books on sustainability, green living, new energy and more

1. Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union (Urban and Industrial Environments)
(Government, policy/Government, policy)

... of industrial accidents, the most notorious of which was the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. This book examines the development of environmental activism in Russia and the former Soviet republics in response ...

2. The Economics of Sustainable Development: The Case of India
(Government, policy/Government, policy)

<Provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India.     Buy The Economics of Sustainable Development: The Case of India (Natural Resource Management ...

3. Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy
(Green business and economy/Green business and economy)

... included corporate strategy at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in marketing and business development at Time Warner and MTV. See www.andrewwinston.com for more information.   p>How ...

4. Conversations with Green Gurus: The Collective Wisdom of Environmental Movers and Shakers
(Thinkers, Gurus, Bio's/Thinkers, Gurus, Bio's)

...  Paul Dickinson, CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project John Elkington, founding partner and director of Volans, co-founder of SustainAbility, world authority of sustainable development, author of The ...

5. Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development
(Green business and economy/Green business and economy)

... the global corporate economy, and economic development, Hess looks at four specific forms of localism: "buy local" campaigns; urban agriculture; local ownership of electricity and transportation; and alternative ...

6. The Truth About Green Business
(Green business and economy/Green business and economy)

... spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow magazine called him “One of the country’s leading environmental management consultants–a real ...

7. Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building
(Green building & architecture/Green building & architecture)

... problems, research exercises, study questions, team projects, and discussion topics. Chapters by specialists in the green movement round out this survey of all the important issues and developments that ...

8. Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society
(Government, policy/Government, policy)

... Policy at City University's Centre for Food Policy in London since 2002. He was appointed Natural Resources and Land Use Commissioner on the UK Government's Sustainable Development Commission in 2006. ...

9. Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings
(Green building & architecture/Green building & architecture)

...  facades and summer performance of buildings; passive cooling strategies; geothermal cooling; active thermal cooling technologies, including absorption cooling, desiccant cooling and new developments ...

10. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
(Cradle to cradle/Cradle to cradle)

... a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world." In 1996, he received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the highest environmental honor ...