Sustainability Without Corporations
Greenwash
In recent years, transnational corporations (TNCs)
have been greenwashing their dismal environmental performance by posing
as friends of the environment. This new book provides an overview of
TNCs in the global economy and of their impacts on the global
environment. It gives a general introduction to greenwashing and
Provides profiles of the environmental claims of 20 global corporations
involved in the chemical, energy, logging, and fishing industries. TNCs
profiled in this book include DuPont, Royal Dutch/Shell, Mitsubishi,
Ciba, Asea Brown Boveri, Westinghouse, Norsk Hydro, and Solvay. More >
Creating A Sustainable World
For years now, promoters of development and growth
have attempted to paint themselves “green,” claiming that development is
sustainable. In a new book, Creating a Sustainable World: Past
Experiences/Future Struggles, co-editor Trent Schroyer, Professor of
Sociology-Philosophy at Ramapo College, argues that such efforts are a
form of “greenwash,” that gloss over the real environmental consequences
of growth and mask the divergence between development and
sustainability. More >
Building Sustainable Communities
A revised edition of a classic work long out of
print, this book is based on the Schumacher Society Seminars on
Community Economic Transformation. It presents the underlying ideas and
essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The three
major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other
forms of community ownership of natural resources; worker-managed
enterprises, and other techniques of community self-management; and
community currency and banking. More >
Development Ethics
A pioneering work by one of the pioneers in
development ethics, who has long been at the leading edge of development
in linking the worlds of thought and action. This new field of study
has emerged from a heightened awareness of social issues and values in
development and a recognition of the need for application of something
more than “normal ethics” in this important realm of human endeavor.
After setting forth the contours of this new discipline, the author
formulates general principles underlying ethical strategies in
development and discusses their application in such topics as technology
for development, ecology and ethics, culture and tradition, and the
ethics of aid. Written for scholars, students, and practitioners of
development: national and international policy-makers, program planners,
project managers, field workers, and those local “communities of need,”
the presumed beneficiaries of development. More >
Good Neighbor Handbook
This invaluable resource is a product of the Good
Neighbor Project, focused on community-based negotiations with
corporations on environmental and economic issues, as embodied in Good
Neighbor Agreements and Corporate-Community Compacts. It is a unique
tool for communities and individuals seeking strategic insight, historic
information and examples on how to engage corporations and businesses
abusing their power and role in those communities. . More >
Greening Cities
Greening Cities is a treasure trove of practical
ideas that embody Green values of social and environmental justice and
are actually working on the ground in small, medium, and large cities,
as well as some rural communities, all around the world. It shows how
these values can and are being incorporated in local government policy
and how they shape voluntary efforts by community groups. More >
Seeds of Fire
Wilson and Whitmore, two activists with a history of
“walking the talk” of working for social justice, offer a
well-researched, provocative wake-up call for everyone concerned with
the survival of democracy in the new millenium. Based on a compelling
feminist critique of neoliberal globalization, they offer alternative
strategies for international social development from the “ground up”
through respectful accompaniment with transnational popular movements. More >
Uncertain Promise
A powerful and original book by one of the pioneers
in the ethics of development. The author peels away the mystique
surrounding modern technology to lay its basic dynamism and its dual
nature as simultaneous bearer and destroyer of values. His concern is
that societies – developed as well as less-developed- now allow “high”
technology to subvert truly human needs. More >
Voices of Hope in the Struggle to Save the Planet
At the heart of the current global environmental
crisis lie difficult moral choices, which are central to religion. This
book explores the connections between faith and ecology, seeking to
redefine and strengthen the bond between the two. VOICES OF HOPE
portrays the lives of individual women and men who are searching to give
life a new or renewed vision of humans’ relationship to the earth, and
describes actions to nurture and protect the environment launched by
faith-based environmental groups. More >
A World That Works
Animated by the proposition that an economics
constrained by respect for the natural world and human dignity is
possible, this volume offers a rich menu of alternative ideas and
experiences that are moving us toward a more just and sustainable
future. It also helped to set the stage for the June 1997 TOES (The
Other Economic Summit) in Denver. Many of the ideas and experiences
discussed in the book were debated there as alternatives to the official
agenda being addressed by the government leaders at the Group of 7
Economic Summit occurring simultaneously. More >
Chicken Little
In a science fiction classic published over 5
decades ago, readers were confronted with an arresting image of “Chicken
Little”, a legless, wingless, headless, featherless technological
triumph, a giant mass of flesh fed by dozens of pipes from which daily
slices are cut to feed a populace otherwise reduced to soyaburgers. Is
there Chicken Little in our future? This book raises the very real
possibility that there is and urges that this prospect be taken
seriously and debated. More >
