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Ehrenfeld, J. R. (2008). Sustainability by design: A subversive strategy for transforming our consumer culture. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press.

forward - Peter Senge - societies have pursued "the good, the true, and the beautiful; to be guided by Great Spirit, the Tao. When such aspirations become replaced by the mindless quest for more, we fall out of alignment with our deepest nature. "

pg 5 - "In the environmentalist's conversation, we almost always speak only in terms of problems to solve, and rarely in terms of nurturing possibility."

"sustainable development - is not actually a vision of the future. It is merely a modification of the current process of economic development."

pg 7 - "To me the most basic symbol of sustainability is that of fluorishing."

pg 8 - first step - assess the distruction

second step - replace the "modernist" view with something new

third step - cultural change

pg 11 - "Our society is addicted to reductionist ways of solving virtually all of our problems."

pg 12 - car fuel efficiency has increased but "vehicle miles have overwhelmed efficiency gains"

pg 14 - fixes that fail, and continuing to do them, increases the unintended problems <-- this is like W. Berry's second type of solution -->

pg 18 - "The more we follow the path of what has become commonly called sustainable development (the upper loop), the harder it becomes to jump from the top loop to the bottom one. In economic terms, we are spending our limited resources on the wrong things. We know that more fuel-efficient vehicles and fossil-fuel energy efficiency are not the long-term solution to unsustainability. We should be investin gin radical new forms of transportaiton and energy generation..."

pg 20 - "Reducing unsustainability will not create sustainability." <-- see my piece on sustainability as an emergent behavior -->