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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, ...
Back Bay Books, 2000
an optimistic vision of the future
+ Reinvention
+ Excellent book!
+ Prompt service.
+ Required Reading for the Twenty-First Century
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Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With ...
E. F. Schumacher
Hartley and Marks Publishers, 2000
Let's Get Small
+ Classic
+ Small IS Beautiful!
This is one of the radical books of the '60s --read: life-changing/ world/ changing. About a million people love this book (I've told you a thousand times to stop exaggerating), and a zillion have reviewed it. I merely refer to a little-known interview in the Christian Century magazine with E.F. ...
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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Princeton University Press, 2001
A must read on the relationship of violence and scarcity...
+ Scholarly analysis
+ Thoughtful, General, Missing the Big Bang
+ Sources of strife
+ Seminal thoughtpiece, masterfully written
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Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
Terry Tamminen
Island Press, 2006
If anything, puts the problem too mildly
+ More MPG Needed!
+ Not recommended for a superficial reading...
+ A Must Read for Citizens Concerned about Our Energy Future
+ a must read
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Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition
Charles J. Kibert
US Green Building Council, 2007
Covers everything...
Since I am the 1st person to review this book, I want to just say that I started with a smaller book that gave me the basics of green architecture, terminology and the run down on LEED and the USGBC. Next I followed up with this book and I must say that this book was EXTREMELY informative and ...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Viking Adult, 2004
Warms up after the first couple chapters
+ Good overview of the relationship between the environment & politics
+ Critical topic, excellent scholarship, yet very accessible
Not quite as good as his best-known book, "Guns, Germs and Steel", mostly because the first 50 pages are about Montana. Who cares about Montana? I barely even know where it is. But after that it gets wicked awesome. Unfortunately you can't really skip the Montana parts - too many concepts are ...
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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Andres R. Edwards
New Society Publishers, 2005
A Sustainable Framework
+ Excellent reference
+ Great Intro to Sustainability
The Sustainability Revolution provides a broad portrait of a paradigm shift, as the sub title claims. Although I checked this out of the library, this is a book to own and refer to especially if you are interested in furthering sustainable best practices or even wondering what they are. ...
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Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications
Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley
Island Press, 2003
At last what we needed
+ 4.5 stars.Yes. Speculative bubbles inevitably lead to economic downturns
+ A serious intro to eco-economy
+ best textbook ever
+ Great book
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Metropolitan Books, 2007
Eye opening
+ The Ida Tarbell of Our Time
+ The Dark Side of Unrestricted Capitalism
+ More relevant than most Americans will ever know
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The Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System
Lionel Tiger
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000
Off the beaten track
+ Helps Understand the Lack of Ethics Behind Blackout
+ rational starting point for understanding our human turmoil
I reviewed this book for a science journal not long after its publication. Rated it four out of five. Why come back eighteen years later? Charting the paths followed over the past three decades toward the goal of a `biosocial science' brought me back. The author is the collaborator with Robin ...
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Human Scale
Kirkpatrick Sale
New Catalyst Books, 2007
A life-changing book
+ Should be Re-Issued, a Seminal Publication Relevant to Governance
+ a defense of anarchism in all human endeavors
+ A Needed Gospel: Get this book back in print!
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Brian Walker, David Salt
Island Press, 2006
Gem of Useful Education
+ Resilience in the environment
+ Resilience in a nutshell and put simply
+ Good Case Studies, poor writing
+ A Pathway to Our New Future
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The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken
Collins Business, 1994
Get it now, no need to think twice
+ Always timely and smart
+ Reshaping industrialism
+ Global Required Reading
+ Tough read but worth the time
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
David Keys
Ballantine Books, 2000
A truly fascinating history
+ CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD
+ My 100-word book review
This is truly one of the most fascinating theories in ancient history. A volcano that shaped the modern world by forcing the migration of the huns, the crop failures in the Middle East that led to the rise of Islam and the start of the barbarian migrations towards Rome. It is almost too hard to ...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
North Point Press, 2002
excellent, even oustanding
+ Seeing ourselves as all being part of the great cradle to cradle cycle is an important step forward.
+ PERFECT!
+ Remake the Way You Think
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