Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business by John Elkington
"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" Elkington applies the question to capitalism as he ponders whether holding corporations accountable to a "triple bottom-line" of economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social justice constitutes progress.

Color, Environment, & Human Response by Frank H. Mahnke
Written for architects, interior designers, and color consultants, this ambitious study explores the psychological and physiological effects of color in the man-made environment. Scientific findings and industry-by-industry examples are furnished to help professionals specify colors that will create healthful environments in hospitals, schools, restaurants, and other public facilities.

Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan by Barbara Becker, Eric Damian Kelley & Frank So
The authors walk the reader through the planning process and clearly demonstrate what planners do and how citizens can become involved in shaping the future of their community. Includes exercises at the end of each chapter.

Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns & Villages in Any Part of the World by Nick Wates
Provides an overview of new methods of community planning. Tips, checklists and sample documents help readers to get started quickly, learn from others' experience and to select the approach best suited to their situation.

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries by Mike Jenks and Rod Burgess, editors
Presents an array of research on density, intensification, urban sprawl, peripheral development, and rapid urbanization, especially as they related to ideas of sustainable forms of urban areas for developing countries. Extends the debate, showing significant advances in policy and practice for developing future cities.

Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment by Kai N. Lee
Rigorous science can point the way, and politics can help us keep our balance, as we develop the ability to manage the environment in a sustainable manner. He emphasizes the slowness of the process, using the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest as a case study.

Construction Ecology: Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings
by Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, G. Bradley Guy
Contributing ecologists, industrial ecologists, architects, and materials manufacturers, collaborated to survey the evolution of concepts of construction ecology . Focusing on the built environment, they examine industrial ecology, minimizing waste emissions from the built environment, and green architecture.

Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
The authors, an architect and a chemist, want to eliminate the concept of waste while preserving commerce and allowing for human nature. Several compelling examples of corporations that are actually doing some good for the environment and making more money in the process. A handbook for 21st-century innovation and should be required reading for business leaders and environmental activists.

Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
Spend time with this book. Spend time with Bucky. He was wise enough to make available all that he learned during his fifty-six year personal experiment to determine what one individual could do on behalf of all humankind that could not be achieved by any organization no matter how powerful. Critical Path is but one of the artifacts he left for our enlightenment, and it is the most accessible of Bucky's writing. Understanding and employing the wisdom that Bucky uncovered and shared has the power to make enormous shifts in people's lives as well as the welfare of the crew of the planet he named Spaceship Earth.