Reading List
An (ever-growing) collection of books/links on human & environmental health, sustainability, and green business modeling. (Suggestions to add? Email me!)
The Case Against Fragrance
by Kate Grenville
September 12, 2017
The chemicals in fragrance can be linked not only to short-term problems like headaches and asthma, but to long-term ones like hormone disruption and cancer. Yet products can be released onto the market without testing. They’re regulated only by the same people who make and sell them. And the ingredients don’t even have to be named on the label.
This book is based on careful research into the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry.
Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact
by Rosaly Byrd, Laurèn DeMates
| Jul 25, 2019 |
Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurèn DeMates offer an optimistic yet realistic perspective on our impact on the environment, giving much needed guidance to those who are interested in finding new and relatively easy ways to incorporate sustainability into daily life.
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Human Pharmaceuticals, Hormones and Fragrances: The Challenge of Micropollutants in Urban Water Management
by Thomas A Ternes, Adriano Joss
(This book can be difficult to find, very expensive...but can be found at several lending libraries for free. Search it through your own local library. It is a WEALTH of eye-opening info. if you use or manufacture with fragrance!)
35 Best Newer Sustainability Books To Read
Waste Management in the Palm Oil Industry
Plantation and Milling Processes
Phaik Eong Poh, Ta Yeong Wu, Weng Hoong Lam, Wai Ching Poon
| Apr 9, 2020 |
This book presents the technological developments that are currently being researched or implemented in the management of palm oil industrial waste
After introducing the plantation and milling processes, the book focuses on the wastes generated solely from plantation and milling activities, as reducing waste from these two sectors will enhance the overall sustainability of the entire palm oil industry eco-system.
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Zero Waste
Ashok K. Rathoure
| Sep 11, 2019 |
Zero Waste: Management Practices for Environmental Sustainability presents approaches for resource management centered on reducing waste and reusing and recycling materials. It aims to save energy by reducing energy consumption associated with extracting, processing, and transporting raw materials and waste, and also to reduce and eventually eliminate the need for landfills and incinerators. This book presents the various principles, methods, and tools that can be used to address different issues in the areas of industrial waste reduction and sustainability.
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We Are the Weather
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Jonathan Safran Foer
| Sep 16, 2019 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
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Humans in the Global Ecosystem
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
Pierre Ibisch
| Mar 31, 2020 |
The term "sustainability" is on everyone’s lips, but nevertheless we struggle to transpose the idea into our economic and social structures. This book aims to provide an overview of the relevant discourses, but also – and above all – a stimulus for fresh thinking, with new suggestions for the defence and further development of the concept of sustainable development. It addresses the position of humans in the global (eco)system, and it interprets and applies sustainability as a multi-and inter-disciplinary concept.
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Cultural and Tourism Innovation in the Digital Era
Sixth International Conference, Athens 2019
Vicky Katsoni, Thanasis Spyriadis
| Mar 28, 2020 |
This book explores a wide range of emerging cultural, heritage, and other tourism issues that will shape the future of hospitality and tourism research and practice in the digital and innovation era. It offers stimulating new perspectives in the fields of tourism, travel, hospitality, culture and heritage, leisure, and sports within the context of a knowledge society and smart economy.
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The New Environmental Economics
Eloi Laurent
| Jan 20, 2020 |
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Too often economics disassociates humans from nature, and the economy from the biosphere that contains it. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves aside distributional analysis and justice issues.
The aim of this lucid textbook is to provide a framework that prioritises understanding and improving human well-being within the limits of the biosphere, and rethinking economic analysis and policy in the light not just of efficiency but equity.
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Save the ocean. Plastic-free life. Composition notebook
ECOKIDOS
| Dec 5, 2019 |
Save the ocean! With a plastic-free life.
This adorable lined wide illustrated notebook is perfect for any class or course in school, but is also useful for taking notes, to do lists, sketching, writing, organizing, doodling, drawing, prompt book, journaling and brainstorming
Notebooks and journals are the perfect gift for adults and kids for any gift giving occasion.
Composition Notebook Features:
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Renewable Energy Finance
Santosh Raikar, Seabron Adamson
| Dec 3, 2019 |
Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice integrates the special characteristics of renewable energy with key elements of project finance. Through a mixture of fundamental analysis and real-life examples, readers learn how renewable energy project finance works in actual deals that mix finance, public policy, legal, engineering and environmental issues. The skills developed in analyzing non-recourse cash flow-based finance are applicable not only to green energy, but also apply more widely in project finance and infrastructure investing.
