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David Kollen

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Management
Rio Grande Campus
512-223-1790 ext 23647
dkollen@austincc.edu

 

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     HOME  |  “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

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Sustainability:
Restaurant/Café Sustainability Checklist (Example courtesy Bay Area Green Business Program)
Office/Retail Sustainability Checklist (Example courtesy Bay Area Green Business Program)
Small Manufacturer Sustainability Checklist (Example courtesy Bay Area Green Business Program)
Sustainability Primer, The Natural Step – Canada www.naturalstep.org/en/canada/download-form
GreenSeal™ Products and Services www.greenseal.org
 

Renewable energy:
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air, David MacKay www.withouthotair.com

Climate change (apolitical):
Ecological Impacts of Climate Change (2009)
Understanding and Relating to Climate Change (2008)
National Academy of Sciences www.nas.edu/climatechange

Book Recommendations: The following titles span the range from books mostly concerned with the mechanics of business sustainability to those more concerned with the relations between humans and the remainder of the natural world. (Check back from time-to-time as the list will grow.)

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, James Speth
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare
Green Intentions: Creating a Green Value Stream to Compete and Win, Brett Wills
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, Paul Hawken
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown (download free pdf @ http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/pb3book.pdf
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat, Charles Clover (Film release 2nd half 2009)
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Fred Pearce
Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature, Janine Benyus
Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee
The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson (Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and world-renowned biologist)
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered, Bill Devall and George Sessions
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, David Suzuki