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Green Business /

Green Economics

Book Bibliography

 

 

General

Alperovitz, Gar, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our wealth, our liberty and our democracy, Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Benholt-Thomson, Veronika, and Maria Mies, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the globalized economy, London/NY: Zed Books, 1999

Brown, Peter G., and Geoffrey Garver, Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009

Commoner, Barry, Making Peace with the Planet, New Press, 1992

Cato, Molly Scott, Market Schmarket: Building the post-capitalist economy, Cheltenham UK: New Clarion Press, 2006

Cato, Molly Scott, The Bioregional Economy: Land, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, NY: Routledge, 2012

Collins, Chuck, 99 to 1: How wealth inequality is wrecking the world and what we can do about it, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

Daily, Gretchen C. (ed.), Nature's Services: Societal dependence on natural ecosystems, Wash., DC : Island Press, c1997.    

Daily, Gretchen C. and Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The quest to make conservation profitable, Washington DC: Island Press/Shearwater Press, 2002

Daly, Herman E., Beyond Growth: The economics of sustainable development, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996

Davis, Gerald F., Managed by the Markets: How finance reshaped America, London : Oxford University Press, 2009

Douthwaite, Richard, The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet (updated edition), Garbriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 1999

Edwards, Andres R., The Sustainability Revolution: portrait of a paradigm shift, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Eisenstein, Charles, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition, Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2011

Gunn, Christopher, Third-Sector Development: Making up for the market, Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 2004

Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the next industrial revolution, New York: Little, Brown, 1999

Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A declaration of sustainability , New York: Harper Business, 1993

Henderson, Hazel,  Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy, West Hartford CT: Kumarian Press, 1999

Jackson, Ross, Occupy World Street: A global roadmap for radical economic and political reform, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

Jacobs, Jane,  The Nature of Economies, N.Y./Toronto: Random House, 2000

Jones, Van, The Green Collar Economy: How one solution can fix our two biggest problems, NY: Harper One, 2008

Korten, David, Agenda for a New Economy: From phantom to real wealth, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009

Korten, David, The Great Turning: From empire to earth community, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006

Korten, David, The Post-Corporate World: Life after capitalism, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999

Lewis, Helen and John Gertsakis, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2001 

Lewis, Michael and Pat Conaty, The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative transitions to a steady-state economy, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2012

Makower, Joel, Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and challenges in the new world of business, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009

McKibben, Bill, Deep Economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future, NY: Holt, 2007

Milani, Brian, Designing the Green Economy:The postindustrial alternative to corporate globalization, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

Rifkin, Jeremy, The Empathic Civilization: The race to global consciousness in a world in crisis, N.Y.: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, 2009

Rifkin, Jeremy, The Third Industrial Revolution: How lateral power is transforming energy, the economy and the world, NY: Palgrave/Macmillian, 2011

Sachs, Wolfgang, Planet Dialectics: Explorations in environment and development, London: Zed Books, 1999

Sachs, Wolfgang, Reinhard Loske, and Manfred Linz, and other researchers of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Greening the North: A post-industrial blueprint for ecology and equity , London: Zed Books, 1998.

Sarkar, Saral, Eco-socialism or Eco-capitalism?: A critical analysis of humanity’s fundamental choices, London: Zed Books, 1999

Schor, Juliet, Plenitude: The new economics of true wealth, NY: Penguin Press, 2010

Stahel, Walter R., The Performance Economy, N.Y./London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006

Toner, Glen (ed.), Sustainable Production: Building Canadian capacity, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006

Vaughan, Genevieve, For-Giving: A feminist critique of exchange, Austin Texas: Plain View Press, 1997

              online at  http://www.for-giving.com/

Vaughan, Genevieve et al, The Gift, Il Dono: A feminist analysis, Meltemi Press, 2005

               online at http://www.gift-economy.com/athanor.html

Victor, Peter A., Managing without Growth: Slower by design, not disaster, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2008

Waring, Marilyn, If Women Counted: A new feminist economics, San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1988

 

Values-Driven Business

Abrams, John, The Company We Keep: Reinventing small business for people, community and place, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005

Albion, Mark, True to Yourself: Leading a values-based business, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006

Bamberg, Jill, Getting to Scale: Growing your business without selling out, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.

Cohen, Ben and Mal Warwick, Values-Driven Business: How to change the world, make money and have fun, Social Venture Network series, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.

Conley, Chip and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman,  Marketing That Matters:10 Practices to profit your business and change the world, Social Venture Network series, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.

Hammel, Laury and Gun Denhart, Growing Local Value: How to build business partnerships that strengthen your community, Social Venture Network series, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.

Henderson, Hazel, Simran Sethi and Hunter Lovins, Ethical Markets: Growing the green economy, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006

Kelly, Majorie, Owning Our Future: The emerging ownership revolution, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

Melever, Martin, Living Above the Store: Building a business that creates value, inspires change, and restores land and community,  White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009

Mitchell, Stacy, Big-Box Swindle: The true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America’s independent businesses, New York: Beacon Press, 2006

Roberts, Wayne and Susan Brandum, Get a Life! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it , Toronto: Get a Life Publishers, 1995

Shuman, Michael, The Small-Mart Revolution: How local businesses are beating the global competition, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.

Thompson, Nadine A. and Angela E. Soper,  Values Sell: Transforming purpose into profit through creative sales and distribution strategies, Social Venture Network series, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.

 

Community-based Development

Barnes, Peter Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 

Chamberlin, Shaun, The Transition Timeline for a local, resilient future, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009

Darley, Julian, David Room and Celine Rich, Relocalize Now! Getting ready for climate change and the end of cheap oil: a Post-Carbon guide, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2007

Douthwaite, Richard, Short-Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1996

Hines, Colin, Localization: A Global Manifesto, London: Earthscan, 2000

Kelly, Majorie, Owning Our Future: The emerging ownership revolution, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

Mitchell, Stacy, Big-Box Swindle: The true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America’s independent businesses, New York: Beacon Press, 2006

Mitchell, Stacy, The Home Town Advantage: How to defend your Main Street against chain stores…and why it matters, Minneapolis/Washington DC: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2000

Schumacher, E.F., Small Is Beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered, London: Abacus Press, 1974

Shuman, Michael, The Small-Mart Revolution: How local businesses are beating the global competition, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.

Shuman, Michael H., Going Local: Creating self-reliant communities in a global age, New York/London: The Free Press, 1998

Shuman, Michael, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to shift your money from Wall St. to Main St. and achieve real prosperity, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

Tasch, Woody, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Walljasper, Jay, All That We Share: A field guide to the Commons, NY/London: The New Press, 2010

 

The Corporate Economy

Albo, Greg, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch, In and Out of Crisis: The global financial meltdown and left alternatives, Oakland: PM Press, 2010

Clements, Jeffrey D., Corporations Are Not People: Why they have more rights than you do and what you can do about it, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012 

Dicker, John, The United States of Wal-Mart, New York: Penguin Books, 2005

Harrison, Bennett, Lean and Mean: The changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility, New York: Basic Books, 1994

Hacker, Jacob S., The Great Risk Shift: The new economic insecurity and the decline of the American Dream, Oxford/NY: Oxford U. Press, 2006

Krippner, Greta R., Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance, Cambridge MA: Harvard U. Press, 2011

Les Leopold, The Looting of America: How Wall Street's game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our jobs, pensions, and prosperity, and what we can do about it, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009

LeRoy, Greg, The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate tax dodging and the myth of job creation, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005 

Lichtenstein, Nelson (ed.), Wal-Mart: The face of twenty-first century capitalism, New York: The New Press, 2006

Lynn, Barry C., End of the Line: The rise and coming fall of the global corporation, New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2005

Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy—and for a turn to the local, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996

McNally, David, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance, PM Press, 2011

McQuaig, Linda and Neil Brooks, The Trouble with Billionaires, Penguin Canada, 2010

Sukhdev, Pavan, Corporation 2020: Transforming business for tomorrow's world, Washington DC: Island Press, 2012

Taibbi, Matt, Griftopia: A story of bankers, politicians, and the most audacious power grab in American history, NY: Spiegel and Grau, 2011

Wolff, Richard D., Capitalism Hits the Fan: The global economic meltdown and what to do about it, Northhampton MA: Olive Branch Press, 2010

 

Money & Finance

Brown, Ellen Hodgson, The Web of Debt: The shocking truth about our money system and how we can break free, Baton Rouge: Third Millennium Press, 2008

Camejo, Peter, The SRI Advantage: Why socially responsible investing has outperformed financially, Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, 2002

Carmichael, Isla, and Jack Quarter (eds.), Money on the Line: Workers capital in Canada, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2003

Clark William R., Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar,  Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Cortese, Amy, Locavesting: The revolution in local investing and how to profit from it, Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Das, Satyajit, Extreme Money: Masters of the universe and the cult of risk, NY: FT Press, 2011

Eisenstein, Charles, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition, Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2011

Graeber, David, Debt: The first 5000 years, Brooklyn NY: Melville House, 2011

Greco, Thomas H., New Money for Healthy Communities, Tucson: Thomas A. Greco Publishers, 1994

Greco, Thomas H., The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009

Jeucken, Marcel, Sustainable Finance and Banking: The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet, London: Earthscan, 2002

Kurtzman, Joel, The Death of Money: How the Electronic Economy Has Destabilized the World's Markets and Created Financial Chaos, New York: Little Brown and Co., 1993

Les Leopold, The Looting of America: How Wall Street's game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our jobs, pensions, and prosperity, and what we can do about it, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009

Lietaer, Bernard The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World, London: Century, 2001

Lietaer, Bernard, and Jacqui Dunne, Rethinking Money: How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013

Livesey, Bruce, Thieves of Bay Street: How banks, brokerages and the wealthy steal billions from Canadians, Toronto: Random House Canada, 2012

McLean, Bethany, and Joe Nocera, All the Devils Are Here: The hidden history of the financial crisis, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2010

Raddon, Mary-Beth, Community and Money: Men and Women Making Change, Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2003

Rowbotham, Michael, The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics, Charlbury, Oxfordshire UK: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998

Shuman, Michael, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to shift your money from Wall St. to Main St. and achieve real prosperity, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

Taibbi, Matt, Griftopia: A story of bankers, politicians, and the most audacious power grab in American history, NY: Spiegel and Grau, 2011

Tasch, Woody, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Van Parijs, Philippe (ed.), Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical foundations for a radical reform, London/NY: Verso, 1992

 

Management & Ecopreneurialism

Burlington, Bo, Small Giants: Companies that choose to be great instead of big, N. Y.: Portfolio/Barnes & Noble, 2005

Doppelt, Bob, Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Elkington, John, Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of the 21st Century Business, Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, 1998

Frankel, Carl, In Earth’s Company: Business, Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 1998

Gottfried, David, Greed to Green: The transformation of an industry and a life, Berkeley CA: WorldBuild Publishing, 2004

Heeks, Alan, The Natural Advantage: Seven principles for high performance, Emmaus PA: Rodale Press, 2001

Hershkowitz, Allen, Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism, Island Press  2002

Laszlo, Chris, The Sustainable Company: How to create lasting value through social and environmental performance, Washington DC: Island Press, 2005

Leipziger, Deborah, The Corporate Responsibility Code Book, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Nattrass, Brian and Mary Altomare, The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1999

Rehm, Robert, People in Charge: Creating Self-Managing Workplaces, Hawthorn Press, 1999

Romm, Joseph J.,  Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, Island Press, 1999

Pollard, Dave, Finding the Sweet Spot: The natural entrepreneur's guide to responsible, sustainable, joyful work, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green, 2008

Schaltegger, Stefan, Roger Burritt, and Holger Petersen, An Introduction To Corporate Environmental Management: Striving For Sustainability, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Seiler-Hausmann, Jan-Dirk, Christa Liedtke and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Eco-Efficiency And Beyond: Towards The Sustainable Enterprise, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2004

Steger, Ulrich, Fang Zhaoben and Lu Wei, Greening Chinese Business: Barriers: Trends And Opportunities For Environmental Management, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Thompson, Dixon, Tools for Environmental Management: A Practical Introduction and Guide, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2002

Turner, Chris, The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, Random House Canada, 2011

Willard, Bob, The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2002

Willard, Bob, The Next Sustainability Wave: Building boardroom buy-in, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

 

The Built-Environment

Duany, Andres,  Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck,  Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, North Point Press, 2001 

Gottfried, David, Greed to Green: The transformation of an industry and a life, Berkeley CA: WorldBuild Publishing, 2004

Gould, Kira and Lance Hosey, Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design, Bainbridge Island WA: Ecotone publishing, 2007

Hayden, Delores, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life , New York: W.W. Norton, 2002

Hough, Michael, Cities and Natural Process, New York: Routledge, 1995

James, Sarah and Torbjorn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities: How cities and towns can change to sustainable practices, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Kennedy, Joseph F., Michael G. Smith and Catherine Wanek (eds.),  The Art of Natural Building: Design, construction, resources, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2002

Kennedy, Joseph F. (ed.), Building Without Borders: Sustainable construction for the global village, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2004

Kibert, Charles J. (ed.), Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics and Economics, Wash. DC: Island Press, 1999

Kibert, Charles J., Jan Sendzimir, and G. Bradley Guy (eds.), Construction Ecology: Nature as the basis for green buildings, London: Spon Press, 2002

Lerch, Daniel, Post Carbon Cities: Planning for energy and climate uncertainty, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2007

Lewis, Helen and John Gertsakis, with Tim Grant and Nicola Morelli and Andrew Sweatman, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Lyle, John Tillman, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development, New York: John Wiley, 1994

Macaulay, David R., Integrated Design, Bainbridge Island WA: Ecotone publishing, 2007

McLennan, Jason F., The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, Bainbridge Island WA: Ecotone publishing, 2004

Moore, Steven A., Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006

Morris, Douglas E.,  It's a Sprawl World After All: The human cost of unplanned growth—and visions of a better future, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Papanek, Victor, The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995

Register, Richard,  Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance with Nature,  Berkeley Hills Books, 2002        

Todd, Nancy Jack, and John Todd, From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of Ecological Design, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1994

Van der Ryn, Sim and Stuart Cowan, Ecological Design , Washington DC: Island Press, 1996

Wann, David, Deep Design: Pathways to a Liveable Future, Washington DC: Island Press, 1996

Yudelson, Jerry, The Green Building Revolution, Washington DC: Island Press, 2008

 

The Information Economy / New Productive Forces

Benkler, Yochai, The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2006

Benkler, Yochai, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How cooperation triumphs over self-interest, NY: Crown Business, 2011

Boutang, Yann Moulier, Cognitive Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011

Boyle, James, The Public Domain: Enclosing the commons of the mind, New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2009

Carr, Nicolas, The Big Switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google, NY: W.W. Norton, 2007

Crawford, Susan, Captive Audience: The telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013

Harris, Malcolm and Neil Gorenflo, Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2012

Howe, Jeff, Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business, NY: Crown Business, 2008

Lessig, Lawrence, Free Culture: The nature and future of creativity, NY: Penguin, 2005

Lessig, Lawrence, Code 2.0, NY: Basic Books, 2006

Lessig, Lawrence, Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, Penguin, 2008

MacKinnon, Rebecca, Consent of the Networked: The worldwide struggle for Internet freedom, Basic Books, 2012

Shirky, Clay, Here Comes Everybody: The power of organizing without organizations, Penguin, 2008

Shirky, Clay, Cognitive Surplus: How technology makes consumers into collaborators, Penguin, 2010

Surowiecki, James, The Wisdom of Crowds, NY: Random House, 2004

Tapscott, Don and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything, New York: Penguin, 2006

Tapscott, Don and Anthony D. Williams, MacroWikinomics: Rebooting business and the world, New York: Penguin, 2010

van Schewick, Barbara, Internet Architecture and Innovation, MIT Press, 2010

Wu, Tim, The Master Switch: The rise and fall of information empires, NY: Random House, 2010

 

Work

Goldstein, Eban , The Tradeoff Myth: Fact and fiction about jobs and  the environment,  Island Press, 1999

Hayden, Anders, Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work-time, Consumption and Ecology, Toronto: Between the Lines, 1999

Robertson, James, Future Work: Jobs, Self-Employment and Leisure After the Industrial Age, Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower Publishing, 1985

Jones, Van, The Green Collar Economy: How one solution can fix our two biggest problems, NY: Harper One, 2008

 

Industrial Ecology

Ayres, Robert U., and Leslie W. Ayres, A Handbook of Industrial Ecology, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002

Behrendt, Siegfried, Christine Jasch, Jaap Kortman, Gabriele Hrauda, Ralf Pfitzner, Daniela Velte, Eco-service Development: Reinventing Supply and Demand in the European Union, London: Greenleaf Publishers, 2003

Charter, Martin and Ursula Tischner (eds.), Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future, Sheffield : Greenleaf, 2001

Cohen-Rosenthal, Edward and Judy Musnikow, Eco-Industrial Strategies: Unleashing Synergy Between Economic Development And The Environment, London: Greenleaf Publishers, 2003

Emmett, Stuart, and Vivek Sood, Green Supply Chains: An action manifesto, John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Fenichell, Stephen, Plastic: The making of a synthetic century, NY: HarperBusiness, 1996

