** Authors Available for Interview**

As never before, environmental challenges are creating economic and political opportunities. Sales of organically grown food are skyrocketing at 20 percent a year. Architects are using recycled and re-used materials, and the market for commercial green buildings is at $43 billion annually. More than $2 trillion in assets are invested in socially responsible funds. Sustainable living has gone from granola fringe to glossy fashion.

In a pivotal new book, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots (PoliPointPress, $16.00, September 2007), authors Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs and Jason Mark investigate these trends and uncover a powerful engine of change. The book tells the inspiring stories of individual citizens, families and community groups that have achieved unlikely victories in the fight to bring environmental sustainability and economic fairness to such vital areas as water management, food, toxics, urban renewal, clean energy, and local politics. According to the authors: "The green economy is no longer some quaint sideline. It is the most rapidly growing sector of the economy."

Building the Green Economy highlights cutting edge efforts to create an economy that finds profits in sustainability. Success stories include Fetzer Winery, a $300 million company that has been a pioneer in sustainable business practices, and a campaign in Utah to promote locally owned shops over chain stores. Other examples include the growing interest in urban food production, campaigns by cities to cut back on carbon emissions, community-based plans for sustainable forestry, and local initiatives to redefine corporate rights and responsibilities. Interspersed with these stories are Q&A conversations with visionaries such as Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, environmental justice leader Lois Gibbs, and civil rights activist Van Jones. The book also provides readers with tips on what they can do to reduce their ecological footprint.

Co-authors Danaher, Biggs and Mark are intimately involved in the movement they write about. Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, co-producer of the popular Green Festivals, and the author of eleven other books. Shannon Biggs, a former university lecturer, directs the Local Economy Project at Global Exchange. Jason Mark, dubbed a "rebel with a cause" by TIME, is a journalist-farmer who edits the environmental magazine Earth Island Journal and co-manages San Francisco's largest urban farm.

PoliPointPress (www.p3books.com) publishes lively books on progressive politics and current affairs.

To arrange an interview with any of the authors or to receive advance book copies, please contact Nell Greenberg at nell@globalexchange.org and 510-847-9777.

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