social sustainability

-Jennifer Fosket On any given sunny day, I'm apt to be at the Albany Bulb , walking the dog, building pirate ships with my kids, searchi...

-Laura Mamo I recently found this powerful sociological account of visiting the BP disaster area by my colleague, Jackie Orr. In this piece ...

-Mary Rose LeBaron Green Festival…and your official invitation to join a movement Its all Happening!!! How many of us have had that exuberan...

Mary Rose LeBaron My day with the Friends of Five Creeks working to restore a creek between 9th and 10th St. in Berkeley was a nugget of del...

Mary Rose LeBaron Oh what a night I had listening to the man himself….Van Jones! Yes, I guess you could say I was a tiny bit star struck. Y...

Linda Baker, reporting for the New York Times, writes about Dockside Green, in Vancouver Island, B.C. We also featured Dockside in our book...

“WARNING: This area contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.” A fam...

As sociologists interested in the ways green communities and green buildings benefit health, we tend to focus on the benefits most obvious t...

Throughout the history of cancer research, environmental causes have been like a dirty secret tucked into dark corners of the institutions o...

A couple of weeks ago we had the distinct pleasure of touring Verde Gardens , a more than decade-long experiment in community and sustainabi...

We have been following the WorldWatch Institute's Vision for a Sustainable world and were pleased to find a post on their blog from las...

"The Preserve in Stockton will be a socially vibrant, ecologically sensitive, and economically sound community. It is designed to creat...

On the topic of increasing access to healthy foods, The US government is offering grants to create and expand farmers markets and other dire...

One of the most eloquent examples of creating social sustainability can be found in a simple vegetable garden. In places where green space,...

There's an important link between sustainability and community healing after natural disasters. This is a link we are exploring in our ...

An article in today's SFGate recounts the struggles of children living with asthma caused, in part, by overcrowded, run-down, aging bui...

We just learned that Citizens Housing, the management company responsible for running the Folsom/Dore Apartments featured in Living Green wi...

This morning I had tea with Janelle Orsi, co-author (with Emily Doskow) of the book, “ The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify you...

Margaret Fabrizio, the land artist featured in our book, Living Green, has posted a Vlog on YouTube and Vlogger Heads. In it, she says, ...

I would like to introduce you to Olivia. Olivia is an SPCA feral rescue cat living on Pacific between Van Ness and Franklin Streets in San ...