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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. By L. Hunter Lovins et. al. Natural Capitalism describes a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which companies can improve their bottom lines, help solve environmental problems and feel better about what they do all at the same time. Citing hundreds of compelling stories from a wide array of sectors, the book shows how to realize benefits both for today's shareholders and for future generations and how businesses can hold on to the people who foster the innovation that drives future improvement. More... | L. Hunter Lovins EcoSpeakers Info >>

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. By Lester Brown. Brown argues that, like the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental support systems and threatening future generations. The challenge is to restructure the global economy, replacing our fossil fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new one that is environmentally sustainable. This new economy will be powered not with fossil fuels but with solar and wind energy, and its urban transport systems will be centered not around the automobile but around light rail and the bicycle. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >>

Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Substainable Global Economy. By Lester Brown, Christopher Flavin, and Sandra Postel. The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate on their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems. Authoritative yet extremely readable, this book addresses control of energy resources, population, poverty, transportation, taxes, and other issues necessary to create an environmenatally sound global economy. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >> | Christopher Flavin EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Trade-Off Myth: Fact And Fiction About Jobs And The Environment. By Eban Goodstein. Many Americans believe that environmental protection measures have created ongoing and widespread unemployment, have caused large numbers of plant shutdowns and layoffs in manufacturing, and have led many US firms to flee to developing countries with lax environmental regulations. Virtually all economists who have studied the issues agree that each of these propositions is false. Economist Eban Goodstein provides an in-depth examination of the deep-seated, but ultimately mistaken, American belief in a wide spread jobs-environment trade-off. More... | Eban Goodstein EcoSpeakers Info >>

ReWealth!: Stake Your Claim in the $2 Trillion Development Trend That's Renewing the World. By Storm Cunningham. Identifies fast-growing, profitable opportunities to revitalize our communities and our . The book outlines practices and strategies that achieve rapid, resilientplanet renewal, generating wealth through career and investment options. Explains the three universal principles that when combined enable nondestructive economic growth that actually heals nature and society. More... | Storm Cunningham EcoSpeakers Info >>

GreenTrading: Commercial Opportunities for the Environment. By Peter Fusaro and Marion Yuen. This book originated from the Second Annual Green Trading Summit held in April 2003. Written by leading practitioners in trading greenhouse gas emission reduction, renewable energy, and energy efficiency, the book covers the convergence of environment and capital markets and offers new insights into carbon, renewable energy and energy efficiency (negawatt) trading. More | Peter Fusaro EcoSpeakers Info >>

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The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Microeconomics. By Yoram Bauman. This humorous 200-page introduction to microeconomics makes economics relevant to today’s world and today’s students. It integrates the really cool stuff into an overview of the entire discipline of microeconomics, from decision trees to game trees to taxes and thinking at the margin. More... | Yoram Bauman 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 >>

The Earth Policy Reader. By Lester Brown. Charts progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem. Bringing together in one volume the essential Eco-Economy Updates that are distributed worldwide over the Internet and published in the world's leading newspapers, this volume monitors the shift from the old economy to the new. More… | Lester Brown EcoSpeakers Info >>

Eco-Nomics and Eagles. By Kate Troll. Through the use of nine eco-nomic principles, the objectives of economic development and environmental protection are melded into a practical, cohesive platform for government officials, businesspersons, environmentalists, citizen activists and for the students of resource management and environmental policy. More... | Kate Troll EcoSpeakers Info >>

Economics and the Environment. By Eban Goodstein. Offers in-depth analysis of important environmental policy debates, and equips readers with the tools necessary to understand these issues. Includes expanded coverage and a new section on non-renewable resource depletion. More... | Eban Goodstein 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 >>

Green Trading Markets: Developing the Second Wave. By Peter Fusaro and Marion Yuen. Provides valuable information on U.S. innovations in the global development of green commodity markets. These include new ways of leveraging existing assets, new revenue streams and opportunities for commodity trading, approaches to improving management of greenhouse gases, and how to maximize renewable energy sources. More... | Peter Fusaro EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Heart of America: Our Landscape, Our Future. By Tim Palmer. In this portrait of America at the turn of the 21st century, Palmer reminds us that the heart of our country is the land. Not only does land lie at the center of our country's culture and ecological health, but it forms the basis of our economy and a source of national pride. 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 >>

Prosperity Without Pollution: The Prevention Strategy for Industry and Consumers. By Joel Hirschhorn and Kirsten U. Oldenburg. Explains why only a preventive environmental strategy can work. Growing population, consumption, and industrialization cripple current, rather haphazard, remedial efforts. More... | Joel Hirschhorn 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 >>

Reuniting Economy and Ecology in Sustainable Development. By Chris Maser and Charles R. Beaton. 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. More… | Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>

Setting the Stage for Sustainabilty: A Citizen's Handbook. By Chris Maser et.al. 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 >>

Tax Shift: How to Help the Economy, Improve the Environment, and Get the Tax Man Off Our Backs. By Yoram Bauman, Alan Thein Durning et al. Suggests that we tax the things we want to discourage, such as carbon in fuels and pollution from industry and farms, and reduce taxes on the things we want to encourage, such as work. Evaluates existing taxes in the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest and suggests a tax shift to align tax incentives with our goals. More... | Yoram Bauman EcoSpeakers Info >>

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