Sustainable Project Management
This book provides a practical approach to ensuring that not only the projects are managed sustainably, but also the products the project delivers are sustainable.
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Patagonia Inc. is one of the most respected and environmentally conscious companies in the world. Its founder, Yvon Choingard, is an outdoor enthusiast, businessman and environmentalist and has turned his philosophy of life into a successful vision for his company.
Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80 % Improvements in Resource Productivity
“Efficiency is better than its reputation.” The book Factor Five shows how technical innovations can help to drastically reduce our consumption of resources.
Silent Spring
Published in 1962, Rachel Carson‘s Silent Spring is one of the most effective books ever written about the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. It is now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World
This book is a reader-friendly introduction to energy breakthroughs, their politics and implications. It takes you on a journey through the world of tomorrow and allows a look at novel magnetic motors, zero point energy, water as fuel, and many other new paradigms for pollution-free energy technologies.
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability-Designing for Abundance
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle. The Book takes the original premise and expands it into almost every aspect of the built and designed environment.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
In this provocative and visionary book, authors McDonough and Braungart challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world and ask why not to take nature itself as our model for making things.
A Sand County Almanac
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.”
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Drawdown’s editor Environmentalist Paul Hawken believes that to motivate action on climate change, the focus needs to be on solutions rather the problem.
Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist
Gives a business perspective on sustainable leadership.