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Good morning, beautiful business : the unexpected journey of an activist entrepreneur and local economy pioneer /

"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 brownstone...

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Main Author: Wicks, Judy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Publishing, ©2013.
Subjects and Genres:
Wicks, Judy.
White Dog Cafe (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Restaurateurs > Pennsylvania > Philadephia.
Community development > Pennsylvania > Philadephia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Small Business.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Community development.
Restaurateurs.
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Table of 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 Café
  • 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.

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