Staff Reading List

Awakening Earth: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Evolution, Duane Elgin

Beyond the Limits, Donnella H. Meadows and Jorgen Randers

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus

Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of the 21st Century Business, John Elkington

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough and Michael Braungart

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David W. Orr

Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, David W. Orr

Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, Paul Hawken

Environmental Indicators: A Systematic Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Environmental Policy Performance in the Context of Sustainable Development, Allen Hammond and others

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser

Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, Maureen Hart

"The Hidden Commons", from YES Magazine, Summer 2005, Jonathan Rowe

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

"If the GDP is Up, Why is America Down?", from The Atlantic Monthly, October 1995, Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead and Jonathan Rowe

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

Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model, Ray Anderson

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare

The New Science of Networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

"The Next Industrial Revolution," from The Atlantic Monthly, October 1998, William McDonough and Michael Braungart

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees

The Overspent American, Juliet Schorr

Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future, Duane Elgin

The Real Food Revival, Sherri Brooks Vinton and Ann Clark Espuelas

Redesigning Society, Russell L. Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin

"Rethinking Costs and Benefits," from In Context, Summer 1995 (Issue #41), Sarah van Gelder

Seven Sustainable Wonders, Northwest Environment Watch

Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell