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January 31, 2011
By Vandana Shiva (Editor)Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed is a short,
pocket-sized collection that goes to the heart of our existence—what we
eat and how we grow it. It covers the questions: How are seeds cultivated and saved?How far must food travel before reaching our plate?Who gets paid for the food we eat?Why does our food taste like this? We
live in a world where of the eighty...
August 23, 2010
Having Marketing Mentor’s Start Anytime Marketing Plan + Calendar is like
having your marketing “to do list” already filled out for
you for the entire year! You’ll know how much time to spend on
your marketing every week, how many prospects to contact, how much time
to spend on the phone, when to launch an e-mail campaign…and
when to reward yourself for a job well done.
Along
the way you’ll...
June 16, 2010
The American Independent Business Alliance is a
national 501c3 non-profit organization helping communities launch and
successfully operate an Independent Business Alliance®
(IBA), "buy independent, buy local" campaigns, and other efforts to
support community enterprise.These alliances work to build
vital local economies based on independent, locally-owned businesses and
prevent chain...
Big Box Swindle - The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
June 16, 2010
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
civic engagement—and she shows how a growing...
June 3, 2010
InVenture is a micro venture capital fund that empowers businesses to lift their communities out of povertyInVenture was founded in October 2009 with the
belief that traditional microfinance models weren't doing enough to
lift communities out of poverty. To give you an idea of the problem's
scope: there are currently more than 75 million micro-borrowers
worldwide, all living day to day...
April 4, 2010
Finally, someone's saying what we've all been thinking. Don't throw out all the lessons you've heard from a previous generation of business-makers and owners, just remember you're not running their kind of business. This is the new way of approaching work, the future of entrepreneurship, and a massive call to believe in yourself. Brief, to the point, and fantastically illustrated... with a...
