The Ecotipping Points Project Resources

EcoTipping Points Publications

Gerald Marten, Steve Brooks, and Amanda Suutari, 2005, Environmental Tipping Points: A New Slant on Strategic Environmentalism, WorldWatch 18(6): 10-14. - View this Article

Gerald Marten, 2005, Environmental Tipping Points: a New Paradigm for Restoring Ecological Security, Journal of Policy Studies (Japan) 20: 75-87. - View this Article

Gerald Marten and Donna Glee Williams, 2006, Getting Clean: Recovering from Pesticide Addiction. The Ecologist 36(10): 50-53. - View this Article

Gerald Marten, 2007, EcoTipping Points: The Fine Art of Environmental Aikido. - View this Article

Amanda Suutari and Gerald Marten, 2007, EcoTipping Points: How a Vicious Cycle Can Become Virtuous, Earth Island Journal 22(2):26-31. - View this Article

Gerald Marten and Amanda Suutari, 2007, Eco Tipping Points, Our Planet 17 (December):20-21. - View this Article - English - Spanish

Gerald Marten and Amanda Suutari, 2008, EcoTipping Point Reverses Deforestation in Thailand - View this Article

EcoTipping Points Presentations

Eco Tipping Points Keynote Presentation Second International Conference on Successful Cases for Development of Sustainable Societies - English - Spanish

Eco Tipping Points Keynote Presentation for the Hawaii Conservation Conference, 2007 - Go to Video, Powerpoint and Write-up

EcoTipping Points Applications

Paula Manginsela, 2007, Community Forest Sustainable Development in Ampreng Village: Applying Ecotipping Points to Ampreng Village Case. - View this Article

Gerry Marten, 2008, Application of Ecotipping Points to Tropical Deforestation in Southeast Asia. - View this Article

Educational Materials

EcoTipping Points - A Lesson on Sustainability in Action - Video and lesson plan by Julie Marten - View the page.

For students, “Things to think about” exercises related EcoTipping Points (at the end of Human Ecology book chapters).

Habitat-Based Learning Center - Kathey Roberts at Lakeside Schools, Hot Springs, Arkansas, brings students and their environment closer together. PowerPoint (50mb)

EcoTipping Point Mini-Books - Books for elementary schools, prepared by North Carolina teachers Kathy Matthews and Deborah Trogdon-Stout. PowerPoint (36mb)

Edible Schoolyard - Garden project at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. Download .pdf (3mb)

Student Contributions on EcoTipping Points

Sandra Brauner, 2007, Eco Tipping Points around the World: The Hope for a Sustainable yet Profitable Future? - View this Article

Jacqueline Fogle. 2007, Identification & Documentation of a Successful Hawaii EcoTipping Point - View Slideshow

Regional Sustainability Planning

USA - Salt Lake City, Utah - Regional Growth Planning. The community turned urban growth in a healthier direction with structured, map-based workshops for thousands of citizens. - View this Article

USA - Portland, Oregon – Sustainable City - Participatory regional planning curtails sprawl and creates strategies for a sustainable future. - View this Article

Canada – Whistler, British Columbia – Community Sustainability Planning - A community comes together to manage uncontrolled growth and creates a groundbreaking plan for sustainable resort development. - View this Article

Envision Utah - Citizen-participation urban growth planning in the Salt Lake City region. Download .pdf (37mb)

Envision Central Texas - Citizen-participation urban growth planning in the Austin region. Download .pdf (29mb)

Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program - Citizen-participation sustainability planning for the nation’s largest estuary. View this Article

Links

Background

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference, (Little, Brown, New York, 2000) - The book that popularized the “tipping point” phrase.

Gerald Marten, Human Ecology - Basic concepts for sustainable development (Earthscan Publications, London, 2001) - Presents human ecology principles underlying EcoTipping Points. - Browse this book

Jared Diamond, Collapse. How societies choose to fail or succeed, (Viking Press, New York, 2005) - Examines past societies and modern societies, and practical lessons for avoiding disaster.

Brian Walker and David Salt, Resilience Thinking: Sustaining ecosystem and people in a changing world, (Island Press, Washington, 2006) - Explores how landscapes and human communities can absorb disturbance to continue functioning sustainably.

Sustainability Organizations – National/International

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) - Llinks networks of small and medium-sized independent businesses in the U.S. and Canada, helping them to build healthy, diversified local economies, ensuring that economic power resides locally, sustaining healthy community life and natural life as well as long-term economic viability.

The Canadian Environmental Literacy Project (CELP) - Offers curriculum materials and a database of a wide variety of additional environmental education resources including books, reports, course outlines, images, etc.

Centre for Human Ecology - A network of professionals, activists and academics. Offers postgraduate and professional development courses at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and works with organizations to improve their environmental and social performance.

Culture Change - Information on a wide variety of environmental problems—now and in the foreseeable future—and how they are linked to the prevailing culture.

