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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

  • Mindful Economics

    How the U.S. Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different

    by Joel Magnuson ...
    Are the huge profits garnered by corporations each year a case of a few bad apples in the business world taking advantage of unmonitored dealings? Is this consolidation of wealth made at the expense of the overall economy and the wellbeing of the average citizen? Will the planet be saved by developing more "green businesses" and "green collar" jobs? Joel Magnuson delivers a powerful response to ... Read more

    $19.99 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

  • Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations

    Politics, place and power

    Edited by Lisa Ann Richey ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world. Crucially, little attention has been paid to the Global South, either as a place where celebrities intervene into existing politics and social processes, or as the generator ... Read more

    $64.99 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

  • Ecoansias

    Salimos de una crisis, no caigamos en otra

    by Irene Baños ...
    Series series Ariel
    Esta es la historia de una persona que podría ser cualquiera. Una que, tras escuchar que se nos acaba el tiempo, que estamos hipotecando el futuro de las próximas generaciones y que España va a convertirse en un desierto, empezó a agobiarse. ¿Y ahora qué compro? ¿Estaré haciendo lo correcto? ¿Por qué tengo que dejar de comer carne mientras otros viajan en su avión privado?Cuando comenzó a ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • Nature, Choice and Social Power

    We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do.Using case studies from different ... Read more

    $62.99 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

  • Emergiendo

    Cómo salir de las crisis permanentes y recuperar la promesa argentina

    Marcos Buscaglia analiza en detalle la peor crisis de la historia argentina (2018-2020) y propone un conjunto articulado y sólido de reformas para que el país encuentre su rumbo y comience a emerger del subdesarrollo dando lugar a una nueva república, superadora de la conservadora y de la peronista.La Argentina atraviesa el peor momento de su historia al tiempo que los argentinos, que parecemos ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

  • Charging Ahead

    GM, Mary Barra, and the Reinvention of an American Icon

    by David Welch ...
    Mary Barra’s quest to move GM to a manufacturer of electric cars has captured the attention of automobile aficionados, green-business advocates, and leaders of all types who have to admire Mary’s toughness in moving forward despite the overwhelming obstacles in her path.A decade ago, no one would have guessed that GM would be the company poised to lead America into the future. At a time when ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Paved Paradise

    How Parking Explains the World

    by Henry Grabar ...
    **Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong... highly entertaining."—The Los Angeles TimesAn ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The War Below

    Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

    An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder.A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, and other vital ... Read more

    $14.99 USD