The Principles of Sustainability by Simon Dresner

Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? This text tackles these questions directly. It goes beyond rhetoric to explain the deeper issues of sustainable development in an accessible and interesting manner for the non-specialist reader.

Paperback, 208 pages, (October 3, 2002).

Renewable Energy by Godfrey Boyle (ed.)

Renewable Energy provides a comprehensive overview of the principal renewable energy sources available today. For each one, it explains the underlying physical and technological principles, and examines environmental impacts and future prospects.

Paperback, 464 pages, (March 11, 2004).

The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

The original edition of The Limits to Growth forever changed the global agenda by demonstrating that unchecked growth on our finite planet was leading planet earth towards ecological 'overshoot'. This substantially revised, expanded and updated edition presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path.

Paperback, 368 pages, (November 3, 2004).