title: Sustainability Sutra: An Ecological Investigation (Sustainability Now)
author:  Roy Morrison 
description: The Planets fever is rising. Many major human activities rapidly destroy the livelihoods of humankind. As a result of global warming as well as air, water and soil pollution and increasing weather extremes, millions of animal and plant species are becoming extinct. Accelerated by terrorism and war, the lives of human beings are put into question. How to combat global warming? Sustainability in the ecological, social and economic spheres is crucial. To achieve sustainable economy, cultural and religious behaviour must change, to save the humanity. Peace, social justice, democracy and ecological economy are the key points. The book by Roy Morrison, Sustainability Sutra elaborates on solutions in economy and society. Sustainable economy comes with zero emission technologies and carbon sinking agriculture. The target must be global cooling, instead of accepting global warming. This stimulates an end of live-endangering toxic emissions from fossil fuels, nuclear energy and chemistry, from toxic pesticide agriculture on the one hand. On the other hand, it enables millions of new jobs and fighting against poverty and hunger, which are the source of conflicts and terrorism. Sustainability Sutra is a great contribution to a discussion on how to stop and reduce the planets fever. Hans-Josef Fell Member of the German parliament (1998 -2013) President of the Energy Watch Group Author of Global Cooling
zlib_text: MuseLetter 285 / February 2016
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  MuseLetter #285 / February 2016 by Richard Heinberg 
  This month's Museletter brings together two essays. The first, written
  for an exhibition on Nature and Sustainability in Istanbul, asks the big
  question 'what is sustainability' and how might we get there? The
  second is my response to a new Harvard study on rising global
  methane emissions and what it means for US energy policy.
  Why Sustainability?
  The following essay was written at the invitation of the curators,
  Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, for the catalog of the current
  special exhibit at the Istanbul Modern art gallery, Till It's Gone: An
  Exhibition on Nature and Sustainability. The exhibition features a
  "selection of artists who undertake conceptual research on nature
  and focus on ecological issues in their artistic practices," including
  pieces by (among many others) Joni Mitchell and Yoko Ono.
  The essence of the term sustainable is simple enough: “that which
  can be maintain