Seven Generational Ruminations

The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance author: Chris Laszlo asin: 1597260185 binding: Paperback list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00 USD

"This is not a book of fluff or feel-good case studies. It's a handbook for organizational change. The instructions are specific, potential pitfalls are highlighted, and the appendix provides a detailed discussion of outside evaluation tools." -GREEN MARKET REPORT"The Sustainable Company offers some genuinely practical insights into what it really takes to improve stakeholder impacts." -ETHICAL CORPORATION

The Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations author: Darcy Hitchcock Marsha Willard asin: 1844073203 binding: Paperback list price: $49.95 USD amazon price: $39.46 USD

***Recipient of the 2007 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from Choice**** A no-nonsense guide on how to "green" your office or business.* Practical strategies that can be implemented at the department and enterprise level* Applies to businesses, not-for-profits, and government officesSustainability promises both reduced environmental impacts or ecological footprint and real cash savings for any organization—be it a business, non-profit/NGO, or government department.

Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications author: Joshua Farley Herman E. Daly asin: 1559633123 binding: Hardcover list price: $49.95 USD amazon price: $39.96 USD

Conventional economics is often criticized for failing to reflect adequately the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists overlook problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources.Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this flaw in much economic thought.

You Can't Eat Gnp: Economics As If Ecology Mattered (Merloyd Lawrence Book) author: Eric Davidson asin: 0738204870 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $14.40 USD

"In clear, measured prose Davidson lays out how the traditional tools of economics don't work when you are talking about concrete things like soil, forests, garbage."-Inc.Ecology and economics are not doomed to be adversaries. This lively and concise book presents the exciting new insights of environmental economics as well as the three fallacies of conventional economic analysis. You Can't Eat GNP offers a blueprint for a truly sustainable economy that recognizes the natural resources (like water, air, and soil) on which we ultimately depend.Eric A.

Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts (Business) author: Marc J Epstein asin: 1576754863 binding: Hardcover list price: $34.95 USD amazon price: $23.07 USD

In recent years, corporations of all sizes and orientations have become more sensitive to social issues and stakeholder concerns, and they are collectively striving to become better corporate citizens (in some cases, urged on by shareholder pressure or government regulations). The best practices in corporate sustainability are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or Body Shop as they were a decade ago; now, large, multi-national companies like G.E.

The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming author: Brian Dumaine asin: 0307406180 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.95 USD amazon price: $17.13 USD

American entrepreneurs, corporate tycoons, and financiers are plotting what they do best—creating new industries that change the world and making billions in the process—a plot that will ultimately save the planet.

The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World author: Peter M. Senge Bryan Smith Sara Schley Joe Laur Nina Kruschwitz asin: 038551901X binding: Hardcover list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $19.77 USD

Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones.