kenya:
UNEP, 2009.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). “Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry.”
EPA Science Matters Newsletter, June 2011.
Van Nes, Nicole and Jacqueline Cramer. “Product Lifetime Optimization: A Challenging
Strategy towards More Sustainable Consumption Patterns.” Journal of Cleaner Production,
vol. 14 nos. 15–16 (2006): 1307–18.
Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association. “Macy’s and Schneider
National Filling Empty Miles for Sustainability and Savings.” October 2009.
http://www.vics.org/
Wang, Heming et al. “Resource Use in Growing China: Past Trends, Influence Factors, and
Future Demand.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2012: 481–92.
Books
Allenby, B. Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1999.
Anderson, Ray C. Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface
Model. Peregrinzilla Press, 1999.
______. Confessions of a Radical Industrialist. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Ashby, Michael F. Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice, 2nd ed.
Oxford, UK: Butterworth Heinemann, 2012.
Ayres, Robert U. and Leslie W. Ayers, eds. A Handbook of Industrial Ecology. Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar, 2002.
Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Birkeland, Janis. Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions.
London: Earthscan Publications, 2000.
Dierderen, Andre. Global Resource Depletion: Managed Austerity and the Elements of Hope.
Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, 2010.
Eccleston, Charles H. Environmental Impact Assessment: A Guide to Best Professional
Practices. CRC Press, 2011.
Epstein, Marc J. Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring
Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 2008.
Esty, Daniel C. and Andrew S. Winston. Green to Gold. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Fiksel, Joseph. Design for Environment, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009.
Goleman, Daniel. Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy
Can Change Everything. New York: Broadway Books, 2009.
Graedel, T.E. and B.R. Allenby. Industrial Ecology, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2003.
______. Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Graedel, Thomas E. and Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville. Greening the Industrial Facility:
Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools. New York: Springer, 2005.
Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Hawken, Paul, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2008.
Hitchcock, Darcy and Marsha Willard. The Business Guide to Sustainability. New York:
Earthscan, 2009.
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Hull, Ruth N., Constantin-Horia Barbu, and Nadezhda Goncharova. Strategies to Enhance
Environmental Security in Transition Countries. New York: Springer, 2007.
Jedliĉka, Wendy. Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems, and Strategies for Innovative
Package Design. New York: John Wiley, 2008.
Lovins, Amory B. Reinventing Fire. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011.
McDonough, William and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle. New York: North Point Press,
2002.
Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Sayre, Don. Inside ISO 14000: The Competitive Advantage of Environmental Management.
Delray Beach, FL: St. Lucie Press, 1996.
Schmidheiny, Stephan. Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and
the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
Schmidt-Bleek, Friedrich. Das MIPS Konzept: Faktor 10. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1998.
Socolow, Robert, C. Andres, F. Berkhout, and V. Thomas, eds. Industrial Ecology and Global
Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Suh, Sangwon, ed. Handbook of Input–Output Economics in Industrial Ecology. New York:
Springer, 2009.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
Thorpe, Ann. The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
Tollefson, Chris, Fred Gale, and David Haley. Certification, Governance, and the Forest
Stewardship Council. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
Van der Ryn, Sim and Stuart Cowan. Ecological Design: 10th Anniversary Edition. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2007.
Vezzoli, Carlo and Ezio Manzini. Design for Environmental Sustainability. Milan, Italy:
Springer, 2008.
von Weiszäcker, Ernst, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Factor Four: Doubling Wealth,
Halving Resource Use. London: Earthscan, 1997.
Vries, Bert J.M. de. Sustainability Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Websites
BlueGreen Alliance. http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/
A U.S. partnership of the United Steelworkers Union, the Sierra Club, and 14 of the largest
American trade unions and environmental groups, with the triple-bottom-line goal of “good
jobs, a clean environment, and a green economy.”
Consumers Union Guide to ecolabels. http://www.eco-labels.org/
Cradle to Cradle certification, McDonough-Braungart Design Chemistry. http://www.mbdc.com/
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. http://www.c2ccertified.org/
EcoLabel Index. http://ecolabelling.org
Global directory of ecolabels.
EcoLogo Program. http://www.ecologo.org/
Third party certification.
European Commission: “End of Life Vehicles,” 2013.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/elv_index.htm
Fair Trade USA. http://www.transfairusa.org/
Fair Trade certification.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). http://www.fsc.org
GreenBlue. http://www.greenblue.org/
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). http://www.iso.org/iso/about.htm
International Society for Industrial Ecology. http://www.is4ie.org/
Kalundborg Centre for Industrial Symbiosis. http://en.symbiosis.dk/industrial-symbiosis.aspx
Lunar: “Designer’s Field Guide to Sustainability.” http://www.lunar.com/
Patagonia Common Threads Partnership, 2013. http://www.patagonia.com/us/common-threads/
Pharos Project. http://www.pharosproject.net/
A project of the USGBC Cascadia chapter to create a clear graphic product and materials
evaluation and labeling tool.
