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Author:   Guru Madhavan ,  Barbara Oakley ,  David Green ,  David Koon
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2013 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.443kg
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9781461443483

ISBN 10:   1461443482
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   20 October 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Biographical Information Preface, It’s Different: Sustainability and Touchy Trade-Offs, Editors Acknowledgements Foreword, Michael Spence Editorial, Klaus Schwab Editorial, Sustaining Sustainability: Thoughts on Managing Trade-Offs and Competing Considerations, Robert Rubin Editorial, Sustainability: Can You Get There, If You Don’t Know Where “There” Is? George Whitesides  1. What Medical Equipment Taught Me About Sustainability, Robert Malkin 2. Food: The Ultimate Answer, José Andrés 3. A Village of Hope: The Interplay of Sustainability and Community Development, Mark Templer 4. Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development, Homi Kharas 5. Sustainable Skyscrapers and the Well-Being of the City, Richard Cook 6. Dimensional Stability, Heidi Williamson 7. Sustainability: A Tale of Twin Brothers, Ken Wilson 8. Cooperation and Sustainability, Simon Levin 9. The Sincerity of Purpose: Sustainability and World Peace, Arun Gandhi 10. Recycling Reinvented: Music and Sustainability, José-Luis Novo 11. Connectivity and Sustainability: Perspectives from Landscape and Urban Design, Diana Balmori 12. Nutrition and Sustainability, Marc Van Ameringen 13. A Poet in the Car Company: Sustainability of Passion and Profitability, David Berdish 14. The Need for Sustainable Heretics, Freeman Dyson 15. Performance with Purpose, Dave Haft 16. The Business of Sustainability: A Different Design Question, Gregor Barnum 17. Sustaining Population Health, Jacqueline Sherris 18. The Struggle to Make Sustainable Change in Global Health, Laurie Garrett and Zoe Liberman 19. Economic Growth and Sustainability Rooted in Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant 20. Approaching the Future with Optimism, Robyn Beavers 21. A Decent Place to Live, Jonathan Reckford 22. From Field to Market: Changing our Focus, Gerald Steiner 23. Joules: The Currency of Sustainability, Chandrakant Patel 24. Spoons or Tractors: Sustainable Development as Rapid Productivity Growth in Developing Nations, Robert Atkinson 25. Unlocking the Energy of Business to Effect Change, Meg Crawford 26. Put it on Paper: Lowering Healthcare Costs, Una Ryan 27. Mind the Gap: A Different Take on Sustainability, Matthew Taylor 28. Sustainable Scientific Research, K.R. Sreenivasan 29. Energizing Sustainable Development, V.S. Ramamurthy and Narendar Pani 30. The Importance of Sustainability in Helping the Poor, Mechai Viravaidya 31. Why is Waste a Dirty Word? Melanie Walker 32. How Much Is Enough? Making It Personal, Toinette Lippe 33. Teaching Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era, Kai Lee and Richard Howarth 34. Don’t Sustain; Advance, Kevin Finneran 35. Changemakers for Sustainability, Karabi Acharya 36. What Social Entrepreneurs Taught me about Sustainability, Mirjam Schöning 37. An Emotional Connection with Sustainability through Documentary Films, Heather MacAndrew and David Springbett 38. Conserving Energy for Tomorrow without Sacrificing Quality of Our Lives, Scott Tew 39. Sustainability of Our Ocean Resources, James Barry 40. Will it Last? Will it Endure? Andrea Coleman and Barry Coleman 41. The Holistic Enchilada: Moving Toward Food System Sustainability, Wayne Roberts 42. Bringing Organizational Sustainability to Public Postsecondary Education, Christopher Hayter and Robert Hayter 43. Ensuring Connections, Harvey Locke 44. Beyond the Status Quo: Catalyzing Sustainability in the Arts, Jane Milosch 45. Historic Preservation: The Real Sustainable Development, Donovan Rypkema 46. Bending Toward Justice: The Search for Sustainable Energy, Michael Brune Afterword, M.S. Swaminathan

