Sustainable Solutions for an Overused World
UNM/LA E&PS 110 and CE 500, spring 2005

Books published by the Earth Policy Institute can be downloaded chapter by chapter, including

The Worldwatch Institute also has many downloadable publications.

The Schumacher Society (UK) publishes the Schumacher Briefings, an excellent series of short books on the transformations that will be needed to reach sustainability. The course is using Briefing #9, "Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People Power", by Roy Madron and John Jopling, and the course reader includes an excerpt from Briefing #1, "Transforming Economic Life: A Millennial Challenge", by James Robertson.

Data and much more can be found on the web site of the UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO) project, initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a comprehensive global state of the environment report.

Internet resources for individual sections of the course:

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