Product Policy Institute. http://www.productpolicy.org/
Rocky Mountain Institute: “Reinventing Fire: Industry.” http://www.rmi.org/industry
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). http://www.scscertified.com/program_standards.php
Comprehensive list of certification standards.
Society for Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (SETAC). http://www.setac.org/
SETAC is the primary professional organization connected with LCA. Its website offers
detailed technical information, reports, and other publications.
Sustainability Consortium. http://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/
A global-scale collaboration of over 100 of the world’s largest corporations, academics,
government agencies, and non-governmental organizations, jointly administered by
universities in the U.S. and the Netherlands, with an office in China. The Sustainability
Consortium provides a growing set of science-based measurement and reporting systems
that can be used by manufacturers, retailers, and consumers to allow them to compare and
understand environmental, social, and economic impacts across the entire product supply
chain. Participants believe that this index will eventually supersede other product rating
systems.
Thorpe, Ann. “Teaching Guide for The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability.” Download at
http://www.designers-atlas.net/teach-guide.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Design for Environment Program.
http://www.epa.gov/dfe
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Green Purchasing Guides.
http://www.epa.gov/epp/pubs/greenguides.htm
Links to green purchasing guides through the EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
program.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Life Cycle Assessment Research.
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess
Informational webpages, case studies, and numerous resources for people interested in using
or learning about LCA, including both professionals and nonprofessionals.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). http://www.wbcsd.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
15. Waste and Recycling
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Alonso, Elisa et al. “Evaluating Rare Earth Element Availability: A Case with Revolutionary
Demand from Clean Technologies.” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 46 no. 6
(2012): 406–14.
Atsom, Yuval et al. “Winning the $30 Trillion Decathlon: Going for Gold in Emerging
Markets.” McKinsey Quarterly, August 2012: 4.
CalRecycle. “Resource Recovery Parks.” 2011.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/LGCentral/Library/Innovations/recoverypark/.
Carpenter, Edward J. and K.L. Smith, Jr. “Plastics on the Sargasso Sea Surface.” Science, vol.
175 no. 4027 (March 17, 1972): 1240–41.
Carpenter, Edward J., Susan J. Anderson, George R. Harvey, Helen P. Miklas, and Bradford B.
Peck. “Polystyrene Spherules in Coastal Waters.” Science, vol 178 no. 4062 (November 17,
1972): 749–50.
Center for Sustainable Systems Factsheets. “Municipal Solid Waste.” Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan, 2008. http://css.snre.umich.edu/facts/.
Colton, John B., Jr., Frederick D. Knapp, and Bruce R. Burns. “Plastic Particles in Surface
Waters of the Northwestern Atlantic.” Science, vol. 185 no. 4150 (August 9, 1974): 491–97.
Container Recycling Institute. “Keep America Beautiful: A History.” Culver City, CA: undated.
Du, Xiaoyue and Thomas E. Graedel. “Global In-Use Stocks of the Rare Earth Elements: A First
Estimate.” Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 45 no. 9 (May 2011): 4096–101. doi:
10.1021/es102836s
Gardner, Gary. “Can Landfills Be Mind?” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 107. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Graedel, T.E. “The Prospects for Urban Mining.” The Bridge, vol. 41 no. 1 (Spring 2011): 43–
50.
GrassRoots Recycling Network. “Aluminum Can Waste: Bigger Impact than Plastic Bottle
Waste.” 2001. http://archive.grrn.org/beverage/shareholders/articles/can_waste.html
Group Machiels. “Enhanced Landfill Mining.” http://www.machiels.com/
Hoshaw, Lindsey. “Afloat in the Ocean: Expanding Islands of Trash.” New York Times,
November 10, 2009.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance. “Recycling and Solid Waste.” New Rules Project.
http://www.newrules.org/environment/rules/recycling-and-solid-waste
Makower, Joel. “Calculating the Gross National Trash” (blog), Greenbiz.com, March 20, 2009.
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/03/20/calculating-gross-national-trash.
______. “Industrial Strength Solution: You Recycle. Why Doesn’t Industry?” Mother Jones,
May/June 2009. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/05/industrial-strengthsolution
Moriguchi, Yuichi. “Japanese Efforts to Build a Sound Material-Cycle Society.” In State of the
World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 142.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
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Müller, Daniel B., Tao Wang, and Benjamin Duval. “Patterns of Iron Use in Societal Evolution.”
