Scanlan, Melissa K., <br/><br/>
Prosperity in the fossil-free economy   : cooperatives and the design of sustainable businesses  
/ Melissa K. Scanlan. 
 - xi, 381 pages  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and index. 
<br/><br/> A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models<br/> <br/>“[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”<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>0300253990 9780300253993 9780300262919 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>6687704  Proquest Ebook Central 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cooperative societies.<br/>Sustainability.<br/>Social responsibility of business.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD2963  / .S32 2021eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>334