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The Sustainable Business: Taking the first steps towards understanding, implementing and managing sustainability from a cost/profit perspective (2010) Jonathan T. Scott Hunter Lovins is contributing editor and reviewer. web site ;

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The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Business Will Win (2010) A. Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen ISBN-10: 0470558423
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Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimists World (1999)

Alan AtKisson
ISBN-10: 1890132160
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (1997)
Janine Benyus
ISBN-10: 0060533226
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The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility (2007)
William R. Blackburn
ISBN-10: 1844074951
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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2009)
Lester R. Brown
ISBN-10: 0393337197
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Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision (1998)
Joan Butterfield, Allan Savory, and Jody Butterfield
ISBN-10: 155963488X
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The SRI Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing has Outperformed Financially (2002)
Peter Camejo
ISBN-10: 0865714770

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Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature (2005)
Dan Dagget
ISBN-10: 096662291X
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Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society (2003)
Bob Doppelt
ISBN-10: 1874719640
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Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (1998)
John Elkington
ISBN-10: 0865713928

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (2001)
Jason Elliot
ISBN-10: 0312288468
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (2009)
Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston
ISBN-10: 0300119976
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Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the Worlds Most Difficult Problems (2005)
Stuart L Hart
ISBN-10: 0131439871
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Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008)
Chris Laszlo
ISBN-10: 0804759634
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Unbowed: A Memoir (2007)
Wangari Maathai
ISBN-10: 0307275205
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Thinking in Systems (2008)
Donella H. Meadows
ISBN-10: 1603580557
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Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future (1993)
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers
ISBN-10: 0930031628


Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsbility to Work for Your Business and the World (1994)
Joel Makower
ISBN-10: 0684813106
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things (2002)
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
ISBN-10: 0865475873
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Biosphere Politics: A Cultural Odessey from the top Ages to the New Age (1992)
Jeremy Rifkin
ISBN-10: 0062506951

Power Politics (2001)
Arundhati Roy
ISBN-10: 0896086682
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Investing in Development: A Practical Plan To Achieve The Millenium Development Goals (2005)
Jeffery D. Sachs
ISBN-10: 1844072177
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The End of Poverty: The Economic Possibilities of Our Time (2005)
Jeffery Sachs
ISBN-10: 1594200459
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Holistic Resource Management: A Model for a Healthy Planet (1998)
Allan Savory
ISBN-10: 1559634871
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The Lorax (1971)
Dr Suess
ISBN-10: 9650706003
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN-10: 1400063515
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The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook: How to Transform Your Company (2009)
Bob Willard
ISBN-10: 0865716587
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