consumption

Webinar: Plastic Soup Solutions

Watch a conversation about how businesses can drive us away from plastic dependence. Plastic Soup Solutions: How Business Can End Plastic Pollution is hosted in partnership with Green America. Panelists:

Island Press Staff Picks - Bottled and Sold

By Admin / On October 23rd, 2013

Today's staff pick, Bottled and Sold, comes from our Production Assistant, Caroline Sperry. When my new roommate told me she had a PUR water filter installed in our kitchen sink my first thought was to hand her my copy of Bottled and Sold. I had lived in my apartment for four years and never had a problem with the taste of the municipal tap water.

Sustainable Consumption is a Myth

By Jason Leppig / On October 14th, 2013

Continual growth and consumption is unsustainable.

#ForewordFriday: Is Sustainability Still Possible Edition

By Admin / On April 19th, 2013

This week's #forewordFriday selection comes fresh off a successful launch of the Worldwatch Institute's newest edition of State of the World.

All-Consuming Question: Is Population or Behavior the Problem?

By [node:field_contributor] / On June 9th, 2008

Talking to reporters and others about More: Population, Nature, and What Women, I’m sometimes asked where consumption fits into the population picture. A book review in the intriguingly named magazine Bitch, for example, criticized the book for “failing to adequately distinguish between the individuals who are overpopulating the world and the individuals who are responsible for the type of overconsumption that causes environmental deterioration.”