| The Green Business Letter - A monthly newsletter to help businesses integrate environmental thinking throughout their operations. Current issue, subscription information, archive, calendar, and contacts.
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| Business Strategy and the Environment - Academic journal which seeks to provide contributions which add to the understanding of business responses to improving environmental performance.
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| Factor Four - Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - (L. H. Lovins, E. von Weizsäcker and A. B. Lovins, 1998. ISBN 1853834068, 352 pages). The visionary 'doing more with less' bestseller.
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| The Planetary Bargain - Corporate Social Responsibility Matters - (Michael Hopkins, 2003. ISBN 1853839787, 252 pages). Corporate scandals and lack of confidence in our largest institutions mean that corporate social responsibility (CSR) now matters more than ever. Encroaching on CSR are concepts such as corporate sustainability and corporate citizenship, and older concerns with business ethics, business in society and the ethical corporation...
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| Business and the natural environment - (ed. Pratima Bansal and Elizabeth Howard, 1997. ISBN 075062051X).
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| Green Business: Hope or Hoax - (ed. by Christopher and Judith Plant, 1991. ISBN 0-86571-196-8 / 0865711968) This critique of green consumerism looks at the effect of business and industry on the environment, and considers their role within a future, sustainable economy. Discusses the implications of the greening of business in the USA, the UK, Japan, and Third World countries.
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| Protecting the Global Environment: Initiatives by Japanese Business - (Ed. Jeremy J Warford, Wilfrido Cruz and Koichiro Fukui, 2002. ISBN 0821351222, 144 pages). This publication seeks to further discussion of the connection between environmental concerns and national development policies. By outlining three specific examples from the steel, power and forestry sectors, in Japan, it demonstrates how remarkable environmental improvements can occur while improving production efficiency.
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| Business and Its Environment - (David Baron, 4th Edition, 2002. ISBN 0131229036, 864 pages). Brings together in an integrated manner the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to provide a deeper understanding of the issues that arise in the environment of business. Built around a set of conceptual frameworks for analyzing these issues, the text formulates nonmarket strategies to deal with them, integrates these with market strategies, and provides cases for the application of the conceptual material.
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| Greening Industry: New Roles for Communities, Markets, and Governments - (World Bank, 1999. ISBN 0-19-521127-8). Shows how recent economic and regulatory policy reforms are reducing industrial pollution in developing countries, without threatening economic growth.
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| The Natural Step for Business. Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation - (Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare, 1999. ISBN 0865713847, 240 pages). Examines how four successful 'evolutionary' corporations in Sweden and the United States are positioning themselves for long-term competitiveness using The Natural Step as a central part of their corporate strategy.
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| The E-Factor, the bottom-line approach to environmentally responsible business - (Joel Makower, 1993. ISBN 0812920570).
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| Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development - (Charles O. Holliday Jr., Stephan Schmidheiny, and Sir Philip Watts, 2002. ISBN 1-874719-50-0). Drawing on case studies and personal interviews from business leaders, Walking the Talk shows the benefit of operationalising leading-edge environmental and social initiatives.
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| Business and Biodiversity: A Guide for the Private Sector - (IUCN and WBCSD, 1997. ISBN: 2-8317-0404-9). The Earth's resources are limited and there is growing concern about the way in which they are being managed. A Guide for the Private Sector explains why business should be involved in the biodiversity debate and suggests how it can participate. There is a need to incorporate biodiversity issues into business strategies, especially for industries directly dependent on biological resources (such as eco-tourism, agriculture and forestry), and to encourage businesses to become active in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
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| Natural Capitalism-Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - (Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken, 1999. ISBN 0316353167 / 0316353000 (Paperback), 416 pages). The next Industrial Revolution, like the first one, will be a response to changing patterns of scarcity. It will create upheaval, but more importantly, it will create opportunities. Business must adjust to these new realities. Innovative companies are already doing just that. They're profiting and gaining decisive competitive advantage--and their leaders and employees are feeling better about what they do, too. They're in the vanguard of a new business model: natural capitalism.
