Sustainability by Design A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

Name: Sustainability by Design A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
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ISBN: 9780300158434

ISBN-10: 0300158432

ISBN-13: 9780300158434

Edition: 2009

Authors: John R. Ehrenfeld

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The developed world, increasingly aware of "inconvenient truths" about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedieseco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually do more harm than good, says John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology. In this deeply considered book, Ehrenfeld challenges conventional understandings of "solving" environmental problems and offers a radically new set of strategies to attain sustainability. The book is founded upon this new definition: sustainability is the possibility that humans and other life will…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Is the Sky Falling, and, If So, Does Anyone Care?



Solving the Wrong Problem: How Good Habits Turn Bad



Uncovering the Roots of Unsustainability



Consumption: A Symptom of Addiction



A Radical Notion of Sustainability



The Tao of Sustainability



Change, Transformation, and Design



Culture Change: Locating the Levers of Transformation



A New Story for Nature



The Importance of Being



Consumption and Need



To Care Is Human



Creating Possibility with Products



Presencing by Design



Creating Possibility Through Institutional Design



Implementing Adaptive Governance



The Special Role of Business



Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index