Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Superpower
One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the natural forces that could power America’s future.
The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. We want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and rely less on...
Cold Cash, Cool Climate
Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Written for entrepreneurs and investors, this book describes how to profit from tackling climate change, one of this century’s greatest challenges. Industry expert Dr. Jonathan Koomey acts as your company’s scientific advisor, summarizing the business implications of the climate problem for both...
True Wealth
How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously...
by Joan Martínez Alier, Jordi Roca Jusmet
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Los autores dan cuenta de los esfuerzos de la economía por contabilizar el precio de la sobreexplotación ecológica y actualizan los métodos para calcular los costos económicos de la contaminación. Asimismo, proponen innovar políticas económicas capaces de elaborar un desarrollo sostenible.
Strategy for Sustainability
A Business Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation.
More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for companies that do well by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at...
Lean Impact
How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact?
Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business,...
Reinventing Fire
Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing...
by Jessica James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
This book is an ultimate guide to mastering the art of living well while spending less. It will provide the reader with all the information they require to guide them in adjusting their live to shift from being excessive spenders to little reasonable spenders without compromise to their way of life....
Donne che creano impresa
Il mondo beauty: scopri come realizzare la tua start-up attraverso la storia di chi ce l’ha fatta
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Attraverso le storie e l’esempio di quattro imprenditrici del settore beauty, uno dei pochi a sfidare con successo la crisi, raccontiamo come è possibile cambiare rotta, affrontare un cambiamento e reinventarsi con consapevolezza nel mondo del lavoro se si conoscono gli strumenti giusti per progettare...
Revolution in a Bottle
How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
The amazing story of what Inc. magazine called “the coolest little startup in America.”
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton a decade ago to found TerraCycle, a company that makes the nonrecyclable recyclable. TerraCycle is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement, partnering with...
Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first...
A Vineyard Odyssey
The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine—the journey from vine to bottle—that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world: the host of insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, along with the feathered...
The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist
When Girl Meets Oil
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t...
Altreconomia 158 - Marzo 2014
L'etica maker: se non puoi smontarlo, non è davvero tuo
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2014
La copertina di "Altreconomia" di marzo 2014 è dedicata all'etica dei makers. Un movimento che riunisce i nuovi artigiani open source, quelli che utilizzano le stampanti 3D, e che ha il suo "centro nevralgico" nei FabLab, laboratori di ricerca indipendenti e informali.
L'inchiesta...