ESG and Sustainable Investing

Secular themes

The claim that environmental and social externalities are financially material, and the sustained argument over whether it holds.

9 books

Start here

  1. The Ecology of CommercePaul Hawken, 1993
  2. Cradle to CradleWilliam McDonough, Michael Braungart, 2002
  3. Winners Take AllAnand Giridharadas, 2018

Books 9

The Ecology of Commerce
T1 The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken · 1993 · The book that converted a generation of executives to the restorative-economy case.
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Natural Capitalism
T1 Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins · 1999 · Resource productivity framed as an unpriced balance-sheet asset.
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Joe Gebbia
Cradle to Cradle
T1 Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough, Michael Braungart · 2002 · The circular-design argument against efficiency-only environmentalism.
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Joe Gebbia
Cannibals with Forks
T2 Cannibals with Forks
John Elkington · 1997 · Where the triple bottom line comes from.
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Let My People Go Surfing
T2 Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard · 2005 · Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic
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Nat EliasonDavid CancelJackie VullinghsJordan HughesPatrick O'Shaughnessy
Doughnut Economics
T2 Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth · 2017
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Jackie Vullinghs
Winners Take All
T2 Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas · 2018 · The strongest popular case that market-led do-gooding entrenches the status quo.
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Alexis OhanianTristan HarrisVinod Khosla
More from Less
T2 More from Less
Andrew McAfee · 2019 · Evidence that economic growth has decoupled from resource consumption
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Marc Andreessen
Green Swans
T3 Green Swans
John Elkington · 2020 · The author's own recall of the triple bottom line.
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