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6 books on Sustainability [PDF]
January 17, 2025 | 26 |
These books are covering the principles of sustainable development, the impact of climate change on ecosystems, strategies for reducing carbon footprints, innovations in renewable energy, the role of sustainable agriculture, challenges in implementing circular economy practices, etc.
1. Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It
2018 by Gilbert S. Hedstrom
Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It—a title that feels reassuringly weighty, as if it could single-handedly stabilize a wobbling planet—graciously escorts you into the bewildering galaxy of corporate sustainability with the calm confidence of a tour guide who’s just spotted a Vogon Constructor Fleet in the rearview mirror. Gilbert S. Hedstrom, armed with a proprietary framework charmingly named The Corporate Sustainability Scorecard™, invites business executives (and curious earthlings) to ponder over 140 sustainability indicators, which sound suspiciously like the ingredients for either saving the world or making a rather confusing soup. With real-world examples plucked from over 70 corporations across two decades, this book is not just a guide; it’s a hitchhiker’s manual to navigating sustainability governance, strategy and transformation without accidentally paving over endangered ecosystems. Delivered with the kind of earnestness that makes you suspect Hedstrom might actually believe we can sort this whole climate mess out, it’s a read as essential as your towel when exploring the vast, quirky intersection of business and environmental stewardship.
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2. Sustainability: Key Issues
2015 by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Sustainability: Key Issues is less a textbook and more a galactic hitchhiker’s guide to the baffling universe of sustainability, where terms like "resilience" and "circular economy" buzz around like particularly self-important bees. Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet have assembled a crack team of experts to distill the sprawling chaos of sustainable concepts into something that even a slightly bewildered undergraduate—or postgraduate—might just understand. Each chapter heroically wrestles with a key issue, defining it, explaining its historical significance and occasionally giving it a comforting pat on the back before hurling it into real-world case studies for your inspection. Along the way, it gleefully dismantles conventional models (which are, frankly, a bit rubbish) and offers shiny new alternatives like "cradle to cradle," which sounds delightfully optimistic until you realize it involves hard work. If you’ve ever wondered how ecological modernism and sustainable communities fit into the grand scheme of not ruining the planet, this book is the improbability drive for your journey through sustainability studies.
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3. Sustainability: A History
2014 by Jeremy L. Caradonna
Sustainability: A History is the sort of book that takes a term you thought you understood—"sustainability"—and reveals it’s been gallivanting through history like a mischievous time-traveler, leaving cryptic messages on humanity's fridge since at least the 1660s. Jeremy L. Caradonna invites readers on a rollercoaster ride through centuries of well-meaning forestry plans, Industrial Revolution panic attacks and environmental movements that somehow managed to be both inspiring and slightly bewildered. Along the way, sustainability morphs into a kind of philosophical Swiss Army knife, borrowing bits of social justice, ecological economics and a smattering of conservationist angst, all the while managing to look terribly pleased with itself. Caradonna’s deep dive into this historical chimera is equal parts enlightening and mind-boggling, making you wonder how a word that started out as a whisper in the woods ended up plastered on everything from government policy to your ethically sourced coffee cup. For anyone curious about how sustainability became both a buzzword and a guiding principle for a planet in existential crisis, this book is as essential as knowing where your towel is.
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4. Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing?
2013 by Heather M. Farley, Zachary A. Smith
Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing? is the sort of book that cheerfully taps you on the shoulder, hands you a mirror and asks you to ponder whether humanity might have overbooked itself on Earth’s dwindling resources with the enthusiasm of a species that forgot the concept of "finite." Heather M. Farley and Zachary A. Smith explore the maddening paradox of "sustainability," a term that everyone—from governments to corporations to your neighbor’s eco-friendly cat—throws around as if it’s the magical password to save the planet while still getting two-day shipping. The problem? It’s been stretched so thin, it’s become the semantic equivalent of a soggy towel. Enter neo-sustainability, the authors’ attempt to tidy up this conceptual mess by focusing on the planet’s actual limits and the tricky balancing act between the environment, society and economics. Equal parts cautionary tale and guidebook for not entirely ruining everything, this book offers a bracingly clear-eyed take on how to rescue sustainability from its own popularity.
