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Making a Living While Making a Difference

Making a Living While Making a Difference

Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependence

Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s “about” greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, …

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings - 9th Edition

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings - 9th Edition

Save Money, Save the Earth

How efficient are front-load washing machines? When is it time to replace your old refrigerator? These questions and many more are answered in The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, a one-stop resource for consumers who want to improve their …

related subjects: Energy , Environment & Economy
The Business Case for Sustainability

The Business Case for Sustainability

Global climate and energy crises have focused corporate attention onsustainability. The time is right to help business leaders connect thedots between doing well and doing good.

The Business Case for Sustainability presents a compelling case …

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness

Building Genuine Wealth

We all know that money can't buy you love...or happiness, but we have been living our lives as though the accumulation of wealth is the key to our dreams.

Why, in spite of increasing economic prosperity over the past 50 years, are many conditions of …

related subjects: Environment & Economy
Plug-in Hybrids

Plug-in Hybrids

The Cars that Will Recharge America

A politically polarized America is coming together over a new kind of car - the plug-in hybrid that will save drivers money, reduce pollution, and increase U.S. security by reducing dependence on imported oil.

Plug-in Hybrids points out that, whereas …

related subjects: Environment & Economy
The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook

The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook

Slowing Climate Change and Saving Money

Most people are unaware that environmental problems such as climate change can be easily avoided, at a profit, through the intelligent application of appropriate technology. The Carbon Buster's Handbook describes how to achieve this goal in the …

related subjects: Environment & Economy
Cutting Your Car Use

Cutting Your Car Use

Save Money, Be Healthy, Be Green!

Imagine living where every child can walk or cycle to school in safety, where local businesses thrive and where a car is not essential to enjoy life. Picture how different your neighborhood would be with fewer moving cars. Think how much better your …

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The Growth Illusion

The Growth Illusion

How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the Planet

The idea that economic growth is necessary is deeply rooted in western culture and forms the basis of the economic strategies for developed and developing nations around the globe. A finalist in the GPA Book Award when first released in 1993, this …

related subjects: Environment & Economy