Since 1993, Dr. Townsend has researched and written books about organizational greening.  Her books are shown below.

Business Ecology.  Companies around the world are embracing the need to become more ecologically sustainable. Yet, many of today's green business best practices fail to result in companies that are truly green. In order to become sustainable, businesses need a fundamentally different approach to greening. Find it here.

Building on her book Green Business, the author suggests ways to achieve true ecological sustainability with a new paradigm for green business that is grounded in science.

She explains that business exists in an ecological context and that ecological sustainability is necessary for long-term economic and social sustainability. Ecological sustainability can occur when ecology and other environmental sciences are used to inform the business purpose and activities. 

Green Business.
This book offers a five-part model that companies can follow to become greener. Moreoever, it shares the success, and failures, of forerunners in the fast-growing arena of green business. This book details why and how companies are beocming more environmentally friendly. It cites 17 case studies that illustrate "green" advantages that are enjoyed by companies such as Interface, Incl, Patagonia, IBM, Mitsubishi Corp., and others. This is a great book for those who want to learn about green business - what it is, why it is important, and how to think about it. 

This was the first step-by-step guidebook detailing how companies could save money and increase their profits and productivity by being greener. It exposes some of the hidden costs shared by many of today1s businesses and explains how to eliminate them. It is filled with success stories of companies that have saved money, boosted employee morale, and increased productivity drastically by overcoming inefficient and unhealthy work practices. It offers tips, strategies, and methods for designing, renovating, and furnishing your workplace, conducting a smart office audit, establishing smarter company policies and goals, eradicating waste, and investing successfully.

Exploring Sustainable Biodiesel.
As a fuel, biodiesel is attractive for many reasons. It can be made using a variety of local resources on a small scale. Biodiesel supports local farms and economies and plays a part in community building. It may be made using renewable resources, making it an environmentally preferable alternative fuel.

Yet, there are challenges biodiesel producers, regulators, resellers, and others must face. This revealing book introduces some of those challenges, focusing specifically on small-scale producers, who often face several regulatory, safety, and waste disposal challenges.

The text discusses issues of quality, safety, storage, waste disposal, regulation, and cooperative politics. It touches upon biodiesel production around the world, examining some of the incentives, markets, production, and oilseed feedstock used in other countries.

Also discussed are some of the environmental and social justice issues that are arising due to the non-sustainable production of biodiesel feedstock.