Prosperity in the fossil-free economy : cooperatives and the design of sustainable businesses / Melissa K. Scanlan.

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Scanlan, Melissa K [author.]

Material type: Text

0300253990
9780300253993
9780300262919

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DDC classification:

334 23

LOC classification:

HD2963 .S32 2021eb

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona	HD75.6 SCA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B04417

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and index.

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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