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 45 no. 1 (January 2011): 182–88. doi:
10.1021/es102273t
Napier, Tom. “Construction Waste Management.” Whole Building Design Guide, 2012.
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/cwmgmt.php
Platt, Brenda, David Ciplet, Kate M. Bailey, and Eeric Lombardi. “Stop Trashing the Climate.”
Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2008. www.stoptrashingtheclimate.org/
Ravilious, Kate. “Mid-town Miners: The Hunt for Urban Treasure.” New Scientist, vol. 2919
(June 5, 2013): 40–43.
Reck, Barbara K. and T.E. Graedel. “Challenges in Metal Recycling,” Science, August 10, 2012.
Rochman, Chelsea M. et al. “Classify Plastic Waste as Hazardous.” Nature, 494 (February 14,
2013): 169–71. doi:10.1038/494169a
Schiller, Ben. “Trash to Cash: Mining Landfills for Energy and Profit.” Fast Company,
September 7, 2011.
Sheehan, Bill and Helen Spiegelman. “Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste.” In The
Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard
Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 363–81. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Sierra Club Landfill Gas-to-Energy Task Force. “Sierra Club Report on Landfill Gas-to-Energy.”
2010. http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/landfill-gas-report.pdf
Sims, Mike. “Waste.” In Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: The Spirit of Sustainability,
ed. Willis Jenkins. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2010.
SourceWatch. “Keep America Beautiful.” 2009.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keep_America_Beautiful.
The Story of Stuff Project. “The Story of Change: Why Citizens (Not Shoppers) Hold the Key to
a Better Future.” 2012. http://www.storyofchange.org/
Thompson, R.C. et al. “Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?” Science, May 7, 2004: 838.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5672/838.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “Recycling Rates of Metals: A Status
Report.” Paris: 2011.
USGS. “Metal Stocks in Use in the United States.” Fact Sheet 2050–3090. Reston, VA: July
2005.
Wang, T. “Forging the Anthropogenic Iron Cycle.” Doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 2009.
Books
Commoner, Barry. “The Four Laws of Ecology.” In The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and
Technology. New York: Random House, 1971.
Hayes, Brian. Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape. New York: W.W.
Norton, 2005.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hill, Marquita K. Understanding Environmental Pollution, 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Imhoff, Daniel. Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World. San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005.
Leonard, Annie. The Story of Stuff. New York: Free Press, 2010.
Maczulak, Anne. Waste Treatment: Reducing Global Waste. New York: Facts On File, 2010.
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Makower, Joel. Strategies for the Green Economy. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009.
New York City Department of Design and Construction. Construction and Demolition Waste
Manual. 2003.
Pepper, Ian L., Charles P. Gerba, and Mark L. Brusseau, eds. Environmental and Pollution
Science, 2nd ed. Boston: Academic Press, 2006.
Rogers, Heather. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. New York: The New Press,
2005.
Theis, Tom and Jonathan Tomkin, eds. Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation. Houston,
TX: Connexions, Rice University, 2012.
Websites
Basel Action Network and e-Steward program. http://www.ban.org/
Boulder, Colorado Eco-Cycle program. http://www.ecocycle.org/zerowaste/index.cfm
Earth911. http://earth911.com/recycling/glass/facts-about-glass-recycling/
Eco-Cycle program (Boulder, CO): “Zero Waste.” http://www.ecocycle.org/zerowaste
e-Stewards: “e-Stewards Certification.” http://e-stewards.org/certification-overview/
European Commission. Environmental Statistics and Accounts in Europe, 2010 Edition. Eurostat
Statistical Books. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010.
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de=KS-32-10-283
Statistics on a range of environmental topics for countries in the European Union.
GrassRoots Recycling Network. http://www.grrn.org/
GreenBlue. http://www.greenblue.org/
King County, Washington, Zero Waste program. http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/garbagerecycling/zero-waste.asp
National Recycling Coalition. http://nrcrecycles.org/
A nonprofit coalition of U.S. recycling professionals, educators, and consumers.
Plastics Task Force, Ecology Center, Berkeley. http://ecologycenter.org/plastics/
Reduce Waste website, from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. http://www.reduce.org/
Santa Barbara, California, Waste Reduction Programs. http://www.lessismore.org/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Municipal Solid Waste.” 2008.
http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw2008rpt.pdf
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Municipal Solid Waste in the United States:
Facts and Figures.” http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/municipal/msw99.htm
A biannual report on waste generation, recovery, and disposal.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Pollution Prevention (P2).” 2013.
http://www.epa.gov/p2/
Waste Free Oceans. http://www.wastefreeoceans.eu/about
An industry led European-wide initiative to clean up European coastal waters.
Worldwatch Institute, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1497
Instructions for opting out of unwanted mail.
Zero Waste Alliance. http://www.zerowaste.org/
Zero Waste Network. http://www.zerowastenetwork.org/
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
16. Working in an Organization
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Banerjee, S. “CSR: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Critical Sociology, vol. 34 (2008): 51–79.
Devereaux, Jamie. “Sustainability-Focused Employee Engagement: The Experts Speak.”
Sustainability: The Journal of Record, vol. 6 no. 3 (June 2013): 161–66.
Doppelt, Bob. “Overcoming the Seven Sustainability Blunders.” The Systems Thinker, vol. 14
no. 5 (2003).
Pearce, Joshua M. and Christopher F. Uhl. “Getting It Done: Effective Sustainable Policy
Implementation at the University Level.” Planning for Higher Education, vol. 31 no. 3
(March–May 2003).
Ramus, C. and I. Montiel. “When Are Corporate Environmental Policies a Form of
Greenwashing?” Business and Society, vol. 44 no. 4 (2005): 377–414.
Wojciechowski, Tom. “The Role of Leadership in Fostering and Maintaining Sustainability
Initiatives.” Planning for Higher Education, vol. 31 no. 3 (March–May 2003).
Books
AtKisson, Alan. The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational
Performance and Transform the World. London: Earthscan, 2008.
Bell, Simon and Stephen Morse. Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?
Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008.
de Geus, Arie. The Living Company. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
Doppelt, Bob. Leading Change toward Sustainability. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing,
2003.
Edwards, Andrés R. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola
Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010.
Epstein, Marc J. Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring
Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 2008.
Esty, Daniel C. and Andrew S. Winston. Green to Gold. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Friend, Gil. The Truth about Green Business. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press, 2009.
Giudice, Fabio, Guido La Rosa, and Antonino Risitano. Product Design for the Environment: A
Life Cycle Approach. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Hitchcock, Darcy and Marsha Willard. The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning.
Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008.
______. The Business Guide to Sustainability. New York: Earthscan, 2009.
Hopkins, Lewis D. and Marisa A. Zapata, eds. Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios,
Plans, and Projects. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007.
Ivanova, Maria. “A New Global Architecture for Sustainability Governance.” In State of the
World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 104–18.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Kaner, Sam. Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 2nd ed. New York: John
Wiley, 2007.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Makower, Joel. Strategies for the Green Economy. New York: McGraw Hill, 2009.
Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomare. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the
Evolutionary Corporation. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1999.
______. Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step. Gabriola Island,
BC: New Society Publishers, 2002.
Olson, Eric G. Better Green Business: Handbook for Environmentally Responsible and
Profitable Business Practices. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009.
Phyper, John-David and Paul MacLean. Good to Green: Managing Business Risks and
Opportunities in the Age of Environmental Awareness. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Randers, Jorgen. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green, 2012.
Robèrt, Karl H. The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution. Gabriola Island, BC: New
Society, 2002.
Robèrt, Karl H., G. Basile, G. Broman, et al. Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability.
Karlskrona, Sweden: Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2004.
Rogers, Everett M. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th ed. New York: Free Press, 2003.
Schendler, Auden. Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability
Revolution. Philadelphia: Public Affairs, 2009.
Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. New
York: Currency Doubleday, 1996.
Senge, Peter, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, and Sara Schley. The Necessary
Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. New York: Broadway Books,
2010.
Sheldon, Christopher and Mark Yoxon. Installing Environmental Management Systems: A Stepby-Step Guide. London: Earthscan, 2002.
Sitarz, Daniel. Greening Your Business: The Hands-on Guide to Creating a Successful and
Sustainable Business. Carbondale, IL: Earthpress, 2008.
Sukhdev, Pavan. “Transforming the Corporation into a Driver of Sustainability.” In State of the
World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 143–53. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 2013.
van der Heijden, Kees. Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation, 2nd ed. New York: John
Wiley, 2005.
White, Allen L. and Monica Baraldi. “Reinventing the Corporation.” In State of the World 2012:
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 87–103. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2012.
Willard, Bob. The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom
Line. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2002.
__________. The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: How to Transform Your Company.
Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2009.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to
Sustainability. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
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Websites
2Degrees. http://www.2degreesnetwork.com/
A global community of individual professionals and businesses sharing information and
resources about sustainable business.
AXIS Performance. http://www.axisperformance.com/
Information booklets and other resources.
GreenBiz.com. http://www.greenbiz.com/
Business news and tools.
