Greening America to Save the World

Known for his groundbreaking organic horticultural methods, and his 25 years of experience in the green industry, Pavletich makes a simple argument: the widespread use of toxic petrochemicals has caused degenerative disease, in cities, in suburbs and down on the farm. And it needs to stop. For the past 6 years, Harmony Hill Nurseries have been successfully growing a solid, healthy crop of specimen shade, ornamental and evergreen trees without a drop of chemicals or chemical fertilizers. Pavletich has also spent the past decade studying the conditions that support robust and resilient plant growth and exploring innovative strategies for reversing the degradation of the natural world. His research, knowledge and passion for environmental change fill the pages of this very important book. Whether its with gardening tips, stories the history books missed or simple anecdotes, Greening America to Save the World provides a practical prescription and a cause of hope for our ailing ecosphere. To save the planet and ourselves, we need to change the way we relate to the natural world, beginning with our own backyards and gardens. Through the use of chemical-free methods, soil renewal, tree planting, and other earth-friendly strategies, you will find an organic solution to every problem. Only then will we reclaim the health and stability of our global climate system and provide a future for generations to come.

Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy

With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews conducted on her longstanding public television series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successful growth of green businesses around the world.

The Truth About Green Business

The Truth About Green Business, by Natural Logic CEO Gil Friend, brings together 52 crucial facts and insights leaders must know to successfully “go green.” This book delivers quick, plain-English explanations that executives, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs can actually use, no matter what kind of businesses they’re running, or what their environmental and profit goals are.

"For the last few years I’ve been imagining what the essential one-volume green business handbook would look like. Now I don’t need to imagine it, because Gil Friend has written it. The Truth About Green Business is, simply, the best green business book on the market." -- - Alex Steffen, editor, Worldchanging.com and Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century

The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment"

PERFECT POWER: How the Microgrid Revolution Will Unleash Cleaner, Greener, More Abundant Energy

From Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager comes a powerful wake-up call for the entire energy industry. A must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, homeowners and environmentalists, Perfect Power offers bold new solutions, investments and job opportunities that address the biggest energy problems we face today.

Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet

In an era in which government has been either broke, indifferent or actively hostile to environmental causes, a band of visionaries – inventors, philanthropists, philosophers, grassroots activists, lawyers and gadflies – have been using their wealth, their energy, their celebrity, and their knowledge of the law and science to persuade, and sometimes force, this country and the world to take a new direction. They use lawsuits, charitable foundations, land trusts, mass protests, armies of school children and billions in corporate profits. They use pictures of beached whales and videos of starving polar bears and murals revealing vast fields of stumps where towering pine forests once stood. They use anger and fear, and they use hope.

They are following in the tradition of Rockefeller and Carnegie and the storied initiatives that saved Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Tetons from the bulldozer and the Grand Canyon from the dams. Their goals are to save wilderness and rain forests from destruction. To slow the rising tide of mass extinctions and to “re-wild” large swaths of land and migratory corridors where development has long intruded. They are pushing new (and old) green technologies, farming methods and sources of energy, beginning the process of weaning the country and the world from the fossil fuels that drive global warming, whether government leaders like it or not. They seek to show, in deeds and words, that it is possible to strike a better balance between consumption and conservation and still prosper – to save the world, piece by piece, species by species, place by place. They are the Eco Barons.

The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands

Agenda for a Sustainable America

Sustainable development holds enormous promise for improving the quality of life for Americans over the coming decades. Agenda for a Sustainable Americadescribes what we need to do to make the promise a reality. It assesses trends in 28 separate areas of American life—including forestry; transportation; oceans and estuaries; religion; and state, local, and national governance. Packed with facts, figures, and the well-informed opinions of 41 experts, Agenda provides an illuminating “snapshot” of sustainability in the United States today. In every area, contributors reveal what sustainable development could mean, with suggestions that are specific, desirable, and achievable. Their expert recommendations point the way toward greater economic and social well-being, increased security, and environmental protection and restoration for current and future generations of Americans. And each of the contributors recommends three to five specific actions that we should take during the next five to ten years.

Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds--Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!

This “30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds” is a fun, accessible, easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month’s time. Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from calculating your current CO2 “footprint” to tracking your progress.

Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks

In the next ten to 15 years, the price of renewable energy will fall dramatically, allowing the industry to not only compete on a level playing field, but offer energy at a price that will be cheaper than oil, natural gas, and coal. Author Jeff Siegel is the Managing Editor at Green Chip Stocks, an investment advisory service that focuses on stocks in the renewable energy market, and he knows that investors who understand this market will be the first to uncover some very profitable opportunities.

How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System

Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance

Sustainable investing is fast becoming the smart way of generating long-term returns. With conventional investors now scrambling to factor in issues such as climate change, this book captures a turning point in the evolution of global finance. Bringing together leading practitioners of Sustainable Investing from across the globe, this book charts how this agenda has evolved, what impact it has today, and what prospects are emerging for the years ahead.

The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet: A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th President

The Presidential Climate Action Project and St. Martin's Press of New York have issued a condensed version of PCAP's presidential climate action plan in book form – an early glimpse of what we'll submit to the next President of the United States.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy—which he calls "Geo-Greenism"—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.

As in The World Is Flat, he explains a new era—the Energy-Climate era—through an illuminating account of recent events. He shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet (which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to bring climate and energy issues to Main Street. But they have not gone very far down Main Street; the much-touted "green revolution" has hardly begun. With all that in mind, Friedman sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the world, will need; he shows that the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive; and he explains why America must lead this revolution—with the first Green President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation.

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal, all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas. Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

By 2025 world energy demand is expected to increase by 54 percent. Oil and natural gas consumption is expected to increase 57 and 68 percent, respectively, by then. Total energy consumption in 2025 for China, India, and South Korea is predicted to equal that of the United States. What do these figures really tell us about today's energy economy? The answers can be found in The End of Oil, in which Paul Roberts superbly navigates the complex topic of energy and explains how energy has become the currency of political and economic power. Roberts's argument centers on three key points: "that energy is the single most important resource, that our current energy economy is failing, and that the shape of the next energy economy is being decided right now--with or without our input." The author's hope is that The End of Oil will provide nonexperts with a way to begin to think about energy.

Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work

This book draws together all of the key information on international voluntary carbon markets with commentary from leading practitioners and business people. While maturing quickly, the voluntary market is complex, fragmented, and multi-layered, but it is beginning to consolidate around a few guiding practices and business models from which conclusions can be drawn about market direction and opportunities. The book covers all aspects of voluntary carbon markets in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Asia: what they are, how they work and, most critically, their business potential to help slow climate change. It is the indispensable guide for anyone seeking to understand voluntary carbon markets and capitalize on the opportunities they present for economic and environmental benefit.

Climate Change and Forests: Emerging Policy and Market Opportunities

In this wide-ranging volume, international experts explain the links between climate change and forests, highlighting the potential role of this sector within emerging climate policy frameworks and carbon markets. After framing forestry activities within the larger context of climate-change policy, the contributors analyze the operation and efficacy of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change. Drawing on project examples from around the world, the authors present concrete recommendations for policymakers, project developers, and market participants. They discuss sequestration rights in Chile, carbon offset programs in Australia and New Zealand, and emerging policy incentives at all levels of the U.S. government. The book also explores the different voluntary schemes for carbon crediting, provides an overview of carbon accounting best practices, and presents tools for use in future sequestration and offset programs. It concludes by considering a range of incentive options for slowing deforestation and protecting the world’s remaining forests.

Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change

Plan C explores the risks inherent in trying to continue our energy-intensive lifestyle. Using dirtier fossil fuels (Plan A) or switching to renewable energy sources (Plan B) allows people to remain complacent in the face of potential global catastrophe. Dramatic lifestyle change is the only way to begin to create a sustainable, equitable world. The converging crises of Peak Oil, Climate Change and increasing inequity are presented in a clear, concise manner, as are the twin solutions of community (where cooperation replaces competition) and curtailment (deliberately reducing consumption of consumer goods). Plan C shows how each person's individual choices can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions. It offers specific strategies in the areas of food, transportation and housing. One chapter analyzes the decimation of the Cuban economy when the USSR stopped oil exports in 1990 and provides an inspiring vision for a low energy way of living.

Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century

Profit From The Peak outlines the dwindling of the oil and natural gas supplies and how they will lead to higher energy prices in the near term. The book describes where to make money during the inevitable switch to renewable fuels.

New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future

Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. This new volume examines New Urbanism today and speculates about it’s future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere.

In Earth's Company: Business, Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability

In Earth's Company: Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability takes seriously the possibility that business could become sustainable, and it gives inspiration and context for helping this happen. Frankel's book is a unique contribution that may challenge both environmentalists and business people. Frankel is as clear as any environmental activist that business-as-usual is a death sentence for our planet. Yet he is more pragmatic than bitter in sketching the mixed results of business and government initiatives towards sustainability. And, he holds a hopeful vision of a transformed citizenry creating a sustainable business world. -- Yes Magazine

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context -- out of the car and back to the table. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat

In The Carbon Age, Eric Roston evokes this essential element, its journey illuminating history from the Big Bang to modern civilization. Charting the science of carbon—how it was formed, how it came to Earth and built up—he chronicles the often surprising ways mankind has used it over centuries, and the growing catastrophe of the industrial era, leading us to now attempt to wrestle the Earth's geochemical cycle back from the brink. Blending the latest science with original reporting, Roston, a former Time journalist, makes us aware, as never before, of the seminal impact carbon has, and has had, on our lives.

Ecopreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits

Rather than some green tips scattered in with rambling koans to Mother Earth, ECOpreneuring is a focused look at starting a business, a guide to the hurdles placed in front of entrepreneurial spirit and a thorough overview of the benefits of sustainability. And while Ivanko and Kivirist encourage readers to consider sustainability for sustainability’s sake a good goal, they also are careful to point out the financial benefits of such a route. There is practical advice, from how to handle the taxes of a new venture to choosing insurance, all just as necessary for a green business as any other variety.

Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying

Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make your life, your home, your shopping, and your finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while you spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. Best of all, he shows you exactly how to take advantage of the "green wave" in personal finance without the difficult work of evaluating individual stocks. What's more, he will get you thinking about a green business of your own so you can help the world along as it is changing for the better.

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry -- the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy 10,000 gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle. In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit. Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.

Boiling Point

The blend of passionate advocacy and lucid analysis that Ross Gelbspan brings to this, his second book about global warming, is extremely readable because the author's voice is so authentic. When Gelbspan first encountered the issue as a reporter nine years ago, he writes, he had no inkling of how it would change his life. But as he put together the evidence of the global climate crisis he describes in this book, he found himself pulled inexorably to do more than simply write about it. So he now feels called to a kind of mission: to describe what is happening, to single out the specific failures and misdeeds of politicians, energy companies, environmental activists and journalists who share responsibility for our predicament, and then propose bold solutions that -- unlike more timid blueprints already on the public agenda -- would in his view actually solve the problem. -- Al Gore, New York Times Book Review

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Paul Hawken (Natural Capitalism, Ecology of Commerce) presents the history leading to a natural merger between the environmental and social justice movements.  This convergence offers perhaps the best hope that the world's worst problems will be solved.  Hawken's book inspires the reader to recognize their place in a bottoms-up revolution.

