(Part 2) Top products from r/sustainability

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We found 5 product mentions on r/sustainability. We ranked the 25 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

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Top comments that mention products on r/sustainability:

u/elyvertz · 1 pointr/sustainability

Is it local or global? How about palm oil? Its found in A LOT of products from candies to soaps and is usually harvested in an incredibly unsustainable way.
In a more local view, how about rooftop solar / photovoltaics? Or waste associated with food production?
Or, the sham that is Keep America Beautiful - a bunch of corporations who set out to make us feel like the real problem (and solution) lies with individuals, rather than with the real source, industry.
This is a really good book. Solid research, but not too hard to read. http://smile.amazon.com/Sustainability-Principles-Practice-Margaret-Robertson/dp/041584018X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1456855696&sr=8-2&keywords=sustainability
Good luck with your paper. I'll be starting one here shortly too.

u/imjonbean · 2 pointsr/sustainability

ic.org is about Intentional Communities, most have some resources in common ownership. I am thinking about joining an ecovillage like Earthaven. ic.org is a good place to find a community and arrange a visit or communication. I have been reading the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Community-Join-Ecovillage-Intentional/dp/0865715785

The author lives in Earthaven.

u/MrLovenLight · 3 pointsr/sustainability

Hmmm, I'm not entirely sure this is what you are looking for but... While taking an environmental policy course at university we were assigned Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (9th edition) and it is by far one of my favorite books that I came across during my college days. Each chapter examines a critical natural resource issue within the US with an emphasis on public policy.

u/lnvalidEmailAddress · 2 pointsr/sustainability

https://www.amazon.com/This-View-Life-Completing-Revolution/dp/1101870206

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/books/the-neighborhood-project-by-david-sloan-wilson-review.html

You'll get a real kick out of his books too then.

Many evolutionary biologists don't buy this perspective. I'm an evolutionary ecologist (I study birds and their habitat) and I'll proselytize this all day... We're animals and evolved in small groups. There are strategies we can use to be better groups. These core design principles set us up to have robust, resilient, and happy small groups, and the only thing that limits them is outside institutions which don't respect their autonomy, and an economic system which tips the scale away from small group cohesion. Even if it's not scientifically sound from an evolutionary perspective, the outcome of applying this method of thinking and these core design principles is happiness and group cohesion. So fuck it.

My interpretation of the world and the current state of affairs is precisely as you say. We're all locked in a prisoners dilemma, at every level.

Why should I hamstring myself in an economic system devoted to consumption and individual competition? Suffering the economic consequences is unthinkable because I am "less fit" than the other individuals in my community, and thus I am compelled to spend and produce to keep up with them lest I become antiquated. If we all recognize this vicious cycle, which has lead to unsustainability and incredible health issues we can solve the prisoners dilemma, and all suffer the consequences together...Thereby are there really any? So let's demand great public transport and local quality of life increases through sustainable means, and each solve the prisoners dilemma by doing the unthinkable.

I'm sure you can think of more examples.

I think the use of an economic system which depends on indefinite continuous consumption by multiple has lead us to now: an economic cowboy standoff with higher institutions hellbent on eating the world trying to topple each other, and the people who inhabit the world being brushed off.