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  • This new online book club created by the U.S. Green Building Council and Island Press offers books on green building for industry professionals. Recommended titles change every month. Discounts up to 40 percent for USGBC members.
  • "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems" offers a look at the ways that investing in green jobs can save the economy and the environment at the same time.
  • Longtime green scientist and author Glenn Croston offers his ideas for 75 green businesses for entrepreneurs who want to do well by doing good.
  • This guide to going green includes business case studies from corporations, manufacturers, startups, school systems and government groups of all sizes.
  • An examination of nanomaterials and how to understand their effects on human health and the environment.
  • Design for Sustainability is a practical approach to design which focuses on the challenges and issues faced by those designing consumer products in the 21st Century. It is written from a design perspective and aimed at both professional and student industrial and product designers, and those involved in managing design.
  • This book looks at the entire electronics supply chain with a focus on how to meet environmental regulations around the world.
  • This book provides a look at more than 50 innovative green building projects in Canada.
  • This book gives an overview of how sustainable design can reduce environmental impacts, and provides related case studies and resources.
  • This newly updated second edition of the landmark book further explores how to construct outdoor environments based on principles of sustainability, organized around guiding principles and offering case studies from around the globe.
  • In this updated second edition of his 2005 book, Porritt extends his controversial argument that the only way to save the world from fuel shortages, climate change and environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and quickly.
  • Part Sustainable Design 101 and part manifesto, this book lays the groundwork and philosophical basis of the green architecture movement, helping people to understand and shape the ways that sustainable design will become the future of all design.
  • Describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment.
  • This practical guide demonstrates the benefits of sustainable design by emphasizing its development as an economically viable and profitable option.
  • This book is intended as a starting point for anyone involved in the building industry on a journey to learn how they can build more responsibly.

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