26 Feb 2010

The top sustainability book?

The Top 20 in order

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore, 2006

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, 1962

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, by Nicholas Stern, 2007

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher, 1973

Capitalism as if the World Matters, by Jonathon Porritt, 2005

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond, 2005

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, 2000

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, by James Lovelock, 2000

Our Common Future, by The World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987

Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, by John Elkington, 1999

The Limits to Growth, by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers, 1972

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough (A) and Michael Braungart (A), 2002

Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, by C.K. Prahalad, 2004

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs, 2005.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot, 2006

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus, 2003

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken, 1994

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the battle Against World Poverty, by Muhammad Yunus, 1999

The Turning Point: Science Society and the Rising Culture, by Fritjof Capra, 1984

Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen, 2000

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