Environmental Sustainability & Social Performance In Business

Environmental Sustainability & Social Performance In Business

Below is a select list of books that not only imbibe the spirit of Investing for the Soul, but also are highly informative and inspirational. The titles are linked to booksellers (mostly Amazon.com) where they may be purchased. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

  • Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business

    “Joel Makower provides a roadmap–a clear and compelling vision of what’s possible when companies harness environmental thinking to create value for their shareholders, employees, customers, and communities.”—Gary Hirshberg, chairman and president of Stonyfield Farm. For more information, visit Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business, Joel Makower, McGraw-Hill 2008.

  • Positively Responsible: How Business Can Save the Planet

    “At last – a book about ’business and sustainability’ that treats business as an integral part of society (not some disconnected alien force) and business people as real people with real feelings, doubts and contradictions. That makes Positively Responsible a much more satisfying and illuminating read.”—Jonathan Porritt, Forum for the Future. For more information, visit Positively…

  • Corporate Responses to Climate Change: Achieving Emissions Reductions Through Regulation, Self-Regulation and Economic Incentives

    “This book is particularly important since it addresses the corporate sector, a major stakeholder in tackling the challenge of climate change. Indeed, it is largely through market-based responses that new technologies will be developed and their dissemination would take place to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. The book appropriately addresses issues of public policy…

  • Vault Guide to Green Programs

    “This guide presents accurate information about how North American companies are incorporating environmental concerns into their business and career practices. The guide is especially relevant to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as entry-level and mid-career employees, who are considering environmentally friendly companies. The guide can also be used by companies for research purposes, benchmarking…

  • No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement

    “Tessa Hebb examines the ability of pension funds, now the largest single driver of financial markets around the world, to use their ownership position to change corporate practices for the sake of the bottom line and, perhaps, change the world for the better in the process.”—Book description. For more information, visit No Small Change: Pension…

  • The Difference Makers: How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created the Corporate R Movement

    “The Difference Makers is a history and detailed analysis of how corporate responsibility has emerged as a key political, social, and business issue, why it has evolved so quickly, and what the visions of its thought leaders are for the future. It will be essential reading for academics, business people and all those who are…