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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. 
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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. 
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Explains why social responsibility is good for business. Shows business
leaders how to choose social causes, design initiatives, gain employee
support, and evaluate their efforts. Provides best practices and ideas
to do the most good. With stories from the leaders of socially responsible
companies, this is a guide for today's good corporate citizen. 
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Looks at large dams and their consequences through the eyes of three
members of the 1990s' World Commission on Dams. Documents the often
corrupt finances and politics of dam building and the injustice of the
displacement of communities. Explains how dams cause aridity, erosion,
extinction, and pollution. 
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Shows how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of
industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving
the environment and creating jobs. 
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Excellent primer what we're doing to the atmosphere and what we can
do about it. Explains some of the technical issues. 
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Follows a team of scientists, artists, and filmmakers as they search
for the elusive lowland gorilla, rare birds, leopards, a universe of
insects, not to mention the powerful elephants for whom the forest is
named. 
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Covers a wide range of environmentally protective actions in home, apartment,
garden, garage, supermarket, school, office, and community. 
Sets out practical, and easy-to-do things one can do to reduce gasoline
consumption, and quantifies the savings that will result. 
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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. 
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A look at the world of sustainable architecture. Includes case studies
and also stories of a team, its challenges and triumphs, as it works
to create sustainable buildings. Color images, black and white photography,
sketches and quotes. 
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Explains the natural design of a forest, and how science and technology
have tried to change that design. 
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Reviews current land use practices from historical, constitutional,
economic, ecological, and societal perspectives. Analyzes the results
of these practices and suggests alternative methods for guiding, directing,
and controlling the ways in which we modify the landscape. 
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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. 
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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. 
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Apart from the beauty diversity brings to our lives, it is also absolutely
necessary to the sustainability of life itself. Planners tend to ignore
ecological diversity because they don't understand it. This book tackles
the problems of how we can maintain sustainable diversity in both the
Earth's ecosystems and in our cultural systems. 
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Explores the seldom-considered philosophical basis behind the models
and methods of leadership, pointing the way to the essential qualities
it takes to establish a shared vision of community life. This book explores
numerous issues and considerations to cultivate well-rounded leadership
and provide a more substantive blueprint for local activism. 
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Describes a single forest and its many dwellers, from flying squirrels
to fungi, from massive Douglas fir trees to tiny tree-eating mites.
Builds a strong case for conservation. 
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Arguing that current conflicts in the war on terrorism are doing tremendous
damage to future generations, this timely analysis draws on the work
of nonviolent leaders like Gandhi to provide alternatives to responding
to increased levels of fear and anxiety with violence. 
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Explains why dividing ecology and economy conceptually will destroy
society as we know it. The link between economics and ecology and the
immense potential of that connection to influence the process of change
within communities is the focus of this book. 
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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. 
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The private garden is a microcosm for everything that happens in the
larger world -- ecological, social, personal and spiritual. With passion,
warmth and understanding, readers are connected to simple personal actions
-- tending the home garden -- then to larger issues. 
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An introduction to the world of mycorrhizal fungi in forests and their
importance in food webs as highlighted by truffles. This book should
encourage readers to investigate further the intricate and essential
interactions occurring in forests. A clear and compelling argument that
there's much more to forests than meets the eye. 
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Highlights the history, importance, and rewards of forest certification.
Discusses the issues involved in mainstream forestry as it is currently
practiced, and what can be done to create sustainable forestry. 
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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.
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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. 
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A collection of thirty essays selected for their eloquence in expressing
Earth values and for their special insights and understandings of what
we must do to create a sustainable future for humanity. Includes Aldo
Leopold, Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Wendell Berry, Garrett Hardin
and 25 others. 
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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. 
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An appeal for the preservation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
now threatened by oil and gas development. A resident of Alaska who
has traveled extensively in the Refuge, she describes vividly the wonders
of this preserve, from its coastal plain to its mountains, glaciers
and rivers. 
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Examines smart cars and smart tolls as responses to sprawl, and telecommuting
and e-commerce as a reaction to burgeoning "edge cities."
Considers cleaner cars as well as potential improvements in bus, water
and air transportation. 
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Covers the effort to build lower emission and zero emission cars. Detailed
information about electric cars and fuel cell powered vehicles. 
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From the thawing Arctic to the rising shoreline of Manhattan, people
are feeling the effects of global warming in ways hardly imagined just
a few years ago. Feeling the Heat takes readers to the hot spots where
global warming is not just a scientific debate but a matter of survival.
