While the books on business and sustainability have mushroomed into a cottage industry, there’s just a handful of writings that elegantly weave a book’s theme or thesis into the very fabric of the writing itself. Leigh Stringer’s The Green Workplace fits well into this small club.

The evolution of The Green Workplace is a story in and of itself. Beginning as a blog site written by a small group of contributors (www.TheGreenWorkplace.com), the blog quickly took on a life of its own, with a growing list of topics, research, Web 2.0 style pooling and refinement of information taken on by the public at large (see p. 127 for a synopsis of this process). The result is a book whose very DNA is sustainability, epitomizing: