Sustainability by design : a subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture /
By: Ehrenfeld, John.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008Description: xxii, 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300137491 (alk. paper); 9780300137491:; 0300137494 (alk. paper); 9780300158434; 0300158432.Subject(s): Sustainable development
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.
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.
John Ehrenfeld challenges conventional understandings of 'solving' environmental problems and offers a radical set of strategies to attain sustainability.