Greening Business. http://www.esci.keele.ac.uk/greeningbusiness/
An online teaching resource from Keele University, UK.
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). http://www.iema.net/
Organization of professional environmental management practitioners. Headquartered in the
UK, with members worldwide.
International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP).
http://www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org/
Resources and networking for sustainability practitioners.
The Natural Step. http://www.naturalstep.org/
Provides training in the Natural Step framework, free toolkits, and other resources in several
languages for businesses and communities.
SustainAbility. http://www.sustainability.com/
Think tank and consulting firm focused on business leadership in sustainability, cofounded
by John Elkington, developer of the triple bottom line concept.
Sustainability Advantage. http://www.sustainabilityadvantage.com/
Worksheets and slideshows for communicating the business case.
United Nations Global Compact. http://www.unglobalcompact.org/
A U.N. initiative that works with companies to implement principles of human rights, labor,
environment, and anti-corruption.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): “Green Purchasing Guides.”
http://www.epa.gov/epp/pubs/greenguides.htm
Links to green purchasing guides through the EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
program.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development. http://www.wbcsd.org/
A CEO-led coalition of international companies focused on business and sustainable
development. Originated at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
17. Education: Preparing a New Generation to Live Well
in a Changing World
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Charles, Leonard, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman, and Victoria Stockley. “Where You At? A
Bioregional Quiz.” CoEvolution Quarterly, vol. 32 (Winter 1981): 1.
How on Earth. “A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW.” http://how-on-earth.org/straw.html
Humblet, Emmanuelle M., Rebecca Owens, Leo Pierre Roy, David McIntyre, Peggy Meehan,
and Leith Sharp. “Roadmap to a Green Campus.” Washington, DC: U.S. Green Building
Council, 2010.
Johnson, Julie M. “Design for Learning: Values, Qualities and Processes of Enriching School
Landscapes.” Landscape Architecture Technical Information Series. Washington, DC:
American Society of Landscape Architects, 2000.
Keen, Mike F. and Krista Bailey. “The Natural Step for Colleges and Universities.”
Sustainability: The Journal of Record, vol. 5 no. 3 (June 2012): 147–51. doi:
10.1089/sus.2012.9956
Moore, Robin C. and Clare Cooper Marcus. “Healthy Planet, Healthy Children: Designing
Nature into the Daily Spaces of Childhood.” In Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science, and
Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life, eds. Stephen R. Kellert, Judith H. Heerwagen, and
Martin L. Mador. New York: John Wiley, 2008.
Orr, David W. “Walking North on a Southbound Train.” Conservation Biology, vol. 17 no. 2
(April 2003): 348–51.
______. “What Is Higher Education for Now?” In State of the World 2010: Transforming
Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 75–82. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2010.
Rolston, Holmes, III. “Earth Ethics: A Challenge to Liberal Education.” In Earth Summit Ethics:
Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education, eds. J. Baird
Callicott and Fernando R. da Rocha. Albany: State University of New York, 1996.
Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling and Yoshie Kaga. “Early Childhood Education to Transform
Cultures for Sustainability.” In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From
Consumerism to Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 57–61. New York: W.W. Norton,
2010.
Stone, Michael K. and Zenobia Barlow. “Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainabiltiy.” In The
Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard
Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 409–18. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Svanström, Magdalena, Francisco J. Lozano-García, and Debra Rowe. “Learning Outcomes for
Sustainable Development in Higher Education.” International Journal of Sustainability in
Higher Education, vol. 9 no. 3 (2008): 339–51.
Wood, Nancy Lee. “Community Colleges: A Vital Resource for Education in the Post-Carbon
Era.” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds.
Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 419–26. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Books
Barlett, Peggy F. and Geoffrey W. Chase, ed. Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies
for Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
Creighton, Sarah Hammond. Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track
Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
Danks, Sharon Gamson. Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design ideas for Schoolyard Transformation.
Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2010.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hutchison, David and David W. Orr. A Natural History of Place in Education. New York:
Teachers College Press, 2004.
Kellert, Stephen R. Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human–Nature
Connection. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005.
Kellert, Stephen R. and Edward O. Wilson, eds. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 1993.
Kellert, Stephen R., Judith H. Heerwagen, and Martin L. Mador, eds. Biophilic Design: The
Theory, Science, and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life. New York: John Wiley,
2008.Keniry, Julian. Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st
Century. National Wildlife Federation, 1995.
Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2008.
______. The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age. Chapel Hill, NC:
Algonquin, 2012.
M’Gonigle, Michael and Justine Starke. Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the
University. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2006.
Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. New
York: State University of New York Press, 1992.
______. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2004.
Phillips, Anne. Holistic Education: Learning from Schumacher College. Dartington: Green
Books, 2008.
Plant, Judith, Christopher Plant, Van Andruss, and Eleanor Wright. Home! A Bioregional
Reader. New Catalyst Books, 2008.
Rappaport, Ann and Sarah Creighton. Degrees that Matter: Climate Change and the University.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
Sayan, Charles and Daniel Blumstein. The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We
Can Fix It). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Smith, Gregory A. and Dilafruz R. Williams, eds. Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving
Education, Culture, and the Environment. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,
1999.
Snow, C.P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, reissued. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
Sobel, David. Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities.
Massachusetts: Orion Society, 2004.
Stibbe, Arran, ed. The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. Devon,
UK: Green Books, 2009.
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Stone, Michael K. Smart by Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Vincent, Shirley. Interdisciplinary Environmental Education on the Nation’s Campuses:
Elements of Field Identity and Curriculum Design. Washington, DC: National Council of
Science and Environment, 2010.
Williams, Dilafruz and Jonathan Brown. Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education. New
York: Routledge, 2011.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Websites
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Ohio.
http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc
American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.
http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
http://www.aashe.org/
Campus Ecology, National Wildlife Federation. http://www.nwf.org/campus-ecology.aspx
Center for Ecoliteracy. http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
Center for Place-Based Learning and Community Engagement. http://www.promiseofplace.org/
Green Schools Initiative. http://www.greenschools.net/
Green Teacher. http://www.greenteacher.com/
A magazine for K-12 educators.
Handbook of Sustainability Literacy. http://www.sustainability-literacy.org/
Access the book, additional chapters, and additional information related to learning and
thriving in the world of the coming century.
Mary E. Silveira Elementary School, San Rafael, California: school-wide jobs.
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National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program. http://www.nwf.org/campusecology
Natural Learning Initiative, North Carolina State University. http://www.naturalearning.org/
Second Nature. http://www.secondnature.org/
Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed (STRAW).
http://www.bay.org/watershed_education.htm
Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina: work component of education.
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/work/
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18. Working as Agents for Change
Further Reading
Articles, Chapters, and Papers
Adamson, Rebecca, Danielle Nierenberg, and Olivia Arnow. “Valuing Indigenous Peoples.” In
State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 210–17.
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Andersen, Robin and Pamela Miller. “Media Literacy, Citizenship, and Sustainability.” In State
of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability,
Worldwatch Institute, 157–63. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Ansell, C. and C. Gash. “Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice.” Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory, vol. 18 (2008): 543–71.
Arnstein, S. “The Ladder of Citizen participation.” Journal of the Institute of American Planners,
vol. 35 (1969): 16–24.
Assadourian, Erik. “The Living Earth Ethical Principles: Spreading Community.” World Watch
Magazine, September/October 2009: 38–39.
______. “Building an Enduring Environmental Movement.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 292–303. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Bäckstrand, L. “Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policy Maker
and Citizens in Environmental Governance.” Global Environmental Politics, vol. 3 (2003):
24–41.
Barabási, Albert-László and Eric Bonabeau. “Scale-Free Networks.” Scientific American, May
2003: 50–59.
Bierman, F. and P. Pattberg. “Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving
Forward.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 33 (2008): 277–94.
Butler, Katy. “Winning Words.” Sierra, vol. 89 no. 4 (July–August 2004): 54.
Csutora, Maria. “One More Awareness Gap? The Behaviour–Impact Gap Problem.” Journal of
Consumption Policy, March 2012: 149.
Dawson, Jonathan. “Ecovillages and the Transformation of Values.” In State of the World 2010:
Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 185–90.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Engelman, Robert. “Beyond Sustainababble.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 3–16. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Finfrock, Jesse. “Q&A: John Elkington.” Mother Jones, November/December 2008: 10.
Foti, Joseph. “Getting Local Government Right.” In State of the World 2012: Moving Toward
Sustainable Prosperity, Worldwatch Institute, 183–90. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012.
Gardner, Gary. “Ritual and Taboo as Ecological Guardians.” In State of the World 2010:
Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 30–35.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Glock, Clarinha. “Rio+20 Doubts over Impact of Sustainable Development Dialogues.” Inter
Press Service, June 19, 2012.
Gordon, Larry. “All You Can Carry: College Cafeterias Go Trayless.” Los Angeles Times,
September 14, 2009.
© 2014 Margaret Robertson
Green, Paula. “Shaping Community Responses to Catastrophe.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 363–73. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Haag, Richard. “Eco-Revelatory Design: The Challenge of the Exhibit.” Landscape Journal, vol.