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| In Earth's Company. Business, Environment, and the Challenge of Sustainability - (Carl Frankel, 1998. ISBN 0865713804, 240 pages). People have looked more and more to the business world to take their share of responsibility for the fast-deteriorating state of the Earth. But exactly how businesses should go about this task has remained something of a puzzle. With In Earth's Company, Carl Frankel gathers the pieces of the puzzle together into a single, comprehensive volume.
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| Costing the Earth: The Challenge for Governments, the Opportunities for Business - (Frances Cairncross, 1993. ISBN 0875844103).
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| What We Learned in the Rainforest: business lessons from nature - (Tachi Kiuchi and Bill Shireman, 2002. ISBN 1-57675-127-9). The book draws the link between sustainable development in the rainforest and the innovative practices of forward-thinking businesses: nature can be more than just a resource for business - it can be a powerful business model for driving innovation, profitability and sustainability.
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| Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance. Best Practices for Costing and Managing an Effective Environmental Strategy - (Marc Epstein, 1996. ISBN 0786302305).
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| Cannibals With Forks. The Triple Bottom Line of the 21st Century Business - (John Elkington, 1998. ISBN 0865713928, 424 pages). John Elkington convincingly argues that future market success will often depend upon a company's ability to satisfy the three-pronged fork of profitability, environmental quality, and social justice. The guide outlines the seven great 'sustainable' revolutions that are already unfolding, showing how business leaders should respond and profiles some of the world's best-known companies.
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| Industrial Ecology - (Thomas E. Graedel and Braden R. Allenby, 1995. ISBN 0-13-046713-8). This text addresses the increasing need for knowledge about the interactions between industry and environment with the ultimate goal of sustainability.
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| Design for Environment - (T.E. Graedel and B. R. Allenby, 1997. ISBN 0-13-531682-0, 192 pages). Concentrating on the preservation and enhancement of the environment, this text discusses the effects of industrial actions on the environment, focusing on environmental clean-up from our past while working towards future, environmentally-sound industrial growth.
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| Environmental Finance - (ISSN 1468-8573 published by Fulton Publishing) Monthly -- covering the impact of financial issues on the financial sector and its corporate clients.
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| Business Ethics Magazine: Corporate Responsibility & Social Investing Report - (Quarterly) A premier publication of the movement for greater social responsibility in business.
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| Corporate Social Opportunity! - (David Grayson and Adrian Hodges, 2004. ISBN 1 874719 84 5 (Hardback), 1 874719 83 7 (Paperback), 390 pp). How to improve corporate performance and gain competitive advantage. Challenges the perceived wisdom that adherence by business to corporate social responsibility is a zero-sum game where the impact on companies is added costs and extra regulatory burden. Seven Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work for your Business
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| Corporate Environmental Strategy - (ISSN 1066 7938). CES Journal aims at improving the practice of corporate sustainability in order to promote its adoption and use in a dynamically changing corporate world.
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| Biodiversity Offsets: Views, experience and the business case - (IUCN and Insight Investment, 2004. ISBN 2-8317-0854-0) Biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes has been supplemented by growing interest in the potential of voluntary biodiversity offsets.
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| Sustainable Management in Action conference - Organised on 19-20 September 2005, SMIA05 aimns at promoting deeper understanding of sustainable management. Topics include entrepreneurial development, stimulation of employees, economies of scale provided by Internet, SME-development, sustainable management systems; Win-Win Management in developing countries, innovative environmental technologies, sustainable financing, marketing and tourism.
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| Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management - Online ISSN: 1535-3966 / Print ISSN: 1535-3958. Provides a practical resource for the ever increasing number of organisations concerned about social and environmental responsibilities in the context of sustainable development and are interested in developing tools to improve their performance and accountability in these areas. Focus is given to advice for the development of tools, practical case studies and an assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
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| Green, Inc - Earthscan Environmental Books - Frances Cairncross, senior editor of The Economist and author of the best selling Costing the Earth, shows that economic growth does not have to be at the expense of Frances Cairncross, 1995 (288 pages, ISBN:1853832502) -- Shows that economic growth does not have to be at the expense environmental protection. For the poor, growth is essential, to eliminate the threats to health and environmental security that poverty presents. As for the more affluent, they may be unwilling to sacrifice their living standards, even for a cleaner environment.
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