Profits and Sustainability
This engaging and authoritative history of green entrepreneurship shows that its origins go far further back than most readers will realise, to the mid-19th century.…… Read More »
Category: Environment & Sustainability
The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus
Median estimates all world population in 2050 are 9.6 billion people, of whom 70% will be living in cities. This represents an increase of 2.3…… Read More »
Common Sense
Uneasy about the ethical standards he saw around him, Tom Butler left the world of venture capitalism just over 15 years ago to devote himself…… Read More »
After Sustainability
This book takes the view that dangerous climate change is coming, setting out the argument in a series of what the author calls vicious syllogisms:…… Read More »
An Introduction To The Green Economy
Authors: Adrian C. Newton, Elena Cantarello
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Environment & Sustainability
Extraordinarily comprehensive in its interdisciplinary scope based on environmental science, this textbook draws on ecology, geography, social science, psychology, sustainability science, law and economics. It…… Read More »
Bankrupting Nature
Authors: Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Environment & Sustainability
This report to the Club of Rome by authors with a background in politics and environmentalism is one of the most thorough analyses of the…… Read More »
THE WORLD WE MADE
In the International Futures Forum, we occasionally use an imaginative technique to look back on how we have actually solved a pressing challenge. Our normal…… Read More »
The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society
Arjen Hoekstra is the creator of the concept of the water footprint, and in this new book he analyses and details the water footprint of…… Read More »
2011 State of the World
The 2011 edition of this annual publication concentrates on innovations that nourish the planet, addressing some of the key issues relating to the future of…… Read More »
Transition in Action
This is the latest in a series of books beginning with Rob Hopkins' original idea of transition, but takes the process one stage further by…… Read More »