Gardner, Gary and Payal Sampat, Mind Over Matter: Recasting the Role of Materials in Our Lives, Worldwatch Paper number 144, Washington DC: Worldwatch Institute, December 1998

Geiser, Ken, Materials Matter: Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001

Jackson, Tim, Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life , London/New York: Routledge, 1996

Leonard, Annie, The Story of Stuff: The impact of overconsumption on the planet, our communities, and our health—and how we can make it better, Free Press, 2010

Lewis, Helen and John Gertsakis, Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2001 

McDonough, William and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, New York : North Point Press, 2002

Morris, David, and Irshad Ahmed, The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from Plant Matter, Washington DC: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1993

Murray, Robin, Creating Wealth From Waste, London: Demos, 1999

Pauli, Gunter, Upsizing: the Road To Zero Emissions, More Jobs, More Income, No Pollution, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 1998

Richards, Allenby & Frosch (eds.), The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems, Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1994, p. 178-190

Sarkis, Joseph (ed.), Greener Manufacturing and Operations: From Design to Delivery and Back, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Stahel, Walter R., The Performance Economy, N.Y./London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006

Toner, Glen (ed.), Sustainable Production: Building Canadian capacity, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006

 

Regulation / EPR / Certification / Taxes

Boyd, David R., Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003

Cashore, Benjamin, Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom, Governing Through Markets: Forest certification and the emergence of non-state authority, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2002

Conroy, Michael E., Branded! How the ‘certification revolution’ is transforming global corporations, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2007

Erdmenger, Christoph (ed.), Buying into the Environment: Experiences, Opportunities and Potential for Eco-Procurement, Sheffield UK: ICLEI / Greenleaf, 2003

Fishbein,  Bette, John Ehrenfeld, and John Young,  Extended Producer Responsibility: A Materials Policy for the 21st Century,  Inform: 2000

Friends of the Earth (FOE), Citizens’ Guide to Environmental Tax Shifting, Washington DC: FOE, June 1998

Gunningham, Neil  and Darren Sinclair, Leaders And Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation, Sheffield UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2002

Myers, Norman and Jennifer Kent, Perverse Subsidies: How tax dollars can undercut the environment and the economy, Wash. DC: Island Press, 2001

Roodman, David M., The Natural Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the Market for the Environment, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998

Victor, Peter A., Managing without Growth: Slower by design, not disaster, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2008

 

Energy

Clark William R., Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar,  Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Datta, Feiler, Lehmann, Lovins, Rabago, Swisher & Wicker,  Small is Profitable: the hidden economic benefits of making electrical resources the right size, Rocky Mountain Institute / Earthscan, 2003 (entire book accessible on Internet)

Heinberg, Richard, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2004

Heinberg, Richard, The Party’s Over: Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2005

Heinberg, Richard, Blackout: Coal, climate and the last energy crisis, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2009

Kennedy, Danny, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy—and Our Planet— from Dirty Energy, S.F.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

Kunstler, James Howard, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, Grove/Atlantic, 2005

Lovins, Amory, Reinventing Fire: Bold business solutions for the new energy era, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

Morris, David,  Seeing the Light: Regaining Control of Our Electricity System, Minneapolis/Washington DC: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2001

Scheer, Hermann, Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy, Earthscan, 2006

Scheer, Hermann, The Energy Imperative: 100% renewable now, Routledge, 2011

Smeloff, Ed and Peter Asmus, Reinventing Electric Utilities: Competition, Citizen Action, and Clean Power, Washington DC: Island Press, 1997

 

Food

Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman (eds.), Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability, Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, 2011

Berry, Wendell, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, SE: Sierra Club Books, 1977

Berry, Wendell, Home Economics, North Point Press, 1987

Blay-Palmer, Alison (ed.), Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and practice, Ashgate Publishing, 2010

Desmarais, Annette Aurélie, Nettie Wiebe and Hannah Wittman, Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating just and sustainable food systems, Fernwood Publishing, 2011

Gustafson, Katherine, Change Comes to Dinner: How vertical farmers, urban growers, and other innovators are revolutionizing how America eats, St. Martin's Press, 2012

Holmgren, David, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, Hepburn Australia: Holmgren Design Services, 2002

Jackson, Wes, Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture, Counterpoint, 2010

Jansen, Kees and Sietze Vellema (ed.), Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation, London: Zed Books, 2004

Kimbrell, Andrew (ed.),  Fatal Harvest : The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture Washington DC: Island Press, 2002 

