consumption

Webinar: Plastic Soup Solutions

Watch a conversation about how businesses can drive us away from plastic dependence. Plastic Soup Solutions: How Business Can End Plastic Pollution is hosted in partnership with Green America. Panelists:

Island Press Staff Picks - Bottled and Sold

By Admin / On October 23rd, 2013

Today's staff pick, Bottled and Sold, comes from our Production Assistant, Caroline Sperry.

Sustainable Consumption is a Myth

By Jason Leppig / On October 14th, 2013

Continual growth and consumption is unsustainable. We've published many books on why the idea of "sustainable consumption" is impossible, but this post by Alison Singer at Worldwatch breaks it down simply and effectively.

#ForewordFriday: Is Sustainability Still Possible Edition

By Admin / On April 19th, 2013

This week's #forewordFriday selection comes fresh off a successful launch of the Worldwatch Institute's newest edition of State of the World. This 2013 edition asks the question: Is Sustainability Still Possible? Editors Erik Assadourian and Tom Prugh have brought together Worldwatch experts and other contributors including:

All-Consuming Question: Is Population or Behavior the Problem?

By [node:field_contributor] / On June 9th, 2008

Talking to reporters and others about More: Population, Nature, and What Women, I’m sometimes asked where consumption fits into the population picture. A book review in the intriguingly named magazine Bitch, for example, criticized the book for “failing to adequately distinguish between the individuals who are overpopulating the world and the individuals who are responsible for the type of overconsumption that causes environmental deterioration.”