TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scanlan,Melissa K.
TI  - Prosperity in the fossil-free economy : : cooperatives and the design of sustainable businesses 
SN  - 0300253990
AV  - HD2963 .S32 2021eb
U1  - 334 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Cooperative societies
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Social responsibility of business
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -