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[title] Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives
Book by Sam Pizzigati

Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality that Limits Our Lives. Greed and Good dissects the rationalizations for inequality, probes the impact on inequality on everything from health to happiness, and advances what Bill Greider, one of the book’s blurbers, calls “big ideas for...

[title] Too Much: An Online Weekly on Excess and Inequality
Newsletter by Sam Pizzigati

Too Much, the weekly online newsletter on inequality and excess is edited by Sam Pizzigati for IPS. Too Much examines the impact of inequality on our daily lives and the innovative new-economy antidotes activists and academics are proposing. For instance, Too Much, looks at the proposals...

[title] Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
Book by Edited by M. Paloma Pavel, PhD, Foreword by Carl Anthony

The emerging metropolitan regional equity movement promotes innovative policies to ensure that all communities in a metropolitan region share resources and opportunities equally. Too often, low-income communities and communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of pollution and lack...

[title] The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Book by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Richard Wilkinson, is the Professor of Medical Epidemiology at Nottingham University. Kate Pickett is a Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of York. Within the 400+ pages of this book, they emphasise that it is not the poor and the deprived in isolation who suffer from the effects of...

[title] Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crisis, and a Revolution of Hope
Book by Brian MacLaren

How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?

Acclaimed author and Emergent church leader Brian McLaren states, "More and more Christian leaders are beginning to realize that for the millions of young adults who have recently dropped...

[title] 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...

[title] 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...

[title] 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...

[title] 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....

[title] On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy
Book by Robert Weissman and Russell Mokhiber

Rampant corporate crime. Pollution. Cancer. Sweatshops. Dangerous working conditions. Wealth disparities. Corrupted politics. In a compilation of compelling snapshots from two of the leading reporters on business power, On the Rampage documents the price we pay for living in a corporate-...