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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature by David Suzuki, Amanda McConnell (contributor)
This book by Canadian environmentalist of note, explores the nature of, well, nature, and the world around us. In its own adroit way, it manages to take what we normally consider mundane natural processes and communicates it to us in a way that demands greater respect and admiration
List Price: $17.95
Paperback: 259 pages
Seeking Structure from Nature: The Organic Architecture of Hungary by Jeffrey Cook (Editor)
The central idea of organic architecture is that buildings should be responsive to place and society, unlike the International Style typified by the work of Mies van der Rohe. This thrilling architectural reference documents the recent organic movement in Hungarian architecture. This is gorgeous work, if not without the dangers of embracing a canned nationalism. Lavishly illustrated with photos in b&w and color, as well as drawings and plans.
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List Price: $85.00
Hardcover: 191 pages
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
First released in 1962, Silent Spring offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation focusing on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that humans were being exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death.
List Price: $24.00
Hardcover: 400 pages
List Price: $14.95
Paperback: 400 pages
The Smart House by James Grayson Trulove
Divided into three sections, The Smart House illustrates how technology is changing our homes. The book looks at three areas: Smart Technology, which examines five aspects of technology and how it's being integrated throughout the house;Smart Materials, which shows new building materials such as titanium, electronic glass, and more; and Smart Design looks at more extravagant innovations which point to new ways of thinking about how we live and how we use space in this increasingly space-challenged world. Case studies of ten recently constructed homes are detailed to illustrate each aspect.
List Price: $39.95
Paperback: 192 pages
Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy by Neil Gunningham, Peter Grabosky, Darren Sinclair
Drawing from studies in North America, Europe and Australia, the authors show how combinations of policy instruments, tailored to particular environmental goals, will produce more effective and efficient policy outcomes. They also examine how, at a time of fiscal constraint, environmental policy might still be designed in ways that improve outcomes both for the environment and for business.
List Price: $160.00
Hardcover: 280 pages
Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings by Joseph R. Herkert (Editor)
An informative guide to the professional, societal, and ethical responsibilities that face practicing engineers today. Drawing on readings and case studies first published in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, this easy-to-read text will develop readers’ understanding of the important issues surrounding "macroethical" public policy debates, including discussions of sustainable development, public health, risk and product liability, and telecommunications. These cases and readings also provide an opportunity to apply the theory in real-world situations.
List Price: US $94.95 Paperback: 354 pages
Sustainable Architecture White Papers by Earth Pledge Foundation
This book brings together leading voices of architects, designers, planners, educators, manufacturers, and journalists, each a part of the sustainable design movement; some have been in the trenches for years, such as Randy Croxton and Kirsten Childs, James Wines, Samuel Mockbee, and Bill Browning, and others are household names, such as William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Some address the big picture and others deconstruct the micro components of the effort, such as non-toxic paints and office furniture. This volume is a valuable guide from the practical to the visionary.
List Price: $18.00
Paperback: 324 pages
Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasuable by Simon G Bell, Stephen Morse
The authors list and discuss various approaches that have been taken to developing useful indicators.They then develop in some detail a method for developing sustainability indicators for a project, based on seeking to identify and encompass multiple perspectives developed for a specific purpose. Revised and fully updated edition, March 2008.
List Price: $115.00
Hardcover: 192 pages List Price: $38.95
Paperback: 240 pages
Sustainable Architecture in Japan: The Green Buildings of Nikken Sekkei by Anna Ray-Jones (Editor)
The concept of sustainable architecture has a high profile at present, as we are become increasingly aware of our responsibilities towards the preservation of our planet. Nikken Sekkei is an architectural firm known for its consideration of the environmental consequences of its buildings, and this will be the first book to give a comprehensive coverage of this aspect of their work to date.
List Price: US $215.00
Hardcover: 190 pages
The Sustainable Business Challenge: A Briefing for Tomorrow's Business Leaders by Jan-Olaf Willums
List Price: $25.00
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Sustainable Ecosystems and the Built Environment by Guy Battle, Christopher McCarthy
For anyone involved in the design of the built environment. It is essential for architects, engineers and urban planners to be fully aware of the impact of their activities on the natural environment, as well as the effects of buildings on their occupants. This book offers guidelines. Compiled from a series of articles which appeared in the cutting-edge journal Architectural Design, this book covers topics related to the effect of buildings on their immediate environment, the global ecosystem, plus methods of making buildings healthy places to live and work. All the key issues of sustainability are discussed and backed up.
List Price: US $45.00
Paperback: 128 pages
Sustainable Measures: Evaluation and Reporting of Environmental and Social Performance Edited by Martin Bennett and Peter James with Leon Klinkers
List Price: $118.00
Hardcover: 192 pages
Sustainable Place: A Place of Sustainable Development by Christine Phillips
This book looks at the distinctive features of place associated with man’s interaction with landscape, architecture and master planning and investigates the potential of these features to form the constituent parts of a framework of assessment. It outlines a framework for determining the energy and environmental capabilities of a locality for sustainable development in consideration of its social, economic, political and cultural prerequisites which may be used anywhere in the world, to facilitate human progress whilst avoiding the disastrous environmental consequences that ill-considered development too often entails.
List Price: US $70.00
Paperback: 232 pages
Sustaining Environmental Management Success: Best Business Practices from Industry Leaders by W. Gary Wilson, Dennis R. Sasseville
The essential guide to the latest practices and trends driving environmental management in business today. Thorough explanation of many issues of environmental management, its relationship to sustainability and value-based management.Real-world examples from leading companies who are pushing the envelope on environmental management practices. Key concepts and applications, as well as measures for assessing performance. The book also covers writing an environmental policy, identifying environmental aspects, integrating business goals with environmental management systems, achieving sustainability, and integrating quality management initiatives.
List Price: US $141.00
Hardcover: 266 pages
Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies, Second Edition
by G.Z. Brown and Mark DeKay
How to design buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the future using on-site renewable resources. Developed for rapid use during schematic design, this book clarifies relationships between form and energy and gives designers tools for designing sustainably.
