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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
North Point Press
2002
208 pages
Paperback

"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask. Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.

Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
Ray Anderson
Perengrinzilla Press
1999
204 pages
Paperback

Ray Anderson is the Chairman and founder of Interface, Inc, a floorcoverings company based in Atlanta, GA. Anderson explores and describes the sustainable path he has created for Interface. This perspective gives readers an opportunity to understand the steps that can be taken to reduce environmental waste frequently produced by corporations.

The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care
Jessica Pierce, Andrew Jameton
Oxford University Press
2001
149 pages
Hardcover

Illustrates how environmental decline relates to human health and to healthcare practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. Outlines trends affecting health and focuses on the connections between ways of practicing medicine and the environmental problems damaging ecosystems and making people sick.

Natural Capitalism:  Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawkin, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Bay Back Books
2000
416 pages
Paperback

In this book, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs. Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins write that in the next century, cars will get 200 miles per gallon without compromising safety and power, manufacturers will relentlessly recycle their products, and the world's standard of living will jump without further damaging natural resources. "Is this the vision of a utopia? In fact, the changes described here could come about in the decades to come as the result of economic and technological trends already in place," the authors write.