Gottfried, David. Greed to Green: The Transformation of and Industry and a Life. San Francisco, CA: Worldbuild Publishing, 2004. This book gives an intimate personal account of David Gottfried's transition from "greed" to "green," while giving an insiders look into the formation of the U.S. Green Building Council and the development of the LEED rating system. Go to www.greedtogreen.com for further information on the book and to order.

Kosheleva, Elena. Green Building in the Russian Context: An Investigation into the Establishment of a LEED-Based Green Building Rating System in the Russian Federation.2005. A thesis on the establishment of a green building rating system in Russia.

Alexander, Christopher, et al. A Pattern Language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997. Volume 2 of the Centre for Environmental Structure series. Illustrates a new architecture and planning theory that reflects the traditional ways in which people created their living environment. It explains the language of the "Timeless Way of Building" (Vol. 1) from a discussion of community to individual building elements.

Arendt, Randall. Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances, 1999. Washington, DC: Island Press. An illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open space networks. The book explains how to design residential developments that maximize land conservation without reducing overall building density, and offers a simple and straightforward approach to balancing opportunities for developers and conservationists.

Arendt, Randal, et al. Rural by Design. Randall Arendt et al. Chicago, IL: APA Planners Press, 1994. Advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. Thirty-eight case studies are used to demonstrate how rural and suburban communities, among others, have preserved open space, established land trusts, and designed affordable housing appropriate for their size and character.

Bachman, Leonard R. Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Thirty in-depth case studies with a depth of explanation and analysis. Provides technical data as well as the architectural and cultural context of each building. A good text for advanced architectural and engineering courses. (800) 225-5945. www.wiley.com

Baird, George. The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems. London, UK: Spon Press, 2001. This book focuses attention on the environmental control systems of a building. The author's intent is to foster creativity in the design and expression of environmental control systems. The abundance of relevant pictures makes the point that control systems can contribute to the overall aesthetics of a building.

Barnett, Dianna Lopez with William D. Browning. A Primer on Sustainable Building. Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995 (update due 2004). Provides an overview for architects, builders, developers, students and others interested in environmentally responsive home building and small commercial development. Topics include: site and habitat restoration, transportation integration, food producing landscapes, energy efficient design, materials selection, indoor air quality, cost implications and more. www.rmi.org

Barnett, Jonathan. Redesigning Cities, Chicago, IL: APA Planners Press, 2004. Focused on redesigning existing cities, this book explains how design can reshape suburban growth patterns, revitalize older cities, and retrofit metropolitan areas where earlier development went wrong.

Battle, Guy and Christopher McCarthy. Sustainable Ecosystems and the Built Environment. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Academy Press, 2001. Offers guidelines for professional practice and highlights the potential of radical new technologies to increase and maintain the quality of life on this planet. The book uses a compilation of published articles documenting projects from the authors' sustainable engineering firm to examine topics related to the effect of buildings on both their immediate environment and the global ecosystem.

Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York, NY: Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Company, 1997. Biomimicry shows how nature offers countless examples of how to design our products, our processes, and our lives. Benyus, a noted science writer, explains how this new science is transforming everything from harnessing energy to feeding the world.

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1995. Discusses how buildings adapt over time. Photos of case studies are used throughout to show the before and after condition of buildings. Design principles are described for creating an adaptable and flexible building.

Bunnell, Gene. Making Places Special. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 2003. Uses examples from several distinct cities to support his thesis that good planning helps to preserve and strengthen the unique qualities of a community.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Academic Press, 1995. Places the "American Dream" of a suburban home for the nuclear family in its historical and ecological context. It suggests mechanisms of transit-oriented development including mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly pockets. Features case studies from across the U.S.

Crosbie, Michael J. Green Architecture: A Guide to Sustainable Design. Washington, DC: American Institute of Architects Press, 1993. The first comprehensive guide to the work of architects and designers representing the cutting edge of sustainable architecture. A collection of environmentally-sensitive buildings. Design strategies include building siting, daylighting, wastewater, energy-saving lighting and HVAC controls, indoor air, and thermally insulated building envelopes. Features a listing of resources for sustainable design.

Duerkson, Christopher J. et al. True West. New York, NY: Prestel Publishing, 2000. True West translates the key elements of authentic Western development patterns into design guidelines for expansion and new development. Case studies examine contemporary developments that harmonize with the historic and natural landscape.

Edwards, Brian. Green Buildings Pay. New York: E & FN Spon, 2003. Now in its second printing, this book uses case studies of commercial and educational buildings to examine how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development.
Ewing, Reed. Best Development Practices. Chicago, IL: APA Planners Press, 1996. Through lessons learned from the "best" developments in Florida, this book complies a set of guidelines for best development that focus on land use, transportation, environmental, and housing issues.

Farmer, John. Green Shift: Changing Attitudes in Architecture to the Natural World, Second Edition. Oxford, UK: Architectural Press, 1999. This book provides an alternative reading of the development of modern architecture as seen from a green standpoint. It places an emphasis on the changing attitudes towards nature and the emergence of green thinking.

Gissen, David ed. Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. This bound version of the National Building Museum's exhibition, Big & Green, documents recent green developments in large project design, e.g., skyscrapers, shopping complexes and convention centers. 50 projects are highlighted. (800) 722-6657. www.papress.com

Givoni, Baruch. Climatic Considerations in Building and Urban Design. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998. Written in clear and concise language, this book is the most comprehensive, up-to date reference available on building and urban climatology.

Hall, Kenneth B. and Gerald A. Porterfield. Community by Design. Columbus, OH: McGraw Hill, 2001. The layout of this book highlights key points and utilizes sketches, drawings and photographs to sell new urbanist planning for suburbs and small communities. This book offers an alternative to urban sprawl that creates maximum livability, cohesiveness, and style.

Hawken, Paul, Amory and Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Citing hundreds of compelling stories from a wide array of sectors, the book shows how to realize benefits both for today's shareholders and for future generations -- and how, by firing the "unproductive tons, gallons, and kilowatt-hours," it's possible to keep the people who will foster the innovation that drives future improvement. The book is available from Rocky Mountain Institute www.rmi.org.

Hersey, George. The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. Uses several juxtaposed examples to make the point that many structures are modeled after natural phenomenon; biomimicry in architecture.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Random House, 1961. A classic book that offers valuable lessons not yet learned about building healthy, safe, and habitable cities.

Jacobson, Max. Patterns of Home. Max Jacobson, et al. Newtown, CT: The Taunton Press, 2002. Provides 300 pages of inspiring pictures that challenge the design of buildings to combine inside and outside spaces with a conscious use of daylighting. This book does not refer to green building techniques specifically, but many of the schemes can be achieved through green building.

Johnston, David. Building Green in a Black and White World: A Guide to Selling the Homes Your Customers Want. Washington, DC: Home Builder Press, 1991. Introduction to green building for conventional homebuilders including an introduction to green building and specifics on how to market green homes. www.BuilderBooks.com

Jones, David L. Architecture and the Environment: Bioclimatic Building Design. New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1998. A compilation of 44 case studies of architecture throughout the world built according to bioclimatic -- or "green" -- guidelines. The book begins by putting the green building movement into a historical context. Past, present, and future examples are accompanied by charts of building energy features, energy performance, and environmental health features.

King, Julie ed. Ecological Architecture: Bioclimatic Trends and Landscape Architecture in the Year 2001. New York, NY: Loft Publications, 2001. This book show cases recent projects from around the globe that have effectively incorporated energy saving devices and ecology as constituent elements of the building design. Great photography that captures the essence of daylighting.

Langston, Craig. Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment. Newbury, UK: Butterworth Heinemann, 2001. This book deals with sustainability as it affects the construction industry, looking at the techniques and issues which designers, engineers, planners and construction managers will need to deal with in their day-to-day activities. It covers methods of analysis such as environmental impact assessment and cost-benefit analysis as well as topics on design and energy regulation and conservation.

McDonough, Bill and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York, NY: North Point Press, 2002. Argues that when making environmental decisions, we often settle for the lesser of two evils, while we should really be demanding a true solution that is better for the environment and the bottom line.

McGregor, Suzi Moore and Nora Burba Trulsson. Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture and Design. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2001. Description and photographs of homes constructed with adobe, rammed earth, straw bale and reinvented, recycled and high-tech materials. Includes bibliography and resources.

McHarg, Ian L. Design with Nature. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1992. Presents a thorough analysis of the relationship between the built environment and nature. This was one of the first books to bring forward planning concepts in environmental sensitivity.

McLennan, Jason. The Philosophy of Green Design. Kansas City, MO: Ecotone Publishing LLC, 2004. This book is intended as a starting point for anyone involved in the building industry on a journey to learn how he or she can build more responsibly.

Mendler, Sandra F., AIA, AIS and William Odell eds. HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Overview of sustainable design for commercial buildings including detailed checklists for each stage of the design and construction process and case studies drawn from HOK's recent work.

Moe, Richard and Carter Wilkie. Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. Co-authored by the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this book makes the case for historic preservation as a tool for community revitalization.

Nelessen, Anton. Visions for a New American Dream. Chicago, IL: APA Planners Press, 1994. Provides practical information to help planners and designers create small communities that combine the best design principles of the past with the technological advances of the present to combat suburban sprawl. Visual Preference SurveysTM and Hands-on Model Workshops are thoroughly described.

Norwood, Ken, AICP and Kathleen Smith. Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological Living, Personal Empowerment, and the New Extended Family. Berkeley, CA: Shared Living Resource Center, 1995. This book explores cohousing as well as other forms of community-oriented living.

O'Neill, David J. Smart Growth Tool Kit. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000. This book explains how to implement smart growth initiatives into a community as well providing the necessary resources. The list of case studies promotes strategies such as infill and brownfield development.

Orr, David. The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002. The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative -- trying to stop "progress." On the other hand, this book is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food , shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood and how we deal with waste.

Roberts, Jennifer. Good Green Homes. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2003. A guide to creating beautiful homes that are healthier to live in and easier on the environment.
Romm, Joseph and William D. Browning. Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity Through Energy-Efficient Design. Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1994. This succinct report makes a powerful message to corporate managers: while energy-efficient design can pay for itself in reduced energy costs alone, it may also produce vastly greater benefits in higher worker productivity, lower absenteeism, fewer errors, better quality, and increased retail sales. Eight documented case studies show that productivity gains from green design can be as high as 16 percent.

Rosenthal, Ed Cohen. Eco-Industrial Strategies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Publishing, 2003. Focusing on eco-industrial development, this book contains process analysis, a breakdown of stakeholder responsibility, and case study assessment. This book pools together resources and knowledge from a wide array of sources within the eco-industrial field and the framing of the concept from multiple angles.

Rocky Mountain Institute: Alex Wilson, Jenifer L. Seal (Uncapher,) Lisa McManigal, L. Hunter Lovins, Maureen Cureton, William D. Browning. Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. If you're a developer, architect, planner, contractor, lender, or city official, this is a book that speaks your language. Every stage of the development process is examined in detail: market research, site planning, design, approvals, financing, construction, marketing, and occupancy. Also included are lists of project vital statistics and contacts, books and other information sources, and development strategies. Green Development is based on 80 case studies drawn from Rocky Mountain Institute's extensive worldwide research and consulting work. From these real-world experiences, it distills proven procedures, potential pitfalls, and practical lessons that will help shorten the learning curve on the path to environmentally sound, community-supportive, and financially rewarding real estate development.

Spiegel, Ross. Green Building Materials. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. This book helps guide architects and planners in selecting and specifying green building materials. The book provides insight into both rudimentary environmental design guidelines and the more involved methods such as Life Cycle Analysis.

Susanka, Sarah. Creating the Not so Big House. Newtown, CT: The Taunton Press, 2000. This book is the practical follow-up to Susanka's earlier book The Not so Big House. It contains design principles and ideas that allow for the design of houses that value quality over quantity.
Susanka, Sarah. The Not so Big House. Newtown, CT: The Taunton Press, 1998. This book takes a step back from the customary measurements of a house -- square footage, bed and bathrooms -- and looks at what makes a house a home.

Thompson, J. William, Kim Sorvig, and Craig D. Farnsworth. Sustainable Landscape Construction. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000. Sustainable Landscape Construction re-evaluates the assumption that all built landscapes are environmentally sound, and offers practical, professional alternatives for more sustainable landscape construction, design, and maintenance. Packed with clear concepts and never-before-compiled resources on "green" landscape work, the book is an inspiring overview of important practices and concerns.

Vale, Brenda and Robert. Green Architecture: Design for an Energy-Conscious Future. New York, NY: Bulfinch Press & Little Brown and Company, 1991. Provides an overview of resource-conscious building and an exploration of the relationship between the built environment and such critical problems as power supply, waste and recycling, food production, and transportation.

Van der Ryn, Sim and Peter Calthorpe. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1986. Covers a range of issues dealing with sustainability for urban and suburban renovation through an in-depth look at several case studies as well as essays focused on community sensitivity, transportation, and economics.

Van der Ryn, Sim, and Stuart Cowan. Ecological Design. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995. Discusses how making ecology the basis for design can reunite the living world and humanity. Ecological design, the marriage of nature and technology, can be applied at all levels of scale to create revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, cities, and technologies. Design principles are presented that can help build a more efficient, less toxic, healthier, and more sustainable world.

Wilson, Edward O. Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Wilson proposed a compelling idea that although we have surrounded ourselves with a human-made environment intended to serve our uniquely human needs, "we are, in the fullest sense a biological species and will find little ultimate meaning apart from the remainder of life."

Wines, James. Green Architecture. Los Angeles, CA: Taschen, 2000. This book has an impressive collection of photos that highlight some of the most impressive eco-designs of the past 30 years.

Wolley, Tom and Sam Kimmins. Green Building Handbook: A Companion Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment. London, UK: Spon Press, 2000. This handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products. The introduction outlines the case for sustainable building techniques while the content addresses a comprehensive list of material choices for the builder or owner.

Yeang, Ken. The Green Skyscraper: The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings. New York, NY: Prestel Publishing, 2000. Presents the idea that skyscrapers can be part of the solution to environmental problems rather than a source of the problem.