Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses

By: Melissa K Scanlan

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Synopsis: A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 400 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780300262919
Related ISBNs:: 9780300253993
Publisher:: Yale University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/28/21
Copyrighted By:: Melissa K. Scanlan.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.