Course Director: Brian Milani <bmilani@web.ca> Office Hours: 4-5:15pm & 8:30-10pm Wednesdays or by appointment |
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Schedule and [Note: Readings subject to change. Check each week.] Week 1, September 11,
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) Video: Ray
Anderson: The Business Logic of Sustainability
Week 2, September 18, 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 · Joel Makower
& editors of GreenBiz.com, The
State of Green Business 2013 (skim quickly) · Jonathan Rowe and David Bollier, "The Missing Sector:
Enlarging our sense of 'the Economy'," On the Commons, October 24,
2010 ·
Walter Stahel, “The
Business Angle of a Circular Economy,” Ellen MacArthur Foundation / Product Life
Institute, May 2012 Optional: ·
David Korten, The
Pursuit of Happiness: A new development paradigm, contribution to the
Government of Bhutan's New Development
Paradigm report presented to the UN, 2013 ·
The Great
Transition, executive summary, New Economics
Foundation report, October 2009 ·
Bill McDonough & Michael Braungart, “The Next
Industrial Revolution,” Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1998
Week 3,
September 25, The Corporation: Problems & Strategies ·
Jonathan Rowe, “Is the Corporation
Obsolete?”, Washington Monthly, 2001 ·
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 ·
·
Majorie Kelly, Can
There be "Good" Corporations? When companies are owned by workers
and the community–instead of Wall St. financiers—everything changes, Yes!
magazine Spring 2012 ·
Susan Burns, "The
Natural Step: A compass for environmental management systems," Corporate
Environmental Strategy, #6 Videos: The Corporation: A Legal
'Person' The Corporation: Externalities PBS News Hour on B
Corporation certification Clay Shirky: Hierarchy and Leadership Don Tapscott
on Mass Collaboration Optional: ·
Nelson Lichtenstein, “Wal-Mart: A Template for 21st Century
Capitalism?”, New Labor Forum 14, no.1 (2005): 21-30. [abridged version of
introduction to Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism, New Press, November 2005] ·
Stacy Mitchell,
"Wal-Mart's
Latest 'Buy America' Sham," Huffington Post, August 22, 2013 ·
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,
402–415 (2006) ·
Jose Antonio Campos Chaves,
"The
Challenge of Making Corporate Sustainability Work: A framework to develop and
implement a corporate sustainability strategy," EnvironGrade
2009, slideshare ·
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,
October 2, Designing Values-driven & Local Business
· David Korten, "A New
Economy Policy Agenda," BALLE Policy Panel, May 23, 2009, livingeconomies.org · Rachel Mendelson,
"Canadian
B-Corps Put their Money Where Their Branding is on Social Causes," Huffington Post.ca, March 2012 ·
Anthony Pringle, The Power of
Purchasing: The economic impacts of local procurement, Columbia Institute,
LOCO BC, and ISIS Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business, May 2013 Videos: ·
Michael
Shuman at the Green Summit ·
Keeping
Austin Weird with the Multiplier Effect ·
Zingerman's: This
is Ownership Optional readings: ·
John Talberth, “A New Bottom
Line for Progress,” Chapter 2, The
State of the World 2008, NY/Washington: Worldwatch Institute, 2008 ·
David Brodwin, "Americans
Leading a Do-It-Yourself Economy as Washington Stalls," US News
website, August 2, 2012 ·
Stacy Mitchell,
"Independent
Businesses Deliver Bigger Economic Benefit, Study Finds," ILSR website,
August 16, 2012 ·
Kirk Johnson, "Small
Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local,"
New York Times, July 1, 2012 ·
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 9, Green Manufacturing
& Energy ·
Jeremy Rifkin, "A
New Economic Narrative: Industrial revolution 3.0," Our World 2.0 website, United Nations
University, March 7, 2012 ·
Keith Parkins, “Soft Energy Paths”,
Gaia briefing paper. · John Farrell, "Expect Delays: Reviewing Ontario's 'Buy Local'
Renewable Energy Program," Executive
Summary, ILSR website, May 2013
