Economics
The Independent Home - Michael Potts
Independent case studies of owner built homes and their energy and water systems, very good.
Homemade Money: How to Save Energy and Dollars in your Home - RMI Staff
The title to this book is pretty self explanatory, it is an excellent look at what you can do with what you have and how to do it inexpensively.
Economic Renewal Guide - Michael J. Kinsley
An RMI publication featuring community based economic strategies and development.
Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough and Eric Braungart
This work aims to revolutionize how we make things and how they can be part of a closed system of biological and technical nutrients in place of our traditional throughput system.
Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
A classic treatise that outlines economics "as if people mattered." Covers the topics of steady state economic theory and community based economics.
Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Armory and Hunter Lovins
This book highlights real world examples of businesses and their techniques that make a profit while giving back to the people and the planet. Provides a model for business and design like a "tree," producing more than it consumes.
The Ecology of Commerce - Paul Hawken
Hawken's earlier work on bending the capitalist mindset to a nice shade of green.
Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
Independent case studies of owner built homes and their energy and water systems, very good.
Homemade Money: How to Save Energy and Dollars in your Home - RMI Staff
The title to this book is pretty self explanatory, it is an excellent look at what you can do with what you have and how to do it inexpensively.
Economic Renewal Guide - Michael J. Kinsley
An RMI publication featuring community based economic strategies and development.
Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough and Eric Braungart
This work aims to revolutionize how we make things and how they can be part of a closed system of biological and technical nutrients in place of our traditional throughput system.
Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
A classic treatise that outlines economics "as if people mattered." Covers the topics of steady state economic theory and community based economics.
Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Armory and Hunter Lovins
This book highlights real world examples of businesses and their techniques that make a profit while giving back to the people and the planet. Provides a model for business and design like a "tree," producing more than it consumes.
The Ecology of Commerce - Paul Hawken
Hawken's earlier work on bending the capitalist mindset to a nice shade of green.
Deep Economy - Bill McKibben
