Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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ESG and Sustainable Investing

Secular themes

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

Books 9Recommenders 11

Start here

  1. The Ecology of CommercePaul Hawken, 1993
  2. Cradle to CradleWilliam McDonough, Michael Braungart, 2002
  3. Winners Take AllAnand Giridharadas, 2018
The Ecology of CommerceThe Ecology of Commerce
T1 The Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

How business harms the environment, and a plan to cut energy and resource use by 80%.

Natural CapitalismNatural Capitalism
T1 Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Resource productivity framed as an unpriced balance-sheet asset.

Recommended by: Joe Gebbia

Cradle to CradleCradle to Cradle
T1 Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough, Michael Braungart · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Design products on nature's model, where waste becomes food for the next cycle.

Recommended by: Joe Gebbia

Cannibals with ForksCannibals with Forks
T2 Cannibals with Forks
John Elkington · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

The triple bottom line: report on economic, environmental and social results.

Let My People Go SurfingLet My People Go Surfing
T2 Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, David Cancel and 3 others

Doughnut EconomicsDoughnut Economics
T2 Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jackie Vullinghs

Winners Take AllWinners Take All
T2 Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the global elite's efforts to change the world keep the status quo in place.

Recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Tristan Harris, Vinod Khosla

More from LessMore from Less
T2 More from Less
Andrew McAfee · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Evidence that rich economies now grow while using fewer physical resources.

“on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs” — Marc Andreessen

Source: @pmarca, companion thread to 'It's Time to Build'

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

Green SwansGreen Swans
T3 Green Swans
John Elkington · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

The author's own recall of the triple bottom line.

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