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        Our Urban Future

        Our Urban Future

        Our Urban Future

        An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities

        by Sabina Shaikh and Emily Talen

        ISBN: 9780262546843

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 12, 2023

        A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.
        Plastics

        Plastics

        Plastics

        by Imari Walker-Franklin and Jenna Jambeck

        ISBN: 9780262547017

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 22, 2023

        A comprehensive introduction to the plastics life cycle—the impacts on our lives, our future, and our planet—and the actions we can take.
        Design for a Better World

        Design for a Better World

        Design for a Better World

        Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

        by Don Norman

        ISBN: 9780262047951

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 21, 2023

        How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.
        Beyond Climate Breakdown

        Beyond Climate Breakdown

        Beyond Climate Breakdown

        Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope

        by Peter Friederici

        Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore

        ISBN: 9780262543934

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 11, 2022

        The importance of telling new climate stories—stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comedy and radical hope.
        Discard Studies

        Discard Studies

        Discard Studies

        Wasting, Systems, and Power

        by Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky

        ISBN: 9780262543651

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 24, 2022

        An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things.
        Extracting Accountability

        Extracting Accountability

        Extracting Accountability

        Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility

        by Jessica M. Smith

        ISBN: 9780262542166

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 28, 2021

        How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability.
        Learning in Governance

        Learning in Governance

        Learning in Governance

        Climate Policy Integration in the European Union

        by Katharina Rietig

        ISBN: 9780262542975

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 24, 2021

        An investigation of the role of learning and its impact on policy change, as exemplified in European Union climate policy integration.
        Brave Green World

        Brave Green World

        Brave Green World

        How Science Can Save Our Planet

        by Chris Forman and Claire Asher

        ISBN: 9780262044462

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 30, 2021

        How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution.
        Cycling for Sustainable Cities

        Cycling for Sustainable Cities

        Cycling for Sustainable Cities

        Edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher

        ISBN: 9780262542029

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        How to make city cycling—the most sustainable means of travel—safe, practical, and convenient for all.
        Mercury Stories

        Mercury Stories

        Mercury Stories

        Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element

        by Henrik Selin and Noelle E. Selin

        ISBN: 9780262539203

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 20, 2020

        An interdisciplinary analysis of human interactions with mercury through history that sheds light on efforts to promote and achieve sustainability.
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