Practicing Sustainability

- Biographical Information
- Preface, It's Different: Sustainability and Touchy Trade-Offs, Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword, Michael Spence
- Editorial, Klaus Schwab
- Editorial, Sustaining Sustainability: Thoughts on Managing Trade-Offs and Competing Considerations, Robert Rubin
- Editorial, Sustainability: Can You Get There, If You Don't Know Where "There" Is? George Whitesides 
1. What Medical Equipment Taught Me About Sustainability, Robert Malkin
2. Food: The Ultimate Answer, José Andrés
3. A Village of Hope: The Interplay of Sustainability and Community Development, Mark Templer
4. Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development, Homi Kharas
5. Sustainable Skyscrapers and the Well-Being of the City, Richard Cook
6. Dimensional Stability, Heidi Williamson
7. Sustainability: A Tale of Twin Brothers, Ken Wilson
8. Cooperation and Sustainability, Simon Levin
9. The Sincerity of Purpose: Sustainability and World Peace, Arun Gandhi
10. Recycling Reinvented: Music and Sustainability, José-Luis Novo
11. Connectivity and Sustainability: Perspectives from Landscape and Urban Design, Diana Balmori
12. Nutrition and Sustainability, Marc Van Ameringen
13. A Poet in the Car Company: Sustainability of Passion and Profitability, David Berdish
14. The Need for Sustainable Heretics, Freeman Dyson
15. Performance with Purpose, Dave Haft
16. The Business of Sustainability: A Different Design Question, Gregor Barnum
17. Sustaining Population Health, Jacqueline Sherris
18. The Struggle to Make Sustainable Change in Global Health, Laurie Garrett and Zoe Liberman
19. Economic Growth and Sustainability Rooted in Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant
20. Approaching the Future with Optimism, Robyn Beavers
21. A Decent Place to Live, Jonathan Reckford
22. From Field to Market: Changing our Focus, Gerald Steiner
23. Joules: The Currency of Sustainability, Chandrakant Patel
24. Spoons or Tractors: Sustainable Development as Rapid Productivity Growth in Developing

Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor) is a program officer at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council-collectively known as the National Academies-in Washington, DC.

Barbara Oakley (Editor) is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a former vice-president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

David Green (Editor) is a MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by the Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur.

David Koon (Editor) represented the 135th district of the New York State Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2010.

Penny Low (Editor) is a Member of Parliament of Singapore, and was the youngest elected female representative in 2001.

Michael Spence (Foreword) is William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at New York University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Klaus Schwab (Editorial) is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.

Robert Rubin (Editorial) is Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

George Whitesides (Editorial) is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.

M. S. Swaminathan (Afterword) is a Member of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and a World Food Prize Laureate.