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General Sustainability
The following resources should be helpful for those looking to understand
the sustainable development movement and how it is relevant to their core
concerns.
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Back Bay
Books, 2000. - If you're new to sustainability this is a great place to
start. The first 80 pages or so are a wonderful crash course that reveals
key issues and provides insightful economic rational. A summary of the
book, "Road Map To Natural Capitalism," appeared in the Harvard
Business Review.
Amory Lovins, et.al., Small Is Profitable, Rocky Mountain Institute,
2002. - In his most recent book, Amory and six co-authors explore distributed
energy issues. For more information or to order this book, see http://www.smallisprofitable.org
Paul Hawken, Ecology
of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, HarperBusiness,
1993. - A pioneering work on sustainability and corporate social responsibility,
Hawken proposes a culture of business in which the natural world is allowed
to flourish and the planet's needs are addressed.
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle
To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, North Point Press,
2002. - The authors, an architect and a chemist, want to eliminate the
concept of waste altogether, while preserving commerce and allowing for
human nature. They offer several compelling examples of corporations that
are not just doing less harmÑthey're actually doing good for the environment
and their neighborhoods, and making more money in the process.
Anthony M. H. Clayton and Nicholas J. Radcliffe, Sustainability:
A Systems Approach, Earthscan Publications, 1996. - This book
does a good job introducing the layperson to the system dynamics of sustainability.
Gilbert Hedstrom, Stephen Poltorzycki, Peter Stroh, Sustainable Development:
The Next Generation of Business Opportunity - Arthur D. Little survey
write-up exploring the "interest in the business potential of sustainable
development, an approach to developing long-term prosperity by integrating
strategies for economic success, environmental quality, and social equity."
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