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- Gives practical advice on how to live more sustainably
- Challenges all of us to to make more difficult, meaningful changes to create a greener world
- Unpacks the science underpinning guidance to a more sustainable life
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The book also delves into how we can create more sustainable communities, schools, and organizations. It showcases many examples of people and organizations that are making significant contributions to improving our planet’s sustainability that serve as inspiration and guidance for all of us trying to live more sustainably.
Keywords
- sustainability
- climate change
- sustainable living
- carbon footprint
- sustainable energy use
- waste management
- environmental sustainability
- sustainable organisations
- upcycling
- Greenhouse Gas Impact
- sustainable development goals
- ecosocialism
- ecotourism
- environmental justice
- environmental racism
- organic food
- Rainforest Alliance
- renewable energy
- sustainable living
- sustainable cities
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(Professor E. Christian Wells, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA
Robert Brinkmann
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Sustainability
Book Subtitle: A Guide to a More Sustainable Life
Authors: Robert Brinkmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73782-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73781-8Published: 29 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73782-5Published: 28 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 302
Number of Illustrations: 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Development Studies, Geography, general, Environmental and Sustainability Education