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Growing healthier communities based on sustainable energy use, agricultural production, building design, and economic development.
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Librarian Update

November 2009

Join the new UMass Sustainability Listserv:
A network of individuals actively discussing the support and advancement of sustainability at UMass Amherst. Topics may include (but are not limited to) sustainability at UMass as it pertains to: energy use; building design; waste management; access to healthful foods; educational opportunities; curriculum building; resource sharing; and creating/revising policies and procedures.

GreenFile
Check out this new library database covering scholarly journal and magazine articles on the environment and sustainability in building, agriculture and energy, 1973-current.

Study Abroad in an Ecovillage - Earn UMass credits
Find out more about Living Routes sustainable communities program. See an example of an ecovillage program.

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What is Sustainability?

Sustainabilility is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

(World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)

From The Dictionary of Sustainable Management

 

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Sustainability Librarian

Profile ImageMadeleine Charney


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413-577-0784
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Subjects:
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, Agriculture, Sustainability

 
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