Resources

Resources for Sustainability Leaders

Integrated Sustainability

Websites

Books

  • Atlee, Tom, Participatory Sustainability: Notes for an emerging field of civilizational engagement (2017)
  • Berners-Lee, Mike, There Is No Planet B: A handbook for the make or break years (2021)
  • Caradonna Jeremy L., Sustainability: A history (2016)
  • Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (1964)
  • Epstein, Marc J. and Buhovac, Adriana R., Making Sustainability Work: Best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental, and economic impacts (2014)
  • Hull, R. Bruce, Robertson David P. et al, Leadership for Sustainability: Strategies for tackling wicked problems (2020)
  • Jamail, Dahr, The End of Ice: Bearing witness and finding meaning in the path of climate disruption (2020)
  • Kolbert Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction: An unnatural history (2014)
  • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, Sustainability (2015)
  • Schumacher, E. F., Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered (2010)
  • Sze, Julie, Sustainability: Approaches to environmental justice and social power (2018)
  • Wallace-Wells, David, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after warming (2020)
Generative Leadership & Change

Websites

Books

  • Atlee, Tom, Reflections on Evolutional Activism (2009)
  • Berger, Jennifer G. and Johnstone, Keith, Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful practices for leaders (2016)
  • Bois, Samuel J., The Art of Awareness (1996)
  • Brown, Brene, Dare to Lead: Brave work. Tough conversations. Whole hearts (2018)
  • Bushe, Gervase R., Clear Leadership: Sustaining real collaboration and partnership at work (2010)
  • Capra, F., The Hidden Connections: Integrating the biological, cognitive, and social dimensions of life into a science of sustainability (2002)
  • DeWitt, Peter M., Collaborative Leadership: Six influences that matter most (2016)
  • Gordon, Jon, The Power of Positive Leadership: How and why positive leaders transform teams and organizations and change the world (2017)
  • Hassan, Zaid, The Social Labs Revolution: A new approach to solving our most complex challenges (2014)
  • Kahane, Adam, Collaborating with the Enemy: How to work with people you don't agree with, like or trust (2017)
  • Kahane, Adam, Power and Love: A theory and practice of social change (2009)
  • Korten, David C., The Great Turning: From empire to earth community (2006)
  • Macy, Joanna and Brown, Molly, Coming Back to Life (2014)
  • McKergow, Mark and Bailey, Helen, Host: Six new roles of engagement (2014)
  • Raelin, Joseph A. (Editor), Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and application (2016)
  • Regine, Birute, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World (2010)
  • Senge, Peter; Scharmer, Otto; Jaworski, Joseph and Flowers, Betty S., Presence: Human Purpose and the field of the future (2008)
  • Scharmer, Otto, Theory U: Leading from the future as it emerges (2009)
  • Shaw, Patricia. Changing Conversations in Organizations: A complexity approach to change (2002)
  • Spillane, James P., Distributed Leadership (2006)
  • Suzuki, David T. and Dressel, Holly J., Good News for a Change: How everyday people are helping the planet (2003)
  • Vaill, Peter G., Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for survival in a world of permanent white water (1996)
  • Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science (2006)

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