Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University

By Justine Starke and Michael R. M'Gonigle

Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's serious challenges such as economic growth,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865715572
• ISBN13: 9780865715578
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

The university as sustainability catalyst

A useful and practical roadmap for positioning universities not only to address the unsustainable impacts of their own activities, but to catalyse broader "triple bottom line" sustainability interventions across society. Readers outside the USA and Canada should note that this book is very North America-centric; however, many of the lessons from the case studies presented therein can be generalised and applied in other national contexts.

A rare breed

This book is a rare breed. Few books come along and ask us to look at our social landscape in a completely new way. The ones that do offer us new strategies for making real change. Planet U does both of those things. After reading this book you will never think of universities in the same way.