Ethical Alternatives & Resources
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Books
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Conscious Creative, The: Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work
Independent best-selling title, The Conscious Creative is an actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.
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PocketBook
E-reader that's not made by Amazon (and without ads)
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No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference
The speeches of the young climate crisis activist who inspired global school strikes
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
An unsettling look at the prospects for human survival after global warming
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
How the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo
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Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
The existential threat posed to capitalism by the digital revolution
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Ethically Aligned Design
A vision for prioritising human well-being with autonomous and intelligent systems
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy
About finding and offering our best response to the crisis of sustainability
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Silent Spring
One of the most influential books in the modern environmental movement
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Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?
A range of experts share their conviction that living well needn’t cost the earth
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Swallow This: Serving Up The Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
A revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat
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Fostering and Communicating Sustainable Lifestyles
This report sets out a strategy roadmap, illustrated by cases from around the world
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Calm Technology
Exploring the concept of "calm technology" – capturing a user’s attention only when necessary
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World
An urgent treatise on rising sea levels
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Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
A synthesis of cutting edge science, spiritual awareness, and detailed, practical knowledge
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White Hat UX
Focuses on creating unique user experiences without a dark side
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Warns against a world of seamless efficiency, where everyone is forced to wear Silicon Valley's digital straitjacket.
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies
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Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation
Learn how companies make us feel good about doing what they want
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Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
A study of the ethical dilemmas surrounding the interaction of humans and technology
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Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
A key text for efforts to shape a sustainable future, locally and globally
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A World of Three Zeros : The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Yunus offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
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The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
This book shows how inequality is the cause of many societal problems
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Everything That Remains: A Memoir by the Minimalists
What if everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want?
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23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Chang turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works
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How to Resist: Turn Protest to Power
A roadmap for a new kind of effective activism
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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life
Lynne turns everything we think we know about money upside down
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Soil Soul Society: A New Trinity for Our Time
Environmental activist Kumar presents a new trinity for our age
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Designing for Sustainability
A guide to building greener digital products and services
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
A terrifying look at the consequences of climate change
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh examines our imaginative failure in the face of climate change
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Future Ethics
Modern ethical theory translated into practical advice for designers, product managers and software engineers
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How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
A look at the carbon footprint of everything from texts to volcanoes
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Eating Animals
A reflection on what eating animals says about us
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Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Monbiot argues for a "politics of belonging", and the reorganisation of civic life from the bottom up.
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No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
A toolkit for resistance to the shock tactics being deployed by politicians the world over
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Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Could "utopian" ideas like Universal Basic Income and a 15-hour work week become reality within our lifetime?
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth proposes an alternative to growth economics
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
A manifesto for effective altruism: the practical, data-driven approach to doing good
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Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
Essays on issues as diverse as sports doping and selling kidneys from one of the world's most influential living philosophers
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How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
Entrepreneur and longtime tech critic Andrew Keen argues for a more humane digital future
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The Art of Living
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's 7 meditations on living mindfully
