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Suggested Readings on Sustainability

The following are a selection of suggested readings on sustainability. In addition you may also want to consult Second Nature's writings.

Subject Areas
Business, Economics and the Environment
Culture, Spirituality and the Environment
Education for Sustainability
EFS Resource Sheets
Environmental Justice
Future Scenarios for Human Society and the Environment
Global Climate Change
Health, the Environment and Sustainability
Population and Consumption
Strategies for Sustainability
Sustainability: Science and Policy
Sustainability: Indicators

Publications

Anderson, Ray C. Mid-Course Correction, Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model. Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1998.

Casten, Thomas R. Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money and Reduce Global Warming. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1999.

Cobb, Clifford; Halstead, Ted; Rowe, Jonathan. The Genuine Progress Indicator: Summary of Data and Methodology. San Francisco: Redefining Progress, 1995.

Costanza, Robert; d'Arge, Ralph; de Groot, Rudolf, et al. The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capitalism. Nature 387 (May 15, 1997): 253-260.

Daily, Gretchen C.; Söderqvist, Tore; et al. The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value. Science 289 (July 21, 2000): 395-396.

Daly, Herman E. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Frankel, Carl. In Earth's Company: Business, Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability. Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1998.

The GreenMoney Journal. Spokane, WA.

Hammond, M. Jeff; DeCanio, Stephen J.; Duxbury, Peggy; Sanstad, Alan H.; Stinson, Christopher H. Tax Waste, Not Work: How Changing What We Tax Can Lead to a Stronger Economy and a Cleaner Environment. San Francisco: Redefining Progress, 1997.

Hart, Stuart L. Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World. Harvard Business Review (January/February 1997): 66-76.

Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, L. Hunter. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, L. Hunter. A Road Map for Natural Capitalism. Harvard Business Review. (May-June 1999).

Hernandez, Bobbi, ed. World Development: Aid and Foreign Direct Investment 1999/2000. London: Kensington Publications, 1999.

Korten, David C. The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Press, Hartford: Kumarian Press, 1999.

Milani, Brian. Designing The Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2000.

Nattrass, Brian; Altomare, Mary. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1999.

Reinhardt, Forest. Market Failure and the Environmental Policies of Firms: Economic Rationales for "Beyond Compliance" Behavior. Journal of Industrial Ecology (Winter 1999): pp. 9-21.

Romm, Joseph J. Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Emissions. Washington: Island Press, 1999.

Rowledge, Lorinda R., Russell S. Barton and Kevin S. Brady. Mapping the Journey: Case Studies in Strategy and Action Toward Sustainable Development. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 1999.

Sterman, John D. Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. Irwin/McGraw Hill, 2000.

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Publications

Berry, Thomas. The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future. New York: Bell Tower, 1999.

Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University Press, 1997.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Macy, Joanna; Brown, Molly Young. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1998.

Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael. New York: Bantam/Turner Books, 1992.

Schor, Juliet. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John A., eds. Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy and the Environment. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994.

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Publications

American Association for Higher Education. AAHE's Series on Service Learning in the Disciplines. Washington, DC: AAHE, 1998.

Corcoran, Peter Blaze; Elder, James L.; Tchen, Richard, eds. Academic Planning in College and University Programs: Proceedings of the 1998 Sanibel Symposium. Rock Spring, GA: North American Association for Environmental Education, 1998.

Cortese, A.D. "Integrating Sustainability in the Learning Community," Facilities Manager, Jan/Feb 2005, pp. 28-35.

Filho, Walter Leal, ed. Sustainability and University Life. (Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability, Vol. 5.) Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1999.

Lieberman, Gerald A.; Hoody, Linda L. Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning. State Education and Environment Roundtable. Poway, CA: Science Wizards, 1998.

Orr, David W. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994.

O'Sullivan, Edmund. Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Toor, Will. "The Road Less Traveled: Sustainable Transportation for Campuses." Planning for Higher Education, March-May 2003, pp. 131-141.

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Campus Sustainability Assessments

Campuses Building Green

Campuses Purchasing Green

Learning Principles for Sustainability

System Dynamics and Sustainability

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Bryant, Bunyan. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies and Solutions. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995.

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Publications

AtKisson, Alan. Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999.

Fodor, Eben. Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1999.

Hammond, Allen L. Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, Island Press, 1998.

Shutkin, William A. The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century. MIT Press, 2000.

Linden, Eugene. The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Parayil, Govindan, ed. Kerala: The Development Experience - Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability. London: Zed Books, 2000.

