| Book Title | Biomimicry | | Author | Janine Benyus | | Subject | Sustainability | | Your Comments | Great book on how nature does it better. We need to look at nature for clues on how to better farm, engineer, move, make materials, etc. She's been doing it for 3.8 billion years and is a lot better at it than homo sapiens sapiens. |
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| Book Title | Poverty of Affluence (The) | | Author | Wachtel, Paul | | Subject | Consumerism, Wellbeing, Happiness, Economics | | Your Comments | "In The Poverty of Affluence", Wachtel explores many practical alternatives to a growth-oriented economy. But his central offering is the simple, intriguing idea that lifting our eyes from the bottom line and focusing as well on the pleasures and possibilities inherent in activities and choices that cannot be bought will at once help make our lives happier and our society more ecologically sound and economically just. Wachtel argues that such a society is likely to mean happier lives for all of us." (from back cover) |
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| Book Title | Natural Capitalism | | Author | Hawken, Lovins | | Subject | Efficiency, Economics | | Your Comments | Creating the Next industrial revolution-- "Hugely important...Natural Capitalism ought to be on the nightstand of every CEO." Thomas Petzinger--columnist, Wall St. Journal |
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| Book Title | Earth in Mind | | Author | Orr, David | | Subject | Education, Sustainability | | Your Comments | "Justly removing hide and hair, David Orr here examines the calamitous "success" of the industrial economy and of the educational system that subserves it...Earth in Mind is also a manual of ideas and possibilities for those who want to work toward a better end than the one now in view." Wendell Berry |
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| Book Title | Ecology of Commerce (The) | | Author | Hawken, Paul | | Subject | Efficiency, Wellbeing, Happiness, Economics | | Your Comments | National Bestseller. "This is, in my view, the first extensive, truly ecological analysis of business; deeply disturbing and yet full of hope. Essential reading for all who care about our planet." Fritjof Capra, author of the Tao of Physics |
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