To Learn More About Sustainability:
Periodicals
Green @ Work Magazine www.greenatworkmag.com
The Center for a New American Dream, http://newdream.org
Yes Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.com
Articles
Places to Intervene is a System, by Donella Meadows http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/109.html
A brilliant summary of systems thinking in this article by Donella Meadows, one of the great thinkers on sustainability and systems thinking.
Strategic Questioning : An Experiment in Communication of the Second Kind, by Fran Peavey. An in-depth introduction to Strategic Questioning, written by Fran Peavey who founded its practice in her work in social change.
Rocky Mountain Institute Library http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid99.php
Extensive on-line library with articles about the business case for green buildings with case studies, renewable energy, transportation, business, etc. Also see http://www.natcap.org/ for an on-line version of the book Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory & Hunter Lovins.
Books
Anderson,
Ray, Mid-Course Correction,
Benyus,
Janine M., Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, William
Morrow & Company, 1997
Chivian,
Dr. Eric and others eds., Critical Condition: Human Health and
the Environment, MIT Press, 1993
Daly,
Herman, [and John Cobb] For the Common Good: Redirecting the
Economy Towards Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future,
Beacon Press, 1989
Elgin,
Duane, Voluntary Simplicity
Elkington,
John, Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century
Business, New Society Publishers, 1998
Fodor,
Eben, Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth
and Improve Your Community, New Society Publishers, 1999
Gladwell,
Malcolm, The Tipping Point
Hawken,
Paul, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
New York: HarperBusiness, 1994
And:
Natural Capitalism, with Lovins, Amory and L Hunter, New
York: Little Brown, 1999. Chapters of the book can be downloaded
at www.natcap.org
Leon,
W. and Brower, M. Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental
Choices,
Macy,
Joanna, Coming to Life
McDonough,
William, Cradle to Cradle,
McKenzie-Mohr,
Doug and Smith, William, Fostering Sustainable Behavior: an Introduction
to Community Based Social Marketing, New Society Publishers,
1999
Natrass,
Brian, and Altomare, Mary, Natural Step for Business
Peavey,
Fran , Strategic Questioning: Communication of a Second Kind
Ray,
Paul and Anderson, Sherry, Cultural Creatives
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