This interdisciplinary volume develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society.

• Introduction: Environmentalism and Everyday Life


• I. Concepts and Movements


• 1: David Schlosberg and Romand Coles: The New Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Sustainability, Material Flows, and Movements


• 2: Andrew N. Case: Just Another Brick in the Toilet: 50 Simple Things That You Can Do to Save the Earth and the Riddle of Green Consumer Culture


• II. Household


• 3: Fiona Allon: The Household as Infrastructure: Porosity, Sustainability and Material Practices of Everyday Environmentalism


• 4: Cecily J. Maller: Homemaking Practices of Provision and Maintenance: Implications for Environmental Action


• 5: Teena Gabrielson: The Everyday Toxicity of the 'Average' North American Home


• 6: Brad Mapes-Martins: Household Maintenance and the Environmental Politics of Tending


• III. Infrastructure


• 7: Michael J. Lorr: Greening Lifestyles, Homes, and Urban Infrastructure in Chicago, IL and Jacksonville, FL


• 8: Sayd Randle: At Home in the Watershed: Environmental Imaginaries and Spatial Politics in Los Angeles


• IV. Biodiversity in Unexpected Spaces


• 9: Shannon K. Orr: Reimagining the Backyard: Implications and Opportunities for Sustainability


• 10: Jens Kersten: Urban Biodiversity: Ambivalences, Concepts, And Policies


• V. Land


• 11: Piers H.G. Stephens: The Tragedy of the Uncommon: Property, Possession, and Belonging in Community Gardens


• 12: Jennifer Meta Robinson: Making the Land Connection: Local-Food Farms and Sustainability of Place


• VI. Mobility


• 13: John M. Meyer: Automobility and Freedom


• 14: Yogi Hale Hendlin: Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition


• VII. (Dis)Engagement


• 15: Karen Litfin: Ontologies of Sustainability in Ecovillage Culture: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community and Consciousness


• 16: Chelsea Schelly: Everyday Household Practice in Alternative Residential Dwellings: The Non-Environmental Motivations for Environmental Behavior

John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics and in the programs on Environmental Studies and Environment and Community at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author, most recently, of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford, 2015). His work lies at the intersection of Environmental Politics and Political Theory.
Jens Kersten is Chair of Public Law and Governance at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. His research focuses on Constitutional and Administrative Law, Bioethics and Law, Environmental and Planning Law, and Legal Theory.