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Sustainability, Resilience, Panarchy, Alternative Values
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing WorldResilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker
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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.
Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series)
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Models and metaphors of resilience, stability, ans sustainability, with case studies and a summery. Core work.
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural SystemsPanarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
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Quest for theory of adaptive change and understanding of surprises, scenarios, branching, dynamics, learning, and related aspects of sustainability including collective learning.
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm ShiftThe Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards
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Promising title.
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond SustainabilityPermaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holmgren
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Excellent introduction to alternative values.
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Joseph Tainter
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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.
Human ScaleHuman Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale
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Classic work.
The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable FutureThe Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon
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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.
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of CivilizationThe Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
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Adds to his body of work with a concluding emphasis on opportunities to adapt and cope.
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
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His first major work on the trisection of Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
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The other major work on collapse.
Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)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
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Disasters turn into catastrophes for lack of planning, attention, response, or resilience.
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern CivilizationCatastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization by David Keys
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Worthwhile look at the "dark ages" caused by volcanic activity in Southeast Asia.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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Compelling primer on the last gasp of immoral predatory capitalism.
One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global CapitalismOne World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism by William Greider
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Preamble to Naomi Klein.
The Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial SystemThe Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System by Lionel Tiger
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Premable to Greider, the original seminal work on how corporate personality and methods destroyed kinship, trust, and the humanity of labor.
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral EconomyThe Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider
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Preamble to John Bogle.
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second EditionSustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition by Charles Kibert
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Growing trend.
The Battle for the Soul of CapitalismThe Battle for the Soul of Capitalism by John C. Bogle
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The opening of moral capitalism and a return to an ownership economy that eliminates Wall Street skimming one fifth of the value.
Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents)Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents) by Peter Barnes
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One of a handful of emergent works that show capitalism can, must, adopt green to make gold.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial RevolutionNatural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
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Second of two key works by Paul Hawken.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of SustainabilityThe Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
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First of two key current modern works by Paul Hawken (he had it right twenty years ago as well).
Ecological Economics: Principles And ApplicationsEcological Economics: Principles And Applications by Herman E. Daly
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Herman Daly is long over-due for a Nobel Prize. He broke the code.
Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With CommentariesSmall Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries by E. F. Schumacher
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Classic work along with Kirkpatrick Sale's Human Scale.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic WorldOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
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Early warning.
The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can TooThe 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
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Have not read this, strikes me as a good complement to Green to Gold.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make ThingsCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
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Vital comprehensive overview of how we must move away from products that become trash, and move toward leasing services with totally re-usable parts.
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive AdvantageGreen to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Director Daniel C. Esty
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Important contribution to new understanding that only green methods are sustainable.
Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil AddictionLives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction by Terry Tamminen
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"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.
Alternative Energy DemystifiedAlternative 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.
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We DrinkThe Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink by Robert D. Morris
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Reality check.
Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental StrategyPandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton
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Reality check.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human SpiritEarth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
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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).
The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable DesignThe HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design by Sandra F. Mendler
Buy new: $60.32 / Used from: $42.50
Growing trend.