Impact Before Profit, and Still Growing: Inside a radical publisher - Pluto Press
Veruschka Selbach on how Pluto Press backs books that won't pay, puts its staff first and keeps growing, from a US office to a new imprint.
Veruschka Selbach on how Pluto Press backs books that won't pay, puts its staff first and keeps growing, from a US office to a new imprint.
Britain's four biggest banks made £29bn in six months. Hannah Dewhirst of Positive Money on where that money came from, and who is really paying for it.
Jos de Blok started Buurtzorg in 2006 with one team of nurses and no managers. It now runs around 900. He says doing the right thing costs the system less.
The Fair Tax Foundation created the world's first Fair Tax Mark. Paul Monaghan and Jaime Boswell on why celebrating the companies getting tax right may do more than naming the ones that don't.
Debbie and Kellie of Unicorn Grocery on chalking their prices next to Tesco's, giving before profit, funding their growers, and never opening a second shop.
A company can go to court. A river can't. Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature is working to change that — giving the natural world a voice in law, in policy, and even inside the company boardroom.
A digital agency in Finsbury Park, London, owned by the people who do the work — where decisions are made by consent, the profits fund a community, and now that "being good" has gone mainstream, standing out is its own kind of problem.
Professor Vera Zamagni on the constitutional article that's shielded Italian cooperatives since 1948, why small firms and cooperatives coexist rather than compete to the death, and why she thinks artificial intelligence — not politics — is now the bigger threat.
Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of Calverts on hiring sceptics, refusing to compete on price, and why control matters more than ownership.
Scotland has become the first country in the world to write community wealth building into law. But what does that mean for the places where people actually live and work — and can a framework like this hold against the pull of global capital, data centres and footloose investment?
This deep dive explores their innovative approach to ownership, pay equity, decision-making, and resilience in a capitalist world.
I wanted to share some ot the non-fiction and fiction books I've been reading recently, and would recommend to anyone who hasn't yet come across them.