Course Resources

Course resources are categorized into type for fast sorting and exploring. A central place for additional links and materials referred to throughout all steps of the course.

Tools & information for your purpose-driven business.

Books

Cradle to Cradle

Groundbreaking book on circular economies and eliminating the concept of waste.

Doughnut Economics

By Kate Raworth is a great history and hopeful view into slow paradigm shifts. Powerfully changes and informs outlook on how economics play such a important role in our global society.

Entangled Life

An amazing and mind-opening exploration of fungi and its critical role in the natural world and how humans can learn from it. By Merlin Sheldrake.

Nature’s Blueprint for Business: Harnessing the Hidden Power of Edges

Author Ines Garcia invites us to consider nature-based perspectives for businesses. Read our review here.

Biomimicry and Business: How Companies Are Using Nature's Strategies to Succeed

by Margo Farnsworth

Tribes - We Need You to Lead Us

Recommended book by Seth Godin about gathering your supporters and understanding how they can be transformed into a loyal tribe.

Overstory

An amazing book by Richard Powers about the natural world. Check out all his books!

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohleben

Articles

The Pivot to FeatherEdge®

How to Launch a Biomimetic Start-up by Ryan Church

Why You Need Systems Thinking Now

Interesting article outlining different approaches to solving problems and advocating for Systems Thinking

PNAS research article focusing on ants

2022 article on the distribution of ants on Earth including fascinating details about the ubiquity of these insects.

HBR article re: speed at which a company grows

Quote from the article: "In the process of chasing growth, companies can easily destroy the things that made them successful in the first place, such as their capacity for innovation, their agility, their great customer service, or their unique cultures."

Article: Stages of Small Business Growth

From the Harvard Business Review, an in-depth analysis.

The growth of nacre (mother-or-pearl)

Detailed and fascinating Pub Med article on nacre growth.

Podcasts

Futureverse

Podcast featuring interviews with climate change science fiction (cli-fi) authors who imagine a future with a changed climate.

Hosted by Molly Wood and Ramanan Raghavendra

Learning From Nature

A great biomimicry-centered podcast hosted by Lily Urman

Everybody in the Pool

Podcast by Molly Wood with a broad range of topics and perspectives from informed guests.

Second Nature

Practical tips for sustainable living

Videos

Smithsonian Archive

Short interesting documentary on how the Smithsonian handles their natural history archives.

Biophilic Design & Biomimicry presentation

It's Time To Learn from Nature: A Conversation with Learn Biomimicry

Websites

Tree Campus Program

The U.S. Arbor Day Foundation has a unique program that encourages campuses and healthcare facilities to incorporate trees into their community tools.

File Downloads

START GREEN - Business Legal Structures

Comparison chart of small business structures in PDF format mentioned in Step 5.

NielsenIQ Sustainability Report

An in-depth report on consumer spending outlook as it relates to 'Sustainability'.

START GREEN - Customer Data Security Checklist

Downloadable checklist as mentioned in Step 3.

The contribution of fungi to the global economy

Article on how fungi provide ecological and environmental services to humans, health and nutritional benefits, and are vital to numerous industries.

START GREEN - Small Business Tool Visualization

Tool visualization as discussed in Step 6.

Financial Forecasting Templates

Financial Forecasting Worksheets from SCORE.org

Whale Fall study

Detailed article from Frontiers explaining the effect of whale fall on deep-sea ecosystems.

Other

Regenerative Paradigm

An amazing visualization of the paradigm map by By Dr Vanessa Taveras-Dalmau

The Climatebase Fellowship

The Climatebase Fellowship is the climate career accelerator designed to help ambitious mission-driven professionals supercharge their careers in climate, land their next job, or start their own projects and ventures.

Pollinator Pathfinder

An interesting project by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg that incorporates art and design solution to help pollinators.

Cradle to Cradle Org

Working towards a future when safe products are designed and produced in a circular economy to maximize health for people and the planet.