The protection of the environment requires educated and active citizens.
In our Greek page we offer a long list of books that one can purchase in
Greece or online, covering 'green' or ecological buiding, ecology, the environment
in general, and energy.
Here we will include only the titles in English, accessible to a non-Greek
speaking readership.
To view the page with the Greek and English bibliography, please click
here.
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'Green'
and Ecological Architecture |
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ENVIRONMENTAL
RESOURCE GUIDE, American Institute of Architects (1993) |
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2004.
Made in Germany Architecture + Ecology, Goethe Institute |
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Anderson,
Will. 2006. DIARY OF AN ECO-BUILDER, Green Books |
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Bang,
Jan Martin. 2005. ECOVILLAGES, Floris Books |
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Broome,
Jon. 2007. THE GREEN SELF-BUILD BOOK: How to design and build your own
eco-home, Green Books |
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Calkins, M. 2009. MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE
SITES, Wiley |
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Dawson,
Jonathan . 2006. ECOVILLAGES: New Frontiers for Sustainability, Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books on behalf of Schumacher Society |
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Desai, P. & Riddlestone, S. 2002.
BIOREGIONAL SOLUTIONS: For Living on One Planet. Schumacher Briefings,
Green Books on behalf
of Schumacher Society |
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Duran, Sergi Costa. GREEN HOMES: New
Ideas for Sustainable Living, Collings Design |
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Fathy,
Hassan. 1973. ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR, American University |
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Fernandez,
John. 2006. MATERIAL ARCHITECTURE, Architectural Press |
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Freed, E.C.2008. GREEN BUILDING &
REMODELLING for DUMMIES, Wiley Publishing Inc. |
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Gauzin-Muller,
D. 2001. ARCHITECTURE ECOLOGIQUE, Moniteur |
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Gauzin-Muller,
D. 2003. 25 MAISON EN BOIS, Moniteur |
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Girardet, H. 2008. CITIES PEOPLE PLANET,
John Wiley & Sons |
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Girardet,
Herbert. 2007. CREATING SUSTAINABLE CITIES - Schumacher Briefings, Green
Books for the Schumacher Society |
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Guastalla, V. (ed.). 2008. ECOLOGICAL
HOUSES, teNeues |
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Hall,
Keith (ed.).2005. THE GREEN BUILDING BIBLE, Green Building Press |
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Herzog,
T. (ed.). 1998. SOLAR ENERGY IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING, Prestel |
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Hymers,
Paul. 2006. CONVERTING TO AN ECO-FRIENDLY HOME - The Complete Handbook,
New Holland Publishers |
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Jackson,
H., Svensson, K. (ed.).2002. ECOVILLAGE LIVING, Green Books |
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McDonough, W. & Braungart, M.
2002. CRADLE TO CRADLE, North Point Press |
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McHarg, I. 1992. DESIGN WITH NATURE,
Wiley |
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Minke,
Gernot. 2006. BUILDING WITH EARTH, Birkhauser |
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Minke,
Gernot. 2004. BUILDING WITH STRAW, Birkhauser |
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Orr, David. 2002. THE NATURE OF DESIGN:
ECOLOGY, CULTURE AND HUMAN INTENTION, Oxford |
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Pearson,
David. 1996. THE NATURAL HOUSE BOOK, Conran Octopus |
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Richards, I. (ed.). 2007. KEN YEANG:
ECO SKYSCRAPERS, images publishing |
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Richardson, Ph. 2007. BIG IDEAS -
XS GREEN - SMALL BUILDINGS, Thames & Hudson |
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Rogers, R., Power, A. 2000. CITIES
FOR A SMALL COUNTRY, Faber and Faber |
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Roodman,
David & Lenssen, Nicholas. 1995. A BUILDING REVOLUTION: HOW ECOLOGY
AND HEALTH CONCERNS ARE TRANSFORMING CONSTRUCTION, WorldWatch Paper
124 |
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Shnell,
Clarke & Callahan, Tim. 2005. BUILDING GREEN, Lark Books |
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Stang,
A. & Hawthorne, Ch. 2005. THE GREEN HOUSE, Princeton |
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Steele,
James. 2005. ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE, Thames & Hudson |
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Strong,
Steven. 1993. THE SOLAR ELECTRIC HOUSE, Sustainability Press |
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Todd, N., Todd, J. 1993. FROM ECO-CITIES
TO LIVING MACHINES, North Atlantic Books |
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Vallero, D., Brasier, C. 2008. SUSTAINABLE
DESIGN, Wiley |
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Walker,
Liz. 2005. ECOVILLAGE AT ITHACA, New Society Publishers |
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Wines,
James. 2000. GREEN ARCHITECTURE, Taschen |
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Yang,
Ken. 1999. THE GREEN SKYSCRAPER, Prestel |
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Yang,
Ken. 1996. THE SKYSCRAPER BIOCLIMATICALLY CONSIDERED, Wiley - Academy |
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Ecology
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Benyus, J. 2002. BIOMIMICRY: INNOVATION
INSPIRED BY NATURE, Harper Perennial |
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Berkes,
Fikret. 1999. SACRED ECOLOGY, Taylor & Francis |
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Carson, Rachel. 1962. SILENT SPRING,
Mariner Books |
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Common,
Michael & Stagl, Sigrid. 2005. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, Cambridge |
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Douthwaite,
Richard. 2006. THE ECOLOGY OF MONEY, Green Books |
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Lovelock,
James. 1995. GAIA - A NEW LOOK AT LIFE ON EARTH, Oxford |
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Lovelock,
James. 2006. THE REVENGES OF GAIA, Penguin Books |
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Lynas,
Mark. 2007. CARBON COUNTER: Calculate your carbon footprint, Harper
Collins Publishers |
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Madron, R. & Jopling, J. 2003.
GAIAN DEMOCRACIES: Redefining Globalization & People-Power. Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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Nabhan, G.P. 1982. THE DESERT SMELLS
LIKE RAIN, The University of Arizona Press |
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Pontin, J. & Roderick, I. 2007.
CONVERGING WORLD: Connecting Communities in Global Change. Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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Quinn, D. 1996. THE STORY OF B, Bantam
Books |
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Sachs,
Wolfgang. 2004. GLOBAL ECOLOGY, Zed Books |
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Sowel, J. 2001. DESERT ECOLOGY, The
University of Utah Press |
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Sterling, Stephen. 2001. SUSTAINABLE
EDUCATION: Re-visioning Learning and Change. Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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Ward, B. & Dubos, R. 1983. ONLY
ONE EARTH, Norton |
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Environment
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"An Inconvenient Truth"
by Davis Guggenheim in DVD |
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ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: Current
State and Trends, Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, Island Press |
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Bayron,
Ricardo & Hawn, Amanda & Hamilton, Katherine. 2007. VOLUNTARY
CARBON MARKETS, Earthscan |
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Brundtland, Gro Harlem et at. 1987.
OUR COMMON FUTURE, Oxford |
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Childs, C. 2000. THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE
OF WATER, Little Brown and Co. |
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Diamond,
J. 2005. COLLAPSE: How Societies choose to fail or survive, Penguin
Books |
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Friedman, Th. 2009. HOT, FLAT &
CROWDED, Pernguin Books |
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Friedman, Th. 2005. THE WORLD IS FLAT,
Penguin Books |
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Gore,
Al. 2006. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, Bloomsbury |
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Gore,
Al. 2003. EARTH IN THE BALANCE, Earthscan |
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Gore, Al. 2007. OUR PURPOSE: THE NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE LECTURE, Rodale |
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Gore, Al. 2009. OUR CHOICE, Bloomsbury |
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Gore, Al. 2009. OUR CHOICE, Young
Reader's Edition, Bloomsbury |
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Gore,
Al. 2007. THE ASSAULT ON REASON, Bloomsbury |
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Hertsgaard, Mark. 1999. EARTH ODYSSEY,
Broadway Books |
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Kolbert,
Elizabeth . 2007. FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: A FRONTLINE REPORT
ON CLIMATE CHANGE, Bloomsbery |
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Leslie,
Jacques. 2005. DEEP WATER, Farrar-Strauss & Giroux |
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McKibben, B. 2007. DEEP ECONOMY, OneWorld
Oxford |
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McKibben, B. 1989. THE END OF NATURE,
Bloomsbury |
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Meadows, D., Randers, J., Meadows,
D. 2004. LIMITS TO GROWTH, Earthscan |
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Meyer, Aubrey. 2000. CONTRACTION &
CONVERGENCE: The Global Solution to Climate Change. Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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Monbiot, G. 2006. HEAT, Penguin |
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Monbiot, G. 2994. THE AGE OF CONSENT,
Harper Perennial |
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Orr, D. 1994., EARTH IN MIND: ON EDUCATION,
ENVIRONMENT, AND HUMAN PROSPECT, Island Press |
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Pearce,
Fred. 2007. THE LAST GENERATION: How Nature will take her revenge for
Climate Change, Eden Project Books and Transworld Publishers |
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Sachs,
Wolfgang. 2005. THE DEVELOPMENT DICTIONARY, Zed Books |
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Sutherlin,
John. 1999. THE GREENING OF CENTRAL EUROPE, University Press |
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Stavins,
Robert (ed.).2005. ECONOMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, W.W.Norton |
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The
World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. OUR COMMON FUTURE,
Oxford University Press |
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Energy |
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Elliott,
David. 2003. A SOLAR WORLD: Climate Change and the Green Energy Revolution.
Schumacher Briefings,
Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
by Chris Paine in DVD |
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Society |
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Axelrod, Robert. 2006. THE EVOLUTION
OF COOPERATION, Basic Books |
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Bornstein,
David. 2007. HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, Oxford Press |
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Bruner, J. 2003. THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION,
Harvard Press |
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Dewey, J. 1915. THE SCHOOL AND SOCIETY,
BN Publishing |
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Hawken, P. 2005. THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE,
Harper Collins Publishers |
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Hawken, P., Lovins, A., Lovins, L.H.
2000. NATURAL CAPITALISM, Little Brown and Co. |
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Preston, M. 2009. PRACTICALLY GREEN,
Betterway Books |
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Schlesinger, Stephen. 2003. ACT OF
CREATION: THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS, Westview |
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Schumacher, E.F. 1993. SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL,
Vintage |
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Semler, Ricardo. 1993. MAVERICK, Warner
Business Books |
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Semler, Ricardo. 2003. THE SEVEN-DAY
WEEKEND, Arrow Books |
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Woollcombe, David. 2007. YOUTH-LED
DEVELOPMENT, Schumacher
Briefings, Green Books for the Schumacher Society |
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The books included in this
list of titles, does not necessarily express the views of ECOWEEK.
The list is updated frequently. |