David Suzuki Foundation - Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.

Earthjustice - A non-profit public interest law firm representing organizations and communities in environmental law cases.

Earth Portal - A comprehensive resource for timely, science-based information about the environment. It has three components: Encyclopedia of Earth, EarthForum, and EarthNews.

Ecoagriculture Partners - An international non-profit organization that works with farmers, conservationists, researchers, leaders in rural development, entrepreneurs and policymakers around the world to sustain, develop and promote ecoagriculture.

EcoIQ - Provides media and educational products and services to promote the transition to sustainability.

Ecological Internet - A non-profit organization that specializes in the use of the Internet to campaign for, and bring about, conservation outcomes. Ecological Internet's mission is to empower the global movement for environmental sustainability by working to conserve forest, water and climatic ecosystems; and to commence the age of ecological restoration. Primary websites - presented as a free service to the environmental community – are: Eco-Porta l •Forests •Climate Ark •Water Conserve •Ocean Conserve

Ecosustainable Hub - A one-stop connection to resources and tools for Eco Sustainable Development.

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development - A compendium of over 300 topics about the environment.

Environment Education with Chris Summerville - A collection of resources for environmental education teachers, including downloadable environmental activities for classroom and campus, and teacher training workshops for environmental education.

The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development - Linking individuals, institutions, and networks engaged in the field of science and technology for sustainability and serving as a resource for the latest research, events, and opportunities in sustainability science.

Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability - Identifies the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulates how the necessary transition can be effected and promotes the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.

Good News India - News from India : of positive action, steely endeavour and quiet triumphs.

Great Transition Initiative - A global network elaborating visions and pathways for a future of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet.

Green Teacher - A magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.

Guerrilla Gardening - Dedicated to illicit cultivation around the world; a growing arsenal for anyone interested in the war against the neglect of public space.

Horizon Solutions - Presents readily accessible peer-reviewed answers to problems in environment, health, population and development.

The Institute for Local Self Reliance - A small organization with a remarkable track record for breaking new ground in promoting sustainable communities.

International Institute for Sustainable Development - Champions sustainable development around the world through innovation, partnerships, research and communications.

Internetwork for Sustainability - Excellent source for up-to-the-minute environmental news from around the world.

Mexiconservación - Dedicated to promoting, supporting and executing environmental protection, conservation and restoration programs, integrated natural resource management and sustainable development in Mexico.

National Wildlife Federation - Educates and assists individuals and organizations in conserving wildlife and other natural resources.

Natural Capital Institute - Develops principles and practices, and initiates projects, for environmental restoration, with emphasis on natural capital, green business, biomimicry, innovative design, and social justice.

New Urbanism - A leading and well respected informational website promoting good urbanism, smart transportation, transit oriented development, and sustainability. NewUrbanism.org is independently owned and operated and is not connected to any organization, corporation, or public entity.

pointReturn - The ongoing story of restoring 18 acres of wasteland in India into a sustainable resource for water, energy, food, and cash.

Resilience Alliance - A multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex adaptive systems to discover foundations for sustainability.

Resurgence magazine represents a world view which integrates ecological sustainability, social justice and spiritual values.

Rocky Mountain Institute - An entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters efficient and restorative use of resources, inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth.

Society for Human Ecology - An international interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in research, education, and application.

Southern Forests Network - A community of people throughout the U.S. South who are working to conserve private forestlands & cultivate sustainable forest-based economies.

Sustainable Development Media Think Tank - International media vehicle dedicated to good governance, conservation, environmentalism, changing lifestyles, renewable energy, and climate change.

Thwink.org - An analytical approach to solving the sustainability problem.

Towards Sustainability - A resource for those sharing the vision of a brighter future where enhanced quality of life for all is inseparable from a clean species-rich natural environment.

Western Watersheds Project - Project to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.

Yes! Magazine - A journal of positive futures.

Sustainability Organizations – Hawai`i

Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance - Promotes natural resource protection and management in Hawai‘i.

Hawai‘i Nature Center - An environmental education and stewardship center.

Sustainability in Hawai'i Blog - The Kauaian Institute's SusHI blog supports sustainability learning initiatives throughout the Hawaiian islands.

Kokua Hawai‘i Foundation - Provides environmental education resources for teachers and establishes school gardens.

Malama Hawai‘i - Promotes environmental action and education in Hawai‘i.

MA‘O Organic Farm - Grows organic food and promotes greater food self-sufficiency in Hawai‘i.

Windward Ahupua’a Alliance - Works on various environmental projects on the Windward side of Oahu, Hawai‘i.

Environmental Directories

EcoEarth - Environment portal & search engine empowering the environmental sustainability movement.

Envirolink - a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.

Environ-Links - a directory of web sites related to environment and environment protection.

Environmental Yellow Pages - the environmental industries worldwide directory.

The Environment Directory - Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine.