Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300253993)

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.

Author: Melissa K. Scanlan
ISBN-10: 0300253990
ISBN-13: 9780300253993
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d