Sustainability
Making America A Better Place for All: Sustainable Development Recommendations for the Biden Administration
In 2015, the United Nations Member States, including the United States, unanimously approved 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. The SDGs are nonbinding; each nation is to implement them based on its...
Climate Change and the Judge as Water Trustee
Humanity’s quest to achieve orderly mitigation of and adaptation to climate change is dependent upon the just application of the environmental rule of law—the legal framework that protects and sustains the environment on which life...
Deep Decarbonization of New Buildings
New buildings constructed today can be expected to remain in use well beyond 2050. As a result, thoughtful decisions now can have a significant impact on reducing the carbon footprint of buildings for decades to come. Buildings use...
Green Infrastructure for Chesapeake Stormwater Management in a Changing Climate
One of the greatest impacts of climate change on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed will be the need for stormwater management. With green infrastructure, the Chesapeake region is in position to take national leadership on the issue of...
Environmental Sustainability: Finding a Working Definition
Since at least 1987, when the World Commission on Environment and Development published Our Common Future, sustainability has become an increasingly central concept in redefining environmental stewardship—development that "...
Planning for the Effects of Climate Change on Natural Resources
Climate change has important implications for the management and conservation of natural resources and public lands. The federal agencies responsible for managing these resources have generally recognized that considerations pertaining...
Creating Legal Pathways to a Zero-Carbon Future
An essential part of the decarbonization challenge is proposing, analyzing, and comparing various legal pathways to that result in each individual country. Those legal pathways should be capable of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a...
The Practice of Sustainability at Colleges and Universities
Colleges and universities that seek sustainability have a wide range of support organizations to draw upon for advice and tools. Such schools can also learn by studying the best sustainability operating system (SOS) practices adopted by...
Becoming Landsick: Rethinking Sustainability in an Age of Continuous, Visible, and Irreversible Change
This Article is adapted from Chapter Four of Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, edited by...
Saving Sustainability
This Article is adapted from Chapter Fourteen of Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, edited by...
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