The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift

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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
by Andres R. Edwards
from New Society Publishers

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Sustainable Framework
  The Sustainability Revolution provides a broad portrait of a paradigm shift, as the sub title claims. Although I checked this out of the library, this is a book to own and refer to especially if you are interested in furthering sustainable best practices or even wondering what they are. Sustainability can be a challenge to get understanding and organized around and this book neatly categorizes it in 7 chapters and concludes with a substantial resource section; it is well referenced throughout for additional... more info

• Excellent reference
  I good overview of the various different positions and definitions of what is sustainability. It's a little dry, but as a reference book this can't be beat.

• Great Intro to Sustainability
  This book is perfect way to grasp what has happened and why in the sustainability movement. Andres Edwards introduces all of the right resources and contacts for anyone who is vested in our sustainability on this planet. He covers business, community and governmental approaches. In this book he simply introduces all the major themes a very broad field. It can be a little text book, but is also a very interesting read. I am the director for Sustainable Fairfax and Andres has also been a wonderful speaker for... more info

• Sustainability garbage
  I bought this book along with a more reputable book "For the Common Good" for a sustainability class I am taking. This book is poorly written and repetitive of other environmental books. The author uses the same arguments, poorly I might add, as every other environmentalst wanting to publish a book. The bok is filled with facts easily found on the internet. His conclusions are repetitive from every conlusion concerning environmetalism. The author has no real concept of economics and uses the suggestion of... more info

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