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Green Reference at Plaza
The Plaza Branch Library just received 5 new books on Green planning, design, and business entrepreneurship.
Plaza's copies are housed in our Reference section, but there is at least one borrowable copy of each title at the Central Library - click on the links to see our full holdings, or to put a copy on hold.
- Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and practices by Peter Newman and Isabella Jennings
- Green From the Ground Up: Sustainable, healthy and energy-efficient home construction by David Johnston and Scott Gibson
- Green to Gold: How smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston
- The Triple Bottom Line: How today's best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success - and how you can too by Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber
- Harvard Business Review on Green Business Strategy a collection of essays from the Harvard Business School Press
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Going Global Sourcebook
Are you ready to take your small business to the international market? Don't miss Going Global: An Information Sourcebook for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses. Author Susan C. Awe breaks the book down into sections that will help you work through...
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Reed-westover Project Earns Gold Leed Certification
The Reed-Westover facility, new home of the Westover Branch Library, has been awarded Gold Certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In order to achieve a gold rating,...
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New In Sustainability: "going To Green"
The Plaza Branch Library has recently added the PBS educational DVDs Going to Green to our collection. This series was developed as a teaching tool based on a high school curriculum written by Joe D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan,.in partnership with the...
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New In Sustainability: "green Metropolis"
A recent addition to the Plaza Branch Library's Green/Sustainability collection is David Owen's Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability. Author Owen argues that the ecosystems of big...
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New On Dvd At Plaza: "building Green"
The Plaza Branch Library just added Building Green, a 3 DVD set of the first season of the PBS television show by the same name, to it's Green/Sustainability collection. Hosted by Kevin Contreras, the series follows the step-by-step construction of...
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