Sustainability

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society. Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society....

Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present....

American Hemp lays out where we are as a nation on expanding this entirely new (yet ancient) domestic industry while optimistically reasoning that by sowing hemp, we can grow a better future and save the planet in the process....

In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do....

From CSR to the Ladders of Corporate Responsibilities and Sustainability (CRS) Taxonomy is recommended to public organizations and business enterprises managers and leaders, academics, students, and other individuals interested in the general knowledge of corporate responsibilities and sustainability.

The book’s 40 essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. It focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.....

In Net Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero Economy, two accomplished business transformation thought leaders deliver a revolutionary new take on how to transition from business models that are contributing to worldwide climate disaster to net zero models....

The authors share their many years of experience serving clients and driving performance as the world transitions to a net zero carbon future and provide a guidebook for leaders to create value from sustainability and organizational performance....

Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour....

Best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet....

Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a new economy....

In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

Prosperity! outlines practical, actionable investments of your time and resources that will ensure you enjoy greater prosperity in your life, whatever the future may bring....

Our take-make-waste economy has cost consumers and taxpayers billions while cheating us out of a habitable planet. The Waste-Free World makes a persuasive, forward-looking case for a circular economic model, a “closed-loop” system that wastes no natural resources....

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems....

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry....

Creditocracy outlines the kind of alternative economy we need to replace a predatory debt-money system that only benefits the one percent....

The writer embarks on a journey to discover how electric utility companies work and how their prices enslave the ratepayers....

After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis....

The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical....