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A Primer on Sustainable Building by Dianna Lopez Barnett with William Browning , Rocky Mountain Institute
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay
Beyond the Limits by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers
Big and Green: Towards a Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century, David Gissen, ed.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee Hock
Building Systems Integration Handbook, editor Rush (AIA Press)
Buying for the Future: Contract Management and the Environmental Challenge by Kevin Lyons
Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Joseph J. Romm
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Critical Chain by Eli Goldratt
Design With Nature, by Ian McHarg
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Eco-Pioneers – Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems, by Steve Lerner
Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century by Julian Keniry
Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
Ecological Design by Sim Van Der Ryn
Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Amory and Hunter Lovins, Ernst Weizsacker
Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Green Architecture by Brenda Vale and Robert Vale
Green Essentials: What You Need to Know About the Environment by Geoffrey C. Saign (a reference manual)
Handbook of Sustainable Building by David Anink, Chiel Boonstra, John Mak
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They are Built, Stewart Brand
How Cities Work – “Suburbs, Sprawl, and The Roads not Taken”, Alex Marshall
Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael, Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, David Brower
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson
Mapping the Journey–“Case studies in strategy and Action toward Sustainable Development” by Lorinda Rowledge, Russell Barton and Kevin Brady
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan, Carri Garrison (Illustrator
Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution , Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, et
Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, by the Board on Sustainable Development, National Research Council
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
The Green Skyscraper – “The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings”by Ken Yeang
The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California Ancient Redwoods by David Harris
The Natural House Catalogue by David Pearson
The Natural Step for Business “Wealth Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation” by Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
The Natural Step Story by Karl Henrik Robert
The Oregon Experiment by Christopher Alexander
Silent Spring and Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
Solar Living Sourcebook by John Schaeffer
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning
Sustainable America - A New Consensus for Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy Environment for the Future by Nita Congress (Editor)
Sustainable Architecture by James Steele
Sustainable Communities by Peter Calthorpe and Sim Van der Ryn
The Sacred Balance and Tree by David Suzuki