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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
Author: Paul Hawken
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
Author: Ray C. Anderson and Robin White
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
Author: The Worldwatch Institute, Erik Assadourian, and Muhammad Yunus
Human Scale Development
Author: Manfred Max-Neef
Our Common Future (‘The Brundtland Report’)
Author: World Commission on Environment and Development
Development as Freedom
Author: Amartya Sen
Factor Four
Author: Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
False Dawn
Author: John Gray
Fast Food Nation
Author: Eric Schlosser
For the Common Good
Author: Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Globalization and its Discontents
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Cradle to Cradle
Author: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Author: Daniel Quinn
Maverick
Author: Ricardo Semler
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
Author: Ray C. Anderson
Natural Capitalism
Author: Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
A Fate Worse Than Debt
Author: Susan George
Gaia
Author: James Lovelock
Business as Unusual
Author: Anita Roddick
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo Leopold
An Inconvenient Truth
Author: Al Gore
Banker to the Poor
Author: Muhammad Yunus
Ben & Jerry's Double Dip: Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too
Author: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship
Author: Bradley K. Googins, Philip H. Mirvis, and Steven A. Rochlin
Biomimicry
Author: Janine M. Benyus
Creating Sustainable Work Systems (2nd edn): Developing Social Sustainability
Author: Mari Kira, A.B. (Rami) Shani, and Peter Docherty
Blueprint for a Green Economy
Author: David Pearce, Anil Markandya, and Edward B. Barbier
Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar & Co.
Author: Gary Erickson and Lois Lorentzen
Cannibals with Forks
Author: John Elkington
Capitalism as if the World Matters
Author: Jonathon Porritt
Capitalism at the Crossroads
Author: Stuart L. Hart
Changing Course
Author: Stephan Schmidheiny and Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD)
Collapse
Author: Jared Diamond
The Turning Point
Author: Fritjof Capra
The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution
Author: Karl-Henrik Robèrt
The Necessary Revolution: How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world
Author: Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Sara Schley, and Joe Laur
The Next Sustainability Wave
Author: Bob Willard
The Population Bomb
Author: Paul L. Ehrlich
The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win
Author: Jeffrey Hollender, Bill Breen, and Peter Senge
The River Runs Black
Author: Elizabeth C. Economy
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
The Soul of a Business: Managing For Profit And The Common Good
Author: Tom Chappell
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Author: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch, and Joseph Chilton Pearce
Tyranny of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things
Author: Ralph W. Estes
Unsafe At Any Speed
Author: Ralph Nader
Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun
Author: Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
Author: Jeffrey Hollender
When Corporations Rule the World
Author: David C. Korten
When the Rivers Run Dry
Author: Fred Pearce
The Skeptical Environmentalist
Author: Bjørn Lomborg
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
Author: George Soros
Small Is Beautiful
Author: E.F. Schumacher
Staying Alive
Author: Vandana Shiva
Sustainable Value
Author: Chris Laszlo
The Chaos Point
Author: Ervin Laszlo
The Civil Corporation
Author: Simon Zadek
The Mystery of Capital
Author: Hernando de Soto
The Corporation
Author: Joel Bakan
The Limits to Growth
Author: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III
The Dream of the Earth
Author: Thomas Berry
The Ecology of Commerce
Author: Paul Hawken
The Economics of Climate Change
Author: Nicholas Stern
The End of Poverty
Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author: C.K. Prahalad
The Hungry Spirit
Author: Charles Handy
You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth : A Report of the Club of Budapest
Author: Ervin Laszlo
Heat
Author: George Monbiot

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