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Books on all aspects of leading, inspiring, and motivating adaptive change to improve sustainability in business, government, the community, politics, and the media. Individuals and small groups can and do accomplish big things. The more daunting our challenges appear, the more urgently we need leaders who can inspire hope and show through their example how badly needed changes can be accomplished.

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Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World. By Diane MacEachern. Explains how women can harness the "power of their purse" and intentionally shift spending to commodities that have the greatest environmental benefit. Targets twenty products, including cars, cosmetics, coffee, food, paper, appliances, and cleansers, where women's dollars can make a dramatic difference. Provides easy-to-follow guidelines and lists so women can choose the greenest option. More… | Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers Info >>

Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. By Doug McKenzie-Mohr. Social marketing identifies and overcomes barriers to long-lasting behavior change. This groundbreaking book on community-based social marketing is an invaluable guide for anyone involved in designing public education programs with the goal of promoting sustainable behavior, from recycling and energy efficiency, to alternative transportation. More... | Doug McKenzie-Mohr EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life. By Bob Doppelt. Provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Explains how the mind works and how people change, then provides proven methods for transforming thinking and behavior, beginning first with the reader's own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change. More… | Bob Doppelt EcoSpeakers Info >>

Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good. By Nancy Lee. A valuable resource that uses concepts from commercial marketing to influence social action. Provides a solid foundation of fundamental marketing principles and techniques then expands on them to illustrate principles and techniques specific to practitioners and agencies with missions to enhance public health, prevent injuries, protect the environment, and motivate community involvement. More… | Nancy Lee EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times. By Zoe Weil. Teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense -- to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species, and all people. The book includes chapters for early, middle, teenage, and young adult years, as well as activities, issue sidebars, cases, tips, and profiles. More… | Zoe Weil EcoSpeakers Info >>

Deep Design. By David Wann. Explores a new way of thinking about design, one that asks "What is our ultimate goal?" before the first step has been taken. "Deep designs" meet the criteria of renewability, recyclability, and nontoxicity. More... | David Wann EcoSpeakers Info >>

Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government. By Joel Hirschhorn. Written for conservatives, libertarians, liberals, moderates, independents, greens, and progressives, as well as dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans, Delusional Democracy will convince readers that we the people have the power to begin American democracy over again. More... | Joel Hirschhorn EcoSpeakers Info >>

Developing Green: Strategies for Success. By Jerry Yudelson. Green building and development is a major industry trend. This book helps in understanding how to build a business case and take advantage of tenants' and owners' interest in green development. It includes insider tips to approaching the LEED rating system strategically. More... | Jerry Yudelson EcoSpeakers Info >>

EcoKids: Raising Children Who Care for the Earth. By Dan Chiras. Presents a coherent plan that helps parents foster love for nature, teach children the importance of environmental protection, promote environmental values, and inspire actions that will last a lifetime. A hopeful guide for parents. More… | Dan Chiras EcoSpeakers Info >>

Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement: The Case for River Conservation. By Tim Palmer. Based on careful research and hundreds of interviews, this information-packed narrative is regarded as a classic in the field of conservation. This updated edition includes two new chapters that chart the course of conservation during the past twenty years and explore how the movement to protect rivers will likely change in the twenty-first century. More… | Tim Palmer EcoSpeakers Info >>

Evaluating Sustainable Development: Giving People a Voice in Their Destiny. By Chris Maser. Presents principles and tools for participatory evaluation of sustainable development. Participatory evaluation empowers anyone impacted by a proposal to determine both what is to be evaluated and how it is to be evaluated. Acknowledging that the specific concepts, challenges, opportunities, and circumstances surrounding sustainable development differ significantly from one place or group to another, the book provides an adaptable framework for developing an evaluation plan as well as the tools for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting data. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming. By Eban Goodstein. Focuses attention on our spiritual connections with all forms of life. It encourages us to engage in the rough and tumble realities of American politics, and it is packed with anecdotes, statistics, and most of all insight. More... | Eban Goodstein EcoSpeakers Info >>

Green Marketing: Opportunities for Innovation. By Jacquelyn Ottman. A good introductory text. It provides a clear understanding of the multitude of interconnected issues involved in green marketing. It will help you become better organized, recognize your company's strengths and weaknesses, and work toward changes that improve your company's environmental performance. More... | Jacquelyn Ottman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Green Plans: Greenprint for Sustainability. By Huey Johnson. Green plans are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. Johnson provides the first detailed and understandable examination of the theory, implementation, and performance of green plans in the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand. More... | Huey Johnson EcoSpeakers Info >>

Humanity's Environmental Future. By Ross McCluney. Presents the insights and skills most needed for humanity to reverse its destructive course and make the needed changes before it is too late to stop the worst of the consequences. Concludes with specific reform proposals and positive suggestions for personal, group, and governmental action. More... | Ross McCluney EcoSpeakers Info >>

Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change. By Roger S. Gottlieb. Explores the values religion and progressive politics bring to their respective spheres and their potential to offer a common vision in addressing a range of issues, including human rights, the environment, globalization, and world poverty. More... | Roger S. Gottlieb EcoSpeakers Info >>

Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society. By Bob Doppelt. Doppelt describes the process required to move organizations toward sustainability. This book demystifies the sustainability-change process by providing a framework and methodology that managers can use to transform their organizations. More... | Bob Doppelt EcoSpeakers Info >>

Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment. By Pamela Gordon. This book dispels the myth that a business or organization has to choose between making a profit and protecting the environment. Appealing to employees at every level, it provides over 100 examples of environmental practices that bring savings or new sources of revenue. More... | Pamela Gordon EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Least Imperfect Path : A Global Journal for the Future. By John Ivanko. Spanning more than thirty countries, John Ivanko's adventures and experiences are captured in this travelogue. More than just the recounting of a journey, it provides insightful perspectives on a world undergoing both ecological and social change as well as clues for what might lead to a more regenerative, sustainable, and peaceful future. More… | John Ivanko EcoSpeakers Info >>

Lifelines, The Case for River Conservation. By Tim Palmer. Explains the value of and threats to preservation of the nation's rivers. Covers issues such as fish populations, water quality, hydropower, riparian habitats, and ecosystems. Recommends actions that are economically realistic (enforcing existing laws, changes in subsidies and tax incentives) but politically challenging (only strong public support can overcome the opposition of those who profit from treating rivers as sewers). More… | Tim Palmer EcoSpeakers Info >>

Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers for an Era of Interdependence. By Melissa Everett. A timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It's "about" greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, innovative nonprofit work, and reinventing government. With dozens of rich personal stories, and a thorough look at the options, this is the comprehensive life/work guide for people who care about their communities and the planet. More… | Melissa Everett EcoSpeakers Info >>

Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success. By Jerry Yudelson. Presents the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. The book systematically examines the important market segments for green buildings. It also presents key business case justifications for green buildings that help architects, engineers and builders to understand client motivations and respond to them with appropriate marketing tactics and communications strategies. Includes information that will help manufacturers and product sales teams to craft appropriate marketing strategies. More… | Jerry Yudelson EcoSpeakers Info >>

Marketing Green Buildings. By Jerry Yudelson. Covers tools and techniques from conventional marketing that can be used effectively in marketing green buildings, the size and potential of the green buildings market, and how a firm should position itself to succeed. Includes clear descriptions of successful strategies and approaches to marketing and selling green building-related services, as well as up-to-date information on the role of LEED in green building projects. More... | Jerry Yudelson EcoSpeakers Info >>

Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Group in the World. By Bill Birchard. A portrait of an organization that preserves genetic material and uniquely functioning ecosystems. It describes the inner workings of a remarkable organization. It is a gripping story about groups and people who make a difference against all odds. More… | Bill Birchard EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair. By Denis Hayes. Changes in individual, local, and national energy choices can slow or even stop the dangerous build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere while saving money, helping the economy, and enhancing human health. More... | Denis Hayes EcoSpeakers Info >>

Resolving Environmental Conflict. By Chris Maser. An explanation of the transformative approach to facilitation, showing how to help parties empower themselves to define issues and reach settlements on their own terms through a better understanding of divergent perspectives. Examines concepts of development, sustainability, community, and a healthy environment. More... | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown. By David Steinman. Draws the connection between personal health and a healthy environment and argues both that global warming is a greater threat to national security than terrorism and that a "sound environmental policy" will enhance our standing in the world and strengthen our economy. More… | David Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth. By Diane MacEachern. Covers a wide range of environmentally protective actions in home, apartment, garden, garage, supermarket, school, office, and community. More... | Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers Info >>

Setting the Stage for Sustainabilty: A Citizen's Handbook. By Chris Maser. This invaluable text looks at resolving environmental conflicts through a "transformative" rather than a "problem-solving" approach. The transformative approach emphasizes the capacity of facilitation for personal growth. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Sustainable Company: How To Create Lasting Value Through Social And Environmental Performance. By Chris Laszlo. About companies whose policies have enhanced their bottom line by way of reduced waste and cleanup costs, fewer regulatory conflicts, new business opportunities and greater appeal to socially conscious investors and green consumers. More... | Chris Laszlo EcoSpeakers Info >>

Teaching Kids to Change the World. By Chris Maser. Offers educators and youth-group leaders a means of inspiring social consciousness and action among youth and teaches young people how to think, rather than what to think. Equips educators with philosophical discussion questions, concrete illustrations, and active examples. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

The War Against the Greens. By David Helvarg. Presents a vast accumulation of evidence of violence against environmentalists and ordinary citizens. More... | David Helvarg EcoSpeakers Info >>

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