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5. Introduction to Sustainability: Road to a Better Future
2006 by Nolberto Munier
Introduction to Sustainability: Road to a Better Future is the kind of book that takes the deceptively mundane topic of waste and turns it into a sprawling philosophical adventure through the tangled intersections of economics, society and the environment. Nolberto Munier guides us with the steady hand of someone who’s spent far too much time thinking about rubbish, splitting the narrative into two neat halves: the current state of waste production and treatment and the hopeful dream of a future where we generate less of it—or, at the very least, figure out how to deal with it without looking like complete fools. Along the way, the book boldly redefines "waste" from "that annoying stuff in the bin" to "actually-not-useless treasure that might save us if we manage not to screw it up." Packed with questions like "what is waste?" and "why are we so terrible at managing it?" this is a guide for anyone curious about transforming the world's garbage pile into a stepping stone to a better future. Or at least, one that smells slightly less.
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6. Sustainability: The corporate challenge of the 21st century
2000 by Andrew Griffiths
Sustainability: The Corporate Challenge of the 21st Century cheerfully tackles the modern organization's two most pressing dilemmas: keeping people happy and the planet less doomed, all while turning a profit. Andrew Griffiths invites us to navigate the treacherous terrain of staff turnover, dwindling loyalty and a general workplace vibe that oscillates somewhere between "mildly stressed" and "howling into the void." Meanwhile, the book also dares to confront the small matter of saving the Earth, as governments, employees and slightly annoyed citizens waggle their fingers at corporations and ask if they wouldn’t mind terribly becoming a bit greener. Packed with frameworks, strategies and the kind of optimistic advice that makes you think maybe humanity can pull this off, Griffiths paints a picture of businesses that balance happy humans and happy ecosystems as the rock stars of a sustainable economy—leaving the rest to fade into history with all the grace of a malfunctioning Vogon poetry recital.
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1. Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It
2018 by Gilbert S. Hedstrom
Sustainability: What It Is and How to Measure It—a title that feels reassuringly weighty, as if it could single-handedly stabilize a wobbling planet—graciously escorts you into the bewildering galaxy of corporate sustainability with the calm confidence of a tour guide who’s just spotted a Vogon Constructor Fleet in the rearview mirror. Gilbert S. Hedstrom, armed with a proprietary framework charmingly named The Corporate Sustainability Scorecard™, invites business executives (and curious earthlings) to ponder over 140 sustainability indicators, which sound suspiciously like the ingredients for either saving the world or making a rather confusing soup. With real-world examples plucked from over 70 corporations across two decades, this book is not just a guide; it’s a hitchhiker’s manual to navigating sustainability governance, strategy and transformation without accidentally paving over endangered ecosystems. Delivered with the kind of earnestness that makes you suspect Hedstrom might actually believe we can sort this whole climate mess out, it’s a read as essential as your towel when exploring the vast, quirky intersection of business and environmental stewardship.
Download PDF
2. Sustainability: Key Issues
2015 by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Sustainability: Key Issues is less a textbook and more a galactic hitchhiker’s guide to the baffling universe of sustainability, where terms like "resilience" and "circular economy" buzz around like particularly self-important bees. Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet have assembled a crack team of experts to distill the sprawling chaos of sustainable concepts into something that even a slightly bewildered undergraduate—or postgraduate—might just understand. Each chapter heroically wrestles with a key issue, defining it, explaining its historical significance and occasionally giving it a comforting pat on the back before hurling it into real-world case studies for your inspection. Along the way, it gleefully dismantles conventional models (which are, frankly, a bit rubbish) and offers shiny new alternatives like "cradle to cradle," which sounds delightfully optimistic until you realize it involves hard work. If you’ve ever wondered how ecological modernism and sustainable communities fit into the grand scheme of not ruining the planet, this book is the improbability drive for your journey through sustainability studies.
