1. Abandon Affluence
   Resource Type: Book
   This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
2. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis 
   What Working People Need to Know
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
3. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
4. Bingo The big charity bonanza
   New Internationalist October 2005 - #383
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2005
   A look at issues surrounding big international non-governmental organizations.
5. Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
6. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
7. The Closing Circle 
   Man, Technology & the Environment
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1971
   Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
8. Cohousing and Sustainabliity
   Resource Type: Article
   How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
9. Coming Back to Life 
   Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
11. Creating an Ecological Society 
    Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
12. Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
13. Deep Ecology
    Living as if Nature Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    
14. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
15. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
16. For Our Common Future
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
17. From the Editor: Green Living
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
18. Global Imperative
    Harmonizing Culture and Nature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
19. The Great Turning
    From Empire to Earth Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
20. A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
21. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
22. Investing in a Sustainable Future
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The Cerro Gordo community.
23. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
24. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
25. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
26. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
27. The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
    This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
28. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
29. One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2017
    Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
31. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
    Voter Suppression
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
32. Our Common Future
    A Reader's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Explains the concept of sustainable development, presses the necessity of a more equitable international economic system, and lays bare the links between trade, environment, and development.
    
33. Our Common Future: A Reader's Guide
    The Brundtland Report Explained
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This beautifully illustrated work is a readable account of the world's development issues, as culled from the "Brundtland Report". The message that new sources of money must be found to support the pursuit of sustainable development becomes much more digestable through the beautiful photographs.
34. Sex, lies and global survival
    New Internationalist September 1992
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    Is overpopulation the cause of the global ecological crisis? Rather than the overpopulation of the South, it's the overconsumption the North's much smaller population that's having the greatest impact. Need to look closer to home for solutions to environmental damage.
35. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
    
36. Sharing as our common cause
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
37. Spirit of the Wolf
    The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
38. Stoves and Trees
    Resource Type: Book
    Stoves and Trees examines wood stoves and shows how people buy, collect and use wood in the Third World. It finds that while most forests are cleared to supply farmland, not fuelwood, stoves can make dwellings safer and healthier for women and their families.
39. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
40. Sustainability Searching for solutions
    New Internationalist November 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    A look at the issues and facts regarding sustainability around the world.
41. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1998
    The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
42. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.

Experts on Nachhaltigkeit in the Sources Directory

1. American Museum of Natural History
2. Bees for Development
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
5. Pacific Islands Forum
6. Partners in Population and Development
7. United Nations
8. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)