Free Forum - Kevin Danaher on "Building the Green Economy"

Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices?

Building the Green Economy, a new book edited by Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, and Jason Mark, shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories—over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines—dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.

Drawing on their extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also lay out strategies for a more successful green movement and describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges. Copies of the new book will be on sale following the program.

Free and open to the public. Part of the ongoing “Other Voices” television series produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. The program will be broadcast live on Mid-Peninsula Community Media cable TV Channel 27 and rebroadcast throughout October.