Sustainability Books
Resource books on sustainability as it relates to design, business and even children’s stories.

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Design is the Problem
Author: Nathan Shedroff
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media (available also for download)
ISBN: 1933820004

The Designer’s Atlas Of Sustainability
Author: Ann Thorpe
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597260991

The Eco-Design Handbook
Author: Alastair Fuad-Luke
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500285217

Green Graphic Design
Author: Brian Dougherty & Celery Design Collaborative
Publisher: Allworth Press 2009
ISBN: 1581155115

SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients Image
Author: Aaris Sherin
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1592534015

Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design
Author: Wendy Jedlicka
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470246693

Design for the Other 90%
Author: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
ISBN: 9780910503976

SUSTAINABILITY – BUSINESS

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Author: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 086547587

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Author: Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470393742

Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
Author: Marc J Epstein
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576754863

Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Author: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
ISBN: 0804759634

The Green Marketing Manifesto
Author: John Grant
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470723246

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Author: Sharon Beder
Publisher: Green Books
ISBN: 1903998093

The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Author: Andres R. Edwards
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865715319

Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Author: Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 865714061

The Natural Step for Business
Author: Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 865713847

SUSTAINABILITY – SOCIAL

Do Good Design
Author: David Berman
ISBN: 9780321573209

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Author: Victor Papanek
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
ISBN: 0897331532

Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Author: Steven Heller (Editor), Veronique Vienne (Editor)
Publisher: Allworth Press
ISBN: 1581152655

Design for Sustainability (Design for Social Responsibility)
Author: Tracy Bhamra, Vicky Lofthouse
Publisher: Ashgate
ISBN: 0566087049

Conscientious Objectives
Author: John Cranmer & Yolanda Zappaterra
Publisher: Rotovision
ISBN: 2880467519

The Design of Dissent
Author: Milton Glaser & Mirko Ilic
Publisher: Rockport
ISBN: 1592531172

SUSTAINABILITY – GENERAL

The Ecology of Commerce
Author: Paul Hawken
ISBN: 887307043

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: First Mariner
ISBN: 0618249060

Keeping Our Cool, Canada in a Warming World
Author: Andrew Weaver
Publisher: Viking Canada
ISBN: 9780670068005

The Geography of Hope
Author: Chris Turner
ISBN: 978-0679314660

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Author: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0060533226

David Suzuki’s Green Guide
Author: David Suzuki, David Boyd
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1553652932

Massive Change
Author: Bruce Mau
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 0714844012

Our Ecological Footprint
Author: William Rees & Mathis Wackernagel
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 1550922513

Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming
Author: Annette Saliken
ISBN: 9780535470532

Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
Author: Alex Steffen
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 0810970856

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Author: Fred Pearce
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080708588X

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

The Lorax
Author: Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 394823370

The Fuzzies
Author: Richard Lessor
ISBN: 91359260

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