Recommended Reading List
Buildings and Climate Change: Status, Challenges & Opportunities (download 7MB)
United Nations Environment Programme

Mid-Course Correction Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
Author: Ray C. Anderson

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Author: Janine M. Benyus

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Author: Paul Hawken

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Author: Thomas Friedman

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas Friedman

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared Diamond

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Authors: William McDonough & Michel Braungart

Tapped Out
Author: Dr. Paul Simon

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Author: Thom Hartman

God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Author: Ed Ayers

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Author: Daniel Quinn

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Author: Daniel Quinn

My Ishmael
Author: Daniel Quinn

The Story of B
Author: Daniel Quinn

Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Authors: Michael Brower & Warren Leon

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Authors: Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism
Authors: Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill (Contributor), Richard C. Rue

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel L. Carson, Al Gore (Introduction)

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Brian Nattrass, Mary Altomare, Brian Naijrass

Green Development: Integrating Ecology & Real Estate
Authors: Rocky Mountain Institute, Foreword by James Chaffin, Jr., President of Urban Land Institute

Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
Author: John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning

Vital Signs: The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
Author: Worldwatch Institute, published annually

State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society
Author: Worldwatch Institute, published annually

Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World
Authors: Joel Makower and Business for Social Responsibility


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