17, special issue (1998): 72–79.
Hogben, Susan. “It’s (Not) Easy Being Green: Unpacking Visual Rhetoric and Environmental
Claims in Car, Energy and Utility Advertisements in the UK.” Language & Ecology, vol. 3
no. 1 (2009).
Hopkins, Rob. “What Can Communities Do?” In The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st
Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 442–51. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Kemp, R., S. Parto and R. Gibson. “Governance for Sustainable Development: Moving from
Theory to Practice.” International Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 8 (2005): 12–
30.
LaChapelle, Dolores. “Ritual Is Essential: Art and Ceremony in Sustainable Culture.” In Context,
Spring 1984. Reprinted in The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology eds.
Alan R. Drengson and Yuichi Inoue, 219–22. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1995.
Lakoff, George. “Winning Words.” Sierra Magazine, July/August 2004.
Leach, Melissa. “Pathways to Sustainability: Building Political Strategies.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 234–43. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Leonard, Annie. “Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change.” In State of the World
2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 244–52. Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2013.
Maniates, Michael, “Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?” In
Confronting Consumption, eds. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
______. “Editing Out Unsustainable Behavior.” In State of the World 2010, Worldwatch
Institute, 3–20. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
______. “Teaching for Turbulence.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Worldwatch Institute, 255–68. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Martin, Brian. “Effective Crisis Governance.” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 269–78. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Mazur, Laurie. “Cultivating Resilience in a Dangerous World.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 353–62. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
Meadowcroft, J. “What about the Politics? Sustainable Development, Transition Management,
and Long Term Energy Transitions.” Policy Science, vol. 42 (2009): 323–40.
Miller, Asher. “What Now? The Path Forward Begins with One Step.” In The Post Carbon
Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises, eds. Richard Heinberg and
Daniel Lerch, 455–58. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Olsson, P. et al. “Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of
Social–Ecological Systems.” Ecology and Society, vol. 11 no. 1 (2006), art. 18.
Orr, David W. “Governance in the Long Emergency.” In State of the World 2013: Is
Sustainability Still Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 279–91. Washington, DC: Island Press,
2013.
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Owens, S. and L. Driffil. “How to Change Attitudes and Behaviours in the Context of Energy.”
Energy Policy, vol. 36 (2008): 4412–18.
“Rio+20: After Dialogues, Citizens to Make Recommendations on Rio+20 Issues.” UN News
Centre, June 20, 2012.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. “Is It Too Late?” In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still
Possible? Worldwatch Institute, 374–80. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
Sachs, Jonah and Susan Finkelpearl. “From Selling Soap to Selling Sustainability: Social
Marketing.” In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to
Sustainability, Worldwatch Institute, 151–56. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Sanjayan, M.A. “Seaworthy Semantics.” Nature Conservancy, Summer 2010: 8.
Senos, René. “Rebuilding Salmon Relations: Participatory Ecological Restoration as Community
Healing.” Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design, Robert L. France. Boca Raton, FL:
CRC Press, 2008.
Sturtevant, Victoria E. and Jon I. Lange. “The Applegate Partnership Case Study: Group
Dynamics and Community Context. Seattle: US Forest Service.” Pacific Northwest
Research Station, Oregon, USA, 2001.
Taylor, M. “Community Participation in the Real World: Opportunities and Pitfalls in New
Governance Spaces.” Urban Studies, vol. 44 (2007): 297–317.
Tippett, Krista, interview of Joanna Macy. “A Wild Love for the World.” On Being. American
Public Media, November 1, 2012.
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2026.” November 11, 2009. http://transitionculture.org/2009/11/11/transition-taunton-townand-their-local-council-produce-a-transition-vision-for-2026/
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Walker, B., C.S. Holling, S.R. Carpenter, and A. Kinzig. “Resilience, Adaptability and
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5.
Books
Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do? White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2013.
Barlett, Peggy F. and Geoffrey W. Chase, eds. Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies
for Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
Bollier, David. Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Commons.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2011.
Cox, J. Robert. Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere, 3rd ed. London: SAGE
Publications, 2012.
Doppelt, Bob. The Power of Sustainable Thinking. London: Earthscan, 2008.
Duarte, Nancy. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences. New York: John
Wiley, 2010.
Edwards, Andrés R. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola
Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010.
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Evans, J.P. Environmental Governance. London: Routledge, 2012.
Faga, Barbara. Designing Public Consensus: The Civic Theater of Community Participation for
Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers. New York: John Wiley,
2006.
Forde, C. Daryll. Habitat, Economy and Society: A Geographical Introduction to Ethnography.
London: Routledge, 2010. Reprint edition of 7th ed., 1949; first published in 1934.
