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

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

The Corporate Economy

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

Hayden, Delores, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life , New York: W.W. Norton, 1984

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

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

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

 

The Information Economy / New Productive Forces

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

 

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

 

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, 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

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

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

 

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,

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

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, Washington DC: Island Press, 1997

 

Food

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

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

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

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

 

University Sustainability

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

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