What We’re Reading

Web sites
www.greenbiz.com
The resource centre on business, the environment and the bottom line.

www.sustainablepackaging.org
A working group of packaging professionals, ranging along the value chain from paper and resin manufacturers to consumer product companies and retailers whose mission is (one) to advocate and communicate a positive, robust environmental vision for packaging; and (two) to leverage innovative, functional packaging materials and systems that support economic and environmental health.

www.sustainability.com
Independent think tank and strategy consultancy. Experts in corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Advisors on market risks and opportunities.

www.grist.org
Grist exists to tell the untold stories, spotlight trends before they become trendy, and engage the apathetic. We're fiercely independent in our coverage; we throw brickbats when they're needed and bestow kudos when they're warranted. And while we take our work seriously, we don't take ourselves seriously, because of the many things this planet is running out of, sanctimonious tree-huggers ain't one of them.

www.sustainablestyle.org/home.html
Sustainable Style Foundation is an international non-profit organization created to provide information, resources and innovative programs that promote sustainable living and sustainable design.

www.csrwire.com
The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service

www.treehugger.com
The definitive, modern yet green lifestyle filter claims to help you improve your course, yet still maintain your aesthetic. We like some of the very cool products they spotlight.

Blogs
www.core77.com
This is a mixture of blog and website on industrial design. They occasionally highlight cool ‘green’ products.
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Publications
Books
Garbage Land
Acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on a wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can.

Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, 2002.

Natural Capitalism
By Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. 2000.

The Ecology of Commerce
By Paul Hawken. 1994.

Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions To An Overpackaged World
Daniel Imhoff

Magazines
Utne Reader
A compendium of previously published articles from more than 2,000 media sources dealing with alternative points of view. www.utne.com

Organic Style
The only fashion/lifestyle magazine we read cover-to-cover. Full of fresh ideas and different thinking. www.organicstyle.com

BioCycle
The journal of composting and organics recycling www.jgpress.com/biocycle.htm

Papers
Cradle to Cradle – The Next Packaging Paradigm?
Packaging World Special Report Packaging World - Cradle to Cradle.pdf

The State of Garbage in America 2004
A joint study from BioCycle and the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University
State of Garbage 2004.pdf

Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States
Facts and Figures for 2003, US Environmental Protection Agency.
MSW US 2003 Report.pdf

Newsletters
GreenBuzz
News, Reviews, Tools, and Resources from GreenBiz.com editor@greenbiz.com

ENN Daily Newsletter and ENN Weekly Review www.enn.com

The EcoMarketerA marketing journals for the world’s most environmentally responsible companies. www.terrachoice.com
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