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Promote a public culture and policies that favor locally-owned, human-scale enterprises that are rooted in communities of place.

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    America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Life, our Liberty, and our Democracy
    Book by Gar Alperovitz

    * The top 5% of Americans own just under 70% of all financial wealth.
    * The top 1% of Americans now claim more income per year than the bottom 100 million Americans taken together.
    * The top 2/10th of 1% makes more on the sale of stocks and bonds in one year than everyone...

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    YES! Magazine's "Food for Everyone" issue
    Magazine by YES! Magazine

    How to grow a local food revolution!

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    The Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change
    Book by Edited By Kevin Danaher and Alisa Gravitz

    Each year, Green Festivals across the nation draw over 100,000 people to their “party with a purpose.” The Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change presents the addresses of the foremost thinkers and activists at these popular events. From a green New Deal to healthy homes and...

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    Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
    Book by Stacy Mitchell

    In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished...

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    Sustainable Planet: Roadmaps for the Twenty-first Century
    Book by Juliet Schor

    Americans work longer, with less vacation time, than the citizens of any other industrialized nation. And they consume more: recent scientific estimates indicate that at least four additional planets would be needed to support the earth's population if each of the planet's 6 billion inhabitants...

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    Getting To Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out
    Book by Jill Bamburg

    Ben & Jerry's. Stonyfield Farm. The Body Shop. Tom's of Maine. All leaders in the socially responsible business movement--and all eventually sold to mega-corporations. Do values-driven businesses have to choose between staying small, selling off, or selling out?

    Jill Bamburg says no....

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    The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
    Book by Marjorie Kelly

    Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms-the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders, no matter who pays the...

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    Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
    Book by The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland: Steve Dubb under the direction of Gar Alperovitz, with supporting contributions from Ted Howard, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Aziza Agia, and Katharine Nelson

    This study examines the development of a wide range of innovative, asset-based social and economic strategies that are being employed with great public benefit across the United States. This is the first across-the-board attempt to survey the development of these approaches—and their strategic...