Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy : Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses Hardback
by Melissa K Scanlan
Hardback
Description
A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models “[An] important take on achieving a cleaner and safer world. . . . [Scanlan] envisions a future where green policies go hand-in-hand with worker empowerment, and provides a detailed blueprint for how to get there. . . . Her book offers essential hope that we can yet save ourselves . . . from ourselves.”—Bill Lueders, The Progressive, “Favorite Books of 2021” Drawing on both her extensive experience founding and directing social enterprises and her interviews with sustainability leaders, Melissa Scanlan provides a legal blueprint for creating alternate corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members, including Certified B Corps and benefit corporations.
With an emphasis on cooperatives, this book reveals the power and potential of cooperating as a unifying concept around which to design social enterprise achieving triple bottom-line results: for society, the environment, and finance.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 6 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2021
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- ISBN:9780300253993
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 6 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300253993