New book helps us understand how to achieve sustainability

The Melbourne Sustainable Society
Institute will soon release a
new book discussing a
sustainable society and how we
achieve it.

Supporters of Beneath the Wisteria might be interested in a new book coming soon from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.

The book, “2020 Vision for a Sustainable Society”, will be launched on 14 June, and will be available online shortly afterwards through the institute’s website at.

A compilation of 26 chapters, the book is written by experts; among whom are distinguished professors, established non-fiction authors and even a Nobel Prize winner.

Each chapter identifies something that needs to change and selects one key action that is necessary in the next decade.

These actions are mostly set within the context of Australia and the Asia-Pacific, although they do have global relevance.

They are aimed at communities and government rather than individuals / households and the final chapter compiles these priority actions into a ‘to do’ list: key actions to be taken before 2020 to create a sustainable society.