Prosperity in the fossil-free economy 

 -  Yale University Press,  2021 
 - xi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm 
<br/><br/> cooperatives and the design of sustainable businesses 
<br/><br/>	Introduction: Dream from 2035, Looking Back on 2020  Part One: THEORIES, PRINCIPLES, AND LAWS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES--  Our Present Challenge--  Corporate Purpose and Governance for a Livable Planet--  Social Enterprise Design--  Cooperative Difference, Private Governance, and the Law--  Sustainable by Design--  Measuring and Reporting Sustainability--  PART TWO: CASE STUDIES: COOPERATIVE PATHBREAKERS TAKE CLIMATE ACTION AND ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT--  Supportive Cooperative Ecosystems in Spain and the United States--  Renewable Energy--  Food and Agriculture--  Water--  Finance: Capitalizing the Cooperative Movement--  Trade--  Findings and Lessons for a Livable Planet--  Appendix: Research methods.-- 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300253993 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cooperative societies<br/> Sustainability<br/>Social responsibility of business<br/>