The following is just a roughly ordered selection of valuable links to all sorts of sustainability issues, a short bibliography and some hints about media. It will start you on a journey which will quickly assume its own path through the net.
| New and/or still worth a look. | Contents. |
Plus also have a look at the pre-Rio joint statement of the World's leading scientics and ponder the progress we've made since 1992: The Royal Society and the National Academy of Sciences on Population Growth and Sustainability
| Sustainability. | Contents. |
| What does it mean? Tools for understanding. | Contents. |
Surfing Your Way to Sustainability: The Super Sites
What is Sustainable Development (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
Interactive Learning About Sustainable Development (an interactive toolkit)
Sustainable Development Timeline
Sustainable Development Principles
The Natural Step's Four System Conditions for Sustainability
Die 2000-Watt Gesellschaft (Strategie Nachhaltigkeit, ETH Zürich)
Bilder eines guten Lebens - Wuppertal Institute (shows practical examples of sustainable living)
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Second Nature: Education for Sustainability
A better quality of life. A strategy for sustainable development for the United Kingdom (Department for the Environment, Food & Local Affairs)
Sustainable Markets (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Sustainable Development Online
Tools for a Sustainable Community. One-stop Guide for U.S. Local Governments
Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology, Sydney
An example for living lightly on Earth: Kerala.
(see also International Local Agenda 21 campaign)
Sustainable Development Information System (Government of Canada)
Best Foot Forward (Bringing Sustainability Down to Earth)
LETSchemes [Tauschringe] (worldwide contacts)
| Measuring sustainability. | Contents. |
| Sustainable transport/mobility. | Contents. |
- Twike (Schweiz) (Deutschland)
- Environmental Transport Association (Counterparts in german-speaking countries: Verkehrsclub Deutschland [VCD], Verkehrsclub der Schweiz [VCS])
- UK Transport Strategy (Landverkehrsabkommen [Swiss Equivalent], unofficial verion for Germany: Grundsatzprogramm VCD)
- Sustrans (Routes for People/ National Cycle Network)
- CTC - Working for Cycling
- Living Streets (The Pedestrian Association)
- umverkehR (Switzerland) (Gute Ideen, La Crème de la Crème: Nur das Beste für Ihr Hirn)
- Umweltwirkungen des Verkehrs
- Automobil und Klima
- Friedemann Prose: Sieben Schritte zur neuen Beweglichkeit. Konzept und Zwischenergebnisse der nordlicht-Aktion zur Verminderung des motorisierten Individualverkehrs
- Münster: Modellstadt der Zukunft (Projekt Münsterbahn, Projekt Fahrradspaß für alle)
Car sharing:
- European Car Sharing
- Mobility Car Sharing Schweiz
- 234car - innovative personal transport solutions (sophisticated car sharing software, developed by the University of Bristol)
- Carplus: the car club network
- Shareajourney (UK car sharing scheme)
- Liftshare (UK car sharing scheme)
- Travelwise (comprehensive site on travel awareness)
- Freewheelers (car sharing scheme)
| Sustainable Agriculture/Aquaculture. | Contents. |
| Sustainable Product Design. | Contents. |
| Environmental Resources. | Contents. |
| Institutions/ Research Projects on Sustainability issues. | Contents. |
ULYSSES (Urban Lifestyles, Sustainability and Integrated Environmental Assessment)
CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research in the Global Environment) (University of East Anglia)
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The Earth Times Daily Web Edition - news
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Anti-Lomborg: an excellent site debunking Lomborg's 'greenwash' in The Skeptical Environmentalist (see also: Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark and Sceptical Questions and Sustainable Answers, edited by Christian Ege and Jeanne Lind Christiansen, The Danish Ecological Council 2002 [download]).
| Kyoto, Global Warming etc. | Contents. |
Global Warming and Climate Change (in-depth report by the Environment News Network)
Weather Report: Trouble ahead (The New Internationalist, No. 319, Dec 1999, fully online)
| Curriculum Greening/ Environmental Education/Green Campus. | Contents. |
| Sustainability, Jobs and Business. | Contents. |
| Waste/Packaging. | Contents. |
Packaging recources from SEEBA (South East Environmental Business Association)
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit: Abfallwirtschaft
Duales System Deutschland AG: Der grüne Punkt
AGVU: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verpackung + Umwelt e.V.
Legal basis (Packaging Ordinance):
Gesetz zur Förderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft und Sicherung der umweltverträglichen Beseitigung von Abfällen (Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz - KrW-/AbfG) [see also [englische Version]
| Environment and Social Development. | Contents. |
| Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar etc. | Contents. |
General
Solar
Other
| Environmental Organisations. | Contents. |
| Green/Ethical Procurement/ Consumption. | Contents. |
| Environmental Policies of Companies. | Contents. |
Corporate-Register: site to search for Environmental and other reports of companies.
| Environmental Policies of Universities. | Contents. |
| Bibliography. | Contents. |
| General Sustainability | On sustainable Transport |
| On Corporations and Environment | On MIPS etc. |
| On Kerala | On sustainable Cities |
General Sustainability
Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique with PRATEC: The Spirit of Regeneration. Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development. - London; New York: Zed Books, 1998.
Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika; Maria Mies: The Subsistence Perspective. Beyond the globalised Economy. - London: Zed Books, 1999.
Blythman, Joanna: Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets. - London: Fourth Estate, 2004.
Brown, Lester R.; Christopher Flavin, Hilary French et al.: State of the World 1999: Special Millenium Edition. A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. - London: Earthscan, 1999.
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring. - London: Penguin, 1991 (Original 1962).
Carter, Alan: A Radical Green Political Theory. - London: Routledge, 1999 [=Routledge Innovations in Political Theory 1].
Costanza, Robert et al.: The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. In: Nature. Vol. 387. 15.5.1997. P. 253-260.
Cook, David: The Natural Step: Towards A Sustainable Society. - Dartington: Green Books, 2004 [=Schumacher Briefings; Vol. 11].
Desai, Pooran; Sue Riddlestone: Bioregional Solutions. For Living on ONE Planet. - Foxhole: Green Books, 2002 [=Schumacher Briefings; Vol. 8].
Dieren, Wouter van: Taking Nature into Account: a report into the Club of Rome. - New York: Springer, 1995.
Douthwaite, Richard: The growth illusion - how economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet. - Bide : Green Books, 1992.
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development. Ed. by J Kirkby, P O'Keefe and L Timberlake. - London: Earthscan, 1996.
Elliott, David: Energy, Society and Environment. 2nd edition. - London; New York: Routledge, 2003 [=Routledge Introductions to Environment Series].
Elliott, David: A Solar World. Climate Change and the Green Energy Revolution. - Totnes: Green Books, 2003 [=Schumacher Briefings; Vol. 10].
Esteva, Gustavo, and Madhu Suri Prakash: Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures. - London: Zed Books, 1998.
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA): Ethical consumer guide to everyday shopping. - Manchester: ECRA Publishing, 1993.
--: EC. ethical consumer magazine. (info and some back issues available here online).
Fatal Harvest. The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, ed. by Andrew Kimbrell. - New York: Island Press, 2002.
Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics. Ed. by Robert Costanza, Olman Segura, and Juan Martinez-Alier [International Society for Ecological Economics]. - Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996.
Good Practices and Innovative Experiences in the South, ed. by Martin Khor and Lim Li Lin. - London: Zed Books, 2002.
- Volume I: Economic, Environmental and Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives.
- Volume II: Social Policies, Indigenous Knowledge and Appropriate Technology.
- Volume III: Citizen Initiatives in Social Services, Popular Education and Human Rights.
Greening the North: A post-industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity. Eds. by Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Loske, Manfred Linz et al. in association with Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. - London: Zed Books, 1998.
Grillo Fernandez, Eduardo: 'Development or Decolonization in the Andes? - In: Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique with PRATEC: The Spirit of Regeneration. Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development. - London; New York: Zed Books, 1998, pp. 193-243. {essential reading on process of development in context of industrial revolution}
The Group of Lisbon: Limits to competition. - Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
Hawken, Paul; Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins: Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution. - London: Earthscan, 1999.
Human Development Report 1998, published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). - New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. esp. chapt. 4 and 5, pp. 66-106. (also available on the web)
Jonas, Hans: The imperative of responsibility: in search of an ethics for the technological age [Prinzip Verantwortung: English]. Translated by Hans Jonas, with the collaboration of David Herr. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Jucker, Rolf: Our Common Illiteracy. Education as if the Earth and People Mattered. Frankfurt a. M.; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Lang, 2002 [=Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability; Vol. 10]).
Jucker, Rolf: Zur Kritik der real existierenden Utopie des Status quo. In: Zeitgenössische Utopieentwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft. Zur Kontroverse seit den achtziger Jahren. - Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997 [=Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik; Bd. 41]. PP. 13-78.
Kovel, Joel: The Enemy of Nature. The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? - London, New York: Zed Books, 2002.
Mapping the Journey. Case Studies in Developing and Implementing Sustainable Development Strategies. Ed. by Russell S. Barton, Lorinda R. Rowledge and Kevin Brady. – Sheffield: Greenleaf, 1999.
McCully, Patrick: Silenced rivers : the ecology and politics of large dams. - Enlarged and updated edition. - London: Zed Books/Palgrave, 2001.
McLibel Support Campaign: http://www.mcspotlight.org/
Madeley, John: Food for All. The Need for a New Agriculture. - New York, London: Zed Books, 2002.
Meadows, Donella H. [et al.]: The limits to growth : a report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. - London: Earth Island, 1972.
Meadows, Donella H.; Dennis L. Meadows; Jörgen Randers: Beyond the limits: global collapse or a sustainable future. - London: Earthscan, 1992.
Mindfulness in the Marketplace – Compassionate Responses to consumerism, ed. by Allan Hunt Badiner, foreword by Julia Butterfly Hill. - (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2002.
Myers, Norman with Jennifer Kent: Perverse Subsidies. Tax $s Undercutting Our Economies and Environments Alike. - Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1998.
Myers, Norman and Jennifer Kent: The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment. - New York: Island Press, 2004.
Nachhaltiges Leben lernen: Modelle der Umweltbildung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen, ed. by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt/ Frank Mayer and Ulrich Witte. - Schwalbach/Taunstein: Wochenschau-Verlag, 2000.
Norberg-Hodge, Helena: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. - London: Rider, 2000.
Oeko-intelligentes Produzieren und Konsumieren. Hg. v. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Ursula Tischner und Thomas Merten. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1997 [=Wuppertal Texte].
Orr, David W.: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Corruption, and the Environment in an Age of Terror. - New York: Island Press, 2004.
Our common future. By World Commission on Environment and Development. [Brundtland report]. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Pfrunder, Manuela: Neotopia. Atlas zur gerechten Verteilung der Welt/ Atlas of equitable distribution of the world. - Zürich: Limmat, 2002.
Rees, William; Mathis Wackernagel: Our ecological footprint: Reducing human impact on the Earth. - Philadelphia, P.A.: New Society, 1996.
See also: Ecological Footprints of Nations (to download): http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/footprint/
The Renaissance of Renewable Materials. In: way beyond. Communications from the UNEP's Working Group on Sustainable Product Development. Vol 1. 1996. Issue 1.
Robertson, James: Transforming Economic Life. A Millennial Challenge. - Dartington: Green Books, 1998 [=Schumacher Briefings 1].
Sachs, Wolfgang: Planet Dialectics. Explorations in Environment and Development. - London: Zed Books, 1999.
Sharing Nature's Interest. Ecological Footprints as an indicator of sustainability, by Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons and Mathis Wackernagel. London, Sterling, VA (Earthscan) 2000.
Schumacher, E.F.: Small is Beautiful. A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. London (Blond and Briggs) 1973.
Schwarz, Walter and Dorothy: Living Lightly. - Chipping Norton: Jon Carpenter Publishing; 1999.
Shiva, Vandana: The violence of the green revolution. Third World agriculture, ecology and politics. - London: Zed, 1991.
Shiva, Vandana: Monocultures of the mind : perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology. - London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network, 1993.
Shiva, Vandana: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. - South End Press, 1997.
Shiva, Vandana: Stolen Harvest.The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. - South End Press, 1999.
Shiva, Vandana: Water Wars: Pollution, Profits and Privatization. - London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Strategies for Sustainable Development. Experiences from the Pacific. Ed. by John Overton and Regina Scheyvens. - London: Zed Books, 1999.
Suliman, Mohamed: Ecology, Politics and Violent Conflict. - London: Zed Books, 1999.
Sustainability and the Social Sciences. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Integrating Environmental Considerations into Theoretical Reorientation. Ed. by Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn. – London: Zed Books, 1999.
The Winners and Losers in Global Competition: Why Eco-efficiency Reinforces Competitiveness. A Study of 44 Nations, ed. by Adreas Sturm, Mathis Wackernagel and Kaspar Müller. - Chur, Zürich: Rüegger, 2000.
We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-capitalism, ed. by Notes from Nowhere. - London: Verso, 2003.
Weizäcker, Ernst Ulrich von; Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter: Factor four: doubling wealth - halving resource use. A report to the Club of Rome. London (Earthscan) 1997.
Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von: Ecological tax reform: a policy proposal for sustainable development. - London: Zed Books, 1992.
Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von: Erdpolitik: ökologische Realpolitik an der Schwelle zum Jahrhundert der Umwelt. Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) 1992.
Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich von: Grenzen-los? Globalisierung zwischen Bedrohung und Chance. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1997.
Zukunftsfähiges Deutschland. Ein Beitrag zu einer global nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Hg. von BUND und MISEREOR. Basel (Birkhäuser) 1996.
-- auch als Videocassette: Das jüngste Gericht : Zukunftsfähiges Deutschland [videorecording]. Ein Film von Rüdiger Mörsdorf. - Immendingen: Focus-Film, 1996.
Spannungsbogen: "Zukunftsfähiges Deutschland" in der Kritik. Hg. von Manfred Linz. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1998.
Die Zukunft denken - die Gegenwart gestalten : Handbuch für Schule, Unterricht und Lehrerbildung Studie "Zukunftsfähiges Deutschland". Hg. vom Landesinstitut fur Schule u.Weiterbildung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. - Weinheim und Basel : Beltz Verlag, 1997.
Weltkursbuch. Globale Auswirkungen eines "Zukunftsfähigen Deutschlands". Hinweise und Tips für unser alltägliches Handeln. Hg. von MISEREOR. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1998.
On Corporations and Environment: [zurück zu Bibliographie]
Beder, Sharon: Global Spin: the Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. - Totnes: Resurgence, 1997.
Europe, Inc. – Regional & Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power. Ed. by Belen Balanya, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam M'anit and Erik Wesselius from CEO (Corporate Europe Observatory) with a Foreword by George Monbiot. - London: Pluto Press, 2000.
Greer, Jed; Kenny Bruno: Greenwash: The Reality behind Corporate Environmentalism. - New York: Apex Press, 1997.
Karliner, Joshua: The Corporate Planet. Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization. - San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997.
Korten, David C.: When Corporations Rule the World. - London: Earthscan, 1996.
Madeley, John: Big Business, Poor People. - London: Zed Books, 1999.
Martin, Hans-Peter; Harald Schumann: The Global Trap: Globalisation and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy. - London: Zed Books, 1997.
On Kerala: [zurück zu Bibliographie]
Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin: Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State. 2nd edition. - Oakland CA: Food First Books, 1994.
Kerala: The Development Experience. Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability, ed. by Govindan Parayil. - London: Zed Books, 2000.
McKibben, Bill: Hope, Human and Wild. True Stories of living lightly on Earth. - St. Paul, Minnesota: Hungry Mind Press, 1997. {on Curitiba (pp. 57-115) and Kerala (pp. 117-169)}
Tinker, Anne: Improving Women's Health in India. - Washington: World Bank, 1996.
On sustainable transport: [zurück zu Bibliographie]
Pastowski, Andreas; Rudolf Petersen: Wege aus dem Stau. Umweltgerechte Verkehrskonzepte. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1996 [=Wuppertal Texte].
Wolf, Winfried: Car Mania: A critical history of transport. - London: Pluto Press, 1996.
On MIPS etc.: [zurück zu Bibliographie]
Adriaanse, Albert u.a. (Hg.): Stoffströme: Die materielle Basis von Industriegesellschaften. - Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1998.
Schmidt-Bleek, Friedrich: Wieviel Umwelt braucht der Mensch? Faktor 10 - das Maß für ökologisches Wirtschaften. - München: dtv, 1997 (=dtv 30580).
On Sustainable Cities: [zurück zu Bibliographie]
Desai, Pooran; Sue Riddlestone: Bioregional Solutions. For Living on ONE Planet. - Foxhole: Green Books, 2002 [=Schumacher Briefings; Vol. 8].
Eco-villages and sustainable communities: Models for the 21st century. Ed. by Gillian Conrad, with the help of Drew Withington. - Forres: Findhorn Press, 1995.
Girardet, Herbert, The Gaia atlas of cities: new directions for sustainable urban living. - London: Gaia, 1992.
Girardet, Herbert: Creating Sustainable Cities. - Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 1999 [=Schumacher Briefing No. 2].
Haughton, Graham; Colin Hunter: Sustainable cities. - London: Jessica Kingsley, 1994 [Regional Policy & Development Series; Vol.7].
Satterthwaite, David (ed.): Sustainable Cities: An Earthscan Reader. - London: Earthscan, 1999.
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The following links are by no means covering all aspects, but they should get you going in the above mentioned debate, from a variety of perspectives.
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