Course Director: Brian Milani <bmilani@web.ca> Likely Office Hours: 4-5:15pm & 8:30-10pm
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Schedule and [Note: Readings subject to change with
notice. Check each week.] Week 1, September 7, Introduction: student
introductions and statements of interest, with an overview of key issues and
relationships in green business. ·
Brian Milani, What is Green Economics?,
Synthesis / Regeneration, #37 (Spring 2005); and Race, Poverty and the
Environment: A journal for social and environmental justice (2006)
Week 2, September 14, Perspectives on Sustainability
& Business ·
Eric Assadourian,
When Good
Corporations Go Bad, World Watch magazine, May/June 2005 ·
Gary Gardner and Thomas Prugh,
Seeding the Sustainable Economy, Chapter 1, The State of the World 2008, NY/Washington: Worldwatch
Institute, 2008 ·
World Business Council for Sustainable
Development, The
Business Case for Sustainable Development, WBCSD, 2002 ·
Jonathan
Rowe and David Bollier, "The Missing Sector:
Enlarging our sense of 'the Economy'," On the Commons, October 24,
2010 ·
Bill McDonough & Michael Braungart, The Next
Industrial Revolution, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1998 ·
Walter Stahel, From Products to
Services: Selling performance instead of goods, ITPS Report, #37 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale: Growing your business
without selling out book: Foreward, Preface, & Introduction (to p. 14). [ Purchase hard-copy from York U.
bookstore, or download PDF edition from publisher at http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781576754160 ]
Week 3,
September 21, The Corporation: Problems & Strategies · Jonathan
Rowe, Is the
Corporation Obsolete?, Washington Monthly, 2001 ·
Nelson Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century
Capitalism?, abridged version of introduction to Wal-Mart: The Face of
Twenty-First Century Capitalism (New
Press, November 2005) ·
Eric Assadurian, The Role of
Stakeholders, Worldwatch magazine, Sept./Oct.
2005 ·
John
H. Richardson, "Saving Capitalism
from Itself: Inside the B Corp Revolution," Esquire, August 23, 2010 ·
·
Susan Burns, Keeping our
Eye on the Goal: How to measure corporate sustainability progress,
Natural Strategies.com Jill Bamburg,
Getting to
Scale book, Chapter 1: Mission Comes First, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 Optional: · William Young and Fiona Tilley, "Can
Businesses Move Beyond Efficiency? The Shift toward Effectiveness and Equity
in the Corporate Sustainability Debate," Business Strategy
and the Environment, 15,
402415 (2006) ·
Frank Dixon, Total Corporate Responsibility:
Making SRI and CSR sustainable, GreenBiz,
April 2004. ·
Bob Doppelt, Overcoming
the Seven Sustainability Blunders, The
Systems Thinker, vol. 14 no. 5, 2003 ·
Robert Poiasek, Debunking
the Notion of a Triple Bottom Line,
GreenBiz, August 31, 2009 ·
Majorie Kelly, The Next Step for CSR: Economic Democracy,
Business Ethics, 2002
Week 4,
September 28, Values-driven & Local Business
·
David Korten, "A New Economy
Policy Agenda," BALLE Policy Panel,
May 23, 2009, livingeconomies.org, ·
·
John Talberth, A New Bottom
Line for Progress, Chapter 2, The
State of the World 2008, NY/Washington: Worldwatch Institute, 2008 ·
Stacy Mitchell,
"Survey
Finds 'Buy Local' Message Benefitting Independent Business," ILSR
press release, January 26, 2011 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale
book: Chapter 2: Any Business Can Do It. and Chapter 3: Organic is the Way to Grow. video: Michael
Shuman on local business & local enterprise finance, TED Optional: ·
Stacy
Mitchell, Rebuilding
Community-rooted Enterprise, Institute for Local Self-Reliance ·
Carl Frankel, "The
Lore of the Local: Q & A with Michael Shuman," Chronogram
Magazine, Feb. 27, 2009 ·
Josh Harkinson, "Profits
of Place: A different vision of success emerges along Main St.,"
Orion magazine, Jan/Feb. 2004 ·
Herman Daly, Globalism
and Its Discontents, August 2000 ·
Stacy Mitchell, Keep Your
Eyes on the Size: The impossibility of a green Wal-Mart, Grist, March
28, 2007
Week 5, October 5, Green Manufacturing
& Energy ·
Keith Parkins, Soft Energy Paths,
Gaia briefing paper. ·
Walter R. Stahel, The
Utilization-Focused Service Economy: Resource Efficiency and Product-Life
Extension, The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems, ·
David Morris, The Once and
Future Carbohydrate Economy, The American Prospect, March 19, 2006 · John Farrell, Maximizing
Jobs From Clean Energy: Ontario's 'Buy Local' Policy, ILSR report,
executive summary, January 2011 · Ben Block, North
American Feed-in Tariff Policies Take Off, Worldwatch
Institute website, 2011 ·
Ed Cohen-Rosenthal,
What is
Eco-industrial Development?, chapter 1 of Eco-industrial Strategies: Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the
Environment, ·
Helen Lewis and
John Gertsakis, Introduction:
Design + Environment: A global guide to designing greener goods,
Greenleaf Publishers, 2001 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale book: Chapter 6:
Match Manufacturing to Mission Optional: ·
Robert Poulin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier,
Building
the Green Economy: Employment effects of green energy investments for Ontario,
report for Green Energy Act Alliance, Blue-Green Canada & WWF, 2009 ·
The
Great Green Technological Transformation, World Economic and Social Survey 2011, UN Dept. of
Economic and Social Affairs. ·
Work in a Warming World,
York U. website
Week 5 1/2, October 12, Block Week
Week 6, October 19, Financing Green ·
Eugene Ellmen, "Socially
Responsible Investing in Canada," Green Money Journal, August/Sept. 2008 ·
David Korten, "The
New Economy: And why this crisis may be our best chance", Yes!
Summer 2009 ·
Marshall Glickman and Marjorie Kelly, Working Capital: Can socially
responsible investing make a great green leap forward?, E magazine,
March/April 2004, vol. XV, no. 2 ·
Bill Baue ·
Michael Shuman,
"Put
Your Money Where Your Life Is: Americans want to invest locally. What's stopping them?,"
Yes! Summer 2009 ·
Tom Greco, "The
World's Ominous Reckoning," Jan. 2011 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale book: Chapter 4:
Finance Your Independence. Videos: Les Leopold, author of The Looting of America, RT
interview Amy Cortese, author of Locavesting,
TV panel discussion The
Age of Risk, part 2 of The Love of
Money, BBC documentary Optional: ·
Strongly recommended: John Bellamy Foster and Hannah Holleman,
"The
Financial Power Elite," Monthly Review, vol. 62, issue 1, May 2010 ·
Paul Hawken, Socially-responsible
Investing: How the SRI industry has failed to respond to people who want to
invest with conscience and what can be done to change it, Natural
Capital Institute report, 2004 ·
David Korten, "How to Liberate America from Wall Street
Rule," Introduction
to report from The New Economy Working Group ·
Peter Boone and Simon Johnson,
"The
Canadian Banking Fallacy," The Baseline Scenario, March 25, 2010 ·
Hazel Henderson, Reforming Global Finance: The
New Financiers, Ethical Markets, February 2009 ·
John Bellamy
Foster, The Financialization
of Capitalism, Monthly Review 58, 11 (April 2007); reprinted as chapter 4
of Foster and Magdoff's The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and
consequences, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2009 ·
Les Leopold, "How
Wall Street Thieves, Led by Goldman Sachs, Took Down the Global Economy,"
Alternet, April 25, 2011 ·
Wuppertal
Institute, Micro-finance
and Renewable Energy Investing in a Sustainable Future ·
Steven Lydenberg, Universal Investors and Socially Responsible Investors:
a tale of emerging affinities, Corporate Governance, Volume 15 Number ·
