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  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ecological Design, Tenth Anniversary Edition

    Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains

    Problems, Progress, and Prospects

    Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chainsexamines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains.Sarosh Kuruvilla charts the development and effectiveness of corporate codes of conduct to ameliorate "sweatshop" conditions in global supply chains. This form of private voluntary regulation, spearheaded by Nike and Reebok, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Work Like Nature

    Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business

    by Lea Elliott ...
    Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott’s Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.These ecosystem ideas are illustrated through inspiring stories from Vancouver-area green innovators. See how these bright thinkers from a variety ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Bet the Farm

    The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America

    by Beth Hoffman ...
    “Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sustainable Investing And Environmental Markets: Opportunities In A New Asset Class

    Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social benefits. Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets: Opportunities in a New Asset Class ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Sustainability Management

    Global Perspectives on Concepts, Instruments, and Stakeholders

    by Rüdiger Hahn ...
    Driven by mega trends such as climate change, migration, globalization, or population development, sustainable development and sustainability management have now become vital areas of concern for almost all firms. This textbook provides comprehensive knowledge on sustainability management to reduce costs and risks, increase reputation and legitimacy, generate competitive advantages, and advance ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Making Money Moral

    How a New Wave of Visionaries Is Linking Purpose and Profit

    "As we look ahead to the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, Making Money Moral could not come at a better time."—Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan ChaseThe math doesn't add up: Global financial markets can no longer ignore the world's most critical problems. The risks are too high and the costs too great.In Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries Is Linking ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Agenda for a New Economy

    From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

    The author of When Corporations Rule the World presents a critical handbook for economic revolution in this revised and updated edition.Despite the lessons learned from the economic meltdown of 2008, we are more vulnerable than ever to the same kind of economic havoc. Wall Street executives have returned to their culture of massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington remain unwilling to make ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rewilding the Urban Soul

    searching for the wild in the city

    by Claire Dunn ...
    We’re a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Regenerative Business: Mastering the Circular Economy

    In "Navigating the Circular Economy," William Van Wyk, an MBA-qualified professional and global business advisor, delves into the transformative world of sustainable business practices. This comprehensive e-book is a treasure trove of insights and strategies for businesses eager to embrace the circular economy—a sustainable alternative to the traditional linear economy.Key Features:In-Depth ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Logistics

    Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics

    Leading the way in current thinking on environmental logistics, Green Logistics provides a unique insight on the environmental impacts of logistics and the actions that companies and governments can take to deal with them. It is written by leading researchers in the field and provides a comprehensive view of the subject for students, managers and policy-makers.Fully updated, the 3rd edition of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • ESG in Practice - Strategies and Goals for Corporate Responsibility

    Series series ESG series books
    ESG in Practice - Strategies and Goals for Corporate Responsibility is a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) strategies and goals in business practices.The book provides a practical framework for integrating ESG into corporate responsibility efforts, with a focus on driving positive social and environmental impact while creating long ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Manufacturing

    Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives

    Series series Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
    This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation”. The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the following topics: ... Read more

    Free

  • Oneness vs. the 1%

    Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

    With a new epilogue about Bill Gates’s global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires’ war on life“This is what globalization looks like: Opportunism. Exploitation. Further centralization of power. Further disempowerment of ordinary people. . . . Vandana Shiva is an expert whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.”—Russell BrandWidespread poverty, social unrest ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Depletion & Abundance

    Life on the New Home Front

    by Sharon Astyk ...
    Why are so few peak oil authors women? There's been much debate about this, and no one has yet arrived at a definitive answer. But whatever the reason, Sharon Astyk has established herself as a true rarity within the peak oil community by virtue of being a woman who has chosen to write about peak oil. The perspective she offers is thus both uncommon and vital.In Depletion and Abundance, she shows ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Doughnut Economics

    Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    by Kate Raworth ...
    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*A Financial Times Book of the Year*A Forbes Book of the Year*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*Porchlight “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”The book that redefines economic... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Marijuana Grower's Handbook

    Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation

    by Ed Rosenthal ...
    Ed Rosenthal's legacy handbook contains the foundational knowledge, tools, and methods to enable you to grow great marijuana—inside and out.All aspects of cultivation are covered, from the selection of varieties, setting up of the garden, through each stage of plant growth all the way to harvesting. Use efficient technology and save time, labor, and energy. Photographs throughout clarify ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Soap Making Made Easy Ultimate Guide To Soap Making Including Recipes

    Soapmaking Homeade and Handcrafted for 2015

    Soap making at home has many benefits both for adults and children. Basic soap making can teach you about chemistry processes like saponification and more. On top of that, the more familiar you get with the process, the more you can create soap that is designed especially for your needs. You will be able to create soaps with the scents that you love, that do not irritate sensitive skin and that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Big Pivot

    Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World

    We live in a fundamentally changed world. It’s time for your approach to strategy to change, too.The evidence is all around us. Extreme weather, driven by climate change, is shattering records all over the planet. Our natural resources are in greater demand than ever before as a billion more people enter the global middle class, wanting more of everything. Radical transparency is opening up ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

    by Wayne Ellwood ...
    This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at new levels of environmental sustainability without having turning the clock back to the Dark Ages ... Read more

    $10.99 USD