Green Capitalism? : Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century /
Hartmut Berghoff, Adam Rome.
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- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Big Picture -- Chapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy -- Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business- History Perspective on Eco- Capitalism -- Chapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance -- Part II. Conservation Before Environmentalism -- Chapter 4. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America -- Chapter 5. “Constructive and Not Destructive Development”: Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South -- Chapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? Th e Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America -- Part III. Failures and Dilemmas -- Chapter 7. Plastic Six- Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem -- Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction -- Part IV. Going Green -- Chapter 9. Dilemmas of Going Green: Environmental Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden, 1960–2000 -- Chapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965–1990 -- Chapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s -- Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy -- Chapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles -- Notes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments