Green Capitalism?

Edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome

Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Adam Rome is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Preface—Roger HorowitzPART I. THE BIG PICTUREChapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy—Adam Rome 1Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business-History Perspective on Eco-Capitalism—Hartmut BerghoffChapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance—Hugh S. GormanPART II. CONSERVATION BEFORE ENVIRONMENTALISMChapter 4. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America—Christine Meisner RosenChapter 5. "Constructive and Not Destructive Development": Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South—William D. BryanChapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? The Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America—Julie CohnPART III. FAILURES AND DILEMMASChapter 7. Plastic Six-Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem—David KinkelaChapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction—Leif FredricksonPART IV. GOING GREENChapter 9. Dilemmas of Going Green: Environmental Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden, 1960-2000—Ann-Kristin BergquistChapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965-1990—Roman KösterChapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s—Joseph A. PrattChapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy—Geoffrey JonesChapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles—Brian C. BlackNotesContributorsAcknowledgments