Selected Reading

Books

BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown and Company, 2005).

Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, by John Elkington (New Society Publishers, 1998).

Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape, by Andrew J. Hoppman (Island Press, 2000).

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart (North Point Press, 2002).

Diffusion of Innovations, by Everett Rogers, Fourth Edition (The Free Press, 1995)

Environmental Science Systems and Solutions, by McKinney, Schoch, Yonavjak (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007).

Good to Great, by Jim Collin (HarperCollins, 2001).

HBR on Green Business Strategies, (Harvard Press, 2007). Contains the following articles:

Building the Green Way, by Charles Lockwood

What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming, by Kimberly O'Neill and Forest Reinhardt

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth, by Forest Reinhardt

A Road Map for Natural Capitalism, by Lovins, Lovins and Hawken

Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World, by Stuart Hart

Competitive Advantage on a Warming World, by Jonathan Lash and Fred Wellington

What Asbestos Taught Me About Managing Risk, by Bill Sells

The Case of the Environmental Impasse by Alissa J. Stern

The Green Marketing Manifesto, by John Grant, (John Wiley & Sons, 2007)

Making a Living While Making a Difference, by Melissa Everett, (New Society Publishers, 1999)

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken and Armory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (Back Bay Books, 2000).

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman, (Warner Books, 1999).

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World, by Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson (Three Rivers Press, 2001).

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken (HarperBusiness, 1993).

The Creative Entrepreneur, by Lisa "Sonora" Beam

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (NA, 1962)

Strategies for the Green Economy, by Joel Makower (2009)

The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption, edited by Tim Jackson (2006). This book provides a coherent synthesis of key contributions to the literature on consumption and sustainability, comprising a substantive collection of selected papers and extracts from books, journals and institutional publications. Presented with a comprehensive introductory overview, the Reader also offers an invaluable 'route map' through the complex intellectual terrain relevant to the pursuit of sustainable consumption. www.earthscan.co.uk

The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, by Gretchen C. Daily and Kataherine Ellison (Island Press, 2002).

The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good by Tom Chappell (Bantam Books, 1993).

The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line , by John Elkington, Bob Willard and Oliver Dukok van Heel (New Society Publishers, 2002).

Sustainable Value , by Chris Lazlo (2008)

The Tipping Point , by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, 2002).

True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution, by Paul Dolan with Thom Elkjer (Bloomberg Press, 2003).

Articles

Choosing the Right Green Marketing Strategy, by Jill Meredith Ginsberg and Paul N Bloom. This article is available in several publications, but originally was published by MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2004, pp. 79-84

Links

Business for Social Responsibility www.bsr.org

Earth Policy Institute www.earth-policy.org

Natural Logic www.natlogic.com

Redefining Progress www.redefiningprogress.org

Zero Waste Alliance www.zerowaste.org

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