Fosket, Jennifer and Laura Mamo. Living Green: Communities that Sustain. Island, BC: New
Society Publishers, 2009.
Gilding, Paul. The Great Disruption. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Grim, John A. Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and
Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Ham, Sam H. Interpretation: Making a Difference on Purpose. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2013.
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Heinberg, Richard and Daniel Lerch, eds. The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s
Sustainability Crises. Healdsburg, CA: Watershed Media, 2010.
Hopkins, Rob. The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White
River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
______. The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain
Times. White River, VT: Chelsea Green, 2011.
______. The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World. Green Books,
2013.
Kaner, Sam. Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 2nd ed. New York: John
Wiley, 2007.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
McKenzie-Mohr, Doug and William Smith. Fostering Sustainable Behavior. Gabriola Island,
BC: New Society Publishers, 1999.
McKenzie-Mohr, Doug, Nancy R. Lee, P. Wesley Schultz, and Philip A. Kotler. Social
Marketing to Protect the Environment: What Works. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications,
2011.
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
Miller, Kivi Leroux. The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build
Support for Your Good Cause. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Moore, K.D. and M.P Nelson, eds. Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. San
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Mühlhäusler, Peter. Language of Environment, Environment of Language: A Course in
Ecolinguistics. London: Battlebridge Publications, 2003.
Pahl, Greg. Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy
Projects. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
Parish, Billy and Dev Aujla. Making Good. New York: Rodale, 2012.
Randers, Jorgen. 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green, 2012.
Raskin, Paul, Tariq Banuri, Gilberto Gallopin, Pablo Gutman, and Al Hammond. Great
Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead. Boston, MA: Stockholm
Environment Institute, 2002.
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Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Sanoff, Henry. Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning. New York: John
Wiley, 2000.
Seed, John, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess. Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a
Council of All Beings. New Catalyst Books, 2007.
Shiva, Vandana. Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace. South End Press, 2005.
Sibbet, David. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform
Group Productivity. New York: John Wiley, 2010.
Smith-Sebasto, Nicholas. Annual Editions: Sustainability 12/13. New York: McGraw Hill, 2011.
Solnit, Rebecca. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in
Disaster. New York: Viking Press, 2008.
Steffen, Alex, ed. World Changing, Revised and Updated Edition: A User’s Guide for the 21st
Century. New York: Abrams, 2011.
Stibbe, Arran. Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
______, ed. The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. Devon, UK:
Green Books, 2009.
Susskind, Lawrence, Sarah McKearnan, and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, eds. Consensus-Building
Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Reaching Agreement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 1999.
Thayer, Robert L. LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2003.
Tomasello, Michael. Why We Cooperate. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
UNEP. Communicating Sustainability: How to Produce Effective Public Campaigns. United
Nations Environment Programme, 2005.
Waddell, Steve. Global Action Networks. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Worldwatch Institute. State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to
Sustainability. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Websites
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. http://www.celdf.org/
A nonprofit organization providing legal expertise in support of local self-government and
the rights of nature.
Council of All Beings. http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/coab.htm
Earth Council Alliance. http://earthcouncilalliance.org/
A collaboration of global organizations with a focus on agriculture, community, resilience,
and green infrastructure, organized around the principles of the Earth Charter and Agenda
21.
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: Community-Based Social Marketing. http://www.cbsm.com/
Great Transition Initiative. http://www.gtinitiative.org
ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability. http://www.iclei.org/
A consortium of worldwide cities, towns, and urban regions. Tools and resources for
community resilience and climate action planning.
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). http://www.iap2.org/
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Joanna Macy and Her Work: The Great Turning.
http://www.joannamacy.net/thegreatturning.html
Mr. Green. http://sierraclub.typepad.com/mrgreen/
Sponsored by the Sierra Club. Bob Schildgen, former managing editor of Sierra magazine,
provides answers to questions submitted by individuals wanting to make more sustainable
choices.
National Charrette Institute. http://www.charretteinstitute.org
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A project of the Post Carbon Institute. A clearinghouse of information on resilience and a
network of other groups oriented around building community resilience.
Sustainable Communities Online. http://www.sustainable.org/
A website for sharing information about community initiatives.
The Future We Want. http://www.futurewewant.org
Transition Network. http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
Information about a wide array of initiatives and activities of Transition Towns and other
Transition groups from around the world. Examples include community food networks,
exchanges, and energy descent plans.
Vital Graphics Series, GRID/Arendal and United Nations Environment Programme.
http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/
High-quality graphics based on the best research data.
Worldchanging. http://www.worldchanging.com/
A site for sharing information about design, products, and daily life.
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