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Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good

5 reviews
Chris Laszlo

Stanford Business Books, 2008

Taking Corporate Responsibility to the next level
This is an important book. One often hears about the need for companies to `balance' social, environmental and financial concerns, but Chris Laszlo takes these concepts to the next level. He demonstrates convincingly that these three areas are all integral part of doing business. Ignoring a company's environmental or social impact not only puts financial interests at risk; doing so also means ...

Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition
Charles J. Kibert

Wiley, 2007

The green building movement has come a long way in a short time. Responding to this exponential growth, with its attendant technological as well as aesthetic developments, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Deliver, Second Edition guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's marketplace. In this revised edition, ...

Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future

8 reviews
Richard T. Wright, 2007

Excellent overview for nonscience students
I have been using this book for an online environmental science class for six years and for in-person classes before that. The students find it to be very readable and engaging. I've reviewed many other books and found that they never measure up to this textbook. As another evaluator noted, it's a great resource. I also teach science to environmental lawyers, who can use this book for a quick ...

Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition

3 reviews
J. William Thompson, Kim Sorvig

Island Press, 2007

One of the most comprehensive books on sustainable landscape construction
Time has changed. A few years ago, few people knew about sustainable design and construction, green buildings or LEED. Today, sustainable design and construction has gone mainstream. How do we know? We actually have clients asking us to design a LEED certified building or do a sustainable landscape design. Architecture and landscape architecture are knowledge-based, service-oriented professions. ...

Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature

4 reviews
Douglas Farr

Wiley, 2007

more a general guidebook for professionals than a text
Thank god for the current trend toward the generalization of textbooks. I don't mean generalization in the sense of broadening or watering-down of subject matter, but rather in writing: many more texts in relatively technical fields are being written so that they can be appreciated interdisciplinarily, but professionals in related and sometimes even slightly-unrelated fields, and other folks ...

Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Kate Fletcher

Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2008

This inspirational design handbook presents a new vision of sustainability in the fashion and textile sector based on design thinking and practice. It brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation, and frames them in a sustainability context. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainable fashion and textiles, and sets ...

The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design

4 reviews
Sandra F. Mendler, William Odell, ...

Wiley, 2005

Must have.
The most comprehensive book yet on sustainable design and green architecture. If you can have only one book in your library on sustainable design, this is the book!

The Philosophy of Sustainable Design

6 reviews
Jason F. McLennan

Ecotone Publishing Company LLC, 2004

The Quintessential Green Warrior
Jason is the quintessential green warrior. Young, enthusiastic, exceedingly bright, and seemingly undaunted at the prospect of swimming against the current, Jason shares with us his passion for sustainable design. Having spent the formative years of his career working with the veritable giants of the sustainable design field, Jason shares his unique perspectives and experiences that today's up ...

The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization

15 reviews
John Seely Brown

Harvard Business School Press, 2005

board implications for sustainable advantage.
John Hagel is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. For two decades, John Seely Brown was Executive Director of the legendary Palo Alto Research Center. The authors argue that the only sustainable edge is to generate shareholder value through constant innovation. Current approaches to strategic thinking are inadequate to the task. The book has one irritating quality and one large value ...

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide
Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew

South End Press, 2008

The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests and ...

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices
Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings

Island Press, 2008

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries. Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how ...

Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
Robin Guenther, Gail Vittori

Wiley, 2007

Design, restorative building, biophilia, enhanced air quality and high performance building systems. Written by leading national experts on the subject -- one of whom was recognized by Time magazine as a green innovator -- Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is the key guide to designing sustainable healthcare facilities. Building on the authors combined knowledge and experience, this book includes case studies of more than 50 of the ...

Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Education for ...

2 reviews
Doug McKenzie-Mohr, William Smith

New Society Publishers, 1999

The Community-Based Social Marketing Primer
I don't know if McKenzie-Mohr coined the buzz-terms used in Community-based Social Marketing, but he covers them (at the introductory level) completely in this book. Case studies and personal experiences offer practical examples to the lingo commonly used in CBSM, plus plenty of articles are referenced for further reading. If you've heard about "Prompts" and "Norms" associated with CBSM and need ...

Designing the Sustainable School

2 reviews
Alan Ford

Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd., 2007

An Excellent Resource for All Building Types
Good for architects and for clients. 1)Architects: This book is an excellent resource for sustainable architecture in general in addition to sustainable school design. It looks at 40+ buildings from around the world and in various architectural styles, discussing natural lighting, innovative HVAC systems, rainwater capturing and re-use, siting, natural ventilation, solar heating and cooling ...

Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning

2 reviews
Daniel E. Williams

Wiley, 2007

Planetizen - Williams' Top Ten Book for Urban Design
Planetizen, a web resource for urban planners, publishes an annual list of the top 10 books for urban planners - Williams' Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning was listed as #5.

Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options

2 reviews
Jefferson W. Tester, Elisabeth M. Drake, ...

The MIT Press, 2005

Useful
Useful book to collect all in one the main subjects about the topic. Useful handbook to have at hand a rigorous point to start to study the subject without loosing between information.

Sustainable Leadership (Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education)

2 reviews
Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink

Jossey-Bass, 2005

Knowledge packed professional learning
Sustainable Leadership Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink are two highly credible authors and researchers of school leadership. "Sustainable Leadership" is an inspirational book that will add to their credibility among the school leaders who want practical and informed discussion about the day-to-day issues affecting schools. The concept of sustainable leadership in schools is topical because ...

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields

9 reviews
John Jeavons, Carol Cox

Ten Speed Press, 1999

In-depth answers for NOW questions
This is not a book to read in winter when you're dreaming of your perfect garden. This is a book that correctly lists the five plants that have been proven to help deter the Striped Bean Beetle when it's eating your garden down to the nubs. And the intercropping to keep the bean beetle away next year. And soil treatments to keep it from coming back. And what kinds of flowers will attract the ...

Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (The Bioneers Series)

1 review
David W. Orr

Sierra Club Books, 2005

Towards a Deep Ecology of Learning
Living Education: The Power of the Circle This book explores the depth of the challenges of thinking ecologically. I was especially impressed by the focus that is put on process within the decision making process. The variety of topics, and authors offers a wide take on the issues, challenges and hurdles as we move as a society to seeing the world more clearly. Well done.

Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future (9th Edition)
Daniel D. Chiras, John P. Reganold, ...

Prentice Hall, 2004

Written from a sustainable perspective, this readable, yet rigorous, book provides comprehensive coverage of a variety of local, regional, national, and global resource and environmental issues from population growth to wetlands to agriculture to global air pollution. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives. Overall increased emphasis ...

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