Sustainability reading list

Since having my series of epiphanies about Sustainability in the summer of 2022 I’ve been working through a TONNE of books to research ways to help busy leaders make more sustainable decisions.

I can’t thank all of the authors, podcast hosts, and generally amazing people enough for sharing these thought-provoking, eye-opening and inspiring ideas.

Read on to see everything I’ve read and would recommend to others wishing to learn a thing or two about how to

• Make organisations more sustainable
• Make society more sustainable
• See the Big picture through Systems Thinking
• Make better decisions

I’ve also included

• Sustainability podcasts
• Interesting Sustainability Initiatives
• Some really great Sustainability frameworks

How to make organisations more sustainable

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

The Case For Impact: A Guide To Creating Value In A World Of Social and Environmental Challenges

The Necessary Revolution How Individuals Ands Organisations are Working Together to

Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire: Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the…

ECO-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability (The MIT Press)

The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

How to make humanity more sustainable

Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe

Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

Goodreads

Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition

We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

COVID-19: The Great Reset

How to see the Big Picture

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Swivel to Sustainability Guidebook by Leyla Acaroglu - Swivel Skills

Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary

How to make better decisions

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

The Obstacle is the Way: The ancient art of turning adversity into opportunity: The Ancient Art of…

Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions

Sustainability Podcasts

The sustainable business podcast

Sustainability Initiatives of note

Value balancing alliance

Microsoft Annual report

Design Declares

Futureplanet.love

Sustainability frameworks

unschool

The Carbon Method

Environmental sustainability for digital services

Disruptive design method

IBM design for sustainability

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