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| Contributors | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Preface | |
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| Sustainability, Economics, and the Environment | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Environmental Impacts | |
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| Population | |
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| Sustaining the Environment | |
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| Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Economics | |
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| Envisioning and Implementation of a Sustainable Society | |
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| Dynamic Aspects of Sustainability | |
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| Two Cultures--Or Three Filters? | |
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| Business | |
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| Business Firms in the New Millennium | |
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| Corporate Environmentalism | |
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| The Three Factors of Quality of Life | |
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| It's Easier to Say Green Than Be Green | |
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| Natural Capitalism | |
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| Green and Competitive | |
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| How Much Environmental Damage Is Too Much? | |
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| Profit | |
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| Managing the Business Interest | |
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| Science, Technology, and Progress | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| Technology | |
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| Technological Systems and Innovation | |
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| Thomas A. Edison: Innovator, Businessman, and Engineer | |
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| Social Goals | |
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| The Benefits of Technology | |
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| Technology and Social Progress | |
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| Positive and Negative Outcomes of Technology | |
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| Technology and Developing Nations | |
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| Limits to Technological Solutions | |
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| Fear Nature, Not Technology | |
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| Sustainable and Appropriate Technologies | |
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| Sustainability and Technology | |
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| Sustainability versus Unsustainability | |
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| Selecting an Appropriate Technology | |
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| Appropriate Technology | |
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| Business and Technology Methods | |
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| Sustainable Business Practices | |
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| Eco-Efficiency | |
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| Achieving Eco-Efficiency through Design for the Environment | |
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| Design for Environment | |
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| Designing Green Products | |
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| Green Products | |
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| Green Manufacturing | |
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| Green Marketing | |
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| Environmental Effects | |
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| Information Technology in Sustainable Development | |
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| Engineering Design and Innovation | |
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| Engineering | |
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| Engineering Design Methods | |
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| The Design Process | |
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| The House of Quality | |
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| Discontinuous Innovation | |
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| Business and the Corporation | |
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| Green Companies | |
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| Building a Business Model | |
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| An Entrepreneurial Future | |
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| Measures of Corporate Sustainability Efforts | |
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| Managing the Value Chain | |
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| Four Visions of the Century Ahead | |
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| System Design for a Post-Corporate World | |
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| Financial and Cost Issues in Sustainable Business and Government | |
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| Financing Sustainable Business | |
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| Internalizing Environmental Costs | |
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| Tradable Permits | |
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| Innovation and Environmental Sustainability | |
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| Life-Cycle Costs | |
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| Risk, Safety, and Health Factors | |
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| Cost--Benefit Analysis | |
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| Energy, Environment, Economy, and Society | |
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| Energy | |
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| Energy and the Environment | |
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| Energy Technology, Efficiency, and Efficacy | |
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| Energy and Government | |
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| The Energy Systems Model of Society | |
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| Coal | |
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| History of Coal Use | |
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| Coal and the Environment | |
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| Coal Technology | |
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| Petroleum and Natural Gas | |
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| Petroleum | |
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| Petroleum Resources and Prices | |
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| Limits to Oil Resources | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| Alternative Sources of Natural Gas | |
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| Electric Energy | |
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| Electricity | |
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| Generation and Transmission of Electric Power | |
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| Fuels Generation and Transmission of Electricity | |
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| Power Prices and Conservation | |
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| The Future of the Electric Power Industry | |
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| Nuclear Power | |
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| Nuclear Energy Technology | |
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| Nuclear Fission Power | |
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| Fusion Energy | |
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| Nuclear Power and the Large Environment | |
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| Renewable Energy | |
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| Renewable Energy Technology | |
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| Hydroelectric Power Generation | |
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| Wind and Solar Energy | |
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| Wind Energy | |
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| Wind Power: Where Will It Grow? | |
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| Solar Energy | |
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| The Potential for Photovoltaics | |
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| From Solarex to BP Solar | |
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| Biomass, Geothermal Energy, and Energy Storage | |
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| Biomass Energy | |
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| Research, Development, and Commercialization of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko | |
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| Geothermal Energy | |
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| Energy Storage | |
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| Energy Storage Technologies | |
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| Natural Resources and Waste Systems | |
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| Material Flows | |
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| Water Resources | |
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| Forests | |
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| Oceans and Fishing | |
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| Cropland | |
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| Waste Systems | |
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| Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Resources | |
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| Agriculture and the Farm | |
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| Worldwide Food Supplies | |
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| The Green Revolution | |
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| Agricultural Technology | |
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| Biotechnology | |
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| Aquaculture and the Future of Fisheries | |
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| International Ecosystem Assessment | |
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| Agriculture, Technology, and Natural Resources | |
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| Materials and Manufacturing | |
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| The Manufacturing Process | |
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| Material Intensity and Energy Intensity | |
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| Recycling and Reusing Waste Products | |
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| Resource Conservation | |
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| Service Extension | |
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| Health and Environment Risk | |
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| The Interface Corporation Case | |
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| Transportation Systems | |
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| Sustainable Transportation Systems | |
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| Air Transportation | |
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| Railroad Transportation | |
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| Public Transportation Systems | |
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| Water Transportation | |
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| Motor Vehicles | |
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| Heavy-Duty Trucks | |
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| Improved Motor Vehicles | |
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| Intelligent Transportation Systems | |
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| Electric and Hybrid Vehicles | |
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| The Electric Vehicle | |
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| The Soft and Hard Elements of Technological Development: The Electric Vehicle Case | |
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| The Hybrid Vehicle | |
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| Fuel Cells and the Hydrogen Economy | |
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| Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier | |
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| Fuel Cells | |
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| Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles: Big Business, Fast Cars, and Clean Air | |
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| Fuels for Fuel Cell Vehicles | |
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| Corporate Performance Indicators | |
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| Measurement and Indices | |
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| Measures of the Environment | |
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| Corporate Social and Environmental Indicators | |
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| The Three-Factor Scorecard | |
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| Measuring a Community's Quality of Life | |
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| Social Entrepreneurship and Investing | |
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| Social Entrepreneurship | |
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| Social Innovation | |
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| Social Investing | |
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| Buildings, the Internet, and the Future of a Sustainable World | |
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| Buildings and Construction | |
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| In the Tradition of Architecture | |
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| Telecommunications and the Internet | |
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| Telecommuting and Sustainability | |
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| Driving toward Sustainability | |
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| Government and Sustainability's Triple Bottom Line | |
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| The Problem of the Last Straw: The Case of Global Warming | |
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| Sustainable Consumption | |
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| Technology and Environmentalism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |