Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy(English, Hardcover, Scanlan Melissa K)

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Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy(English, Hardcover, Scanlan Melissa K) is written by Scanlan Melissa K and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300253990 (ISBN 10) and 9780300253993 (ISBN 13).

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.