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Thriving in a Post-Consumerist Society

By Duane Elgin — 2011

In creating healthier ways of living, a new village movement based upon the sanity of simplicity, a strong ecological consciousness and respect for children and family, will play a vital role in building a future of sustainable prosperity.

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A Guide to Intersectional Environmentalism

Knowing how environmental issues affect different groups of marginalized people in unique and often overlapping ways can help us build a more sustainable and equitable world.

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Lynn Brown and Sam Laird
2021
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5 Food Activists Connecting Hearts and Histories to Heal a Broken System

Sustainability is often discussed in a high-level, conceptual way as the connection between people, planet, and profit. But in practice, it can be deeply intimate—a relationship to what nourishes us and enables us to thrive.

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Simran Sethi
2021
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Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future

Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.

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Kenny Ausubel
2011
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Why Self-Care is Essential for Effective Sustainability Leadership

For activists and those who work on environmental, climate and sustainability issues, we might feel angst, grief, anger and/or frustration each time we hear about another climate domino falling.

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Thomas L. Rosenberg
2019
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Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet

A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.

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Carl Safina
2021
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The Sustainable Soul of Hip Hop

From songs referencing grandma’s backyard garden to lyrics ripping government for destroying the water supply, many hip hop artists seamlessly weave climate justice into their sounds. After all, being sustainably savvy is how their grandparents and great-grandparents survived.

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Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
2020
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Will Mushrooms Be Magic for Threatened Bees?

We might be able to save honeybees from viruses transmitted by invasive parasites without chemical treatment.

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Paul Stamets
2018
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Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR

No challenge derails managers from the goal of sustainability more than trying to understand what it means for an organization to really be sustainable.

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Tima Bansal and Mark DesJardine
2015
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The Seventh Fire

This essay is part of our July 2019 Uncertain Future Forum on the topic: “If collapse is imminent, how do we respond?”

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Winona LaDuke
2019
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‘Rampant Consumerism Is Not Attractive.’ Patagonia Is Climbing to the Top—and Reimagining Capitalism Along the Way

There are two small holes in the chest of my black fleece, as if a vampire took a nip, but Rose Marcario, the CEO of Patagonia, does not think I need a new one.

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Alana Semuels
2019
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