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The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update
The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update
by Donella Meadows and Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows
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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... (read more)

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Encounters with the Archdruid
Encounters with the Archdruid
by John Mcphee
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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more)

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My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
by David James Duncan
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"This book is the Desert Solitaire of water."--Jim Harrison "Original, skillful, and funny as hell."--Ian Frazier "My Story as told by Water is the real McCoy, vivid and important, full of urgent news about living on earth."--Thomas... (read more)

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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by Richard Heinberg
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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning... (read more)

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Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions (10 Edition)
Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions (10 Edition)
by William R. Black
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During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers. This timely text provides a framework for developing systems that move people and products efficiently while minimizing damage to the... (read more)

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Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action
Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action
by Phillip J. Cooper
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Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the U.S. and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed... (read more)

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Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by Paige West
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A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted... (read more)

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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
by Peter Dauvergne
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andlt;Pandgt;McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural... (read more)

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Fostering Sustainable Behavior: an Introduction To Community-based Social Marketing (Rev 10 Edition)
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: an Introduction To Community-based Social Marketing (Rev 10 Edition)
by Doug Mckenzie-mohr
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We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change... (read more)

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Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools
Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools
by Preston G Smith
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Developing Products in Half the Time Second Edition New Rules, New Tools Preston G. Smith * Donald G. Reinertsen In this era of global competition and accelerating product life cycles, the need to get new products to market faster is more compelling than... (read more)

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Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance (Environmental Markets Insight)
Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance (Environmental Markets Insight)
by Cary (edt) Krosinsky
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With climate change now clearly on the horizon, the imperative of sustainability is starting to transform the world's capital markets. Already billions of dollars, pounds, euro and yen are being managed with a view to environmental, social and governance... (read more)

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Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
by Farley Simon (edt) Nobre
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Business scholars, economists, industrial engineers, and engineers from other technical fields present the results of an international project of multidisciplinary research into links between innovation and organization. They look at innovation in... (read more)

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Environment and Statecraft : Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making (03 Edition)
Environment and Statecraft : Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making (03 Edition)
by Scott Barrett
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How did the Montreal Protocol succeed in protecting the earth's ozone layer? Why will the Kyoto Protocol fail to materially dampen global climate change? Are treaties really needed? Can they be made to work better? This book develops a theory to answer... (read more)

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Passion for Manufacturing: Real World Advice from Dick Dauch - The Man Who Engineered the Manufacturing Renaissance at Chrysler
Passion for Manufacturing: Real World Advice from Dick Dauch - The Man Who Engineered the Manufacturing Renaissance at Chrysler
by Richard Dauch
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Automotive authority Richard Dauch, best known for his contribution to Chrysler's early-eighties resuscitation, wrote this book based on his 28 years of experience building cars. Fifteen chapters cover everything from manufacturing do's and don'ts, tips... (read more)

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Environmentalism
Environmentalism
by David Peterson Del Mar
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Why are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look... (read more)

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The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations
The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations
by Aseem Prakash
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A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.... (read more)

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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
by Andres R Edwards
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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... (read more)

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Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social Justice
Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social Justice
by April Linton
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Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through: - worldwide minimum prices for commodities - support for democratically governed cooperatives - requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers - training to... (read more)

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Sustainable Value (08 Edition)
Sustainable Value (08 Edition)
by Chris Laszlo
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In Sustainable Value, Chris Laszlo illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world's largest businesses are changing as their leaders begin to take on a number of the world's most important social, environmental, and economic issues. The... (read more)

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What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
by Jeffrey Hollender
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Under what conditions can a business hope to deliver consistent financial results, inspire employees, protect the environment, and make the world a better place? The question gets to the heart of a set of fundamental questions: What is the purpose of a... (read more)

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