Reviews

Praise for Practicing Sustainability: Delightful!the chapters are gems of precision and insight. --Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics This book so aptly demonstrates [that] the concept of sustainability can be applied to many different areas, which could be woven together into a sustainability agenda. --Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, and Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Seminal!a thoughtful and refreshingly different book. --Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Mahatma Gandhi once said 'unsustainable lifestyles and unacceptable poverty should become problems of the past, to achieve harmony with nature and with each other.' Practicing Sustainability not only brings out the relevance of this vision clearly, but also the need to develop better concepts and pathways to achieve that vision. --M.S. Swaminathan, World Food Prize Laureate and Member of Parliament, India An enlightening book that demystifies what sustainability really means with a fresh, unusual range of voices and practical insights. Practicing Sustainability should be read by anyone who cares about the future of our planet. --Neal Lane, Former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. In this unique collection, each reader will find three or four sparks--things that will connect with their head or heart or both, and perhaps spur them to real action. It's a necessary book! --Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org, and author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Eaarth. Practicing Sustainability is an engaging and ultimately uplifting kaleidoscope of ideas from the people on the front lines of building a better planet. --Greg Ip, author of The Little Book of Economics The popularity of sustainability has taken a toll on its meaning--it is too often used as a lofty aspiration or as a vague objective. This book provides a great antidote to this trend. Practicing Sustainability is a must-read for anyone looking for good ideas on how to make sustainability more real and concrete. --Moises Naim, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais; Former Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy An important book that contributes greatly to the understanding and practice of sustainability in a comprehensive, lucid, and thoughtful way. --Shu Chien, National Medal of Science Laureate; University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Praise for Practicing Sustainability: Delightful...the chapters are gems of precision and insight. -Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics This book so aptly demonstrates [that] the concept of sustainability can be applied to many different areas, which could be woven together into a sustainability agenda. -Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, and Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Seminal...a thoughtful and refreshingly different book. -Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Mahatma Gandhi once said 'unsustainable lifestyles and unacceptable poverty should become problems of the past, to achieve harmony with nature and with each other.' Practicing Sustainability not only brings out the relevance of this vision clearly, but also the need to develop better concepts and pathways to achieve that vision. -M.S. Swaminathan, World Food Prize Laureate and Member of Parliament, India An enlightening book that demystifies what sustainability really means with a fresh, unusual range of voices and practical insights. Practicing Sustainability should be read by anyone who cares about the future of our planet. -Neal Lane, Former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. In this unique collection, each reader will find three or four sparks-things that will connect with their head or heart or both, and perhaps spur them to real action. It's a necessary book! -Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org, and author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Eaarth. Practicing Sustainability is an engaging and ultimately uplifting kaleidoscope of ideas from the people on the front lines of building a better planet. -Greg Ip, author of The Little Book of Economics The popularity of sustainability has taken a toll on its meaning-it is too often used as a lofty aspiration or as a vague objective. This book provides a great antidote to this trend. Practicing Sustainability is a must-read for anyone looking for good ideas on how to make sustainability more real and concrete. -Moises Naim, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais; Former Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy An important book that contributes greatly to the understanding and practice of sustainability in a comprehensive, lucid, and thoughtful way. -Shu Chien, National Medal of Science Laureate; University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Praise for Practicing Sustainability: Delightful...the chapters are gems of precision and insight. -Michael Spence, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics This book so aptly demonstrates [that] the concept of sustainability can be applied to many different areas, which could be woven together into a sustainability agenda. -Robert Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, and Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Seminal...a thoughtful and refreshingly different book. -Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum Mahatma Gandhi once said 'unsustainable lifestyles and unacceptable poverty should become problems of the past, to achieve harmony with nature and with each other., Practicing Sustainability not only brings out the relevance of this vision clearly, but also the need to develop better concepts and pathways to achieve that vision. -M.S. Swaminathan, World Food Prize Laureate and Member of Parliament, India An enlightening book that demystifies what sustainability really means with a fresh, unusual range of voices and practical insights. Practicing Sustainability should be read by anyone who cares about the future of our planet. -Neal Lane, Former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. In this unique collection, each reader will find three or four sparks-things that will connect with their head or heart or both, and perhaps spur them to real action. It's a necessary book! -Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org, and author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Eaarth. Practicing Sustainability is an engaging and ultimately uplifting kaleidoscope of ideas from the people on the front lines of building a better planet. -Greg Ip, author of The Little Book of Economics The popularity of sustainability has taken a toll on its meaning-it is too often used as a lofty aspiration or as a vague objective. This book provides a great antidote to this trend. Practicing Sustainability is a must-read for anyone looking for good ideas on how to make sustainability more real and concrete. -Moises Naim, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais; Former Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy An important book that contributes greatly to the understanding and practice of sustainability in a comprehensive, lucid, and thoughtful way. -Shu Chien, National Medal of Science Laureate; University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Author Information

Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor) is a program officer at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council-collectively known as the National Academies-in Washington, DC. Barbara Oakley (Editor) is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a former vice-president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. David Green (Editor) is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by the Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. David Koon (Editor) represented the 135th district of the New York State Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2010. Penny Low (Editor) is a Member of Parliament of Singapore, and was the youngest elected female representative in 2001. Michael Spence (Foreword) is William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at New York University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Klaus Schwab (Editorial) is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. Robert Rubin (Editorial) is Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. George Whitesides (Editorial) is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. M. S. Swaminathan (Afterword) is a Member of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and a World Food Prize Laureate.

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