Author: Danaher, Kevin & Biggs, Shannon & Mark, Jason

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face a critical need for a new business model that saves and restores natural resources instead. Drawing on extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors show how community groups and individual citizens have acted to protect their food and water and clean up their neighborhoods while strengthening their local economies. Their unlikely victories over polluters, bureaucracies, and old habits dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the green economy movement. 224 pp.