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Good morning, beautiful business : the unexpected journey of an activist entrepreneur and local economy pioneer
- Title
- Good morning, beautiful business : the unexpected journey of an activist entrepreneur and local economy pioneer / Judy Wicks.
- Author
- Wicks, Judy.
- Publication
- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-3567 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 299 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "It's not often that someone stumbles into entrepreneurship and ends up reviving a community and starting a national economic-reform movement. But that's what happened when, in 1983, Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her house on a row of Victorian brownstones in West Philadelphia. After helping to save her block from demolition, Judy grew what began as a tiny muffin shop into a 200-seat restaurant-one of the first to feature local, organic, and humane food. The restaurant blossomed into a regional hub for community, and a national powerhouse for modeling socially responsible business.Good Morning, Beautiful Business is a memoir about the evolution of an entrepreneur who would not only change her neighborhood, but would also change her world-helping communities far and wide create local living economies that value people and place as much as commerce and that make communities not just interesting and diverse and prosperous, but also resilient.Wicks recounts a girlhood coming of age in the sixties, a stint working in an Alaska Eskimo village in the seventies, her experience cofounding the first Free People store, her accidental entry into the world of restauranteering, the emergence of the celebrated White Dog Cafe, and her eventual role as an international leader and speaker in the local-living-economies movement.Her memoir traces the roots of her career - exploring what it takes to marry social change and commerce, and do business differently. Passionate, fun, and inspirational, Good Morning, Beautiful Business explores the way women, and men, can follow both mind and heart, do what's right, and do well by doing good. "--
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- My first place : growing up in Ingomar -- A culture of sharing : life with the Eskimos -- My first business : the story of Free People's Store -- It's not the coin that counts : learning to do business my way -- The blooming of the White Dog Caf -- A table for 6 billion : finding an international perspective -- Living above the shop : lessons of place and community -- Basta! We have had enough : coffee and the world revolution -- What I learned from animals : building a caring economy -- Pursuing small scale on a large scale : the founding of BALLE -- Setting the table for 6 billion -- Good night, beautiful business.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-3567.
- ISBN
- 9781603585057 (hardcover)
- 1603585052 (hardcover)
- 9781933392240 (pbk.)
- 193339224X (pbk.)
- 9781603584999 (ebook)
- 1603584994 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2012043523
- OCLC
- 819531681
- Author
- Wicks, Judy.
- Title
- Good morning, beautiful business : the unexpected journey of an activist entrepreneur and local economy pioneer / Judy Wicks.
- Imprint
- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2013.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-3567.JFE 13-3567