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Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties )
Pia M Kohler
| Nov 29, 2019 |
"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees established to provide science advice to multilateral environmental agreements. By focusing on how these institutions are sites of coproduction of knowledge and policy, this work brings to light the politics of science advice and details how these committees are contributing to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism
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Philosophy of Management and Sustainability
Rethinking Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in Sustainable Development
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
| Nov 21, 2019 |
Using an interdisciplinary focus, this book combines the research disciplines of philosophy, business management and sustainability to aid and advance both scholarly and practitioner understanding of sustainability management and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As businesses and society continue to transition towards further sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, the key challenge faced is in rethinking the philosophy of management and business ethics to achieve this change in deep and lasting ways.
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Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure
Solutions from Modern Atmospheric Science
Faisal Hossain
| Nov 17, 2019 |
Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy. Realizing the importance of water infrastructures, efforts have already begun on understanding the sustainability and resilience of such systems under changing conditions expected in the future.
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The Marsco Sustainability Project
James A Zarzana
| Nov 15, 2019 |
The Marsco Sustainability Project continues The Marsco Saga. Fifty years have passed since the escape ship, the Sirius Odyssey II, secretly left Earth’s solar system heading for a distant, habitable planet. During a routine check of her crew in cryogenic stasis, Zot Grizotti, the ship’s hiberman, discovers that Sirius has been reprogrammed to head back to Earth. Tessa Miller, Mei-Ling Shanghai, and Zot now face returning to the Marsco world, a world they desperately sought to escape. What awaits them upon their return? Arrest for their crimes? Celebration of their scientific feat? A world with Marsco still firmly in control?
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Ethical and Responsible Tourism
Managing Sustainability in Local Tourism Destinations
Tony O'Rourke, Marko Koščak
| Nov 14, 2019 |
Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations
The three core themes of the book - destination management, environmental and social aspects of ethical sustainable development and business impacts - are discussed across both topic and case study chapters, alongside explanatory editorial analysis with all chapters clearly signposted and interlinked.
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Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling
Y. H. Venus Lun, S. L. Dennis Tung
| Nov 13, 2019 |
This book highlights the significance of using sustainable energy to prevent the deterioration of our planet using heat pumps. Energy sustainability can be achieved through improved energy efficiency. In this regard, heat pumps offer an energy-efficient alternative for heating and cooling. To drive the adoption of heat pumps as a key component of sustainable buildings, the authors focus on examining sustainable practices in heat pump operations and innovative system design
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Whole Farm Management
From Start-Up to Sustainability
Garry Stephenson
| Nov 11, 2019 |
Farming is a business, as well as a way of life. Whole Farm Management is a comprehensive guide developed by the Small Farms Program at Oregon State University to help aspiring and beginner farmers make smart business decisions to ensure lasting success. In clear, accessible language, this book covers every essential step, from developing a strategic plan to acquiring equipment, establishing infrastructure, finding markets, budgeting, managing day-to-day operations, and selecting a business structure for long-term viability.
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Operations Management for Business Excellence
Building Sustainable Supply Chains
David Gardiner, Hendrik Reefke
| Nov 11, 2019 |
All businesses strive for excellence in today’s technology-based environment in which customers want solutions at the touch of a button. This highly regarded textbook provides in-depth coverage of the principles of operations and supply chain management and explains how to design, implement, and maintain processes for sustainable competitive advantage. This text offers a unique combination of theory and practice with a strategic, results-driven approach
Now in its fourth edition, Operations Management for Business Excellence has been updated to reflect major advances and future trends in supply chain management.
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Social Business Models in the Digital Economy
New Concepts and Contemporary Challenges
Adam Jabloński, Marek Jabloński
| Nov 8, 2019 |
Filling a gap in the current literature, this book addresses the social approach to the design and use of innovative business models in the digital economy. It focuses on three areas that are of increasing importance to businesses and industry today: social issues and sustainability; digitization; and new economic business models, specifically the sharing and circular economies. The authors aim to solve current scientific concerns around the conceptualization and operationalization of social business models, addressing management intentions and the impact of these models on society.
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The Age of Sustainability
Just Transitions in a Complex World
Mark Swilling
| Nov 7, 2019 |
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment
Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity.
Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
Muhammad Farooq, Michele Pisante
| Oct 28, 2019 |
This volume is a ready reference on sustainable agriculture and reinforce the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It describes ecological sustainability of farming systems, present innovations for improving efficiency in the use of resources for sustainable agriculture and propose technological options and new areas of research in this very important area of agriculture.
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Sustainable Issues in Transportation Engineering
Louay Mohammad, Ragaa Abd El-Hakim
| Oct 28, 2019 |
This book of the GeoMEast 2019 proceedings includes a collection of research and practical papers from an international research and technology activities on recent developments in pavement design, modeling and performance, and effects on infrastructure, green energy, technology, and integration. Sustainability is increasingly a key priority in engineering practices. With the aging transportation infrastructure and renewed emphasis on infrastructure renovation by transportation agencies, innovations are urgently needed to develop materials, designs, and practices to ensure the sustainability of transportation infrastructure.
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Design with Nature Now
Frederick R. Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming
| Oct 14, 2019 |
Named a best book of 2019 by the American Society of Landscape Architect’s The Dirt, Design with Nature Now celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature, which set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. A team of landscape architects and planners from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the world today.
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Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice
Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia Ringler, Barbara Schreiner
| Oct 6, 2019 |
This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global levels against a backdrop of growing uncertainties
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Principles of Green Bioethics
Cristina Richie
| Sep 30, 2019 |
Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impacts the environment. Green bioethics synthesizes environmental ethics and biomedical ethics, thus creating an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable health care. Notably, green bioethics addresses not the structure of environmental sustainability in health-care institutions but the sustainability of individual health-care offerings. It parallels traditional biomedical ethics by providing four principles for ethical guidance: distributive justice, resource conservation, simplicity, and ethical economics.
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APPLYING SUSTAINABILITY
Tay Kay Luan
| Sep 25, 2019 |
Promoting and applying the broad concept and principles of sustainability in the context of the economics, environment and society varies among diverse stakeholders. The sustainable development movement has made the application of sustainability principles more consistent and better understood. Applying Sustainability brings together the principles and practices of sustainable development in the context of global challenges that include climate change, food security, and widening digital divide.
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Sustainable Cities Reimagined
Multidimensional Assessment and Smart Solutions
Stanislav Shmelev
| Sep 19, 2019 |
To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South-East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities.
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On Fire
Naomi Klein
| Sep 16, 2019 |
#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal—explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center.
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Teaching sustainability
Eugene Eteris
| Sep 9, 2019 |
Education, science and research policies in the states around the world are facing numerous challenges in implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs), which have become an integral part of national political economy since the end of 2015. Measures for SDGs implementation involve three spheres of national governance: social, environmental and economic; they are supposed to change national approaches to SDGs. Though none of the changes shall be effective without adequate reforms in existing national education and research policies.
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The Green New Deal
Jeremy Rifkin
| Sep 9, 2019 |
An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture.
A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to revolutionize society. Millennials, the largest voting bloc in the country, are now leading on the issue of climate change
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Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures
Monte Rouquette Jr., Glen Aiken
| Sep 5, 2019 |
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle. This book illustrates the importance of matching cattle breed types and plant hardiness zones to optimize cattle production from forages and pastures.
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SDG8
Sustainable Economic Growth and Decent Work for All
Madhavi Venkatesan
| Aug 29, 2019 |
A growth-oriented economy challenges the inclusion of sustainability parameters, as the very elements that promote sustainability can appear incongruous with economic growth. SDG8 - Sustainable Economic Growth and Decent Work for All addresses how sustainability can be included within the present economic framework and surfaces the significance of behavioural change in the attainment of sustainability.
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Inconspicuous Consumption
The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tatiana Schlossberg
| Aug 26, 2019 |
From a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand up to climate change and environmental pollution by making simple but impactful everyday choices.
With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it.
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Food 5.0
Robert D Saik
| Aug 12, 2019 |
Food has become the new religion. While denominations such as paleo, vegan, and organic debate which is "the way," we're ignoring a truth that affects us all: to support a population nearing 10 billion by 2050, agriculture must become infinitely sustainable.To feed the world, we have to grow 10,000 years' worth of food in the next thirty years, which means farmers worldwide must increase food production by 60 to 70 percent. This book is about the small percentage of those "farmers of consequence" being called upon to grow the vast majority of the world's staple food supply.
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Smart City Digital Future Ahead
Lakshita Aggarwal
| Aug 7, 2019 |
This book is about the urgent need of an hour to transform the phase from rural cities to the advanced ones, calling them the digitally advanced and smart. We aspire to do it for delivering better quality of life and at a sustainable cost. Smart cities provide a livable future ahead by providing digital solutions to mankind. A smart city is the one which increases efficiency, productivity and sustainability by improving quality of life of an increasing population and completing their demands.
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Financing Sustainable Development
Magdalena Ziolo, Bruno S. Sergi
| Jul 26, 2019 |
This book is among the first to address the issue of assessing the efficiency of sustainable development financing from a theoretical and methodical point of view. The innovative nature of research is expressed through the study of new phenomena in finance including sustainable financial systems, sustainable finance, ESG risk and individual and institutional motivations of financial managers in the sustainability concept. The book aims to draw attention to the significant gap in the existing research.
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More Business Books for Going Green
Whether you want to change the world or simply reduce your company's environmental footprint. "Less bad" isn't good enough. When it comes to the environment, companies should strive instead to be "all good."
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
by E.F. Shumacher
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
by Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell
The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win
by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen
What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
by Yvon Chouinard
by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
by Ray C. Anderson
Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
by Adam Werbach
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EcoMind by Frances Moore Lappé
Frances wrote EcoMind because she believes that solutions to global crises are right in front of our noses, and our real challenge is to free ourselves from self-defeating thought traps that keep us from bringing these solutions to life.
Drawing on the latest research in climate studies, anthropology, and neuroscience, she weaves analysis and stories of real people the world over who, having shifted some basic thought patterns, are shifting the balance of power in our world.
It turns out that gap between the world we long for and the world we thought we were stuck with can be bridged after all—if we can learn to think like an ecosystem. EcoMind shows us the way
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
From places already devoid of humans, Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that doesn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly-readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben insists we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.
Endless economic growth depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer. Our hope depends on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change—fundamental change—is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Marie Kondo is a professional cleaning consultant inspired by the Japanese book Throw-Out Skills with a lifelong love of all things house and home.
This book is a comprehensive manual on how to declutter and organize specific items throughout the house. She uses easy-to-follow line drawings to illustrate her patented folding method as it applies to clothing, as well as images of properly organized drawers, closets, and cabinets.
Kondo also add in-depth advice on moving, packing, and dealing with necessary objects that may not spark joy. This manual is perfect for anyone who wants a home—and life—that sparks joy, and helps readers live better with less.
The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
The Story of Stuff explores the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.
Annie Leonard transforms how we think about our lives and our relationship to the planet. From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo, Leonard highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these.
Leonard shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice.
MagnifEco by Kate Black
In the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh—the worst garment industry accident in recorded history— the industry has been forced to undergo a shift, and many of us are questioning our buying habits. Magnifeco is the Fast Food Nation of the fashion world—your guide to making a difference too.
In this guide, author Kate Black examines non-toxic beauty and ethical fashion; recommends a multitude of ways for consumers to make better decisions; introduces the brands and designers leading the way along this socially responsible path With this complete head-to-toe guide covering everything from hair and beauty products to shoes and footwear, you can feel better about everything you put on your body and be—magnifeco!
The Sustainability Secret by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn
The companion to the groundbreaking 2014 documentary Cowspiracy, this book presents shocking truths about the effects of industrial animal agriculture on the planet. The leading cause of deforestation, rainforest destruction, greenhouse gas production, water consumption and pollution, habitat loss, species extinction, ocean dead-zones, topsoil erosion, and a host of other environmental ills, animal agriculture is the biggest issue facing the planet today and one of the most controversial environmental secrets in the world of conservation.
Filled with anecdotes, statistics, research, interviews with the filmmakers and contributors, and unabridged transcripts from the film, this companion book supplements and expands upon the documentary in every way.
The 22 Day Revolution by Marco Borges
Exercise physiologist Marco Borges is the author and founder of 22 Days Nutrition. He has shared his knowledge with countless celebrities and athletes; most famously Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Huge media coverage following their successful completion of the 22 Day Vegan Challenge inspired people around the world to adopt a plant-based diet.
Founded on the principle that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, The 22-Day Revolution is a plant-based diet designed to create lifelong habits that will empower you to live a healthier lifestyle, to lose weight, or to reverse serious health concerns. Inside, you’ll find motivating strategies, delicious recipes, and a detailed 22-day meal plan. With this program, you will lead a healthier, more energetic, and more productive life—helping you to live the life you want, not just the one you have.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them.
Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill. Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer "at the table with our greatest philosophers."
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, how we answer it today may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves?
What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore’s Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same.
Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin
From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal, and in this book he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love.
Salatin understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there.
Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact. His crucial message and distinctive voice make this a must-read book.
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, Michael Pollan challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach — what he calls nutritionism — and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
In Defense of Food shows us how we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context. Pollan shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Wellth by Jason Wachob
Jason Wachob is the Founder and CEO of MindBodyGreen, the leading independent media brand dedicated to health and happiness with 15 million monthly unique visitors.
In his first book, Jason redefines successful living and offers readers instead a new life currency. In this prescriptive memoir, he shows us all how to build a life, not a resume, and why it's important to make frequent deposits into our own 'wellth' accounts.
Don't just take his word for it, read exclusive material from popular contributors and see what they have to say about becoming truly wellthy, including: psychologist Sue Johnson, Dr. Frank Lipman, Dr. Aviva Romm, Joe Cross, meditation expert Charlie Knoles, EWG director Heather White, and yoga phenom Kathryn Budig.