United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report, 1998. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

United Nations Environment Program. Global Environmental Outlook 2000. Unpublished.

Wackernagel, Mathis; Rees, William. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. The New Catalyst Bioregional Series. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1996.

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Publications

Casten, Thomas R. Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money and Reduce Global Warming. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999.

Gelbspan, Ross. The Heat is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998.

Moomaw, William. "The Tufts Climate Change Initiative." Tufts University Institute of the Environment, Tufts University.

Romm, Joseph. Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999.

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Publications

Chivian, Eric. The Ultimate Preventive Medicine. Technology Review (November/December 1994).

Chivian, Eric; McCally, Michael; Hu, Howard; Haines, Andrew, eds. Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.

Colborn, Theo; Dumanoski, Dianne; Myers, John Peterson. Our Stolen Future. New York: Penguin Group, 1996.

Cortese, Anthony D.; Armoudlian, Audrey S. Fostering Ecological and Human Health. PSR Quarterly (v.1, n.2, June 1991).

Krimsky, Sheldon. Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Endocrine Hypothesis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

McCally, Michael; Cassel, Christine. Medical Responsibility and Global Environmental Change. Annals of Internal Medicine (v. 113, n. 6, September 15, 1990).

McMichael, A.J. Planetary Overload: Global Environmental Change and the Health of the Human Species. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Morris, Robert; William, Hendee R. Environmental Stewardship: Exploring the Implications for Health Professionals. Department of Family and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine (September 11, 1997).

Nesse, Randolph M.; Williams, George C. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. New York: Random House, 1994.

Patz, Johnathan A.; Epstein, Paul R., et al. Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Journal of the American Medical Association (v. 275, n. 3 January 19, 1996).

President's Council on Sustainable Development. Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1994.

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Brower, Michael; Leon, Warren. The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice From the Union of Concerned Scientists. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.

Linda Harrar Productions. Six Billion and Beyond. (Video) Boston, MA, 1999.

Mazur, Laurie Ann, ed. Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994.

Schor, Juliet. The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer. New York: Basic Books, 1998.

Schor, Juliet. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

United Nations Population Fund. The State of the World Population Report, 1999: Six Billion, A Time for Choices. New York: UNFPA, 1999.

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Publications

Allenby, Braden R. Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: William and Morrow Company, 1997.

Brown, Lester R.; Flavin, Christopher; French, Hilary, eds. State of the World, 1999: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.

Brown, Lester R.; Flavin, Christopher; French, Hilary, eds. State of the World, 2000: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000.

French, Hilary. Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globilization. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000.

Geller, Howard, Stephen Bernow and William Dougherty. Meeting America's Kyoto Protocol Target: Policies and Impacts. Washington: ACEEE, 1999.

Harris, Jonathan. Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Journal of Industrial Ecology. Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, Hunter L.; von Weizsäcker, Ernst. Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use: The New Report to the Club of Rome. London: Earthscan Publications, 1997.

Lyons, Kevin. Buying for the Future. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999.

McDonough, William; Braungart, Michael. The Next Industrial Revolution. The Atlantic Monthly, 282 (October 1998): 82-92.

Meadows, Donella H. Places to Intervene in a System (In Increasing Order of Effectiveness). Whole Earth Magazine (Fall 1997).

Thorpe, Ann. The Designer's Atlas for Sustainability, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008.

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Publications

Cairns, John, Jr. Commentaries: Defining Goals and Conditions for a Sustainable World. Environmental Health Perspectives 105: 11 (November 1997): 1164-1170.

Kendall, Henry W. A Distant Light: Scientists in the Policy Process. New York: Springer-Verlag New York, 2000.

Lubchenco, Jane. Association Affairs: Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science. Science 279 (January 23, 1998): 491-497.

Meadows, Donella; Meadows, Dennis L.; Randers, Jorgen. Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse/Envisioning a Sustainable Future: Executive Summary. Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1992.

Postel, Sandra. Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.

Robert, Karl-Henrik. The Natural Step to Sustainability. Wingspread Journal, Spring 1997. Reprint. (1997).

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Redefining Progress, Tyler Norris and Associates, and Sustainable Seattle. The Community Indicators Handbook: Measuring Progress Toward Healthy and Sustainable Communities. San Francisco: Redefining Progress, 1997.

Meadows, Donella. Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development: A Report to the Balaton Group. Hartland Four Corners, VT: Sustainability Institute, 1998.

Pennsylvania State University. The Penn State Indicators Report: Students and Faculty Examine the University. Not published.

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