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Business Sustainability

Books

Listed below is a small selection of books written about business sustainability.

Carlson, Kim (2009).  Green your work: boost your bottom line while reducing your carbon footprint.  Avon, MA: Adams Media Corp.
HD30.255 .C37 2009
Swem stacks

Schreuder, Yda (2009).  The corporate greenhouse: climate change policy in a globalizing world.  NY: Zed.
HD62.4 .S37 2009
Law Library

Mintzer, Richard (2008).  101 Ways to turn you business green: the business guide to eco-friendly profits.  Irvine, CA: Entrepreneur Press.
HD30.255 .M56 2008
Swem stacks

McKay, Kim (2008).  True green@work: 100 ways you can make the environment your business.  Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society.
HB801 .M35 2008
Swem stacks

Ivanko, John D.(2008).  ECOpreneuring: putting purpose and the planet before profits.  Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Pub.
HD30.255 .I93 2008
Swem stacks

Streever, Bill (2007). Green seduction: money, business, and the environment. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi.
GE195 .S774 2007
Swem stacks, Swem electronic resource

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2007). National Partnership for Environmental Priorities [electronic resource]: better environment, better neighbor, better business. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EP 1.104:EN 8/5/CD
Swem Government Information CD Cabinets

Newton, Lisa H. (2005). Business ethics and the natural environment. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
HD30.255 .N49 2005
Swem stacks

Gunningham, Neil (2003). Shades of green: business, regulation, and environment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press.
HD9769 .W52 G86 2003
Swem stacks

Blair, A. M. (2001). Environment and business. London: Routledge.
HD30.255 .B53 2001
Swem stacks, Swem electronic resource

Harvard Business Review (2000). Harvard business review on business and the environment. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.
HD69 .P6 H373 2000
Swem stacks

Esty, Daniel C. (2006). Green to gold: how smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
HD30.255 .E88 2006
Swem electronic resource, Law Library

Hay, Bruce L. (2005). Environmental protection and the social responsibility of firms: perspectives from law, economics, and business. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.
HD30.255 .E5873 2005
Swem stacks

Periodicals

Trends: ABA section of environment, energy and resources

Business and the environment

Industrial Environment

Databases

Databases can be accessed either through the Business Library database page, or Swem Library databases.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management. Environmental sciences and pollution research. Scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Lexis/Nexis Academic. General interest, current events, politics, economics, religion, entertainment, social, cultural, etc. Newspapers and business, legal, medical, reference publications, and wire services.

Science Direct. An online system with numerous scientific publications and journals.

EBSCOhost (Business Source Complete). Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications dating as far back as 1922 for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest). ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and full text (various formats) from 1986. Not all journals are available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global now offers the full text of thousands of  premium business journals.

Factiva. Includes global content with the Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires as well as the Wall Street Journal. Factiva offers multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources and uses free text searching as well as codes.

Internet Resources

Environmental protection agency (EPA)

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

CATO institute

National council for science and the environment

Environmental expert

Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental News Network

Environment Directory

Environmental Leader