Alternative Economies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Consumer in a Changing Food System From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The Emergent Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Food production becomes exceptionally sustainable when profitability ceases to be the singular mission of the farm, and becomes instead a part of a “triple bottom line.” As important …	Gary S. Kleppel	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From The Emergent Market From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out …	Gary S. Kleppel	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From Sculpted by River and Story From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the …	Alejandro Frid	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From The Food Co-op Waves From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while …	John Steinman	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From The Slow Money From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates …	Gary S. Kleppel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From The Way of the Peasant From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	The Way of the Peasant begins with the impact of industrial agriculture on peasant farmers in India, before focusing on the resistance to these impacts through the anti-globalization and …	John Restakis	15	2021	$1.50 Add
From Threats to Food Co-ops From: Grocery Story View New Society Publishers	The co-opting by grocery chains of co-op values as marketing strategies is described, as well as the challenges of the "cornucopia effect", caused by a dizzying variety of choice. The …	John Steinman	20	2019	$2.00 Add
From Toward a Sustainable Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Sustainability is a set of principles that focus on three fundamental elements of durable societies. They are: environmental stewardship, economic viability, and ethical behavior. These elements, …	Gary S. Kleppel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From Transformation Part I: Roots From: Good Crop / Bad Crop View Between The Lines	Chapter 1 discusses agriculture and its relationship to the evolutionary process of seeds, the Green Revolution, the rise of transnational seed corporations, and more.	Devlin Kuyek	11	2007	$1.10 Add