Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

9 best books like Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Bill McKibben): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Last Days of the Incas, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316346624
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684827123
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0143036556
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
The Last Days of the Incas
AuthorKim MacQuarrie
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history...
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
AuthorMuhammad Yunus
ISBN1586481983
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank,...
AuthorVan Jones
ISBN0061650757
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country — the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate,...
AuthorJames Howard Kunstler
ISBN0802142494
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.

Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
AuthorBrant Cooper
You are not a Visionary... yet.

The Lean Entrepreneur shows you how to become one.

Most of us believe entrepreneurial visionaries are born, not made. Our media glorify business outliers like Bezos, Branson, Gates, and Jobs as heroes with X-ray vision who can look to the future,...
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