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Top 50 environmental books

Compiled by the University of Cambridge (via)

  • Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the battle Against World Poverty, by Muhammad Yunus, 1999
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus, 2003
  • Blueprint for a Green Economy, by David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier, 1989
  • Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits and Principles, by Anita Roddick, 2005
  • Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, by John Elkington, 1999
  • Capitalism as if the World Matters, by Jonathon Porritt, 2005
  • Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity, by Stuart Hart, 2005
  • Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment, by Stephan Schmidheiny and WBCSD, 1992
  • The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads, by Ervin Laszlo, 2006
  • The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship, by Simon Zadek, 2001
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond, 2005
  • The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Joel Bakan, 2005
  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, 2002
  • The Dream of Earth, by Thomas Berry, 1990
  • Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen, 2000
  • The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken, 1994
  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, by Nicholas Stern, 2007
  • The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs, 2005.
  • Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resources Use-A Report to the Club of Rome, by Ernst Von Weizsäcker, 1998
  • False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, by John Gray, 2002
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side on the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser, 2005
  • A Fate Worse than Debt: The World Financial Crisis and the Poor, by Susan George, 1990
  • For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future, by Herman Daly and John Cobb, 1989
  • Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, by C.K. Prahalad, 2004
  • Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, by James Lovelock, 2000
  • Globalization and its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz, 2002
  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, by George Monbiot, 2006
  • Human-Scale Development: Conception, Application and Further Reflections, by Manfred Max-Neef, 1991
  • The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism: The Quest for Purpose in the Modern World, by Charles Handy, 1999
  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore, 2006
  • The Limits to Growth, by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers, 1972
  • Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace, by Ricardo Semler, 1993
  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando De Soto, 2000
  • Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, 2000
  • No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, by Naomi Klein, 2002
  • Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, by George Soros, 2000
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by Buckminster Fuller, 1969
  • Our Common Future, by The World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987
  • The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich, 1969
  • Presence: An Explanation of Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society, by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers, 2005
  • The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future, by Elizabeth C. Economy, 2004
  • Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold, 1949
  • Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, 1962
  • The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg, 2001
  • Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher, 1973
  • Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, by Vandana Shiva, 1989
  • The Turning Point: Science Society and the Rising Culture, by Fritjof Capra, 1984
  • Unsafe At Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile, by Ralph Nader, 1965
  • When Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten, 2001
  • When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?, by Fred Pearce, 2006
Leo Hickman also suggests:
  • Walden, Henry David Thoreau, 1854
  • Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America, Thomas Friedman, 2008
  • The End of Nature, Bill McKibben, 1990
And some fictional books:
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006
  • The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey, 1975
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