Delivering Sustainability in your Business
By Guild
Delivering Sustainability in your Business
By Guild
All the books recommended by members of the Guild community "Delivering Sustainability in your Business". This community hosted on Guild is a useful space to learn, share your journey and network with peers who are working to improve sustainability in their organisations The group aims to create a supportive peer-to-peer network/group, bringing together those with significant experience in implementing sustainability initiatives with those just starting out on their journey. Topics covered include convincing sceptics, mythbusting, sustainability ROI (and other metrics), incentivising behaviour and much more.
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Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
Paul Polman and Andrew Winston
£22.00
The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley
£14.99 £14.24
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Yvon Chouinard
£18.99 £18.04Guild member view: "... a great book on authentic purpose..."
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition
Mike (Lancaster University) Berners-Lee
£10.99 £10.44Guild member view: "essential foundation reading to help inform and guide in a really digestible way"
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Jason Hickel
£10.99 £10.44Guild member view: "probably one of the best books I've read on redesigning our economy, the last chapter is really insightful and provides some changes we can make now with technology that is readily available"
A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains: Repair, Remake, Redesign, Rethink
Catherine Weetman
£39.99
The Case for the Green New Deal
Ann Pettifor
£8.99 £8.54Guild member view: "Some great nuggets of economics, history, finance and of course the case for GND"
Manifesto: How a maverick entrepreneur took on British energy and won
Dale Vince and John Robb
£20.00Guild member view: "I was really inspired by Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity, and his story"
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition
Mike Berners-Lee
£11.99 £11.39Guild member view: "The New York Times bestseller "How Bad are Bananas?" by Mike Berners-Lee picks out a highly diverse mix of 100 articles or activities, giving an analysis of the carbon footprint of each. It demonstrates the challenge faced when trying to gather this sort of information. Very few things have the same carbon transparency as buying a tank of fuel to drive somewhere. There are unexpected inputs, hidden subsidies and incalculable interactions which make something's actual carbon footprint differ radically from the expected. "How Bad are Bananas?" nails it and reading it confers a basic level of carbon literacy on the reader - but it doesn't spare them from having to guess at the cradle-to-grave carbon footprints of all the other things the book doesn't cover!"
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
£12.99 £12.34
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
£16.99 £16.14
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Paul Hawken
£20.00 £19.00
We can only list books here that are available on Bookshop.org and sometimes our members recommend privately published or out of print books not available here. To make this list as comprehensive as possible (and because you'll do even more good by buying your book direct from an independent bookshop, second-hand or borrowing from a library) here are the books we couldn't list:
The Future of Energy 2021 - John Armstrong
Green Marketing Manifesto - John Grant