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The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken  Publisher Comments A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....
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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann Publisher Comments In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of ...
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Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence'
by Robert Bryce Publisher Comments A surprising, irreverent, and scrupulously reported deconstruction of today's fashions in energy policy. Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable? Is it actually even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously...
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Sustainability Revolution (05 Edition)
by Andres R Edwards Publisher Comments 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...
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Ecological Design (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
by Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan Publisher Comments Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration...
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Environmental Management: For Sustainable Development 2nd Edition
by C J Barrow Publisher Comments Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, which concerns all humans. There is no precise and universally agreed definition of environmental management but it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development...
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Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously : Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities (03 Edition)
by Kent E. Portney Publisher Comments Today at least twenty-five major U.S. cities have pursued some form of sustainability initiative. Although many case studies and andquot;how-toandquot; manuals have been published, there has been little systematic comparison of these cities' programs and...
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Ecovillages
by Jan Martin Bang Publisher Comments Ecovillages have arisen around the world in response to the social fragmentation of modern life and its alienation from nature. They provide a variety of ways of living in community with others and with nature and are linked worldwide through the Global...
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Sustainable Planet: Roadmaps for the Twenty-first Century
by Juliet Schor Publisher Comments Americans work longer, with less vacation time, than the citizens of any other industrialized nation. And they consume more: recent scientific estimates indicate that at least four additional planets would be needed to support the earth's population if...
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A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
by Nancy Jack Todd Publisher Comments In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable...
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Responsible Growth for the New Millennium: Integrating Society, Ecology, and the Economy
by Bank World 
Synopsis This book contends that economic growth is essential for development, but it is not enough. It presents a vision of a responsible approach to growth--sustainable growth in consumption, healthfulness, human capital, environmental quality and social equity-...
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Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community
by Timothy Beatley Publisher Comments Current patterns of land use and development are at once socially, economically, and environmentally destructive. Sprawling low-density development literally devours natural landscapes while breeding a pervasive sense of social isolation and exacerbating...
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Sustainability by Design: A Vision for a Region of 4 Million
by Design Centre For Sustainability Publisher Comments The Greater Vancouver region's population is expected to double in the next fifty years with a 250 percent increase in citizens over sixty-five. Sustainability by Designaddresses the challenge of transforming livability into sustainability while...
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Toward sustainable development :concepts, methods, and policy
by Jeroen C J M Van Den Bergh Publisher Comments Toward Sustainable Development is a comprehensive and wide ranging exploration of the theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of sustainable development. Internationally known scholars present an in depth critique of traditional economic methods...
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Tenure & Substitute Use
by Iucn Publisher Comments The issue of tenure strikes at the heart of much of what "the nations of the world" hold most precious - their capacity to sustain themselves. This volume was compiled in 1998 to communicate the science and scholarship of tenure to policy makers and...
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Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy (Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
by Lester Brown Synopsis The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems. Authoritative yet extremely readable, this book addresses control of energy resources...
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Evaluating Sustainable Development
by Peter Brandon Synopsis Sustainable development has been characterised by an emphasis on environmental issues and an ad hoc approach to structuring the subject which hinders the development of knowledge in a systematic way. The built environment contributes significantly to the...
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Trade and Environment: North and South Perspectives and Southern Responses
by Shahrukh Rafi Khan Publisher Comments In this exploration of environmentalism in Third World countries, the contributors argue that Third World countries need to emphasize the importance of environmental conservation in order to protect their valuable resources, and to gain greater access to...
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Harvesting Wild Species: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
by Curtis H Freese Publisher Comments Traditional wildlife conservation policy includes the establishment of protected areas where certain species are off-limits to commercial exploitation. But for people in the developing world who depend on these resources for survival, such a policy is...
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Our Sustainable Future #7: Green Plans: Greenprint for Sustainability
by Huey D Johnson Publisher Comments Green Plans are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. Huey D. Johnson provides the first detailed and understandable examination of the theory, implementation,...
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