TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scanlan, Melissa K.
TI  - Prosperity in the fossil-free economy
SN  - 9780300253993
PY  - 2021///
CY  - 
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR
KW  - Cooperative societies
KW  -  Sustainability
KW  - Social responsibility of business
N1  - cooperatives and the design of sustainable businesses; 	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.--
N2  - 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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