Sustainability 101
Engaging with a new topic can be a perplexing challenge, too much information and no idea on where to start! Based on our own experience we have developed a recommended reading list, a guide if you will, for those who are interested in learning about the sustainable business agenda. The learning process is a journey without end, hopefully this list will help speed up those first few steps on the path.
The Business Case for Sustainability:
- Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins
- Cradle to Cradle - Michael Braungart, William McDonough
- Capitalism as if the World Matters - Jonathon Porritt
- The Story of Stuff - Anne Leonard
- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature - Janine Benyus
Macroeconomics of Sustainability:
- Small is Beautiful - E F Schumacher
- Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet - Tim Jackson
- The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality - Richard Heinberg
- The Ecology of Commerce - Paul Hawken
Sustainable Business In Practice:
- The Method Method - Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry
- Confessions of a Radical Industrialist - Ray Anderson
- Green to Gold - Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston
- The Zeronauts - John Elkington
Systems Thinking:
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows
- The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge
- The Necessary Revolution - Peter Senge
- Systems Thinking for Curious Managers - Russell Ackoff
General Interest:
- The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
- Why The West Rules for Now - Ian Morris
- A Theory of Everything - Ken Wilber
- Web of Life - Fritjof Capra
- The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
- Animate Earth - Stephan Harding
- The Origin of Wealth - Eric Beinhocker
Downloads:
Towards The Circular Economy (3423 KB)
WBCSD - Vision 2050 (3815 KB)
