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Here is a selection of readings about sustainability.

Books

Ray C. Anderson, Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model, (Peregrinzilla Press, 1998)

Peggy F. Bartlett and Geoffrey W. Chase, eds., Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press, 2004)

C.A. Bowers, The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools (State University of New York Press, 1997)

Lester R. Brown, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (Norton, 2001)

Eric A. Davidson, You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered, (Perseus Publishing, 2000)

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, (Viking, 2004)

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little, Brown and Company, 1999)

Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Island Press, 2006)

Julian Keniry, Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century (National Wildlife Federation, 1995)

Thomas A. Lyson, Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community, (Tufts University Press, 2004)

William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press, 2002)

Michael M'Gonigle and Justine Starke, Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University (New Society Publishers, 2006)

National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development, ed., Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (National Academy Press, 1999)

David W. Orr, Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building (MIT Press, 2006)

David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Island Press, 1994)

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, (Penguin Press, 2006)

George B. Pyle, Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food, (PublicAffairs, 2005)

James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (Yale University Press, 2004)

William M. Timpson, Brian Dunbar, Gailmarie Kimmel, Brett Bruyere, Peter Newman, and Hillary Mizia, 147 Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society (Atwood Publishing, 2006)

Journals and articles

Anthony D. Cortese, "Integrating Sustainability in the Learning Community," Facilities Manager, January-February 2005
http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/article.cfm?ItemNumber=2255&parentid=2248

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijshe/ijshe.jsp

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
http://ejournal.nbii.org/

Will Toor, "The Road Less Traveled: Sustainable Transportation for Campuses," Planning for Higher Education, March-May 2003

Web sites

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
http://www.aashe.org/

Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
http://www.ulsf.org/

Campus Climate Challenge
http://climatechallenge.org/

Campus Ecology Program of the National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/

Campus Sustainability Day (October 25, 2006)
http://www.scup.org/csd/4/

Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow
http://www.cfactcampus.org/

Engineers for a Sustainable World
http://www.esustainableworld.org/

Focus the Nation
http://www.focusthenation.org/

Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development
http://sustainabilityscience.org/

International Institute for Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org/

It's Getting Hot in Here
http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/

Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium
http://www.aashe.org/heasc/

National Council for Science and the Environment
http://ncseonline.org/

The Natural Step
http://www.thenaturalstep.org/

North American Alliance for Green Education
http://www.naage.org/

Restoring Eden
http://www.restoringeden.org/

Second Nature
http://www.secondnature.org/

Society for College and University Planning
http://www.scup.org/

Student Environmental Action Coalition
http://www.seac.org/

Sustainable Endowments Institute
http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/