Joel Makower, At
New Resource Bank, Money Talks ... Green, greenbiz.com
Week 7, October 26, Regulation ·
Michael Marx and Marjorie
Kelly, Who Will
Rule? Yes! magazine, Fall 2007 · Neil Gunningham and Darren
Sinclair, Regulatory
Pluralism: Designing Policy Mixes for Environmental Protection, Law and
Policy 21, 49-76, 1997 · Brian Milani, Mindful Markets,
Value Revolution and the Green Economy: EPR, Certification and the New
Regulation ·
Michael Braungart,
"Product Life-Cycle
Management to Replace Waste Management", in Socolow, Andrews, Berkhout
& Thomas (eds.), Industrial Ecology
and Global Change, N.Y./Cambridge: ·
Brian Dunkiel, M. Jeff Hamond,
and Jim Motavalli, Sharing the
Wealth: If We Shift the Tax Burden From Work to Waste, Everyone Benefits,
E magazine, March/April 1999 ·
Alex Goldmark, "The
Benefit Corporation: Can business be about more than profit?" , Good
Business website, July 1, 2011 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale book: Chapter 5:
Build Your Values into Your Brand. Videos: Michael Braungart
in Spain: Cradle to Cradle Optional: ·
Michael E. Conroy, Certification Systems as Tools for Natural
Asset Building: Potential, Experience to Date, and Critical Challenges, Working paper No. 100, Political Economy Research
Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, July 2005 (skim) · EPR: A
Prescription for Clean Production, Pollution Prevention and Zero Waste,
Grassroots Recycling Network, August 2003 · Brenda Platt, Local Inititatives Leverage EPR, ILSR Waste to Wealth
report, Nov. 2000 ·
Barry Commoner, Pollution
Prevention: The Source of an Ethical Foundation for Sustainable Development, 1990 ·
Google Books,
excerpts: Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent, Perverse
Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy, Island Press, 2001
Week 8, November 2, Social Justice &
Community Enterprise · Preeti Mangala Shekar and Tram Nguyen,
Who
Gains from a Green Economy?, Colorlines,
March/April 2008 ·
Van Jones and Ben Wyskida, Green-Collar Jobs for
Urban America: Oakland looks for a
greener path toward prosperity, Yes!
magazine, Winter 2007 · Winona LaDuke, "Local Energy, Local Power," Yes! magazine, Winter 2007 ·
Bernard Marszalek, "Green-collar
Jobs, Industrial Policy, and Society with a Future," New Labor Forum, Fall 2008 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale
book: Chapters 8 & 9, pp. 113-141 Videos: Robert
Reich: The Truth about the Economy Wilkinson: Inequality Bad
for Everyone Van
Jones: Newsflash: America is Not Broke Toronto Good Jobs for All
Coalition Rosemarie Powell, Jane
Finch Community & Family Centre: green jobs Regent Park urban food
gardening Optional: ·
John Cartwright, Green Jobs are the Future,
background paper, Toronto Good Jobs for
All conference, Nov. 2008 ·
David Hulchanski, Rich
City, Poor City: A great city with great neighbourhoods requires...good jobs
at living wage, background paper, Toronto Good Jobs for All conference, Nov. 2008 ·
Emily Badger,
"What
Shade of Green Best Suits the Economy?", Miller-McCune Research,
Jan. 22, 2009 ·
Green-Collar
Jobs in America's Cities: Building Pathways out of poverty and careers in the
clean energy economy, report for
Apollo Alliance & Green for All, March 2008 ·
James Trimarco and Jill Bamberg, "Worker
Co-ops: Green and just jobs you can own," Yes! Summer 2009 ·
Philip Mattera et al, High Road or
Low Road? Job quality in the new green economy, report for Good Jobs
First, February 2009 ·
Adele M. Stan,
"Big
Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones," AlterNet,
Sept. 8, 2009 Links: ·
Good Jobs for All Coalition, Toronto ·
Jane-Finch Green X-Change Project ·
Jane-Finch
Community and Family Centre green jobs e-learning site
Week 9, November 9, Commons
& Creativity in the Network Economy Readings: ·
Jay Walljasper, "What is the
Commons?", chapter 1 of All
