the experience of RMI's Green Development Services, chiefly Bill Browning, Huston

Eubank, Alexis Karolides, and Jen Seal-Uncapher, and of the ACT 2 experiment
cosponsored by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Natural Resources Defense Council, and
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Chapter 9 (fiber) draws heavily on a Yale
master's thesis by Chris Lotspeich and on outside collaborators in RMI's Systems Group
on Forests, notably Dana Meadows, Jim Bowyer, Eric Brownstein, Jason Clay, Sue Hall,
and Peter Warshall. Chapter 10 (agriculture) owes much to RMI director Dana Jackson
and adviser Allan Savory. Chapter 11 relies on numerous studies by RMI water
researchers Scott Chaplin, Richard Pinkham, and Bob Wilkinson. Much of the reported
energy-efficiency work builds on the definitive research by RMI's COMPETITEK group,
spun out in 1992 from RMI to its subsidiary E SOURCE, led then by Michael Shepard
and now by Jim Newcomb. Chapter 14 could not have been written without the work and
help of Jonas Rabinovitch, and was informed by the writings of Bill McKibben and the
insights of RMI's Economic Renewal efforts led by Michael Kinsley. Many of the lean-
clean-and-green concepts reported here were identified early by Joe Romm, who wrote
Lean and Clean Management (1994) as an RMI researcher. We have relied frequently on
the essential publications of our friends at Worldwatch Institute. And of course the
godfather of our resource-productivity work is the lead author of Factor Four, now a
member of the German Bundestag, the extraordinary Ernst von Weizsäcker.

We want especially to acknowledge Herman Daly, whose pioneering work in ecological

economics provided the basis for the thesis of this work. His seminal contributions to a
truly integrated economics discipline are made all the more remarkable by his modesty
and humility. Equal acknowledgment for her extraordinary contributions to
understanding our society and environment as a system we extend to Dana Meadows. Her
wisdom and balance are a touchstone to us and many others. Much of what we've learned
comes from other outstanding practitioners and teachers, many of whom were also
reviewers of the manuscript. They include Rebecca Adamson, Jan Agri, Abigail Alling,
Mohamed El-Ashry, Bob Ayres, J. Baldwin, Spencer Beebe, Janine Benyus, Wendell
Berry, Paul Bierman-Lytle, Dick Bourne, Peter Bradford, Michael Braungart, Chip Bupp,
Jody Butterfield, Ralph Cavanagh, Nancy Clanton, John Clarke, Jim Clarkson, Gordon
Conway, Mike and Judy Corbett, Robert Costanza, Peter Coyote, Robert Cumberford,
Mike Curzan, Gretchen Daily, Joan Davis, Steve DeCanio, Murray Duffin, Paul and
Anne Ehrlich, John Elkington, Don Falk, Chris Flavin, Peter Forbes, Greg Franta, Ashok
Gadgil, Thomas Gladwin, Peter Gleick, Jose Goldemberg, David Goldstein, Robert
Goodland, Tom Graedel, Sue Hall, Ted Halstead, Stuart Hart, Randy Hayes, Allen
Hershkowitz, Buzz Holling, John Holmberg, Wes Jackson, Dan Jones, Thomas B.
Johansson, Joel Jamison, Greg Kats, Phillipp Kauffman, Yoichi Kaya, Byron Kennard,
Tachi Kiuchi, Florentin Krause, Jonathan Lash, Eng Lock Lee, Nick Lenssen, Jaime
Lerner, Paul MacCready, Bob Massie, Gil Masters, William McDonough, Dennis
Meadows, Niels Meyer, Norman Myers, Steve Nadel, Jon Olaf Nelson, Jørgen Nørgard,
Joan Ogden, Ron Perkins, John Picard, Amulya Reddy, Bob Repetto, Karl-Henrik
Robèrt, Tina Robinson, Jim Rogers, Dan Roos, Art Rosenfeld, Marc Ross, Peter Rumsey,
Wolfgang Sachs, Yasushi Santo, Robert Sardinsky, Anjali Sastry, Jan Schilham, Bio
Schmidt-Bleek, Steve Schneider, Peter Schwartz, Floyd Segel, Sarah Severn, Ed Skloot,
Rob Socolow, Jim Souby, Walter Stahel, Maurice Strong, David Suzuki, Nickolas