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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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William McDonough, Michael Braungart
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, ...
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
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Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston
This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, "Green to Gold" demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business ...
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Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
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Prof. Daniel Goleman
The bestselling author of "Emotional Intelligence" and "Primal Leadership" reveals the hidden environmental consequences of what societies make and buy, and how that knowledge can drive the changes necessary to save the planet.
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape
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James Kunstler
This work tallies up the huge economic, social and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where they live and work and to build communities that are once again worthy of their affection.
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The Ecology of Commerce
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Paul Hawken
Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future.
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
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Bjorn Lomborg
Written by the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," this groundbreaking book transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.
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The End of Food
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Paul Roberts
The bestselling author of "The End of Oil" turns his attention to food and finds that the system entrusted with meeting one of the most basic needs is dramatically failing us. With his trademark comprehensive global approach, Roberts investigates the startling truth about the modern food system.
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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Mark Lynas
This work presents an eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of "High Tide". Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ...
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Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home
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Renee Loux
We are what we eat, but we also are what we use to clean our homes, pamper our skin, and decorate our rooms, according to Renee Loux, accomplished raw food chef, and award-winning author. In her new book, "Easy Green Living", she applies her whole-foods philosophy to home, garden, and beauty routines.Renee Loux demonstrates that being green at ...
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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Brian M Fagan
The Earth's climate has always been in flux: glacial periods and warm ones have slowly and relentlessly alternated for millennia. But the period of global warming of the last 15,000 years is without precedent, and it set the conditions which enabled civilization to arise. It is our 'long summer'. From the almost unimaginably hostile climate of the ...
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
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Professor James Gustave Speth
How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels - they are accelerating, ...
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Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies
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Eric Corey Freed
Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? "Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies" is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home-even a green home-uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or ...
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Green Housekeeping
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Ellen Sandbeck (Illustrator)
Sandbecks encyclopedic guide covers every aspect of creating and maintaining a nontoxic home that is clean and safe, while using affordable products.
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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Donella H Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, ' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and ...
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Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World
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Gary Hirshberg
Hirshberg shares the secrets that helped his company--Stonyfield Farm--skyrocket to success, and argues that traditional business practices are ultimately counterproductive and have helped create many of the problems that threaten to make the world uninhabitable.
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Stuff
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John C Ryan, Alan T Durning, Don Baker (Illustrator)
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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
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Lester R Brown
The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables and rising sea levels. In addition, the world faces the peaking of oil, the addition of 70 million people per year, a widening global economic divide and the spread of international terrorism. The global scale and growing ...
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Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities
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Shay Salomon, Nigel Valdez (Photographer), Frances Moore Lappe (Foreword by)
A guidebook to planning building renovating and inhabiting an eco-friendly small house
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The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
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Peter M Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz
Brimming with inspiring stories from around the globe, this work shows that ordinary people at every level within an organization have the ability and innovative spirit to do extraordinary things that can result in unprecedented solutions in an intensely interdependent world.
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Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur
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Scott Cooney
Grow an eco-friendly business that creates limitless profit potential From organic groceries to fuel-efficient cars and toxicity-free dry cleaning, the opportunities to profit from a business that builds local communities, heals the environment, and feeds the growing green demand are almost endless. As an entrepreneur who has developed successful ...
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Coal River
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Michael Shnayerson
One of Americas most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in the coal mines of southern West Virginia. Shnayerson gives readers a novelistic and compelling portrait of the people who have risked their reputations and livelihoods in the fight against King Coal.
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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
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Andres R Edwards, David Orr (Foreword by)
This book paints a picture of this largely unrecognised phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of society: Community (government and international institutions); Commerce (business); Resource Extraction (forestry, farming, fisheries etc.); Ecological Design (architecture, technology); Biosphere (conservation, biodiversity etc.). ...
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Environmental Science, Third Edition: Systems and Solutions
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Professor Michael L McKinney, Dr. Robert M Schoch, Ph.D.
This edition provides a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current environmental issues and problems.
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Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care
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Alan Greene, Val Lawton (Illustrator), Jeanette Pavini
In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care - from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate, Jeanette Pavini includes information for ...
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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- And How You Can Too
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Andrew Savitz, Karl Weber
"The Triple Bottom Line" is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from ...
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