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  • The Tipping Point - How little things can make a difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
  • Natural Capitalism by Amory Hu Paul/Lovins Hawken
  • Handbook of Water Use and Conservation: Homes, Landscapes, Industries, Businesses, Farms
    by Amy Vickers
  • The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling by Daniel D., Ph.D. Chiras
  • Integrated Buildings : The Systems Basis of Architecture by Leonard R. Bachman
  • Heating, Cooling, Lighting : Design Methods for Architects by Norbert Lechner
  • Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies by G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay
  • So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events by Rene J. Dubos
  • Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
  • Man and Nature by George Perkins Marsh, David Lowenthal
  • The Principles of Sustainability by Simon Dresner
  • Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities : Protecting Beyond the Protected by Tim O'Riordan, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
  • One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World by Julia Hill, Jessica Hurley
  • Walking by Henry David Thoreau
  • Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
  • Building Inside Nature's Envelope: How New Construction and Land Preservation Can Work Together by Andy Wasowski
  • Sustainable Cuisine: White Papers by Earth Pledge
  • Sustainable Architecture White Papers by Earth Pledge
  • The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
  • Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification by Ross Spiegel, Dru Meadows
  • Building Green in a Black and White World by David Ritchey Johnston
  • The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes by Daniel D. Chiras
  • Green Architecture by James Wines
  • The Ecological Design Handbook by Fred Stitt
  • Daylighting for Sustainable Design by Mary Guzowski
  • Mutant Message from Forever : A Novel of Aboriginal Wisom by Marlo Morgan
  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon
  • Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
  • The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
  • Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay
  • Critical Chain by Eli Goldratt
  • Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
  • Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence by Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy
  • Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainable Development and the Moral Life by Lisa H. Newton
  • Dancing With the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step (Conscientious Commerce)
    by Brian Nattra
  • Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by Ernst Von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
  • Ecological Design by Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cohen
  • Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Joseph J. Romm
  • Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later...With Commentaries by E.F. Schumacher
  • Home Economics: Fourteen Essays by Wendell Berry
  • Downsize This! by Michael Moore
  • Mixed Climates by Joseph Lstiburek
  • Mechanical & Electrical Equipment for Buildings by Benjamin Stein and John S.Reynolds
  • Deep Design: Pathways To A Liveable Future by David Wann
  • Climatic Building Design: Energy Efficient Building Principles and Practices by Donald Watson and Kenneth Labs
  • Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
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