Sustainable Tourism

Resources

Blogs

• Heidi's Marketplace Blog : www.publicradio.org/columns/sustainability/greenwash

Topics [pdf downloads]

• Lodging and Food Arts [PDF, 765 KB]
• Marine Tourism [PDF, 560 KB]
• Hotel Water Conservation Pilot [PDF, 1.6 MB]

Links

• Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators Workgroup [www.epa.gov/pugetsound/indicators]
• Skin Deep : Cosmetic Safety Database [www.cosmeticsdatabase.com]
• GreenBiz.com® [www.greenbiz.com]
• greenlodgingnews™ [www.greenlodgingnews.com]
• WISDOM [www.wisdombook.org]

Magazines

• Green America [http://www.greenamerica.org/pubs/greenamerican/index.cfm]
• Plenty [www.plentymag.com]
• Sustainable Industries [www.sustainableindustries.com]

Reading List

• Better Together: Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein (more examples of community problem solving)
• Building The Green Economy: Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, and Jason Mark
• Cannibals With Forks: John Elkington
• Cradle to Cradle: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power: Mark Schapiro
• Green to Gold: Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston
• Harvard Business Review On Business And The Environment
• Heroes of the Environment: Harriet Rohmer
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America: Thomas L. Friedman
• Last Child in the Woods: Richard Louv
• Made to Stick: Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Peter F. Drucker
• Natural Capitalism: Amory Lovins, Paul Lovins and Paul Hawken
• Not Just a Pretty Face: Stacy Malkan
• Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy: Nancy Myers and Carol Raffensperger
• Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society: Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers
• The Cultural Creatives: Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson (about new markets)
• The Ecology of Commerce: Paul Hawken
• The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems: Van Jones
• The Lonely American: Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz (emphasizes the critical importance of belonging and community)
• The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competitin: Michael Shuman
• Thinking in Systems: Donella Meadows (considered the seminal work on systems thinking)
• Washington, Renewing the Countryside (a beautiful book about local farmers and farm communities)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference: Malcolm Gladwell

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