Sustainable Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders Sutherland House	Sustainability has become a buzzword in business, politics, and academia—but are we truly making a difference? Are today’s corporations and entrepreneurs prioritizing long-term sustainability, or …	Khalid Hasan; Philip Kotler	512	2025	View
From The Power of Partnerships From: In The Business of Change View New Society Publishers	Working in tandem with companies, suppliers, designers, anyone down the supply chain, to educate and influence their behavior would be key to her success. It’s become key for many social …	Elisa Birnbaum	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From The Rediscovery of the Commons From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It …	David Bollier	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The Shadow Side From: Payback View House of Anansi Press	Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central …	Margaret Atwood	41	2007	$4.92 Add
From The Story Machine From: Clean Money Revolution View New Society Publishers	Invest in “companies that would be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. Renewal Partners put capital into for-profit enterprises, but our larger goal was to model money …	Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge	24	2017	$2.40 Add
From The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” Myth From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several …	David Bollier	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies discusses five topics related to the widespread belief in the inevitability of technological change: the myth of value-neutrality, the technological …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	20	2011	$2.00 Add
From Through the Looking Glass From: Clean Money Revolution View New Society Publishers	how can money be deployed in a spirit of service, rather than simply to make more money. Organizations with a systemic approach can effectively leverage relatively small amounts of capital into …	Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge	28	2017	$2.80 Add
From To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, …	Andrew Thomson; Daniel Maskell; Pete Walker	11	2017	$1.10 Add
Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition	The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, …		257		View
From NEW! Turnaround of Inequality: Sustainable Innovation in Non urban Communities From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Murty, Seeman, and Shankar examine how sustainable innovation can reverse inequality in non-urban communities, drawing on research from the mid-twentieth century to the present.	Neil Seeman; V. Kumar Murty	16	2025	$1.60 Add
From Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in Perpetuity From: Resilience Imperative View New Society Publishers	The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	28	2012	$2.80 Add
From Voices from the Past–Economic Growth and its Critics From: Escape from Overshoot View New Society Publishers	In this chapter the author takes the reader through major economic thinkers of the past, and their unique conceptualizations of growth.	Peter Victor A.	24	2023	$2.40 Add
From Water Use in the Home From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	Let’s take a look now at residential water use, something that most of us are quite familiar with. The sources of water use inside the home with almost 60 percent goes for shower, toilet …	Jerry Yudelson	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From Wood: Like Never Before From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the role of wood in building efficient and modern buildings.	Andrew Lawrence; Francis Yang	16	2017	$1.60 Add
From Zen Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	In the green building movement, there is a “hyper-green” approach called restorative or regenerative building, which generates more water and energy than it uses and puts this excess …	Jerry Yudelson	9	2010	$0.90 Add