Flourishing by Design

John R. Ehrenfeld

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A. Links to other websites and blogs

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• Appropedia: The sustainability wiki : Collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.
• Article13 : Business responsibility, typically in the areas of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and governance.
• BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies : BALLE seeks to build community wealth by catalyzing, connecting, and strengthening local business networks dedicated to building Living Economies.
• Conscious Consuming : Conscious Consuming seeks to increase awareness of the impact of buying decisions on our health, happiness, and environment. Through education and discussion we encourage people to live in line with their values by better prioritizing time, money, and material things.
• Crosslands Bulletin : Victor House News Co., Ltd. is a leading independent source of information and analysis about strategic corporate environmental management and sustainable development.
• Dot Earth : Climate Change and Sustainability- a New York Times Blog.
• Eco-Living : Eco-living is the art of living your dreams while minimising your impact on the environment.
• Elegant Solutions : The Search for Simplicity Beyond Complexity.
• Green Conduct : A premium communication hub about sustainability, providing vibrant, educating and reliable communication services to increase transparency, awareness and knowledge about sustainability.
• Green Options Media : Empowering sustainable choices
• GreenBiz.com : Daily News on Green Business, Business and Climate Change and Sustainable Business Practices.
• Greenwala : The green social network.
• Guardian Environment Network : An excellent list of environmental blogs by the Guardian.
• Inhabitat : Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
• International Society of Industrial Ecology : I have been engaged in this field since it began about 15 years ago. It is built on the idea that ecosystems have much to teach us about sustainability.
• JustMeans : News, jobs, and networks for people who create change.
• Leading Green : Harvard Business Publishing's occasional blog on environment and business.
• Matter Network : News and ideas for a sustainable world.
• New American Dream : The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.
• Orion Magazine : Serious thinking on the deeper connection between the environment and social and political issues.
• People and Place : Ideas that connect us.
• Plenty Magazine : The world in green.
• Resilience Alliance : The Resilience Alliance is comprised of scientists and practitioners who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems, encompassing key concepts of resilience, adaptability, and transformability as a foundation for sustainability.
• Resilience Science : The Resilience Science weblog was started in early 2005 by Garry Peterson and Marco Janssen as an experiment to communicate recent work by and of interest to those interested in resilience in social ecological systems.
• SustainAbility : A just and sustainable world for present and future generations.
• Sustainablog : Since July 2003, sustainablog has been providing information on environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics. The blog regularly features environmental leaders, experts in alternative energy and green technology, and real people trying to lighten their environmental footprints.
• The Daily Green : The consumer's guide to the green revolution.
• The Happiness Project : How to be happier.
• The Inspired Economist : Highlighting the individuals and companies applying passion and innovation to economic, social, and environmental challenges
• Transition United States : Rebuilding community resilience and self-reliance
• WorldChanging : Worldchanging is a solutions-based online magazine that works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us.

B. Selected books referred to in "Sustainability by Design"

• • Bellah, R. N., R. Madsen, W. M. Sullivan, A. Swidler, and S. M. Tipton. Habits of the Heart. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1985.
  • Borgmann, A. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Daly, H. E. Steady-state Economics. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991.
  • Dreyfus, H. L. Being-in-the World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.
  • Fromm, E. To Have or To Be? New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
  • Giddens, A. The Constitution of Society. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1984.
  • Gunderson, L. H. and C. S. Holling, eds. Panarchy. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2002.
  • Habermas, J. The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1. Boston: Beacon, 1981.
  • Habermas, J. The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2. Boston: Beacon, 1987.
  • Harman, W. Global Mind Change: The Promise of the Twenty-first Century. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1998.
  • Hawken, P., A. Lovins, and L. H. Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.
  • Heidegger, M. Being and Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
  • Heidegger, M. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
  • Illich, I. Deschooling Society. London: Penguin, 1971.
  • Jonas, H. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Keyes, L. M. C., and J. Haidt. Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-lived. Washington, DC: American Psychological Press, 2003.
  • Kim, D. H. Systems Archetypes I. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1994.
  • Kuhn, T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962.
  • Maslow, A. H. Motivation and Personality. New York: Longman, 1954.
  • Maslow, A. H. Toward a Psychology of Being. New York: John Wiley, 1998.
  • Maturana, H. R., and F. J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge. Boston: New Science Library, 1988.
  • Max-Neef, M. "Development and Human Needs." In Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation, edited by P. Ekins and M. Max-Neef. New York: Routledge, 1992.
  • Mumford, L. The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967.
  • Norton, B. G. Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Perrow, C. Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies. New York: Basic, 1984.
  • Rorty, R. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989.
  • Senge, P. M. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
  • Speth, J. G. Red Sky in the Morning. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.

C. Books and articles that have shaped my thinking over time

• • Argyris, C. and D. Schon (1978). Organizational Learning: A theory of action perspective. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley.
  • Berry, T. (2006). The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books.
  • Berry, W. (2002). Art of the Commonplace. Berkeley, CA, Counterpoint.
  • Giddens, A. (1990). The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press.
  • Gladwin, T., W. E. Newburry, et al. (1997). Why is the Northern Elite Mind Biased Against Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Environment, Ethics, and Behavior: The Psychology of Environmental Valuation and Degradation. K. A. Wade-Benzoni. San Francisco, The New Lexington Press: 234-274.
  • Hardin, G. (1968). "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science 162(December 13): 1243-1248.
  • Hawken, P. (1993). The Ecology Of Commerce. New York, Harper Business.
  • Illich, I. (1973). Tools for Conviviality. New York, Harper & Row.
  • Isaacs, W. (1999). Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together. New York, Doubleday Business.
  • Jelsma, J. (2000). Design of behaviour steering technology. International Summer Academy on Technology Studies, Graz (Deutschlandsberg), Austria.
  • Kay, J. J. (2002). On complexity theory, exergy, and industrial ecology: Some implications for construction ecology. Construction ecology: Nature as a basis for green buildings. G. B. Guy. London, Spon Press: 72-107.
  • Lakoff, G. and M. Johnson (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
  • Leopold, A. (1986). Sand County Almanac. New York, Ballantine Books.
  • Lindblom, C. E. (1959). "The science of "muddling through."" Public Admin. Rev. 19: 79-88.
  • Maturana, H. R. (1988). "Reality: The Search for Objectivity, or the Quest for a Compelling Argument." Irish Journal Of Psychology 9(1): 25-82.
  • Mumford, L. (1934). Technics and Civilization. New York, Harcourt and Brace.
  • Rittel, H. W. J. and M. M. Webber (1973). "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning." Policy Sciences 4: 155-169.
  • Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York, Basic Books, Inc.
  • Schön, D. A. and M. Rein (1995). Frame Reflection: Towards the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies. New York, Basic Books.
  • Senge, P. M., C. Roberts, et al. (1994). The Fifth Discipline Handbook. New York, Doubleday.
  • White, L., Jr. (1967). "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis." Science 155: 1203-1207.
  • Winograd, T. and F. Flores (1986). Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Norwood, NJ, Ablex Publishing Corporation.

But the care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy goal and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility.
To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope. -- Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace

© 2008 John R. Ehrenfeld

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