[for those particularly interested in Ontario's Green Energy Act, you
can also access and read the full report at this website] ·
Ben Block, North American Feed-in Tariff
Policies Take Off, Worldwatch Institute
website, 2011 · Yashnin and Associates, Sustainability
through Product-Service Systems and Servicizing,
Policy Research Initiative, May 2010
· David Morris, “The
Once and Future Carbohydrate Economy,” The American Prospect, March 19,
2006 ·
Ed Cohen-Rosenthal,
“What is
Eco-industrial Development?”, chapter 1 of Eco-industrial Strategies: Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the
Environment, Videos: Amory
Lovins on Reinventing Fire David
Morris on Energy Self-reliance Barrack Obama talks about Local Motors Optional: · William
McDonough and Michael Braungart, "Can
Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy?," excerpt from The Upcycle: Beyond
sustainability—designing for Abundance (North Point Press, 2013), Scientific
American, April, 2013 ·
Julian Borger and Larry Elliott, "How
Cheap Energy from Shale Will Reshape America's Role in the World,"
The Guardian (UK), Nov. 15, 2012 ·
John Farrell, Maximizing
Jobs From Clean Energy: Ontario's 'Buy Local' Policy, ILSR report, executive
summary, January 2011 ·
Green
Energy Across Ontario, Environmental Defense website, 2013 ·
Helen Lewis and
John Gertsakis, Introduction:
Design + Environment: A global guide to designing greener goods,
Greenleaf Publishers, 2001 ·
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 6, October 16, 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 Optional: ·
Walter Stahel,
"The
Virtuous Circle? Sustainable Economics and Taxation in a Time of Austerity,"
A Chartered Insurance Institute "thinkpiece",
October 2011 ·
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 7, October 23, The
Electronic Commons 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, ·
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 ·
Susan
Crawford, "Fiber
is the Key to U.S. Telecom Diet," Wired, April 7, 2012 ·
Steve Anderson, "Net Neutrality in
Canada: Closing in on Internet openness," p. 113-121 of The
Internet Tree: The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0, Marita Moll & Leslie Regan Shade (eds.), Ottawa:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011 ·
CBC News, "FAQ:
Net Neutrality and Internet Traffic Management," CBC website, Oct.
19, 2009 Videos: See last slide of Powerpoint presentation ATTENTION: this doc is also
relevant, if you have time: RiP: A Remix Manifesto Optional : · Chris Sweeny,
"Is
Your Phone Smart Enough to Not Poison the People Recycling It? This One Is,"
Yes! magazine, Fall 2013 ·
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) ·
James Boyle, "A
Manifesto on WIPO and the Future of Intellectual Property," Duke Law and Technology Review, August 2004 ·
, [book:] The
Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, New Haven/London:
Yale University Press, 2009 ·
CBC News, " Verizon
Challenges FCC's right to Impose Net Neutrality," CBC website, Sept. 13, 2013 ·
Clay Shirky, "Does
the Internet Make You Smarter?", Wall St. Journal, June 4, 2010 ·
, "Weblogs and the
Mass Amateurization of Publishing," blog,
Oct. 3, 2002 ·
Diana Lind, policy
brief, "Information
and Communications Technologies Creating Livable, Equitable, Sustainable
Cities," summary of chapter
in State of the World 2012. ·
Internet Rights and
Principles Coalition, Ten Internet Rights and Principles, p. 17-20 of The
Internet Tree: The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0, Marita Moll & Leslie Regan Shade (eds.), Ottawa:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011. ·
Stan Cox, "War,
Murder, Rape...All for your cell phone," AlterNet, Sept. 14, 2006 ·
Chris Rowan, "Digital
Dementia Guidelines for educators regarding technology use in school settings,"
Moving to Learn website, Sept. 10, 2013 ·
Guide to Greener
Electronics, Greenpeace
International website, Nov. 2012
Week 8, November 6, Social Justice &
Community Enterprise
(Even more) Optional: · John Cartwright, Green Jobs are the Future,
background paper, Toronto Good Jobs for
All conference, Nov. 2008 · Michael Renner, "Making
the Green Economy Work for Everybody," chapter 1 of The State of the
World 2012. · 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 · 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
Community and Family Centre green change centre
Week 9,
November 13, Financing Green · Eugene Ellmen, "Socially
Responsible Investing in Canada," Green Money Journal, August/Sept. 2008 · David Korten,
"When Bankers Rule the World: How we can call
out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and
take back America,"
Yes! magazine, March 2012 · Stacy Mitchell, "Banking for the Rest
of Us," Sojourners magazine, April 1, 2012 ·
Bill Baue ·
Michael Shuman, "Put
Your Money Where Your Life Is: Americans want to invest locally. What's stopping them?,"
Yes! Summer 2009 · Tom Du, "Four
Methods for Expanding Debt Crowdfunding,"
Corporate Knights, June 2013 ·
Jessica Freireich, Investing
for Social and Environmental Impact: A design for catalyzing an entire industry,
Executive Summary of report for the Monitor Institute, Jan. 2009 ·
Paul Weinberg, "Self-financing
Toronto: City could ease cash crisis if it put revenues in a bank of its own,"
Straight Goods, May 14, 2012 ·
Chandra Pasma and
Jim Mulvale, Income
Security for All Canadians: Understanding Guaranteed Income, BIEN Canada
study, 2011 Videos: Michael
Shuman on Local Stock Exchanges and a "Zero-cost Stimulus" Money,
Power & Wall St. (PBS Frontline) Les
Leopold on The Looting of America Van Jones: America is not broke! SolarShare:
Solar Power Your Portfolio Optional: · John
Bellamy Foster and Hannah Holleman, "The
Financial Power Elite," Monthly Review, vol. 62, issue 1, May 2010 ·
David Korten,
"How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule," Introduction
to report from The New Economy Working Group ·
Amy Cortese, "In
Defence of Crowdfunding," Locavesting blog, March 16, 2012 ·
Rebecca Leisher, "Watch
Us Move Our Millions: Cities, churches and colleges take steps to move their
money home," Yes! magazine,
Spring 2012 · Peter Boone and
Simon Johnson, "The
Canadian Banking Fallacy," The Baseline Scenario, March 25, 2010 · Ellen Russell, "Should
Canadians Worry about a Banking Crisis?", Toronto Star, June 23,
2012 · Ellen Russell, No More Swimming Naked: The need for
modesty in Canadian banking, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
report, June 2012 · 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
Week 10, November 20, Consumption, Markets &
Marketing
Optional: ·
Lisa Mastny, "Purchasing for People and Planet,"
Chapter 6, pp. 122-142, from State of the World 2004 ·
Gary Gardner and
Erik Assadourian, "Rethinking the Good
Life," from State of the World 2004 ·
Aseem Prakash, "Green Marketing,
Public Policy and Managerial Strategies," Business Strategy and the
Environment, 11, pp. 285-297, 2002 ·
Tim Jackson,
"The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyles," chapter 4, State of the
World 2008 ·
Anders Hayden (MES
1997), Sharing the World, Sparing the Planet: Work time, consumption and
ecology, book description
and excerpts ·
David Morris,
"Is
Eating Local the Best Choice?", AlterNet, Sept. 11, 2007 ·
San Cox, "War,
Murder, Rape...all for your cellphone," AlterNet, Sept. 14, 2006 Forbidden (don't watch these
videos!): ·
George
Carlin on the American Dream ·
Rev. Billy of the Church of
Stop Shopping
Week 11, Presentations Tish, Diana, Julia, Graham
Week 12, Presentations Jacob, Ryan,
Brandon, Katherine, Subashna
Requirements: Papers: approximately 15 pages, double-spaced, on a topic of
your choice, due Dec. 16 Book Review: on a book of your choice, either on the course biblio or not, approx. 5 pages double-spaced, due Week 9 Presentations: approx. 15 min plus 5 for questions (total 20) on a
topic of your choice. Grades: Attendance/participation 10%; Review 10%; Presentation
15%; Term Paper 65%.
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