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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0977825361
  • ISBN-13:
    9780977825363
  • PUB. DATE:
    September 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    Paradigm Publishers

Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots / Edition 1 by Kevin Danaher, Jason Mark, Shannon Biggs

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Building the Green Economy

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: September 2007
  • Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
  • Sales Rank: 1,179,858

Synopsis

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices? BUILDING THE GREEN ECONOMY shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories???over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines???dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement. The authors also:
• Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement
• Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges
• Provide key resources for local activists
• Include conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal, David Morris, Michael Shuman, and others

Biography

Described by The New York Times as the “Paul Revere of globalization’s woes,” Dr. Kevin Danaher is a cofounder of Global Exchange, Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center, and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago and Seattle. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Ten Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank (Seven Stories Press), and (with Jason Mark) Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power(Routledge).

Shannon Biggs directs the Local Economy project at Global Exchange. As a former senior staffer at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) she wrote for and edited IFG publications, and was a lecturer on International Relations at San Francisco State University. She holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in economics, empire and post-colonialism.

Dubbed a “rebel with a cause” by TIME magazine, Jason Mark is an author-activist who helped launch the national Freedom from Oil campaign. His writings have appeared in Orion, The Nation, Grist, Alternet, and E, among other publications. He lives in San Francisco, where he co-manages an urban organic farm (alemanyfarm.org) and edits the environmental quarterly Earth Island Journal.