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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Anthony Flaccavento
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Paperback. The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In From the Bottom Up: Economic Lessons from Communities that Quit Waiting for Trickle Down, Anthony Flaccavento introduces readers to the innovators who are creating thriving, locally based economies and provides a road map for others who are interested in doing the same. Series: Culture of the Land. Num Pages: 310 pages, 30 black & white photographs, 12 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCG; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by policy makers, pundits, and economists.
In Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real World Experience for Transformative Change, Anthony Flaccavento introduces readers to the innovators who are ... Read more
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by policy makers, pundits, and economists.
In Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real World Experience for Transformative Change, Anthony Flaccavento introduces readers to the innovators who are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Series
Culture of the Land
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813167596
SKU
V9780813167596
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About Anthony Flaccavento
Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, and the author of more than a dozen books.
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