Business & economics / Environmental Economics

Gaia and Tityas: What Homo Sapiens Have Done

by Denis Frith

Synopsis: Gaia is the gigantic organism that has evolved on Planet Earth. It is the mountains, plains, forests, grasslands, deserts and rivers. It is the climate and ocean currents. It hosts the creatures that...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0

by Thomas L. Friedman

This Independence Day edition of Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman...

Greening the Wind

by George C. Ledec & Kennan W. Rapp

Wind power is widely regarded as a key component of an environmentally sustainable, low-carbon energy future because it is renewable, requires almost no water, and generates near-zero emissions of greenhouse...

Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying

by David Bach & Hillary Rosner

Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green

Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with...

Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

by Matthew Sinclair

Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out...

Renewable Electricity Generation: Economic Analysis and Outlook

by Benjamin Zycher

This volume examines the outlook for renewable energy in electricity generation-particularly wind and solar power-as a substitute for conventional fuels such as coal and natural gas. Economist Benjamin Zycher...

Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

by Matthew Yeomans

Matthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without oil—only to stumble before exiting the bathroom (petroleum products play a role in shampoo, shaving...

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

by Peter G. Brown & Geoff Garver

In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of "right...

Industrial Evolution: Local Solutions for a Low Carbon Future

by Lyle Estill

Creating abundance and a thriving local economy through community-scale enterprise

Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on the Planet

by Kevin Cahill

You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska,...