Sustainability & Green
Big Questions
Are we killing the Colorado River? Can we save the Colorado River?
Can human society live within its means — earth’s finite resources — without “earth overshoot“?
How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow?
Big Picture / Life on Earth / Biosphere / Sustainability & Green
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen
- animal sounds archive: Macaulay Library
- colorado river sucked dry: Where the Water Goes Owen
- DDT: Silent Spring Carson
- disposal: toilets
- early warnings: Coral Reef Watch
- economics:
- balance:
- overshoot:
- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
- Limits to Growth Meadows energy
- Gaia hypothesis: EcoHealth Alliance
- human impact: Man and Nature Marsh
- innovation: Breakthrough Energy Coalition
- junk: Junkyard Planet Minter
- local strategies for the long run:
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- backyards: Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
- news, research, analysis: Waste Business Journal
- overview effect: Overview: A New Perspective of Earth Grant
- packaging: Loop
- plastic waste:
- The Ocean Cleanup
- Alliance to End Plastic Waste
- bricks: homes for homeless
- oceans: 4Ocean, PlasticBank
- recycling:
- The Association of Plastic Recyclers
- organizations: Bureau of International Recycling
- waste reuse: Waste by Kate O’Neill
- sustainability:
- policy: Green New Deal
- theory: Cradle to Cradle McDonough
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