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The Business Case for Taking Action
What is "sustainability" or "sustainable development?"
New England Case Studies
 
Sustainability Articles and Books
 
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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