![]() | Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker
Buy new: $21.25 / Used from: $17.38 Gem of a book that combines case studies with easy to understand chapters on core concepts including need to identify and adopt alternative values and methods.
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![]() | Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
Buy new: $29.25 / Used from: $29.22 Models and metaphors of resilience, stability, ans sustainability, with case studies and a summery. Core work.
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![]() | Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Buy new: $37.96 / Used from: $33.72 Quest for theory of adaptive change and understanding of surprises, scenarios, branching, dynamics, learning, and related aspects of sustainability including collective learning.
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![]() | The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $7.12 Promising title.
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![]() | Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $12.99 Excellent introduction to alternative values.
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![]() | The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter
Buy new: $32.96 / Used from: $22.22 The best book I have found so far, with a clear explanation: collapse occurs with top-down management is too hard and too expensive and too wrong.
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![]() | Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $24.94 Classic work.
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![]() | The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $0.99 Is some ways the best of the three works, with a clear focus on the disconnect between large-scale challenges and large-scale collective intelligence responses. A key building block for the emerging discipline of collective cognitive integral consciousness.
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![]() | The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.22 Adds to his body of work with a concluding emphasis on opportunities to adapt and cope.
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![]() | Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $20.41 / Used from: $7.60 His first major work on the trisection of Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.
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![]() | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $3.91 The other major work on collapse.
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![]() | Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Susanna M. Hoffman ;Anthony Oliver-Smith;Gregory V. Button ;Christopher L. Dyer;Virginia Garcia-Acosta;J. Terrence McCabe;Michael E. Moseley;Anthony Oliver-Smith;Robert Paine;S. Ravi Rajan ;Sharon Stephens
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $34.94 Disasters turn into catastrophes for lack of planning, attention, response, or resilience.
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![]() | Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization by David Keys
Buy used from: $6.39 Worthwhile look at the "dark ages" caused by volcanic activity in Southeast Asia.
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![]() | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $5.24 Compelling primer on the last gasp of immoral predatory capitalism.
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![]() | One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism by William Greider
Buy new: $15.39 / Used from: $0.32 Preamble to Naomi Klein.
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![]() | The Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System by Lionel Tiger
Buy used from: $2.36 Premable to Greider, the original seminal work on how corporate personality and methods destroyed kinship, trust, and the humanity of labor.
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![]() | The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider
Buy used from: $5.37 Preamble to John Bogle.
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![]() | Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition by Charles Kibert
Buy new: $56.78 / Used from: $44.95 Growing trend.
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![]() | The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism by John C. Bogle
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.60 The opening of moral capitalism and a return to an ownership economy that eliminates Wall Street skimming one fifth of the value.
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![]() | Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents) by Peter Barnes
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $2.75 One of a handful of emergent works that show capitalism can, must, adopt green to make gold.
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![]() | Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
Buy used from: $9.13 Second of two key works by Paul Hawken.
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![]() | The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $1.84 First of two key current modern works by Paul Hawken (he had it right twenty years ago as well).
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![]() | Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications by Herman E. Daly
Buy new: $42.97 / Used from: $39.94 Herman Daly is long over-due for a Nobel Prize. He broke the code.
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![]() | Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries by E. F. Schumacher
Buy used from: $6.99 Classic work along with Kirkpatrick Sale's Human Scale.
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![]() | Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
Buy new: $15.80 / Used from: $1.61 Early warning.
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![]() | The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too by Andrew W. Savitz
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $12.32 Have not read this, strikes me as a good complement to Green to Gold.
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![]() | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $10.98 Vital comprehensive overview of how we must move away from products that become trash, and move toward leasing services with totally re-usable parts.
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![]() | Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Director Daniel C. Esty
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $2.54 Important contribution to new understanding that only green methods are sustainable.
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![]() | Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction by Terry Tamminen
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $2.23 "True Costs" is a meme that the Bioneers and others are spreading. We do not have enough work on this. A gallon of $3 gas imposes $12 in externalized costs against future generations. Exxon did not earn $40 billion in profits, they stole $40 billion from the future.
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![]() | Alternative Energy Demystified by Stan Gibilisco
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.99 Energy, Water, and Health together with Air are the big four where new valuation is needed.
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![]() | The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.82 Reality check.
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![]() | Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $5.50 Reality check.
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![]() | Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.96 An early attempt to sound the alarm (after the Limits to Growth movement failed in the 1970's, succumbing to corporate lies and massive propaganda undermining honest science).
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![]() | The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design by Sandra F. Mendler
Buy new: $60.32 / Used from: $42.50 Growing trend.
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