Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

The book is founded upon this new definition: sustainability as the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the Earth forever. Human flourishing goes beyond sense of belonging to and thriving in the natural world. It also involves the attainment of a few very special qualities that have come to be recognized as constituting our species as different from these other life forms.

 

Sustainability is only a powerful vision humans can use, individually and collectively, to design the world in which hey live and act so that the possibility of flourishing is never closed off. As long as the door to the future remains open, even if only by a small crack, then that possibility exists.