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Money, Investing, and Democracy $22.50 On Sale: $5.00!
A no-holds-barred look at our money system, its threat to our survival, and how to use our investments to regain control.
Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place $19.95 Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of The Company We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Now, in Companies We Keep, the revised and expanded edition of his 2005 work, John Abrams further develops his idea that companies flourish when they become centers of interdependence, or �communities of enterprise.�
A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic Revolution $19.95 The Earth's Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarket shelves—a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole—and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown, thanks to Earth's Best.
From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good $21.95 The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty; it also threatens all forms of life—indeed life itself. Economics Unmasked presents a cogent critique of the dominant economic system in order to help transform our society into one in which all forms of life will be protected.
$19.95 Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.
Growing the Green Economy $30.00 With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel
Henderson announces the mature presence of the
green economy. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics
and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists,
scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews
conducted on her longstanding public television
series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the
highly successful growth of green businesses around the
world.
The Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work $19.95 Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot
explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs,
and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You'll learn how to
find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market
research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the
land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you'll learn how to find the
"sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect.
Breakdown or Breakthrough? $23.95 Future Money explains in plain language and convincing detail how money is now working to propel us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it.
The book clearly shows how the money system works, how it could be reformed so that it acts to the benefit of people and society rather than the opposite, and describes the obstacles that currently prevent a reform of the money system.
The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer $17.95 Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world -- helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interesting and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient.
The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer $27.95 Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world -- helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interesting and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient.
The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands $24.95 Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 “eco-capitalists” from a broad range
of industries—home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage,
energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experience of leaders such as Gary
Hirschberg of Stonyfield Farms, Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons
of Dr. Bronner, as well as other green experts, are a rich source of wisdom for green businesses
getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered $21.95 Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money investigates an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations.
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered $15.95 Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee $19.95 Cycon’s exhuberant work provides a custom blend of travel essay and business savvy with a finish of social responsibility that leaves readers a sense of hope and possibility for the lives connected to our favorite pick-me-up.
How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity $17.95 Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman probes the future of investing -- making the case for investors to put their money into building local businesses and food and energy systems, and otherwise creating healthy regional economies that meet the stresses of a post-peak-oil world. The book tells readers how to find or develop opportunities for investing locally, explains the obstacles, and introduces readers to investors who have taken on the challenge and put their theories about local investing into action.
How to Make It Happen in Your Community $22.95 Local Money shows how local currency can help us unleash the financial power of our communities to build a resilient, low-carbon future.
Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender $25.00 Learn the truth about how money is created. Money tells the scandalous story of how our economy came to be based on debt, a system that depends on inequity and undermines local enterprise. Money is also a unique and indispensable handbook for developing community currencies and exchange systems, by one of the founders of Tucson Traders.
The Psychology of Money and the Transformation of Capitalism $19.95 Many feel that money and what we perceive as the psyche (or soul) are bitter enemies—do we choose money or soul, finance or feelings, markets or common humanity? Money and Soul traces the origins of these opposing concepts, and the emotions that money provokes. Economic ideas often stand out as being universal, globally valid and without cultural ties. But when money is viewed in its cultural and philosophical context, it becomes evident that the money of today is a particular system of symbols—something that society itself has devised over many centuries—that both reflects and reinforces society’s dominant concerns.
Innovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownership $24.95 On Sale: $5.00!
As a wave of foreclosures sweeps the country, many people are giving up hope for owning a home of their own. They have good reason to turn their backs on the banks, but not on their dreams. In this revised edition of Mortgage Free!, Rob Roy offers a series of escape routes from enslavement to financial institutions, underscored by true stories of intrepid homeowners who have put their principles into action.
A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform $19.95 This work is the end result of forty years of looking for solutions to global problems like overpopulation, unsustainable growth, ecosystem overload, species extinction, exploitation of the developing countries, growing inequality, global injustice, and, more recently, global warming and peak oil. This book asks, "Where are the leverage points that can break the logjam and create real solutions that could lead to a radically different kind of global society?"
ZERI Management Stories $30.00 The 21 fairy tales in Gunter Pauli's Out of the Box prepare companies, executives and their teams to be the pioneering agents of transformation, as well as promising to be both fun and profitable.
The Complete Guide to Financing a Socially Responsible Food Business $19.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: June 6, 2013) More and more entrepreneurs are using food-based businesses to solve social and environmental problems -- and yet the majority of them report that a lack of access to capital prevents them from launching, maintaining, or growing their ventures. Raising Dough is an unprecedented guide to the full range of financing options available to support sustainable food businesses.
The Road to Zero Emissions, More Jobs, More Income, and No Pollution $16.95 This pioneering work tracks how Gunter Pauli of Ecover became an environmental leader in business, focusing on have a zero emissions policy.
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