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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.

A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models.

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Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Dream from 2035, Looking Back on 2020

PART ONE: THEORIES, PRINCIPLES, AND LAWS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES

1 Our Present Challenge

2 Corporate Purpose and Governance for a Livable Planet

3 Social Enterprise Design

4 The Cooperative Difference, Private Governance, and the Law

5 Sustainable by Design

6 Measuring and Reporting Sustainability

PART TWO: CASE STUDIES: COOPERATIVE PATHBREAKERS TAKE CLIMATE ACTION AND ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

7 Supportive Cooperative Ecosystems in Spain and the United States

8 Renewable Energy

9 Food and Agriculture

10 Water

11 Finance: Capitalizing the Cooperative Movement

12 Trade

13 Findings and Lessons for a Livable Planet

Appendix: Research Methods

Acknowledgments

Notes

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