Manning, Richard, Against the Grain: How agriculture has hijacked civilization, North Point Press, 2004

Mollison, Bill, Permaculture, New York: Island Press, 1990

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Todd Merrifield and Steven Gorelick, Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local alternatives to global agribusiness, London: Zed Books, 2002

Patel, Raj, Stuffed and Starved: The hidden battle for the world food system, Portobello Books, 2007

Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals, Penguin, 2006

Pollan, Michael, In Defence of Food: An eater's manifesto, Penguin, 2008

Richardson, Jill, Recipe for America: Why our food system is broken and what we can do to fix it, Brooklyn NY: Ig Publishing, 2009

Roberts, Wayne, Rod MacRae & Lori Stahlbrand, Real Food For a Change, Toronto: Random House, 1999

Roberts, Wayne, The No-Nonsense Guide to WORLD FOOD, Toronto: New Internationalist Publications, 2008

Roberts, Wayne, The Way to a City’s Heart is Through Its Stomach: Putting Food Security on the Urban Planning Menu, Toronto Food Policy Council report, 56 pages

Tasch, Woody, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms, and fertility mattered, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

 

University Sustainability

Kamenetz, Anya, DIY U: Edupunks, edupreneurs, and the coming transformation of higher education, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

M'Gonigle, Michael and Justine Starke, Planet U: Sustaining the world, reinventing the university, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2006


 

Transportation

Forman, Richard T. T., Road Ecology: Science and Solutions, Wash. DC:  Island Press, 2003   

Miller, Glenn, Daniela Kiguel and Sue Zielinski, Moving Goods in the New Economy: A Primer for Urban Decision Makers, Toronto: Detour Publications

Richards, Brian, Future Transport in Cities, London: Spon Press, 2001

Zielinski, Sue and Gordon Laird (ed.), Beyond the Car: Essays on the Auto Culture, Toronto: Steel Rail Publications, 1995

 

Indicators

Anielski, Mark, The Economics of Happiness: Building genuine wealth, Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, 2007

Chambers, Nicky, Craig Simmons and Mathis Wackernagel, Sharing Nature’s Interest: Ecological footprints as an indicator of sustainability, London: Earthscan, 2000

Henderson, Hazel, Jon Lickerman, and Patrice Flynn (eds.), Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators: A New Tool for Assessing National Trends, Bethesda MD: the Calvert Group, 2000

Tyler Norris Associates, Redefining Progress and Sustainable Seattle, Community Indicators Handbook, San Francisco: Redefining Progess, 1997

Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Gabriola Island BC/Philadelphia: New Society, 1996

 

Consumption

Worldwatch Institute, The State of the World 2004: The Consumer Society, New York: W. W. Norton, 2004

Brower, Michael and Warren Leon, The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: practical advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999

Durning, Alan Thein, How Much Is Enough? : The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth, N.Y.: W.W. Norton/ World Watch, 1992

Erdmenger, Christoph (ed.), Buying into the Environment: Experiences, Opportunities and Potential for Eco-Procurement, Sheffield UK: ICLEI / Greenleaf, 2003

Hayden, Anders, Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work-time, Consumption and Ecology, Toronto: Between the Lines, 1999

Harris, Malcolm and Neil Gorenflo, Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis, Gabriola Island BC: New Society Publishers, 2012

Jackson, Tim (ed.), Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption, London: Earthscan, 2006

Leonard, Annie, The Story of Stuff: The impact of overconsumption on the planet, our communities, and our health—and how we can make it better, Free Press, 2010

Schor, Juliet, The Overspent American: Upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer,  New York : Basic Books, 1998.

 

International Development and Trade

Clapp, Jennifer, and Peter Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: The political economy of the global environment, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2005

Daviron, Benoit and Stefano Ponte, The Coffee Paradox: Global markets, commodity trade and the elusive promise of development, London: Zed Books, 2004

Fine, Ben and Jomo K.S., The New Development Economics: Post-Washington consensus and neoliberal thinking, London: Zed Books, 2004

 

Biography

Anderson, Ray, Mid-Course Correction: Toward a sustainable enterprise—the Interface model, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1999

Gottfried, David, Greed to Green: The transformation of an industry and a life, Berkeley CA: WorldBuild Publishing, 2004

Roddick, Anita, Business As Unusual: My entrepreneurial journey, profits with principles, White River Junction VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005

Wood, Barbara, E.F. Schumacher: His Life and Thought, New York: Harper & Row, 1984

 

 

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