That We Share: A field guide to the Commons, New York: The New Press,
2010 ·
Yochai Benkler, A
Moment of Opportunity and Challenge, Chapter 1 of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and
Freedom, ·
James Boyle, "A
Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property," Duke Law and Technology Review, August 2004 ·
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Introduction and
Chapter One Wikinomics: The Art & Science of
Peer-Production, from Wikinomics: How Mass
Collaboration Changes Everything (Portfolio/Penguin, 2006) ·
David Morris,
"Why
is Multi-Billion-Dollar Telecom Time Warner fretting over a small city in
North Carolina?", Alternet, June 27, 2011 ATTENTION: also watch what you can of this film before class: RiP: A Remix Manifesto Videos for Class: ·
Yochai Benkler:
Open-source
Economics, TED talk ·
Lawrence Lessig, "The Architecture of Access to Scientific
Knowledge: Just how badly we have
messed this up," Presentation to CERN, April 18, 2011 ·
Lessig
on Creative Commons copyright ·
The
Unconditional Basic Income ·
Don
Tapscott, MacroWikinomics:
interviewed by Allan Gregg Recommended (but not required): ·
Verdantix, Cloud
Computing: The IT Solution for the 21st Century, study for Carbon
Disclosure Project, 2011 ·
Laurence Lessig, Some Like It
Hot: Piracy & culture, Wired magazine, Issue 12.03 (March 2004) ·
Optional: ·
Christine
Smillie-Adjarkwa, Is the
Internet A Useful Resource For Indigenous Women Living In Remote Communities
In Canada, Australia and New Zealand To Access Health Resources?,
Paper researched and written for the Summer Student Internship Program
2005,National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research ·
Toward Equality of
Access: The Role of Public Libraries in Addressing the Digital Divide, report for Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation ·
Cory Doctorow, Internet
©rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress,
Internet Evolution ·
Stan Cox, "War, Murder,
Rape...All for your cell phone," AlterNet, Sept. 14, 2006 ·
Scott Thill, "Google: Good or
Evil when it comes to the Environment?," AlterNet, July 3, 2008 ·
The Natural Step
& Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, IT
and Sustainability: Enabling the Future, 2002
Week 10, November 16, Consumption, Markets & Marketing
Jacquelyn Ottman,
Consumers
With a Conscience, chapter 2 of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation,
New York: NTC-McGraw-Hill,
1998 Jill Bamburg, Getting to Scale
book: Chapter 7 Optional: --Gary Gardner and Erik Assadourian,
Rethinking the Good Life, Chapter 8, from
the State of the World 2004, NY/Washington: Worldwatch
Institute, 2004 --Aseem Prakash, "Green Marketing,
Public Policy and Managerial Strategies," Business Strategy and the Environment, 11,
285-297 (2002) --Tim
Jackson, Tim Jackson, "The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles,"
chapter 4 of The State of the World 2008, NY/Washington: Worldwatch
Institute, 2008 --book
description and excerpts: Sharing
the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work time, consumption and ecology, by
Anders Hayden, MES 1997 --David Morris, Is Eating Local the Best Choice?,
AlterNet, --Stacy Mitchell, The
Impossibility of a Green Wal-Mart, GRIST, --Stan Cox, War, Murder, Rape
All for your
cell phone, AlterNet, --Green Marketing News,
Greenbiz.com Forbidden: (video) Ψ George
Carlin on The American Dream Ψ Rev. Billy, The Ψ Noreagaaa: Materialism & The
Battle Within · Presentation: Tom Du on decentralized energy systems
Week 11, November 23, Presentations [not necessarily in this order] ·
Samandeep and Aravind ·
Angela ·
Paul
C., Rebecca and Jocelyn ·
Jarren ·
Cherida
Week 12, November 30, Presentations [not necessarily in this order] ·
Scott ·
Laura ·
Coralie and
Anne ·
Stephen ·
Marcella ·
Paul-Patrick
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