Front Cover -- Technology, Humans, and Society: Toward a Sustainable World -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Author -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Sustainability, Economics, and the Environment -- 1.1 Sustainability -- 1.2 Environmental Impacts -- 1.3 Population -- 1.4 Sustaining the Environment -- 1.5 Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect -- 1.6 Economics -- 1.7 Envisioning and Implementation of a Sustainable Society -- 1.8 Dynamic Aspects of Sustainability -- 1.9 Two Cultures-Or Three Filters? -- Chapter 2. Business -- 2.1 Business Firms in the New Millennium -- 2.2 Corporate Environmentalism -- 2.3 The Three Factors of Quality of Life -- 2.4 Its Easier to Say Green Than Be Green -- 2.5 Natural Capitalism -- 2.6 Green and Competitive -- 2.7 How Much Environmental Damage Is Too Much? -- 2.8 Profit -- 2.9 Managing the Business Interest -- Chapter 3. Science, Technology, and Progress -- 3.1 Science and Technology -- 3.2 Technology -- 3.3 Technological Systems and Innovation -- 3.4 Thomas A. Edison: Innovator, Businessman, and Engineer -- 3.5 Social Goals -- 3.6 The Benefits of Technology -- 3.7 Technology and Social Progress -- 3.8 Positive and Negative Outcomes of Technology -- 3.9 Technology and Developing Nations -- 3.10 Limits to Technological Solutions -- 3.11 Pear Nature, Not Technology -- Chapter 4. Sustainable and Appropriate Technologies -- 4.1 Sustainability and Technology -- 4.2 Sustainability versus Unsustainability -- 4.3 Selecting an Appropriate Technology -- 4.4 Appropriate Technology -- Chapter 5. Business and Technology Methods -- 5.1 Sustainable Business Practices -- 5.2 Eco-Efficiency -- 5.3 Achieving Eco-Efficiency through Design for the Environment -- 5.4 Design for Environment -- 5.5 Designing Green Products -- 5.6 Green Products -- 5.7 Green Manufacturing -- 5.8 Green Marketing.

5.9 Environmental Effects -- 5.10 Information Technology in Sustainable Development -- Chapter 6. Engineering Design and innovation -- 6.1 Engineering -- 6.2 Engineering Design Methods -- 6.3 The Design Process -- 6.4 The House of Quality -- 6.5 Discontinuous Innovation -- Chapter 7. Business and the Corporation -- 7.1 Green Companies -- 7.2 Building a Business Model -- 7.3 An Entrepreneurial Future -- 7.4 Measures of Corporate Sustainability Efforts -- 7.5 Managing the Value Chain -- 7.6 Four Visions of the Century Ahead -- 7.7 System Design for a Post-Corporate World -- Chapter 8. Financial and Cost issues in Sustainable Business and Government -- 8.1 Financing Sustainable Business -- 8.2 Internalizing Environmental Costs -- 8.3 Tradable Permits -- 8.4 Innovation and Environmental Sustainability -- 8.5 Life-Cycle Costs -- 8.6 Risk, Safety, and Health Factors -- 8.7 Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Chapter 9. Energy, Environment, Economy, and Society -- 9.1 Energy -- 9.2 Energy and the Environment -- 9.3 Energy Technology, Efficiency, and Efficacy -- 9.4 Energy and Government -- 9.5 The Energy Systems Model of Society -- Chapter 10. Coal -- 10.1 History of Coal Use -- 10.2 Coal and the Environment -- 10.3 Coal Technology -- Chapter 11. Petroleum and Natural Gas -- 11.1 Petroleum -- 11.2 Petroleum Resources and Prices -- 11.3 Limits to Oil Resources -- 11.4 Natural Gas -- 11.5 Alternative Sources of Natural Gas -- Chapter 12. Electric Energy -- 12.1 Electricity -- 12.2 Generation and Transmission of Electric Power -- 12.3 Fuels Generation and Transmission of Electricity -- 12.4 Power Prices and Conservation -- 12.5 The Future of the Electric Power Industry -- Chapter 13. Nuclear Power -- 13.1 Nuclear Energy Technology -- 13.2 Nuclear Fission Power -- 13.3 Fusion Energy -- 13.4 Nuclear Power and the Large Environment -- Chapter 14. Renewable Energy.

