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CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

COURSE READINGS

  1. A CALL TO SUSTAINABILITY
    • Definitions of Sustainability
    • Excerpts from Easter's End by Jared Diamond
    • Excerpts from Putting a Price on Mother Nature by Richard Hill
    • No Simple Answers by Robert Gilman
    • The Great Turning by Joanna Macy
  2. ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
    • Design, Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things by William McDonough
    • The Natural Step to Sustainability by Mary Jane Burkardt
    • Case Study: Scandic Hotels Thrives with The Natural Step
    • Case Study: Interface First U.S. Natural Step Company Proclaims a Vision
    • The Laws of the Earth and the Laws of Economics by Donella Meadows
    • Case Study: Bear River's Living Machine by Dave Redwood and Sean Kelly
  3. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
    • Excerpt from Our Ecological Footprint by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees
    • Cities of Exuberance by Sarah Van Gelder
    • Working for the Planet in the Neighborhood by Patrick Mazza
    • Meet Your Neighbors by Patricia Long
    • Case Study: Hourly Car Rental Pulls into the USA by Patrick McMahon
  4. SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
    • Money vs. Life by David Korten
    • Excerpt from If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down? by Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe
    • Excerpts from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken
    • Case study: Making Money: Local Currencies and Bartering Networks by Marshall Glickman
  5. SUSTAINABLE FOOD
    • Excerpts from Community-Supported Agriculture: Rediscovering Community by Jack Kittredge
    • Reclaiming Eating as Sacred Relationship by Jeremy Rifkin
    • Excerpts from A Bite Felt 'Round the World by John Robbins and Jia Patton
    • The Great Hunter-Gatherer Continuum by Jim Mulligan
    • Top 10 Reasons to Buy Organic
  6. SUSTAINABLE BUYING
    • American Excess: Are We Shopping Our Planet to Death? by Alan Durning
    • Excerpts from What Do We Need? Some Lessons from the Third World by Joanna Macy
    • Excerpt from Getting from Here to There by Vicki Robin
    • Sustainability: The New Benchmark for Evaluating Everyday Products by Debra Dadd-Redalia
  7. SUSTAINABLE LIVING
    • Excerpt from The Obligation of Care by Wendell Berry
    • Co-Housing: Somewhere Between Neighborhood and Commune by Donella Meadows
    • Small is Beautiful by Matt Holland
    • Case Study: Resource-Responsive Homes by Pliny Fisk
    • Learning to Live in Place: A Set of Queries by Gregory Smith
    • In Praise of Idleness by Jay Walljasper
  8. VISIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
    • Beyond the Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgan Randers
    • The Seven Sustainable Wonders of the World by Alan Durning
    • Excerpts from Crossing the Threshold: Early Signs of an Environmental Awakening by Lester Brown
    • Excerpts from The Common Life by Scott Russell Sanders

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