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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicks, Judy, author.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wicks, Judy.

White Dog Cafe (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Restaurateurs--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Restaurateurs.

Community development--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Community development.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Publishing, ©2013.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

"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. "-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

9781603585057

1603585052

9781933392240

193339224X

9781603584999

1603584994

OCLC:

819531681

Publisher Number:

99955682474