Writing

Andrés Edwards is the author of 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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