"Working Alternatives: A World That Works"

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A WORLD THAT WORKS

Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable Society

Published by The Bootstrap Press (A TOES Book).
$19.50 + $3.50 p&pkg.; 368pp. June 1997. ISBN 0-942850-38-6. (I-386)

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Animated by the proposition that an economics constrained by respect for the natural world and human dignity is possible, this volume offers a rich menu of alternative ideas and experiences that are moving us toward a more just and sustainable future. It is also setting the stage for the next TOES (The Other Economic Summit) in Denver in June 1997.

Many of these ideas and experiences will be discussed and debated there as alternatives to the official agenda being addressed by the government leaders at the Group of 7 Economic Summit occurring simultaneously.

The ideas and experiences presented in this book are grouped around several themes, such as what works to create real wealth, to democratize science and technology, to link sustainability with justice in the real world, and to build sustainable livelihoods and sustainable communities. Must reading for all who believe in and are willing to work for a better future.

Chapter 1
Critiques of the G-7's Globalization Strategy

Ratcheting up the Globalization Process: Extending Free Trade & Investment

• Michel Chossudovsky
  "The G-7 Agenda Creates Global Poverty"

• Kevin Watkins
  "Goods for Some are Bad For Others"

• Scott Nova and Michelle Sforza-Roderick
  "Worse Than NAFTA"

The OTHER Globalization Movement

• Susan Hunt
  Voices Protesting the Costs of Economic Globalization

• Ward Morehouse
  Multinational Corporations and Crimes Against Humanity

Chapter 2
What is Real Wealth?

Working Alternatives to Neo-Liberal Economic Integration

• Luis Lopezllera Mendez
  The Indigenous Rebellion in Chiapas

• David Barkin
  Local Autonomy, National Development and International Integration. The challenges for today, the models for tomorrow

Models of "Enoughness" as Working Alternatives

• Romesh Diwan Gandhian Economics: Enoughness as Real Wealth

• Winifred Armstrong
  African Contributions to Concepts of Real Wealth

• John Navone
  The Geography of Nowhere has a Chianti Counterpoint

Chapter Three:
What Works for Re-Embedding the Economy

• Ruth Caplan
  A General Agreement on a New Economy (GANE): Work in a Sustainable Society

Social Protections that De-Commodify the Earth, Money, and Labor

• Vandana Shiva
  Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture

• John McConnell and Alanna Hartzok
  Pennsylvania's Success with Local Tax Reform

• David Boyle
  Local Currency Systems

• Sumner Rosen
  Good News and Promising Perspectives for the Labor Movement

Institutionalizing Ecological Decision Making

• Donald Stone
  Moving From Good Intentions to Good Results: Ten Steps to Profitable Environmental Accounting

• Larry Martin
  The Gross National Waste Product

Can Corporations be Socially Responsible?

• Jeffrey Barber:
  The Role of Corporate Accountability in Sustainable Development: An NGO Statement to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development

• Richard Grossman
  Only the People Can be Socially Responsible

Chapter Four
Linking Sustainability with Justice

• Kishor Thanawala
  Markets and Government in the International Economy

Failures to Implement Sustainable Development

• Daphne Wysham
  Destroying Orissa, Fueling Climate Change: A Joint Project of the World Bank, Transnational Corporations, and G-7 Governments

• Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
  Lighting the Path to Progress

New Strategies for Sustainability with Justice

• Ignacio Peon Escalante
  Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity, and Sustainability

• Peter Montague
  Sustainable America

Chapter Five
Building Sustainable Communities & Sustainable Livelihoods

Are Sustainable Communities Possible in a Global Economy?

• David Korten
  Economic Globalization: The War Against Markets, Democracy, People and Nature

What Works to Build Sustainable Communities?

• Michael Shuman
  Ten Step Program to Local Self-Reliance

• Patricia Perkins
  Social Diversity and the Sustainability of Community Economics"

Funding Sustainable Communities & Livelihoods

• Brian Hill
  Funding Sustainability through Micro-loans

• Kavaljit Singh, Nan Dawkins-Scully and Daphne Wysham
  Micro Credit : Band-aid or Wound?

• Stephen Viederman & Edward Tasch
  Dissonance, Responsibility and Corporate Culture - Or, How Two Camps Struggle For Our Hearts and Minds and What We Can Do About It

Chapter Six
What Works for Democratizing Science and Technology

• Richard Sclove
  Research By the People: Building a Worldwide Community Research Network

• Frederique Apffel-Marglin & Kathryn Pyne Addelson
  Mutual Learning: the Case of PRATEC

• Dave Redwood and Sean Kelly
  The Earth Isn't Flat

• Sean Kelly and Dave Redwood
  Bear River's "Living Machine"

Chapter Seven
What Works to Build International Security & Peace?

• Victor Sidel, et al.
  The Impact of Military Activities on Development, Environment and Health

• Doug Lummis
  Alternatives to War - that Work

What are the Real Conditions for Inclusive Democracy?

• Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  Turn Formal Democracies into Living Ones

• Ronnie Dugger
  A Call to Citizens: Real Populists Stand Up!

Ethical Guidelines for Cultural Transformation

• Larry Rasmussen
  Earth Community - Earth Ethics

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