Contents -- Preface -- Perspectives on a Green Economy -- Building a Green Economy: The Case for an Economic Paint Job / Robert B. Richardson -- Taking Ecological Economics Seriously: It's the Biosphere, Stupid / David Korten -- Beyond the Ivory Tower: Why Progress Needs More Ecological Economists to Actively Engage / Kristen A. Sheeran -- Ruin and Recovery: The Economics of Michigan's Natural Resources / David Dempsey -- Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- Noble Savages or Consummate Consumers: The Behavioral Ecology of Building a Green Conservation Future / Bobbi S. Low -- Green Keynesianism: Beyond Standard Growth Paradigms / Jonathan M. Harris -- The Economics of Information in a Green Economy / Joshua Farley and Skyler Perkins -- The Evolution of Ego'n'Empathy: Progress in Forming the Centerpiece for Ecological Economic Theory / William M. Hayes and Gary D. Lynne -- Civic Empowerment in an Age of Corporate Excess / Ed Lorenz -- Environmental Justice Challenges for Ecosystem Service Valuation / Matthew A. Weber -- Applications and Practice -- Assessing the Trade-Offs for an Urban Green Economy / Myrna Hall, Ning Sun, Stephen Balogh, Catherine Foley, and Ruqi Li -- Green Jobs: Who Benefits? : Demographic Forecasting of Job Creation in U. S. Green Jobs Studies / Kyle Gracey -- Great Lakes, Great Debates: Facilitating Public Engagement on Offshore Wind Energy Using the Delphi Inquiry Approach / Erik Nordman, Jon VanderMolen, Betty Gajewski, and Aaron Ferguson -- Endogenous Environmental Discounting and Climate-Economy Modeling / Philip Sirianni -- A Genuine Metric for Assessing Business Sustainability / Matthew P. H. Taylor, Darrell Brown, David E. Ervin, Jim Thayer, and Brett Cassidy -- The Case for "Improvement" in Corporate Sustainability Indicators / Richard Grogan.

Evolutions in Methods and Technology for Research in Pro-environmental Behavior / Douglas L. Bessette and Robert B. Richardson -- Contributors.