The Greening of Everyday Life develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. It brings together several conceptual frameworks with a diversity of case studies and practical examples of efforts to orient everyday material practices toward greater sustainability. The volume builds upon internal criticisms of dominant strands of contemporary environmentalism in post-industrial societies, and develops a newapproach which emerges from a number of disciplines, but is unified by a normative concern for the material objects and practices familiar to members of societies in their everyday lives. In exploring alternatives, the chapter authors utilize conceptual frameworks rooted in environmental justice, newmaterialism, and social practice theory and apply it to the everyday; attention to urban biodiversity, infrastructure for storm water run-off, green home remodelling, household toxicity, community gardens and farmers markets, bicycling and automobility, alternative technologies, and more.With contributions from leading international and emerging scholars, this volume critically explores specific strategies and actions taken to generate homes, communities, and livelihoods that might be scaled-up to promote more sustainable societies.

John M. Meyer and Jens Kersten: 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