Berrett-Koehler Environmental Titles

Overfished Ocean Strategy Powering Up Innovation For A Resource-Deprived World

By Nadya Zhexembayeva

- Explains why companies must put resource scarcity at the center of their overall strategic thinking rather than relegating it to their “green” division 

- Lays out five principles for turning scarcity into opportunity 

- Features examples of companies all over the world that are successfully sailing the overfished ocean

Enough is Enough Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

By Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill

- Describes why never-ending economic growth is not possible on a finite planet and why the pursuit of growth is no longer improving people’s lives

- Lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of more—an economy where the goal is enough

- Offers practical and hopeful solutions to economic, environmental, and social problems

Changing Business From the Inside Out A Treehugger's Guide to Working in Corporations

By Timothy J. Mohin

- Practical, authoritative insider's guide to creating a career in corporate responsibility

- Provides advice on how corporate social responsibility workers can have greater impact, and even looks into how employees in other corporate functions can make a difference

- Details the programs and processes needed to support a comprehensive corporate social responsibility effort

Affluenza How Overconsumption Is Killing Us - and How to Fight Back

By John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor

Affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

- Tackles the damage inflicted to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment by the obsessive quest for material gain

- Examines the origins, evolution, and symptoms of the affluenza epidemic

- Explores cures and suggests strategies for rebuilding families and communities, and for restoring and respecting the earth

Rooftop Revolution How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy - and Our Planet - from Dirty Energy

By Danny Kennedy

- Systematically refutes the lies spread by solar’s opponents—that it is expensive, inefficient, and unreliable

- Shows that we need a rooftop revolution to break the entrenched power of the coal, oil, nuclear, and gas industries

- Explains  how solar energy can create more jobs, return our nation to prosperity, and ensure the sustainability and safety of our planet

Outsmart Waste The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It

By Tom Szaky

- Changes everything you ever thought you knew about garbage—and is guaranteed to change how you buy, consume, and dispose of things

- Explains the origins of the modern garbage crisis and what each of us can do to solve it

- Demonstrates that there is a use for every kind of garbage—cigarette butts, toothbrushes, pens, packaging, and more