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Book of the Week: Ken Geiser,
Materials Matter: Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy,
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001 A landmark work, Materials Matter covers virtually every aspect of materials policy,
including possibilities for dematerialization and detoxification of the
industrial economy, and regulatory measures to make it happen. In the process,
it provides other great intellectual gifts—like its concise 30-page history of the
use of materials in the
General
Benholt-Thomson, Veronika, and Maria Mies, The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy, London/NY: Zed Books, 1999
Commoner, Barry, Making
Peace with the Planet, New Press, 1992
Daily, Gretchen C. (ed.), Nature's Services : Societal Dependence On
Natural Ecosystems,
Daily, Gretchen
C. and Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make
Conservation Profitable,
Daly, Herman E., Beyond
Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development,
Douthwaite, Richard, Short-Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies
for Security in an Unstable World,
Douthwaite, Richard, The
Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many,and endangered the planet
(updated edition),
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution,
Hawken, Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability ,
Henderson,
Hazel, Beyond
Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy,
Hines, Colin, Localization: A Global Manifesto,
Jacobs,
Jane, The Nature of Economies, N.Y./Toronto: Random House, 2000
Korten, David, The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999
Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy—and for a turn to the local,
Milani, Brian, Designing the Green Economy: the Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization,
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
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 ,
Sachs, Wolfgang, Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and
Development,
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.
Schumacher,
E.F., Small Is Beautiful: A Study of
Economics as if People Mattered ,
Shuman, Michael H., Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, New
York/London: The Free Press, 1998
Vaughan,
Genevieve, For-Giving: a Feminist
Critique of Exchange , Austin Texas: Plain View Press,
1997
Waring,
Marilyn, If Women Counted: a new feminist
economics,
Management
& Ecopreneurialism
Doppelt, Bob, Leading
Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management
Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society,
Elkington, John, Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of the
21st Century Business, Gabriola Island
Frankel,
Carl, In Earth’s Company: Business,
Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability,
Hershkowitz, Allen,
http://www.islandpress.org/books/detail.html?cart=1097422867207648&SKU=1-55963-864-8
Leipziger, Deborah, The Corporate
Responsibility Code Book,
Nattrass,
Brian and Mary Altomare, The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary
Corporation, Gabriola Island
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,
Schaltegger, Stefan, Roger Burritt, and
Holger Petersen, An Introduction To Corporate Environmental Management: Striving For
Sustainability,
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/catalogue/intcem.htm
Seiler-Hausmann, Jan-Dirk,
Christa Liedtke and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Eco-Efficiency
And Beyond: Towards The Sustainable Enterprise,
Steger, Ulrich, Fang Zhaoben
and Lu Wei, Greening
Chinese Business: Barriers: Trends And Opportunities
For Environmental Management,
Thompson, Dixon Gabriola Island
Willard, Bob, The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business
Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line,
Design
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
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/urban2.html#sntrsdam
Hayden, Delores,
Redesigning the American Dream: The
Future of Housing, Work and Family Life ,
Holmgren,
David, Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond
Sustainability, Hepburn
Hough, Michael, Cities and Natural Process,
Kibert, Charles J. (ed.), Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics and Economics,
Lewis, Helen and John Gertsakis,
with Tim Grant and Nicola Morelli and Andrew Sweatman, Design +
Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods,
Lyle, John Tillman, Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development,
McDonough,
William and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things,
Papanek, Victor, The Green Imperative:
Natural Design for the Real World,
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,
Van der Ryn,
Sim and Stuart Cowan, Ecological Design ,
Wann, David, Deep Design:
Pathways to a Liveable Future,
Work
Goldstein, Eban , The Tradeoff Myth: Fact and
Fiction About Jobs and the Environment,
Hayden, Anders, Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work-time, Consumption
and Ecology,
Robertson,
James, Future Work: Jobs,
Self-Employment and Leisure After the Industrial Age,
Industrial Ecology
Behrendt, Siegfried,
Christine Jasch,
Jaap Kortman, Gabriele Hrauda,
Ralf Pfitzner,
Daniela Velte,
Eco-service Development: Reinventing
Supply and Demand in the European Union,
Charter, Martin and Ursula Tischner (eds.), Sustainable
Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future,
Cohen-Rosenthal, Edward and
Judy Musnikow, Eco-Industrial
Strategies: Unleashing Synergy Between Economic
Development And The Environment,
Gardner,
Geiser, Ken, Materials
Matter: Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy,
Jackson, Tim, Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and
Quality of Life ,
Kibert, Charles J., Jan Sendzimir,
and G. Bradley Guy (eds.), Construction
Ecology: Nature as the basis for green buildings,
Morris,
David, and Irshad Ahmed, The Carbohydrate Economy: Making Chemicals and Industrial Materials from
Plant Matter,
Murray, Robin, Creating Wealth From Waste,
Pauli, Gunter, Upsizing: the Road To Zero Emissions, More Jobs, More
Income, No Pollution,
Richards,
Allenby & Frosch
(eds.), The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems,
Sarkis, Joseph (ed.), Greener
Manufacturing and Operations: From Design to Delivery and Back,
Regulation /
EPR / Taxes
Boyd, David R., Unnatural
Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy,
Cashore,
Benjamin William, Governing Through Markets :
Erdmenger, Christoph (ed.), Buying into the Environment: Experiences,
Opportunities and Potential for Eco-Procurement,
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,
Gunningham, Neil and Darren Sinclair, Leaders And Laggards: Next-Generation
Environmental Regulation,
Myers,
Roodman,
David M., The Natural Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the
Market for the Environment,
Energy
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)
Morris,
David, Seeing the Light: Regaining
Control of Our Electricity System, Minneapolis/Washington DC: Institute for
Local Self-Reliance, 2001
Smeloff,
Ed and Peter Asmus, Reinventing Electric Utilities: Competition, Citizen Action, and Clean
Power,
Food
Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism,
Market Opportunities and Public Regulation,
Kimbrell,
Andrew (ed.), Fatal Harvest :
The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Manning, Richard,
Against the Grain: How agriculture has
hijacked civilization, North Point Press, 2004
Mollison, Bill, Permaculture,
Local
Alternatives to Global Agribusiness,
Roberts,
Roberts,
Transportation
Forman,
Richard T. T., Road
Ecology: Science and Solutions,
Miller, Glenn, Daniela Kiguel
and Sue Zielinski, Moving Goods in the
New Economy: A Primer for Urban Decision Makers,
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/transport.html#mg
Richards, Brian, Future Transport in Cities
http://www.detourpublications.com/catalogue/cars2.html#ftc
Zielinski, Sue and Gordon Laird (ed.), Beyond the Car: Essays on the Auto Culture,
Indicators
Tyler Norris Associates, Redefining Progress and
Sustainable
Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth,
Money &
Finance
Bouma, Jan Jaap, Marcel Jeucken,
and Leon Klinkers (eds.), Sustainable Banking: the Greening of Finance,
Brill, Hal, Jack A. Brill and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing
With Your Values: Making Money and Making a Difference, Gabriola Island
Greco,
Thomas A., New Money for Healthy
Communities,
Jeucken, Marcel, Sustainable
Finance and Banking: The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet, London
Kurtzman,
Joel, The Death of Money: How the Electronic Economy
Has Destabilized the World's Markets and Created Financial Chaos,
Lietaer,
Bernard The Future of Money: Creating New
Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World,
Raddon, Mary-Beth, Community
and Money: Men and Women Making Change,
Rowbotham,
Michael, The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money,
Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics, Charlbury,
Oxfordshire
Consumption
Worldwatch Institute, The State of the World 2004: The Consumer
Society,
Brower,
Michael and Warren Leon, The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental
Choices: practical advice from the
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Opportunities and Potential for Eco-Procurement,
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and Ecology,
Schor, Juliet, The
Overspent American : upscaling,
downshifting, and the new consumer,
