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At Northstar Aviation References, we offer a wide range of pre-tabbed FAR/AIMs and aviation books. We are a group of pilots and general aviation enthusiasts who aim to help individuals achieve success. We believe that success in the air starts Read more [...]

The clock is ticking. We need to ACT NOW on our climate crisis. Humanity is at risk. When the whole world is talking about creating a more sustainable, equitable and conscious way of living, how has this changed the way Read more [...]

How many ads have you designed? How many products have you launched? Have you ever designed an ending? Does it matter? There is a gap in the consumer lifecycle that needs attention – the end. The problems of consumerism are Read more [...]

The Ends book makes a compelling case that demonstrates how, over centuries, our changing relationship with death has led to the loss of our relationship with endings. Giving rise to guilt-free consumers, an overly-blamed business sector and a society which Read more [...]

Look around you. Everything you see was put there by one of us. By a supply chain professional. Every material that is in our economy today is there because we planned, sourced, made, moved, and managed it to where it Read more [...]

An illustrated Young Adult Novel written by George and Ehrengard Hohbach with Scott Marcano Illustrations by Juan Romera An Action Comedy based on the extraordinary life story of Michael Braungart, world-renowned chemist and co-founder of the groundbreaking Cradle to Cradle Read more [...]

An illustrated Middle Grade Novel written by George and Ehrengard Hohbach with Scott Marcano Illustrations by Juan Romera An adventure and discovery journey based on the extraordinary life story of Michael Braungart, world-renowned chemist and co-founder of the groundbreaking Cradle Read more [...]

The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy. These perspectives span an array of subjects including economics, environmental policymaking, sociology, environmental science, environmental and industrial engineering, management, international development, and human Read more [...]

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.   In the 21st century, society is faced by rapid urbanisation and population growth, degradation and loss of natural capital and associated ecosystem Read more [...]

Circular economy represents an opportunity to remove myths, try new solutions, promote different paradigms. Not only from its positive environmental impacts, such as the fight against climate change, also through its effects on production models, the economy and employment, among others. Read more [...]

As a Marketer, You can always have a patient for growth but impatient for profits. The marketer’s job is to do both.   Doing marketing helps you to strategically communicate your message to your intended audience, to get immediate profits.   Leading Read more [...]

Forget Mars: Circular Economy, The Next Big Business Opportunity introduces circular economy, which will revolutionize the business world as we know it. By addressing the ever real issues our earth faces, this book acts as a survival guide for all companies Read more [...]

This book presents new research on policy innovations that promote the development of the circular water economy. In contrast to the linear economy, the circular water economy promotes the reduction of water consumption, reuse of water, and recovery of resources Read more [...]

¿Qué es la Economía Circular? La Economía Circular plantea un cambio del modelo de producción y consumo global actual, hacia un desarrollo sostenible, teniendo en cuenta los aspectos económicos, ambientales y sociales. A diferencia de la Economía Lineal de Tomar-Producir-Usar-Tirar, Read more [...]

Whether it is from an economic, social, environmental or even a public health point of view, waste is everywhere. It is at the juncture of most of today’s ills: pollution, climate change, the rarefaction of resources and of biodiversity, and Read more [...]

The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no Read more [...]

Renewable Matter is a magazine in English and in Italian, online and on paper, edited by Edizioni Ambiente. Renewable Matter gathers articles and essays from the most innovative visions of economy and society drawing on the concept of bioeconomy, circular Read more [...]

Food in the circular economy   Over the last 100 years, the agricultural system has been disrupted by several technologies that have transformed food supply completely. Whereas food supply used to be from local farms serving local markets, it has Read more [...]

The Liveability Challenge is a global platform that hunts for and accelerates the launch of innovative and ground-breaking solutions to challenges that cities in the tropics face in the 21st Century. With 12 years left before humanity exhausts the world’s Read more [...]

El cambio climático, la sobreexplotación de los recursos y la destrucción de los ecosistemas, provocados por un sistema de producción y consumo desmesurados, son retos a los que debe enfrentarse la sociedad actual. Las organizaciones internacionales están buscando alternativas para Read more [...]

In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people moving from rural to urban areas. With global demand for water projected to outstrip supply in the coming decades, cities will likely face water insecurity as a Read more [...]

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural solutions to mitigate risks with numerous Read more [...]

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe. However, there is no single action or strategy that any government can implement to ensure a community is resilient to climate change-related extreme Read more [...]

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy. Despite rising demand for water, energy and food globally, the governance Read more [...]

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits. It emphasises the urgent need for these circular economies and to move away Read more [...]

Attention for the circular economy (CE) is increasing, in the public as well as in the private sector, both in the Netherlands and across wider Europe. Given the potential contribution of the CE to the larger challenges of our time Read more [...]

Tips & tricks, new business models and insights from 31 Dutch organisations that have embraced circularity … read all about it in this special English edition. The popularity of the circular economy is growing, but what does it have to Read more [...]

Book: Constructing A Green Circular Society Edited by Munjur E. Moula; Jaana, Sorvari; Pekka, Oinas . Publisher: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland Printing house: Unigraphia Oy ISBN: 978-951-51-3111-9 (Paperback), 978-951-51-3112-6 (PDF) About book This book focuses on the comprehensive Read more [...]

What this little book tells you Cities are complex systems whose quality, efficiency and resilience cannot be addressed solely as economic issues.1 This little book has arisen out of work carried out as part of the Liveable Cities research programme. Read more [...]

In the search for genuinely sustainable building design and technology – designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative – we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable Read more [...]

Humankind is itself a part of biodiversity in the world and our existence would be impossible without it. Quality of life, economic competitiveness, employment and security, all of these are based on this natural capital. Biodiversity is crucial to ‘ecosystem Read more [...]

This book provides readers an in-depth understanding of the inner mechanisms and principles of the global supply chain. Authored by the Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, it draws on a wealth of operational Read more [...]

Upward trending and volatile materials and energy prices, difficult credit conditions and the myriad opportunities of the digital revolution are combining to make a circular economy the key value driver for the coming decades. A New Dynamic makes the contemporary Read more [...]

This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature Read more [...]

The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows Where will prosperity come from in a global economy facing rising consumer demands, environmental challenges, volatile resource prices, and the end of easy credit? Ken Webster argues that our linear ‘take-make and dispose’ Read more [...]

‘This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more Read more [...]

The construction industry operates within a linear economy of make, use, dispose. Buildings are stripped out and torn down with astonishing regularity while new buildings are constructed from hard-won virgin materials. But raw materials are becoming scarce, and the demands Read more [...]

Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott’s Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability Read more [...]

The second book of the series A New Dynamic reflects on the necessity to develop a whole-system approach to re-think our economy. This edition brings together thought leaders who can see beyond the boundaries of their respective areas of expertise, Read more [...]

In contrast to the linear “take–make–dispose” model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is Read more [...]

Bioremediation and Bioeconomy provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including the ever-growing lack of water resources which are under immense pressure due to land degradation, pollution, population explosion, urbanization, and global Read more [...]

From the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our lives. We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And this one will be unlike any other in Read more [...]

Reduce, reuse, recycle’ urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, ‘cradle Read more [...]

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary “progress.” The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent Read more [...]

The term ‘Circular Economy’ is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures – price-driven, political and environmental. Read more [...]

In the second half of the 20th century we got better at extracting the earth’s resources. Much better. So much better in fact, that for 40 years, despite demand for natural resources growing, the cost of those resources decreased. Not Read more [...]

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis Read more [...]

The book describes two system innovations that will revolutionize the economy: 3D printing and biomaterials. 3D Printing holds the promise to manufacture on demand, locally and with less waste and energy. It may use a wide range of material types such Read more [...]

The Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices contains over 250 pages of our most current biomimicry thinking, methodology, and tools for naturalizing biomimicry into the culture. We believe there is no better design partner than nature. But biomimicry is Read more [...]

This book presents a detailed background to the circular economy in China, explores government measures to promote it in China’s market economy, and introduces the supporting laws and policies. The book goes on to describe, from a technology perspective, successful circular Read more [...]

This book presents an in-depth study on and summary of the current practice and theories for the construction of eco-cities in China in the context of the country’s rapid urbanization. It argues that by 2020, 60% of China’s population will live Read more [...]

A new industrial revolution is slowly taking shape in the form of businesses that are learning to eliminate and prevent waste and do more with less in a bid to become more profitable and mitigate damage to the environment and society.  The Read more [...]

From the authors of “Cradle to Cradle,” we learn what’s next: The Upcycle. “The Upcycle” is the eagerly awaited follow-up to “Cradle to Cradle,” one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living Read more [...]

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold, it disappears beyond the newness horizon. They are little aware of the opportunities that exist Read more [...]

Ken Webster, the author of “The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows”, has worked with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since January 2010. He has a background in economics education and environmental issues. Webster calls himself a generalist and emphasises how everything Read more [...]

The book “Sustainability in Fashion: A Cradle to Upcycle Approach” explores different aspects and offers the most recent research in an easy to digest manner. More specifically it is a collection of academic articles outlining research regarding how sustainable fashion Read more [...]

This is the first book on circular economy in Portuguese initiatied by the Dutch Consulate in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to highlight the learnings gained through the knowledge exchange activities carried out in partnership with the industry federation and its Read more [...]

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits. It emphasises the urgent need for these circular economies and to move away Read more [...]

From the authors of “Cradle to Cradle,” we learn what’s next: The Upcycle. “The Upcycle” is the eagerly awaited follow-up to “Cradle to Cradle,” one of the most consequential ecological manifestoes of our time. Now, drawing on the green living Read more [...]

This is the first book on circular economy in Portuguese initiatied by the Dutch Consulate in Rio de Janeiro with the aim to highlight the learnings gained through the knowledge exchange activities carried out in partnership with the industry federation and its Read more [...]