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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundation Concepts | |
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| Beyond the Limits to Growth | |
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| What Is Sustainability? | |
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| Defining Social Sustainability | |
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| Thinking "Resilience" | |
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| Climate | |
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| A New World | |
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| The International Response to Climate Change | |
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| Cap and Dividend in the United States | |
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| The Ecological Deficit: Creating a New Political Framework | |
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| Water | |
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| Water: Adapting to a New Normal | |
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| Biodiversity | |
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| Peak Nature? | |
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| Food | |
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| Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate | |
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| Tackling the Oldest Environmental Problem: Agriculture and Its Impact on Soil | |
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| Growing Community Food Systems | |
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| Population | |
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| Population: The Multiplier of Everything Else | |
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| Culture and Behavior | |
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| Dangerously Addictive: Why we Are Biologically I11-Suited to the Riches of Modern America | |
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| Remapping Relationships: Humans in Nature | |
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| The Human Nature of Unsustainability | |
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| Energy | |
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| Making Sense of Peak Oil and Energy Uncertainty | |
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| Hydrocarbons in North America | |
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| Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy | |
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| Peak Oil and the Great Recession | |
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| Economy | |
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| Ecological Economics | |
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| Money and Energy | |
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| The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies | |
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| Cities, Towns, and Suburbs | |
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| The Death of Sprawl: Designing Urban Resilience for the Twenty-First-Century Resource and Climate Crises | |
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| Smart Decline in Post-Carbon Cities: The Buffalo Commons Meets Buffalo, New York | |
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| Toward Zero-Carbon Buildings | |
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| Local Government in a Time of Peak Oil and Climate Change | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Transportation in the Post-Carbon World | |
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| Waste | |
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| Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the End of Waste | |
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| Health | |
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| Human Health and Well-Being in an Era of Energy Scarcity and Climate Change | |
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| Climate Change and Dengue Fever | |
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| Education | |
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| Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability | |
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| Community Colleges: A Vital Resource for Education in the Post-Carbon Era | |
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| Building Resilience | |
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| Personal Preparation | |
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| What Can Communities Do? | |
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| Call to Action | |
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| What Now? The Path Forward Begins with One Step | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |