Publications

The State of the States: Assessing the Capacity of States to Achieve Sustainable Development Through Green Planning

The State of the States: Assessing the Capacity of States to Achieve Sustainable Development Through Green Planning provides the most comprehensive appraisal yet undertaken of individual state preparedness to implement sustainability as integral public policy. It does so through the lens of green planning, a widely applied sustainable development strategy.

Green Plans: Greenprint for Sustainability

Green Plans : Greenprint for Sustainability (Our Sustainable Future, Vol. 7), by Huey D. Johnson (RRI President), David R. Brower (Foreword)

“When you’ve reached the edge of an abyss, the only move you can make is to turn around and step forward.”
—David R. Brower, from the foreword

“Green Plans” are comprehensive environmental strategies that represent the most effective tool yet developed to protect and sustain the global environment. Huey D. Johnson is convinced that green plans provide the world with a historic opportunity to move from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability while offering a model of creative collaboration between government and business for future generations.

In this book, Johnson provides the first detailed and understandable examination of not only the theory of green plans but also their implementation and performance as exemplified in nations such as the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand. Plans currently under consideration in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and the European Community are also discussed. Johnson’s comprehensive treatment of green plans also shows how governments can win the cooperation of various social and economic groups in checking environmental degradation.

Huey D. Johnson is the founder and director of the Resource Renewal Institute and is a former Secretary of Resources for the state of California.

David R. Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, and cofounded Friends of the Earth.

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Read: Chapter One: A Commitment to Change