Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Disruptors Extended Ebook Edition
Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Can business change the world? Can the world change business? For a new breed of social entrepreneurs, striving to build and grow enterprises that fight social ills, foster opportunity, and help to improve society, the answer is not can, it’s must. Impassioned by purpose, driven by dreams, emboldened...
Clean Industrial Revolution
Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review
'Humanity's greatest challenge is to minimise the consequences of climate change. With challenge comes opportunity....
Under Corporate Skies
A Struggle Between People, Place, and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Relating the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporation, this account strives to voice the concerns of local communities when they come into conflict with corporate profits. With the help of Erin Brockovich, the small town of Yarloop in Western Australia is fighting its powerful neighbor,...
Oblivion or Utopia
The Prospects for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Oblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent. Efforts to reverse the continent's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date, including...
Eco-Business
A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.
Hubris
The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book explores problems and issues that have emerged in national and international discussion of policies to address climate change. It concludes that every solution put forward by the UN and activists poses more problems than might ever emerge from the marginal human impact on natural climate...
Earthmasters
The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?”...
The Western Paradox
A Conservation Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according...
Distributist Perspectives: Volume II
Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This compilation of important distributist authors delivers valuable insight into the manifest problems of society. Although most of the contributions were written more than 50 years ago, the questions raised by the writers have remained largely unanswered, and essays regarding topics like education,...
by Amos Obi
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Poverty indeed, as it has been said, is not a disease but something worst than all diseases of mankind. If this is so, why are over 80% of humans languishing in poverty and extreme hunger today.? What then are the ways out of mass global poverty among men and nations of the world? These are the critical...
Reinventing Capitalism
How we broke Money and how we fix it, from inside and out
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Our financial systems are broken - not fit for purpose. The evolution of capitalism has stalled and no longer meets our human needs or the conditions that we face. When we examine how our relationship with money has evolved, we can see how the values and mindsets we held have become embedded...
by Friends of the Earth, C40 Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Big cities don’t have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women.
This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the...
Perma/Culture:
Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there...
by Jason Drew
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The Protein Crunch Civilisation on the brink is a capitalist’s tour of the environment. The authors reveal the hard facts of how environmental degradation is already affecting all of us from food price riots to the collapse of countries like Somalia. Water, land and sea combine to produce the food...