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Sustainability General overview

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sustainability

Curlie : a good starting point

https://curlie.org/Science/Environment/Sustainability

In 1972 A Blueprint for Survival, was influential in its concern for the environment and society, and endorsed by many notable scientists of the day. It was published by the Economist magazine and then by Penguin Publishers as a book with over ¾ million copies produced.

Wikipedia / Wikiwand article ;

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_Blueprint_for_Survival

Available at

https://green-history.uk/library/doc-archive/cat-index/file/243-ecologist-blueprint-for-survival-january-1972

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5285317M/Blueprint_for_survival

Brief History

Sustainable Development Commission, closed in 2011, but could be recommissioned.

https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/history_sd.html

Alternative articles

Sustainable development – historical roots of the concept by Jacobus A. Du Pisani

← Jump to the Conclusion section and work back. About 15 pages.

https://doi.org/10.1080/15693430600688831

Sustainability - A Brief History as per Nottingham University, based on other CC material

https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/internal/86/Business_edit/15_sustainability__a_brief_history.html

Acciona

https://www.activesustainability.com/sustainable-development/do-you-know-when-sustainability-first-appeared ← an opinion

www.activesustainability.com/ ← foggy website

Timeline : A brief history of sustainability by a small group

https://theworldenergyfoundation.org/a-brief-history-of-sustainability/ ← Now defunct.

Still have some linkedin and facebook links, may resurface ?

Three members in linkedin.

A view by Viktor Pal on the use of history

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/sustainability/what-is-the-use-of-history-in-the-sustainability-debate

UK farming

https://www.princescountrysidefund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/is-there-a-future-for-the-small-family-farm-in-the-uk-report.pdf

Farmland Market

https://pdf.euro.savills.co.uk/uk/rural---other/spotlight--the-farmland-market---january-2019.pdf

Biodiversity

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_Blueprint_for_Survival

Biodiversity

2020 United Nations press release with horrific statistics

https://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2020/pr-2020-09-15-gbo5-en.pdf

International Energy Foundation ← NGO

https://ief-ngo.org/en/

World Energy Council ← bloated website, hopefully will improve.

https://www.worldenergy.org/

An American view on energy, the Energy Foundation... Transition to Clean Energy

https://www.ef.org/our-work/

Magazine Articles and others

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-wiped-out-two-thirds-worlds-wildlife-50-years-180975824/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/western-wildfire-smoke-travels-across-country-180975821/

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/sustainability

Ecovillages

https://ecovillage.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Ecovillage_Network

Some People and Writings

Ancient Futures Helena Norberg-Hodge

https://shikshantar.org/sites/default/files/PDF/Helena%20Norberg-Hodge_%20H.H.%20The%20Dalai%20Lama%20(Foreword)_%20Peter%20Mathiessen%20(Introduction)-Ancient%20Futures_%20Lessons%20from%20Ladakh%20for%20a%20Globalizing%20World-Sierra%20Club_Counterpoint%20(2009).pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Norberg-Hodge

https://www.localfutures.org/about/who-we-are/helena-norberg-hodge/

The Ecologist

https://theecologist.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ecologist

Robert Prescott-Allen, Robert

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50022981

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Prescott-Allen

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Robert-Prescott-Allen-2195632988

Teddy Goldsmith

http://www.ecoropa.info/edward-teddy-goldsmith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Goldsmith

https://green-history.uk/people/teddy-goldsmith-obit

https://navdanyainternational.org/remembering-teddy-goldsmith/

IMF and Modelling Reality

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/models.htm

Recycling

Report

http://www.eunomia.co.uk/reports-tools/recycling-who-really-leads-the-world-issue-2/

Solar Panels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrystalline_silicon

Solar Panel Recycling

MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/19/1032215/solar-panels-recycling/

General info from Greenmatch, a leads company

https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-of-solar-panel-recycling

Eco Experts

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/solar-panel-recycling

An industry birthed by necessity

https://e360.yale.edu/features/solar-energy-panels-recycling

Seemingly Random

Seed Banks

https://navdanyainternational.org/about-us-navdanya-international/

Viromes

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viruses-can-help-us-as-well-as-harm-us/

Tree Communication

Trees can speak

https://qz.com/1116991/a-biologist-believes-that-trees-speak-a-language-we-can-learn/

TED talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other/transcript

Tree communication book ; The Song of Trees

https://dghaskell.com/

Tree planting by music

https://youtu.be/v5EMqXjIEw0

Tree Groups

https://www.treesforstreets.org/

https://www.facebook.com/treesforstreets/

https://standfortrees.org/

https://www.facebook.com/standfortrees/

http://www.treesforcities.org/

https://www.facebook.com/treesforcities/

https://treesforlife.org.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/treesforlifeuk/

Unique Trees group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/579079902729685/

Trees of Britain and Ireland

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BritishTrees/

Removal of Dams along Klamath River

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-largest-ever-dam-demolition-will-restore-salmon-habitat-180981190/

https://bringthesalmonhome.org/

https://bringthesalmonhome.org/understanding-dam-removal/

https://www.tu.org/press-releases/klamath-river-ferc-issues-final-license-surrender-order-and-approval-for-lower-klamath-project-dam-removals/

https://apnews.com/article/business-california-native-americans-dams-salmon-311ea96fda0fe1b0052ab8cef9ae36a9

Glaciers

A good read

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier-180981392/

Plate Tectonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics

Trilobites

https://foreninger.uio.no/ngf/FOS/pdfs/F&S_04_p007.pdf

https://arago.elte.hu/sites/default/files/TrilobiteEye_ASD.pdf

https://www.trilobites.life/trilobite-eyes.htm

https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-invertebrate-collection/trilobite-website/the-trilobite-files/trilobite-eyes

https://www.trilobites.info/eyes.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite