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Growing a Green Economy
Shareholder Activism · Employee Ownership · Socially Responsible Investing · Workplace Democracy · Triple-Bottom-Line Economics
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Great Books to Grow the Green Economy
For more than three decades, Hazel Henderson has been at the forefront of the green economy movement, pushing companies and governments toward a cleaner, greener, more ethical and more female model of business. Today this green economy, based on triple-bottom-line accounting—people and planet into consideration alongside profit—is thriving in the U.S. and around the world. In her new book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, based on the nationally syndicated public television series of the same name, Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, and professionals, as she chronicles the maturing of this economic paradigm. This outstanding big-picture view will undoubtedly be heralded as the book that brought the green economy out of the shadows of our consciousness and into mainstream discussion.
Hazel Henderson, Ph.D., renowned economist, syndicated columnist, and consultant, created and produces the public television series Ethical Markets. A fellow of the World Business Academy, she serves on several boards and shared the Global Citizen Award with Nobel Laureate A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina.
The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing, and Democracy is John C. Harrington's no-holds-barred look at our money system, its threat to our survival, and how to use our investments to regain control. In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years of experience, Harrington gives investors the strategies to thwart corporate domination of the earth’s resources, decentralize our economy, restore democracy, tame corruption, and regain community control of our financial resources. For corporate America to change in time, Harrington argues, a revolution—fueled by investor dollars—must come from within.
John C. Harrington has been a leader in the socially responsible investment movement for over thirty years, and was a key architect of the divestment movement against the apartheid government in South Africa. He is currently the President and CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc. Author of Investing with Your Conscience, he is also one of the founders and former chairman of the board of Working Assets and Progressive Asset Management, two pioneering socially responsible financial services companies.
There is a revolution going on in corporate America, and social entrepreneurship is leading the way. Rejecting the myth that short-term profits are the only indicator of business health and wealth, John Abrams shows how building a company to serve the needs of people (employees and owners), community, and the environment can be a successful business plan as well. Part entrepreneurial business plan, part guide to democratizing the workplace, and part prescription for strong local economies, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place marks the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business.
John Abrams founded the South Mountain Company, a 30-year-old design and building firm on Martha's Vineyard. Through a commitment to place and community entrepreneurship, he has seen the company grow and prosper, while at the same time experimenting with a revolutionary employee ownership model that has challenged the traditional business rhetoric of unchecked growth.
Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, Mid-course Correction is a business book about the environment that’s written for a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, Founder, Chairman and CEO of one of the world’s largest interior furnishings companies, recounts his awakening to the importance of environmental issues and outlines the steps his petroleum-dependent company, Atlanta-based Interface, Inc., is taking in its quest to become a sustainable enterprise—one that will never have to take another drop of oil from the earth. Thought-provoking and thoughtful, Anderson’s story is told from the heart.
Ray Anderson has become one of the nation's leading spokespersons and advocates for sustainability. He is currently co-chairman of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, and was named the Georgia Conservancy's Conservationist of the Year in 1997. His warm and eye-opening account of the mid-course correction for himself and his company should be required reading for every CEO in the world. Anderson lives with his wife, Pat, in Atlanta. He has two children and five grandchildren.
More Green Business Titles from Chelsea Green
Limits to Growth
The 30-Year Update
by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
Grassroots Marketing
Getting Noticed in a Noisy World
by Shel Horowitz
Business As Unusual
My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles
Anita Roddick