Essential reading for campus sustainability officers?
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What newsletters, websites, magazines, and journals do you read on a regular basis that you find most essential for your success as a sustainability officer?
What 3 books do you think that all sustainability officers should read?
Three books I'd recommend:
Ishmael (by Daniel Quinn)
Earth in Mind (by David Orr)
Biomimicry (by Janine Benyus)
Websites/newsletters/journals:
AASHE Bulletin
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Sustainability: the Journal of Record
Grist.org
Chronicle of Higher Ed (Buildings & Grounds blog in particular)
Inside Higher Ed (Getting to Green blog in particular)
NWF Campus Ecology blog
I subscribe to free, digital editions of ed+c and Sustainable Facility.
In addition to the strong recommendations above...
Books:
Toor and Havlick "Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities"
McKibben "Deep Economy"
Brower and Leon "Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices"
So hard to pick just 3... certainly some great must-reads already mentioned, but I don't think any list would be complete without:
"Natural Capitalism" (Lovins, Lovings, Hawken)
"The Natural Step Story" (Robert)
"The Fifth Discipline" and "The Necessary Revolution" (Senge)
"Believing Cassandra" and "The ISIS Agreement" (AtKisson)
"For the Common Good" and "Steady-State Economics" (Daly and Cobb)
"Mid-Course Correction" and "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist" (Anderson)
"Limits" and "Leverage Points" (Meadows, et. al.)
"Sustainability Advantage" and "Next Sustainability Wave" (Willard)
"TNS for Communities" (James and Lahti)
Lots of good reading recommended. I add:
"The Last Hours of Ancient Sulight: The Fate of the World and What We Can do Before it's too Late" by Thom Hartmann
"Wholeness: On Education, Buckminster Fuller, and Tao" by Alex Gerber Jr.
I would add "The Ingenuity Gap" by Thomas HOMER-DIXON...
Great recommendations above.
"Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum" by William F. Ruddiman (the science coincides nicely with the social-perspective given in "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn)
And the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University has done some wonderful work on psychology and environmental issues.
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I think one essential text is "Cradle to Cradle" by William McDonough. Another that I use with students (usually excerpts) is "The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken. Still a classic.