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.
" Building a Health Economy from the Bottom Up is a timely book
that fits well into the current political dialogue, offering a
significant contribution to the field of rural community planning,
and will have wide appeal among students and practitioners." --
Journal of Planning Education and Research
"A blessing of a book. It is rich in stories and detail for the
curious or discouraged and those seeking a strategy to move toward
a sustainable and equitable future. Flaccavento excels as a
storyteller, reporting on successful "bottom-up" ventures and
experiments in building new systems around food, energy, health
services, worker ownership, community finance, and place-based arts
and culture." -- YES! Weekly
" Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up is an invaluable
guidebook for those who seek to liberate their communities from
colonial servitude to Wall Street and the money-seeking corporate
robots that come only to take." -- David C. Korten, author of
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living
Earth
"Flaccavento brings a completely unique perspective to economics,
which is to say that he is both entertaining and factual.
Economists generally aren't concerned with either. I recommend this
book to those who have come to realize our country is running on
fumes and who desire to explore what's next." -- Kimber Lanning,
founder and director of Local First Arizona
"Flaccavento deftly weaves a big-picture vision for building a
better economy -- one that truly serves our needs and long-term
well-being -- with down-to-earth stories and practical tips for how
to set these changes in motion within your own household and
community." -- Stacy Mitchell, codirector of the Institute for
Local Self-Reliance, and author of Big-Box Swindle
"No matter how many books on 'local economies' you have read, you
will learn something new and eye-opening from Anthony Flaccavento.
Starting with his own organizing efforts in Southwest Virginia,
Flaccavento spins the colorful tales of successful grassroots
economy-building in Appalachia and in small towns and low-income
neighborhoods across the United States. There's so much inspiring
material packed into these pages, I challenge anyone to read it and
NOT want to buy from, invest in, or even start a local business in
food, energy, or finance. This book will change readers' lives." --
Michael H. Shuman, author of The Local Economy Solution
"The main achievement here is in synthesizing a literature that has
been emerging for twenty or thirty years and doing so in a manner
that is clear, readable, and effective." -- Paul B. Thompson,
author of The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental
Ethics
"There is a movement happening. The secret is that it is successful
and has been going on for a long time--for American agriculture it
started over 30 years ago with the 1980s farm crisis. All of us 'on
the ground' owe Anthony a debt of gratitude, for he, as one of us,
has paused for a moment from the work to capture the root causes,
our community-led responses, and the path forward. In a world that
is often full of despair, Anthony shares the growing hope that is
more prevalent than acknowledged." -- Martin Richards, "recovering
tobacco farmer" and Executive Director Community Farm Alliance
"This work will be considered current for a number of years, as the
stories and examples are very up to date and seem to be on the
cutting edge of knowledge and thinking in this area." -- John
Ikerd, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Through a series of narratives and case studies, Flaccavento
illustrates real stories of changes from the 'bottom up' that are
initiated and led by community members. He weaves these stories
into a cogent critique of how these economic policies have harmed
middle- and lower-income Americans and further, how this
large-scale economy has harmed community life." -- A. Whitney
Sanford, author of Growing Stories from India: Religion and the
Fate of Agriculture
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