Writing

Andrés Edwards is the author of Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift and (with Robert Apte) Tibet: Enduring Spirit Exploited Land. His writings on sustainability topics include: green building, energy efficiency, natural and cultural history, science and technology and systems theory. He has written for online journals, electronic encyclopedias and for exhibits at museums, visitor centers, zoos, and aquariums throughout the US and internationally.

Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society By Andrés R. Edwards New Society Publishers, 2010 Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a collective map of individuals, organizations and communities from around the world that are committed to building an alternative future — one that strives to restore ecological health, reinvent outmoded institutions and rejuvenate our environmental, social and economic systems. The projects and initiatives profiled are meeting the challenges of the day with optimism, hope and results.


The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift By Andrés R. Edwards New Society Publishers (Second Printing), 2005 A comprehensive primer on the history, evolution and future of the movement toward sustainability. Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time, the Sustainability Revolution.

TIBET: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land By Robert Z. Apte and Andrés R. Edwards AuthorHouse (Second Edition), 2004 Heartsfire Books (Hardback), 1998. TIBET: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land describes the traditional lives of nomads and farmers and their practices in co-existing with the environment. The environmental ethic developed by the Tibetans over millenia now threatened by Chinese development practices has gained increased significance for the world as the population increases and its dependence on the natural resources reaches its limits.


The SPIRALS Framework: A Trim Tab for a Livable Future And Excerpt from Thriving Beyond Sustainability By Andrés R. Edwards Green Money Journal, Summer, 2010 (Volume 18, Issue 4, Number 76). This article describes how the “SPIRALS” framework acts like a trim tab by guiding inititives towards a better world.

Using SPIRALS As A Lens To Envision The Next Economy
By Andrés R. Edwards
The Journal of Sutainability Education, May 10, 2010

This article describes how to move beyond "green" economics to a solution-based approach through the “SPIRALS” initiatives that are: Scalable, Place-based, Intergenerational, Resilient, Accessible, Life-affirming, and involving Self-care.

Explaining Green Materials
By Andrés R. Edwards
Architecture Week, July 17, 2002.

Explaining Green Materials describes the design and fabrication of the Green Building Resource displays currently used by cities interested in educating the public about these innovative building materials and techniques.

"Edwards’s clear mind, formidable command of his material, and sharp eye for common principles make his book a remarkable and convincing document, which undoubtedly will become a classic reference work."