 | Sustainable Construction by Halliday
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £20.38 A fantastic compendium of past, present & future - theory, practice, fact, fiction, choices & consequences. Required reading for all. Loads of great case study material
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 | Ecominimalism: The Antidote to Eco-bling by Howard Liddell
Buy used from: £45.51 The author, an architect with 30 years at the forefront of ecological design, deftly demolishes myths about green architecture and makes it beautiful, affordable, and possible.
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 | Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Reponses to Humanitarian Crises
Buy new: £10.16 / Used from: £17.98 Design Like You Give a Damn - A range of exemplars of architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. Directs students & teachers to what should be being taught if we are to make a better world.
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 | Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Buy used from: £39.83 Architecture & engineering could be used to improve quality of life - if it's fundamental purpose was social & environmental improvement.We can design our way out of this. How much fun is that!
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 | Design & Construction of Sustainable Schools: Lessons from School Building in Norway and Germany by Gaia Architects
The outcome of tours of 16 schools in Norway & Germany - www.Gaiagroup.org - looks at issues contributing to creating better schools including daylight, materials, health, landscape and play.
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| Interest and Inflation Free Money: Creating an Exchange Medium That Works for Everybody and Protects the Earth by Margrit Kennedy
Buy used from: £69.20 Interest and Inflation-Free Money explains why the current economic system isn't working and explains how to create an exchange mechanism that works for everybody.
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 | New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water
Buy used from: £111.05 Just beautiful, creative use of water as an opportunity. A positive approach to water in the urban environment
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 | Green Guide to the Architect's Job Book by Sandy Halliday
A step by step guide to delivering sustainable buildings. Anyone can aspire to it - but success relies on not dropping the baton. It's about the process!
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 | Living Downstream: Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingraber
Buy used from: £0.01 picks up where Carson left off the toxicity debate with feeling that Carson did not allow herself. "Of the 75000 synthetic chemicals now in common use, less than 3% have been tested for carcinogens."
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 | The Greening of Machiavelli: Evolution of International Environmental Politics (RIIA) by Tony Brenton
Buy used from: £14.35 Greening of Machiavelli - Best title award & a really great summary of the way international agreements have evolved.
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 | Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £17.08 David McKay - someone doing the sums on renewable energy and not over-egging them. A bit of timely real-politick in an increasingly crowded sellers market.
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 | Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use - The New Report to the Club of Rome by Ernst von Weizsacker
Buy new: £14.78 / Used from: £4.77 Factor Four offers creative solutions to societal and environmental goals that are cheap and effective
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