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Community Development/Social Capital

Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt
Authors: Steven Moore
Publisher: Lexington Books, April 28, 2007

Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
Authors: Raquel Pinderhughes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., March 28, 2004

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp
Publisher: HarperCollins, May 1, 2007

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, September 8, 2005

Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
Authors: Ronald S. Burt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, October 4, 2005

Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity (2nd Edition)
Authors: Stuart L. Hart
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing, July 13, 2007

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Authors: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Publisher: North Point Press, April 22, 2002

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Authors: Bill McKibben
Publisher: Times Books, March 6, 2007

Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University
Authors: Ann Rappaport, Sarah Hammond Creighton, and Lawrence Bacow
Publisher: The MIT Press, May 1, 2007

Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
Authors: Robert G. Bailey, L. Ropes, and Lev Ropes
Publisher: Springer, July 19, 2002

Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People
Authors: Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson
Publisher: Green Books, August 2002

Foundations of Social Capital
Authors: Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, June 2003

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Authors: Michael H. Shuman
Publisher: Routledge, September 2000

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Authors: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, November 30, 1990

Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community
Authors: Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, January 1, 2007

Hidden Rules of Class at Work
Authors: Ruby K. Payne and Don L. Krabill
Publisher: Aha! Process Inc., August 22, 2002

Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society
Authors: Bob Doppelt
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, December 1, 2003

Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Authors: Sandra Steingraber
Publisher: Perseus Books, May 1, 1997

Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism
Authors: Patricia Aburdene
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, September 2005

Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
Authors: Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press, December 31, 2004

Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change
Authors: Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, December 15, 2002

Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future
Authors: Suzanne W. Morse
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, March 18, 2004

Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action
Authors: Nan Lin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, September 15, 2002

Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods
Authors: Dan Chiras and Dave Wann
Publisher: New Society Publishers, November 15, 2003

Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Authors: John R. Ehrenfeld
Publisher: Yale University Press, September 23, 2008

Sustainable Urban Design: An Environmental Approach
Authors: Randall Thomas
Publisher: Spons Architecture Price Book, February 1, 2003

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Authors: Paul H. Ray, Ph.d and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, October 2, 2001

The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
Authors: Gwendolyn Hallsmith
Publisher: New Society Publishers, September 15, 2003

The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
Authors: Sarah James and Torbjorn Lahti
Publisher: New Society Publishers, April 15, 2004

The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change
Authors: Gill Seyfang
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2009

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (BK Currents)
Authors: Bill McKibben,Michael H. Shuman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, June 28, 2006
General Reference

Bedouins by the Lake: Environment, Change, and Sustainability in Southern Egypt
Authors: Ahmed Belal, John Briggs, Joanne Sharp and Irina Springuel
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, February 23, 2009

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Authors: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, June 1, 1997

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Authors: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Publisher: North Point Press, April 22, 2002

Economicology: The Eleventh Commandment
Authors: Peter M Wege
Publisher: Economicology Press, April 1, 1998

Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption: The Rebound Effect
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2009

Fundamentals of Sustainable Business (World Scientific Series on 21st Century Business)
Authors: Matthew W. Tueth
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, October 1, 2009

Innovation in Environmental Policy?: Integrating the Environment for Sustainability
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, December 30, 2008

Innovations Towards Sustainability: Conditions and Consequences (Sustainability and Innovation)
Authors: Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, January 2007

Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society
Authors: Bob Doppelt
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, December 1, 2003

Learning for Sustainability
Authors: Peter Senge, Joe Laur, Sara Schley, and Bryan Smith
Publisher: SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, March 30, 2006

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability
Authors: Greg Horn
Publisher: Freedom Publishing Company, November 1, 2006

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Authors: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Publisher: Back Bay Books, October 12, 2000

Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable
Authors: Simon Bell and Stephen Morse
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd., May 2008

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Authors: James Gustave Speth
Publisher: Yale University Press, March 28, 2008

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Authors: Paul H. Ray, Ph.d and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press, October 2, 2001

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Authors: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Collins, August 1, 1994

The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
Authors: Fritjof Capra
Publisher: Anchor, January 6, 2004

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
Authors: Edward Abbey and Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, July 1, 2000

The New Science of Sustainability: Building a Foundation for Great Change
Authors: Sally J. Goerner, Robert G. Dyck and Dorothy Lagerroos
Publisher: Triangle Center for Complex Systems, August 1, 2008
The Principles of Sustainability
Authors: Simon Dresner
Publisher: Earthscan Publications, October 1, 2002

The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Authors: Andres R. Edwards and David W. Orr
Publisher: New Society Publishers, June 15, 2005

The Sustainable City V: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
Authors: A. Gospodini, C. A. Brebbia and E. Tiezzi
Publisher: WIT Press, September 12, 2008

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Picador, August 7, 2007

Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability: Linking Culture and the Environment
Publisher: CABI, January 30, 2009

Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Authors: Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, January 13, 2009
Sustainability in the Environment

Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance
Publisher: UBC Press, August 30, 2008

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp
Publisher: HarperCollins, May 1, 2007

Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment
Authors: Kristin Feireiss and Lukas Feireiss
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag, March 30, 2008

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Authors: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, June 1, 1997

Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University
Authors: Ann Rappaport, Sarah Hammond Creighton, and Lawrence Bacow
Publisher: The MIT Press, May 1, 2007

Design for Environmental Sustainability
Authors: Carlo Vezzoli and Ezio Manzini
Publisher: Springer, November 17, 2008

Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People
Authors: Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson
Publisher: Green Books, August 2002

Energy Systems and Sustainability
Authors: Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett, and Janet Ramage
Publisher: Oxford University Press, December 2003

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Authors: Andrew Kimbrell
Publisher: Foundation for Deep Ecology, July 1, 2002

Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment
Authors: Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, April 27, 2005

Industrial Ecology
Authors: Thomas E. Graedel and Braden R. Allenby
Publisher: Prentice Hall, September 17, 2002

Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Authors: Sandra Steingraber
Publisher: Perseus Books, May 1, 1997

Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
Authors: Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press, December 31, 2004

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Authors: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Publisher: Back Bay Books, October 12, 2000
Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy
Authors: Joe Thorton
Publisher: The MIT Press, April 1, 2001

Sustainable Horticulture: Today & Tomorrow
Authors: Raymond P. Poincelot
Publisher: Prentice Hall, January 2, 2003

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Authors: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Collins, August 1, 1994

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
Publisher: New Society Publishers, January 1, 1998

The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility
Authors: William R. Blackburn
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd., November 2007
Winning the Oil Endgame
Authors: Amory B. Lovins
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Institute, September 2004
Sustainable Business

Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business Through Nature, Genius, and Compassion
Authors: Sissel A. Waage and Ray Anderson
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, September 2003

At the Edge: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
Authors: Ann Dale and Stuart B. Hill
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, March 1, 2001

Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices
Authors: Landscape Architecture Foundation, Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, and Mary Lee York
Publisher: Island Press, December 21, 2006

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Authors: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, June 1, 1997

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
Authors: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Viking, May 10, 2007

Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: John Elkington
Publisher: New Society Publishers, September 1, 1998

Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity (2nd Edition)
Authors: Stuart L. Hart
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing, July 13, 2007

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Authors: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Publisher: North Point Press, April 22, 2002

Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
Publisher: New Society Publishers, June 15, 2002

Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
Authors: David W. Orr
Publisher: The MIT Press, October 1, 2006

Economicology: The Eleventh Commandment
Authors: Peter M Wege
Publisher: Economicology Press, April 1, 1998

Ecopreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits
Authors: John Ivanko & Lisa Kivirist
Publisher: New Society Publishers, July 1, 2008

Ecoregion-Based Design for Sustainability
Authors: Robert G. Bailey, L. Ropes, and Lev Ropes
Publisher: Springer, July 19, 2002

Energy Systems and Sustainability
Authors: Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett, and Janet Ramage
Publisher: Oxford University Press, December 2003

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Authors: Andrew Kimbrell
Publisher: Foundation for Deep Ecology, July 1, 2002

Fundamentals of Sustainable Business (World Scientific Series on 21st Century Business)
Authors: Matthew W. Tueth
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, October 1, 2009

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Authors: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, November 30, 1990

Green Business: A Five-part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company
Authors: Amy K. Townsend, Ph.D.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, November 29, 2006

Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment
Authors: Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, April 27, 2005

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Authors: Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston
Publisher: Yale University Press, October 9, 2006

Greening Your Business: The Hands-On Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business
Authors: Daniel Sitarz
Publisher: Nova Publishing Company, October 25, 2008

Hidden Rules of Class at Work
Authors: Ruby K. Payne and Don L. Krabill
Publisher: Aha! Process Inc., August 22, 2002

Industrial Ecology
Authors: Thomas E. Graedel and Braden R. Allenby
Publisher: Prentice Hall, September 17, 2002

Innovations Towards Sustainability: Conditions and Consequences (Sustainability and Innovation)
Authors: Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, January 2007

Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society
Authors: Bob Doppelt
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, December 1, 2003

Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment
Authors: Pamela J. Gordon
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, September 9, 2001

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Authors: Yvon Chouinard
Publisher: The Penguin Press HC, October 6, 2005

Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
Authors: Sandra Steingraber
Publisher: Perseus Books, May 1, 1997

Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
Authors: Marc Epstein
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, January 01, 2008

Measuring Sustainability: Learning by Doing
Authors: Simon Bell and Stephen Morse
Publisher: Earthscan Publications, May 1, 2003

Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism
Authors: Patricia Aburdene
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, September 2005

Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
Authors: Ray Anderson
Publisher: Peregrinzilla Press, February 1999

Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
Authors: Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press, December 31, 2004

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Authors: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Publisher: Back Bay Books, October 12, 2000

Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century (Angel Series)
Authors: Brian Hicks, Chris Nelder
Publisher: Wiley, May 2, 2008

Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size
Authors: Amory B. Lovins, et al.
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Institute, August 2002

Smart Green: How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in Any Industry - and Make Money
Authors: Jonathan Estes
Publisher: Wiley, 2009-03-23

Structural Biomaterials
Authors: Julian F.V. Vincent
Publisher: Princeton University Press, August 27, 1990

Sustainable Business Development: Inventing the Future Through Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership
Authors: David L. Rainey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, August 14, 2006

Sustainable Horticulture: Today & Tomorrow
Authors: Raymond P. Poincelot
Publisher: Prentice Hall, January 2, 2003

Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Juliet Schor and Betsy Taylor
Publisher: Beacon Press, January 20, 2003

Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Authors: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Stanford Business Books, January 30, 2008

The Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations
Authors: Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd., August 2006

The Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation
Authors: John Elkington
Publisher: Capstone, July 15, 2001

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Authors: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Collins, August 1, 1994
The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands
Authors: Richard Seireeni

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Authors: Van Jones
Publisher: HarperOne, October 1, 2008

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
Publisher: New Society Publishers, January 1, 1998

The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-in (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Hunter Lovins and Bob Willard
Publisher: New Society Publishers, April 15, 2005

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (BK Currents)
Authors: Bill McKibben,Michael H. Shuman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, June 28, 2006

The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line (Conscientious Commerce)
Authors: Bob Willard
Publisher: New Society Publishers, May 1, 2002

The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance
Authors: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Island Press, September 1, 2003

Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Authors: Donella H. Meadows
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, December 3, 2008

Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development
Authors: Chad Holliday, Stephan Schmidheiny, and Philip Watts
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, September 2002

When Corporations Rule the World
Authors: David C. Korten
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, May 10, 2001
Winning the Oil Endgame
Authors: Amory B. Lovins
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Institute, September 2004
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