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Stewardship and Sustainability

A color image of Earth as seen from Apollo 17

Seven billion people share the limited resources of our magnificent planet. We have a responsibility to conserve resources and live sustainably so we do not jeopardize the ability of future generations to enjoy our earth.

Assignment:

• Meet the Millennium Development Goals
• Live within Earth's Limits to Growth. Adopt some of the creative environmental solutions suggested in that course. Work toward attaining a stable ecological equilibrium.
• Continue to fulfill the intent of the Agenda 21 action plan, updated as needed.
• Practice the virtue of Simplicity. Choose to live more simply.

Suggestions for further reading:

• Meadows, Donella H.; Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows (2004). Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Chelsea Green. pp. 368. ISBN 978-1931498586. 
• Brown, Lester R. (2009). Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 384. ISBN 978-0393337198. 
• Jackson, Tim (2011). Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Routledge. pp. 288. ISBN 978-1849713238. 
• Heinberg, Richard (2011). The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. New Society Publishers. pp. 336. ISBN 978-0865716957. 
• Eisenstein, Charles (July 12, 2011). Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Evolver Editions. ISBN 978-1583943977.