14.1 Renewable Energy Technology -- 14.2 Hydroelectric Power Generation -- Chapter 15. Wind and Solar Energy -- 15.1 Wind Energy -- 15.2 Wind Power: Where Will It Grow? -- 15.3 Solar Energy -- 15.4 The Potential for Photovoltaics -- 15.5 From Solarex to BP Solar -- Chapter 16. Biomass, Geothermal Energy, and Energy Storage -- 16.1 Biomass Energy -- 16.2 Research, Development, and Commercialization of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko -- 16.3 Geothermal Energy -- 16.4 Energy Storage -- 16.5 Energy Storage Technologies -- Chapter 17. Natural Resources and Waste Systems -- 17.1 Material Flows -- 17.2 Water Resources -- 17.3 Forests -- 17.4 Oceans and Fishing -- 17.5 Cropland -- 17.6 Waste Systems -- Chapter 18. Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Resources -- 18.1 Agriculture and the Farm -- 18.2 Worldwide Food Supplies -- 18.3 The Green Revolution -- 18.4 Agricultural Technology -- 18.5 Biotechnology -- 18.6 Aquaculture and the Future of Fisheries -- 18.7 International Ecosystem Assessment -- 18.8 Agriculture, Technology, and Natural Resources -- Chapter 19. Materials and Manufacturing -- 19.1 The Manufacturing Process -- 19.2 Material Intensity and Energy Intensity -- 19.3 Recycling and Reusing Waste Products -- 19.4 Resource Conservation -- 19.5 Service Extension -- 19.6 Health and Environment Risk -- 19.7 The Interface Corporation Case -- Chapter 20. Transportation Systems -- 20.1 Sustainable Transportation Systems -- 20.2 Air Transportation -- 20.3 Railroad Transportation -- 20.4 Public Transportation Systems -- 20.5 Water Transportation -- 20.6 Motor Vehicles -- 20.7 Heavy-Duty Trucks -- 20.8 Improved Motor Vehicles -- 20.9 Intelligent Transportation Systems -- Chapter 21. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles -- 21.1 The Electric Vehicle -- 21.2 The Soft and Hard Elements of Technological Development: The Electric Vehicle Case -- 21.3 The Hybrid Vehicle.

Chapter 22. Fuel Cells and the Hydrogen Economy -- 22.1 Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier -- 22.2 Fuel Cells -- 22.3 Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles: Big Business, Fast Cars, and Clean Air -- 22.4 Fuels for Fuel Cell Vehicles -- Chapter 23. Corporate Performance indicators -- 23.1 Measurement and Indices -- 23.2 Measures of the Environment -- 23.3 Corporate Social and Environmental Indicators -- 23.4 The Three-Factor Scorecard -- 23.5 Measuring a Community's Quality of Life -- Chapter 24. Social Entrepreneurship and Investing -- 24.1 Social Entrepreneurship -- 24.2 Social Innovation -- 24.3 Social Investing -- Chapter 25. Buildings, the Internet, and the Future of a Sustainable World -- 25.1 Buildings and Construction -- 25.2 In the Tradition of Architecture -- 25.3 Telecommunications and the Internet -- 25.4 Telecommuting and Sustainability -- 25.5 Driving toward Sustainability -- 25.6 Government and Sustainability's Triple Bottom Line -- 25.7 The Problem of the Last Straw: The Case of Global Warming -- 25.8 Sustainable Consumption -- 25.9 Technology and Environmentalism -- Bibliography -- Index.