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank

Margonelli has written about the culture and economy of energy for publications such as Wired, Discover, Salon, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In the summer of 2003, she started hanging out at independent gas stations, where owners might clear pennies per gallon of gas, surviving on impulse sales of junk food and soda. Her journey takes us up the delivery chain, spending a typical day with a tanker truck driver, hanging out with suppliers, touring refineries, and seeing what life is like at an oil rig. Whether visiting "wildcatters" in Texas, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the Gulf of Mexico, or the oil pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Margonelli charms her way into the good graces of insiders to report on the vast petroleum network. Her voyage takes us to Venezuela, Chad, Nigeria, and ultimately the Persian Gulf, where she spends time at the Salmon oil fields in Iran. Filled with rich history, industry anecdotes, and politics, Margonelli's book brings a deeper appreciation of the complicated and often tenuous process that we take for granted. David Siegfried Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them

The Climate Institute's new book promises to be a leading reference work for those seriously interested in risks of global warming and practical measures that can be taken both to adapt to and slow the apparent acceleration in the pace of climate change. Written by a transdisciplinary group of internationally respected researchers at the Washington Summit on Climate Stabilization held September 18-21 2006, Sudden and Disruptive Change explores the significance for society of such changes and efforts already undertaken by a wide range of individuals and groups.

Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine)

In Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, a diverse group of contributors considers the concept of sustainability, both philosophically and practically. Some take a broad view of the divisions between nature and humanity, exploring the incomprehensible scale of human intervention in the natural world, the relationship between how we feel about nature and what we do about it, and the commodification of the natural world. Other essays focus on sustainable design practices: sustainability’s roots in the American conservation tradition, its utility as a framework for future design practice, and the necessity of moving beyond demonstration projects into the mainstream.

Making Sustainability Work

To help managers and academics keep their eye on the ever-moving target of sustainability, award-winning author and academic Marc Epstein's provides an authoritative and comprehensive guide to implementing corporate sustainability initiatives and to measuring both their social and financial impacts.

Unbowed: A Memoir

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai’s remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come.

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment

James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers comprehensive, viable new strategies for dealing with environmental threats around the world.

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

In this book Gus Speth, the dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe. Speth contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism. Our vital task is now to change the operating instructions for today’s destructive world economy before it is too late. The book is about how to do that.

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)

"The Urban Homestead" is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update. Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.

Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil

In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction. Debunking the false solutions and myths that have deterred us from taking necessary action, Zubrin exposes the fakery that has allowed many politicians — including current US president George W. Bush — to posture that they are acting to resolve this problem while actually doing nothing significant toward that goal.

Simple Steps to Green Meetings and Events: The Professional's Guide to Saving Money and the Earth

Filled cover to cover with best practices, tips and resources for making your meeting or conference an environmentally friendly event. Whether you are just getting started or a veteran in the industry, this book will increase your know-how and give you the tools to make green meetings work.

Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development

In a book that will generate controversy, Daly turns his attention to the major environmental debate surrounding "sustainable development." Daly argues that the idea of sustainable development--which has become a catchword of environmentalism and international finance--is being used in ways that are vacuous, certainly wrong, and probably dangerous. The necessary solutions turn out to be muc h more radical than people suppose.

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

In the first chapter of 'Small Is Beautiful', "The Problem of Production", Schumacher points out that our economy is unsustainable. The natural resources (especially fossil fuels), are treated as expendable income, when in fact they should be treated as capital, since they are not renewable and thus subject to eventual depletion. He further points out that similarly, the capacity of nature to resist pollution is limited as well. He concludes that government effort must be concentrated on reaching sustainable development, because relatively minor improvements like education for leisure or technology transfer to the Third World countries will not solve the underlying problem of unsustainable economy.

Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World As Home, The)

Bill McKibben's first book, the bestselling The End of Nature, offered a devastating portrait of the harm human civilization has done to the planet. Hope, Human and Wild sets out on a dramatically different journey to provide examples and hope for a sustainable future, one in which our society's wealth is measured less by its material productivity and more by its spiritual richness; less by its consumption of resources and more by the extent to which we live in harmony with the natural world.

Deep Economy

In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.

The Ecology of Commerce

The now classic text from Paul Hawken that outlines a visionary program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

Biodiesel America: How to Achieve Energy Security, Free America from Middle-east Oil Dependence And Make Money Growing Fuel

The environmental damage caused by burning fossil fuels is causing global problems that top-level scientists say are a bigger threat to national security than terrorist attacks. Is there a viable alternative? In his new book Josh Tickell has spoken to leading energy and industry experts to answer just this question. Whether you are a farmer, an economist, a politician, an environmentalist or a concerned citizen this book provides vital information for anyone concerned with current and future energy security.

Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

To free the U.S. of fossil fuel dependency while boosting the economy, we need the kind of visionary leadership that led to the Apollo moon landings in 1969, according to Inslee and Hendricks in this energetic articulation of a clean-energy future. That vision is sadly lacking under the current administration, reports Washington State Congressman Inslee in several caustic sidebars about his contentious energy discussions with President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. His first-person anecdotes lighten this otherwise earnest book, based on initiatives of the Apollo Alliance, an advocacy group and think tank uniting unions, environmental groups and business organizations committed to fostering a green economy. Redesigning the car, investing in solar power, mining wind for power, exploring the nascent technology of wave energy, using energy more efficiently and working clean coal and safe nuclear power into the equation are among the authors' prescriptions. Inslee is primary congressional sponsor of the New Apollo Energy Act and on the Apollo Alliance advisory board; coauthor Hendricks is a member of the alliance's steering committee. A brief foreword by Bill Clinton waxes enthusiastic about the synergy between the book, the alliance and the proposed legislation. (Nov. 2) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

"Zoom puts oil in its sights and squeezes off one telling round after another.Car lovers will see a sunny future with other fuels; OPEC a steadily darkening twilight."-R. James Woolsey, VP, Booz Allen Hamilton; former Director of Central Intelligence"

Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction

Freedom from Oil takes the reader to the highest levels of government, as Cabinet members and White House aides debate how to break our addiction to oil. In a fast-moving narrative, David Sandalow shows how to solve this problem while offering a unique window into the White House at work. A White House veteran, Sandalow explores what would happen if the next President made breaking the United States' addiction to oil a top priority. In crisp and clear prose, Sandalow explains the size of the challenge and then offers a powerful message of hope.

Green Building Products: The Greenspec Guide to Residential Building Materials

Forty percent revised, this sourcebook for green building provides descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,800 environmentally preferable products and materials for residential construction, grouped by function, including tips for what to look for in green products.

The High-Purpose Company: The TRULY Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now

In THE HIGH-PURPOSE COMPANY: The Truly Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now, corporate strategist and researcher Christine Arena shows readers why corporate responsibility is necessary for success in today's business world, and tells how to distinguish between the extraordinary companies driven by purposeful ideals and those companies that merely pretend to be responsible.

Arena defines high purpose as the sum of a company’s values and its daily practices. A high-purpose company does not spend millions telling the public about their values without putting them into action.

The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles

Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution

Coinciding with Governor Richardson's campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for president, his proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil is substantial, despite their transparent vote-getting tenor. Drawing on his 15 years in the U.S. Congress, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as energy secretary in the Clinton administration, as well as his New Mexico governorship, Richardson provides useful insights into the resistance of powerful entities such as the automobile industry, coal industry and, of course, the oil industry to alternative energy sources. Writing in a folksy style, with personal anecdotes that leaven his wonkishness, Richardson is not shy about trumpeting the breadth and depth of his experience; at times he's almost insufferable, but his battles with those who care more about quick profit than about clean air, clean water and energy-related national security suggest he has earned the right to say, "I told you so." -- Publisher's Weekly

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,” can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.

Energy Switch: Proven Solutions for a Renewable Future

Energy Switch details this momentous transition and proposes that the remaining non-renewable resources be used to develop a long-term supply of renewable energy. A renewable energy leader two decades ago, the US now lags behind Germany and Japan. Energy Switch pays special attention to Europe's success, especially that of Germany, exploring what can be learned from their experience. It asks whether a mix of renewables is feasible as a major source of energy, at what cost, with what drawbacks, and in what time period.

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings: Save Money, Save the Earth

The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings is a one-stop resource for consumers who want to improve their home's energy performance and reduce costs. Zeroing in on the most useful response can be a challenge—this 9th edition guide cuts through the confusion. Well-organized and highly readable, The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings begins with an overview of the inter-relationships between energy use, economics and the environment.

Green Building A to Z: Understanding the Language of Green Building

Green Building A to Z is an informative, technically accurate and highly visual guide to green building, for both decision-makers and interested citizens. It begins with an introduction to the importance of green buildings and a brief history of the green building movement, outlines the benefits and costs of green buildings, and shows how you can influence the spread of green buildings. The book touches on key issues, such as enhancing water conservation, reducing energy use and creating a conservation economy.

Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America

Plug-in Hybrids points out that, whereas hydrogen fuel-cell cars won't be ready for decades, the technology for plug-in hybrids exists today. Unlike conventional hybrid cars which can't run without gasoline, plug-in hybrids use gasoline or cheaper, cleaner, domestic electricity - or both. Although not yet for sale, demand for plug-in hybrids is widespread, coming from characters across the political spectrum, such as: * Chelsea Sexton, the automotive insider: working for General Motors, Sexton fought attempts to destroy the all-electric EV1 car and describes how car companies are resisting plug-in hybrids -- and why they'll make them anyway. * Felix Kramer and the tech squad: Kramer started a non-profit organization using the Internet to tap into a small army of engineers who built the first plug-in Prius hybrids. * R. James Woolsey, former CIA director and national security hawk: seeing the end of oil supplies looming, Woolsey is demanding plug-in hybrids to wean us from petroleum.

Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Independence

Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s “about” greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, innovative nonprofit work, and reinventing government. It’s really about putting the pieces together with creativity and hope.

Zero-carbon Car: Building the Car the Auto Industry Can't Get Right

The Zero-Carbon Car reviews the issues of climate change/carbon rationing, peak oil, urban sprawl and geopolitical and socio-economic disruption related to fossil fuel use. The book argues that, while there is no way to avoid the eventual demise of the automobile, there is an opportunity for the automotive industry to develop and governments to support an ultra-efficient, zero-carbon emission automobile.

Electric Water: The Emerging Revolution in Water and Energy

Building on current mainstream trends in solar energy and wind power, Electric Water offers a clear vision of how the world's energy and water infrastructure could be transformed. The book provides: * an outline of the major issues that need addressing, including global warming * a fascinating explanation of key technologies in plain water * a vision of business and job opportunities in restoration * real-life examples, including the post-Katrina Louisiana Coastal Restoration program * websites for further information. Unlike many other books on this subject, Electric Water uses accessible language to propose a workable plan for a revolutionary integration of technology and quality of life that will be of special interest to planners, engineers and architects.

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time. A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, while preserving the best of our collective achievements. A must-read for individuals, business leaders and policy makers who are serious about effecting real change.

Branded!: How the Certification Revolution Is Transforming Global Corporations

Branded outlines the ability of NGOs to affect corporate markets. It shows how the development of certification systems for corporate social and environmental practices has created some intriguing questions: * Why are retail giants paying premiums for ethically-produced products and not overcharging their customers? * How have NGOs gained such power and credibility? * What are the challenges of these new modes of corporate accountability for both NGOs and corporations? * What are the unexpected opportunities for newly accountable corporations? Branded! is a "must-read" book for corporate executives, NGOs and concerned consumers. It is rich with vignettes of firms, NGOs, campaigns, failures, successes, memorable personalities and hard-fought battles.

Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation

"Ottman knows her stuff, and you'd do well to heed her wisdom if you plan to pursue a green-marketing strategy. Lots of good advice and perspective, backed with real-life stories from the trenches."

--Joel Makower, Editor, Green Business Letter

Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

The oceans of the world rank foremost among humankind's last great frontiers, and their climatological and ecological workings remain mysterious to all but specialists. In this lively, well-written survey, marine scientist Carl Safina encourages readers to take a wider interest in the oceans, especially because so much of that great blue expanse is now threatened by human progress.

Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide To Renewable Energy Technologies And Sustainable Living

Real Goods Solar Living Source Book-Special 30th Anniversary Edition is the ultimate guide to renewable energy, sustainable living, green building, homesteading, off-the-grid living, and alternative transportation, written by experts with decades of experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge. This fully updated edition includes brand-new sections on Peak Oil, climate change, relocalization, natural burial, biodynamics, and permaculture.

PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual

Permaculture is humans working with, not against, nature. It's about causing land, water, plants and animals to synergistically cause multiple benefits and to improve an ecosystem simultaneously. It maximizes functional connections so that the many parts become a whole.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed examines why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster.

How to Live Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life

Chris Balish makes a compelling argument that we’d all be better of if we ditched our cars and the associated payments, health problems and dangers. His realistic strategies for simplifying your life and finances are definitely food for thought – even for an admitted car buff.

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson’s seminal 1962 book, which raised our awareness of the impact of pesticides and other environmental poisons on our food supply and our health, remains as relevant as ever.

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)

Authors John De Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor hit us with a slap-in-the-face reminder that money does not equal happiness and that America’s rampant consumerism has trapped us in a dangerous reality where we believe “living" equals "buying."

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Harvard Economist and Federal Reserve Board Advisor Benjamin Friedman argues that economic growth is a prerequisite for a liberal, open society. By exploring two centuries of historical evidence, Friedman argues, among other things, that technological innovation will allow for continued economic growth without environmental sacrifice.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

This groundbreaking work from Paul Hawken, L. Hunter Lovins and Amory Lovins shows how leading edge companies can take advantage of a "new type of industrialism" that allows them to increase efficiency and become more environmentally friendly while at the same time increasing profits and creating jobs.

The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel

Renowned economist Stephen Leeb’s sometimes alarmist but meticulously researched book shows how China and India’s increasing energy demands will eventually outstrip supply, threatening our economy and even our civilization if we don’t begin to change our behavior. He shows how this crisis will impact consumers, and how investors can best position themselves for the challenges ahead.

Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism

Author Patricia Aburdene – half of the formerly married couple that brought us the first two MegaTrends books – argues that ethics, values and socially responsible investing are powerful trends taking hold now and that understanding this shift is essential to success in tomorrow’s business world.

Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World

The deceptively simple supermarket choice echoed in the title symbolizes the dilemma of a society on a collision course with the planet's life-support systems. Do we clearcut forests, process pulp, and bleach it with chlorine to make paper bags? Or do we make a pact with demon hydrocarbon, refining ancient sunlight into handy plastics?

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Paper or plastic? Neither, say William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Why settle for the least harmful alternative when we could have something that is better--say, edible grocery bags! In Cradle to Cradle, the authors present a manifesto calling for a new industrial revolution, one that would render both traditional manufacturing and traditional environmentalism obsolete.

The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity

Greentech is the next big thing. And this book is an important read for anyone--venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, scientists, business strategists, or consumers--interested in the next wave of technological innovation.

- John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

Chris Mooney’s in-depth reporting on the science and politics of the poorly understood link between hurricanes and global warming is appealing, both because hurricanes have such a terrifying grip on the popular imagination and because the attendant controversy is in its own way a sort of perfect storm of media, politics and science.

Full review from TerraPass here

Re-imagine!

Business guru Tom Peters argues "It is the foremost task – and responsibility – of our generation to re-imagine our enterprises and institutions, public and private."

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction

There isn't much we can do in today's society without the use of oil. While some may consider the smog and occasional oil spill a small price to pay, author Terry Tamminen assesses the cost of petroleum consumption in a sobering guide through our degraded public health. He describes the thousands of lives that are needlessly ruined by petroleum and offers a guide for eliminating the wasteful burning of oil.

Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security

Authors Amory Lovins and Co at the Rocky Mountain Institute state "...it will cost less to displace all of the oil that the United States now uses than it will cost to buy that oil. Oil's current market price leaves out its true costs to the economy, national security, and the environment. But even without including those now "externalized" costs, it would still be profitable to displace oil completely over the next few decades."