Top sustainability books   

[edit] THE TOP SUSTAINABILITY BOOKS

The following list is certainly up for debate-- the sadder thing is how few of these classics are available on the web for free. If you find links please add them below.

1. A Sand County Almanac^W Aldo Leopold^W (1949)
2. Silent Spring Rachel Carson^W (1962)
3. Unsafe At Any Speed^W Ralph Nader^W (1965)
4. The Population Bomb^W Paul L. Ehrlich (1968)
5. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth^W R. Buckminster Fuller (1969)
6. The Limits to Growth^W Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III (1972)
7. Small Is Beautiful^W E.F. Schumacher (1973)
8. Gaia^W James Lovelock (1979)
9. The Turning Point^W Fritjof Capra (1982)
10. Our Common Future^W (‘The Brundtland Report’) World Commission onEnvironment and Development (1987)
11. The Dream of the Earth^W Thomas Berry (1988)
12. A Fate Worse Than Debt^W Susan George (1988)
13. Staying Alive^W Vandana Shiva (1989)
14. Blueprint for a Green Economy^W David Pearce, Anil Markandya and Edward B. Barbier (1989)
15. For the Common Good^W Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr (1989)
16. Human Scale Development^W Manfred Max-Neef (1989)
17. Changing Course^W Stephan Schmidheiny and Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) (1992)
18. The Ecology of Commerce^W Paul Hawken (1993)
19. Maverick^W Ricardo Semler (1993)
20. When Corporations Rule the World^W David C. Korten (1995)
21. Biomimicry^W Janine M. Benyus (1997)
22. Cannibals with Forks^W John Elkington (1997)
23. The Hungry Spirit^W Charles Handy (1997)
24. Banker to the Poor^W Muhammad Yunus (1998)
25. The Crisis of Global Capitalism^W George Soros (1998)
26. Factor Four^W Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1998)
27. False Dawn^W John Gray (1998)
28. Development as Freedom^W Amartya Sen (1999)
29. No Logo^W Naomi Klein (1999)
30. Natural Capitalism^W Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (1999)
31. Business as Unusual^W Anita Roddick (2000)
32. The Mystery of Capital^W Hernando de Soto (2000)
33. The Civil Corporation^W Simon Zadek (2001)
34. Fast Food Nation^W Eric Schlosser (2001)
35. Cradle to Cradle^W William McDonough and Michael Braungart (2002)
36. Globalization and its Discontents^W Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002)
37. The Corporation^W Joel Bakan (2004)
38. Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a Sustainable World^W Chris Uhl (2004)
39. Presence^W Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers (2004)
40. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid^W C.K. Prahalad (2004)
41. The River Runs Black^W Elizabeth C. Economy (2004)
42. Capitalism as if the World Matters^WJonathon Porritt (2005)
43. Capitalism at the Crossroads^W Stuart L. Hart (2005)
44. Collapse^W Jared Diamond (2005)
45. The End of Poverty^W Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) [1]
46. The Chaos Point^W Ervin Laszlo (2006)
47. Heat^W George Monbiot (2006)
48. An Inconvenient Truth^W Al Gore (2006)
49. When the Rivers Run Dry^W Fred Pearce (2006)
50. The Economics of Climate Change Nicholas Stern (2007)

Please add more in chronological order....