Download PDF
3. Sustainability: A History
2014 by Jeremy L. Caradonna
Sustainability: A History is the sort of book that takes a term you thought you understood—"sustainability"—and reveals it’s been gallivanting through history like a mischievous time-traveler, leaving cryptic messages on humanity's fridge since at least the 1660s. Jeremy L. Caradonna invites readers on a rollercoaster ride through centuries of well-meaning forestry plans, Industrial Revolution panic attacks and environmental movements that somehow managed to be both inspiring and slightly bewildered. Along the way, sustainability morphs into a kind of philosophical Swiss Army knife, borrowing bits of social justice, ecological economics and a smattering of conservationist angst, all the while managing to look terribly pleased with itself. Caradonna’s deep dive into this historical chimera is equal parts enlightening and mind-boggling, making you wonder how a word that started out as a whisper in the woods ended up plastered on everything from government policy to your ethically sourced coffee cup. For anyone curious about how sustainability became both a buzzword and a guiding principle for a planet in existential crisis, this book is as essential as knowing where your towel is.
Download PDF
4. Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing?
2013 by Heather M. Farley, Zachary A. Smith
Sustainability: If It's Everything, Is It Nothing? is the sort of book that cheerfully taps you on the shoulder, hands you a mirror and asks you to ponder whether humanity might have overbooked itself on Earth’s dwindling resources with the enthusiasm of a species that forgot the concept of "finite." Heather M. Farley and Zachary A. Smith explore the maddening paradox of "sustainability," a term that everyone—from governments to corporations to your neighbor’s eco-friendly cat—throws around as if it’s the magical password to save the planet while still getting two-day shipping. The problem? It’s been stretched so thin, it’s become the semantic equivalent of a soggy towel. Enter neo-sustainability, the authors’ attempt to tidy up this conceptual mess by focusing on the planet’s actual limits and the tricky balancing act between the environment, society and economics. Equal parts cautionary tale and guidebook for not entirely ruining everything, this book offers a bracingly clear-eyed take on how to rescue sustainability from its own popularity.
Download PDF
5. Introduction to Sustainability: Road to a Better Future
2006 by Nolberto Munier
Introduction to Sustainability: Road to a Better Future is the kind of book that takes the deceptively mundane topic of waste and turns it into a sprawling philosophical adventure through the tangled intersections of economics, society and the environment. Nolberto Munier guides us with the steady hand of someone who’s spent far too much time thinking about rubbish, splitting the narrative into two neat halves: the current state of waste production and treatment and the hopeful dream of a future where we generate less of it—or, at the very least, figure out how to deal with it without looking like complete fools. Along the way, the book boldly redefines "waste" from "that annoying stuff in the bin" to "actually-not-useless treasure that might save us if we manage not to screw it up." Packed with questions like "what is waste?" and "why are we so terrible at managing it?" this is a guide for anyone curious about transforming the world's garbage pile into a stepping stone to a better future. Or at least, one that smells slightly less.
Download PDF
6. Sustainability: The corporate challenge of the 21st century
2000 by Andrew Griffiths
Sustainability: The Corporate Challenge of the 21st Century cheerfully tackles the modern organization's two most pressing dilemmas: keeping people happy and the planet less doomed, all while turning a profit. Andrew Griffiths invites us to navigate the treacherous terrain of staff turnover, dwindling loyalty and a general workplace vibe that oscillates somewhere between "mildly stressed" and "howling into the void." Meanwhile, the book also dares to confront the small matter of saving the Earth, as governments, employees and slightly annoyed citizens waggle their fingers at corporations and ask if they wouldn’t mind terribly becoming a bit greener. Packed with frameworks, strategies and the kind of optimistic advice that makes you think maybe humanity can pull this off, Griffiths paints a picture of businesses that balance happy humans and happy ecosystems as the rock stars of a sustainable economy—leaving the rest to fade into history with all the grace of a malfunctioning Vogon poetry recital.
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