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		<title>‘Up From Wall Street’: the first selection of the Union Plus Book Club</title>
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The new Union Plus Book Club, a project of the AFL-CIO “that will delve into the latest publications by leading experts on vital working family and workplace issues,” has announced its first selection: Cosimo’s Up From Wall Street: The Responsible Investment Alternative, by Thomas Croft. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who supplied the foreword for Up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/02/11/%e2%80%98up-from-wall-street%e2%80%99-the-first-selection-of-the-union-plus-book-club/</link>
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		<title>the enduring appeal of the legend of the wolfman</title>
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The legend of the werewolf has enduring appeal, as demonstrated by yet another new Hollywood flick, The Wolfman, in which Benicio Del Toro takes over the lead in a remake of the 1941 classic that starred Lon Chaney Jr.
Discover the roots of the myth in The Book of Werewolves, the 1865 classic by Sabine Baring-Gould, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/02/10/the-enduring-appeal-of-the-legend-of-the-wolfman/</link>
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		<title>Cosimo author Hazel Henderson on the SCOTUS decision removing restrictions on corporate spending in the political realm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hazel Henderson, coauthor of the Cosimo book The Power of Yin and a longtime advocate for global financial reform, has written an editorial for CSRwire, which covers corporate social responsibility and sustainability, framing the Supreme Court’s decision to treat corporations as “persons” not as a debacle for democracy but as an opportunity for corporate social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/27/cosimo-author-hazel-henderson-on-the-scotus-decision-removing-restrictions-on-corporate-spending-in-the-political-realm/</link>
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		<title>Cosimo author Danny Schechter on how the U.S. has let down Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danny Schechter, author of the Cosimo book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, appeared yesterday on the English-language Net news channel Russia Today to discuss the U.S.’s response to the earthquake in Haiti:







Schechter &#8212; always a vocal voice in progressive activism &#8212; now appears weekly on Progressive Radio Network with his News [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/21/cosimo-author-danny-schechter-on-how-the-us-has-let-down-haiti/</link>
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		<title>how to revitalize your business in 2010</title>
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Darwin Gillett, author of the Cosimo book Noble Enterprise: The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits has some new tips on revitalizing your business model for the new year at his blog Notes on Noble Business:
Ask yourself these questions about your own business and leadership:
1. What is the ultimate purpose of your business – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/21/how-to-revitalize-your-business-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Cosimo supports Convoy of Hope for Haiti earthquake relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 1994, Convoy of Hope, a nonprofit organization, has provided resources to organizations and churches to meet physical and spiritual needs for the purpose of making the community a better place. This is accomplished through domestic and international outreaches, supply lines, and disaster response.
Cosimo is a supporter of Convoy of Hope, and we encourage others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/21/cosimo-supports-convoy-of-hope-for-haiti-earthquake-relief/</link>
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		<title>great new review of ‘Up from Wall Street’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Croft’s Up From Wall Street: The Responsible Investment Alternative, recently published by Cosimo, has garnered a fantastic review from James McRitchie at CorpGov.net:
[S]hould be read by all working North Americans, concerned with the reckless loans and short-term stock market bets that nearly plunged the world’s economy into chaos&#8230;.
Croft does and excellent job of explaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/14/great-new-review-of-%e2%80%98up-from-wall-street%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>‘Up From Wall Street’ author Thomas Croft talks to Huffington Post</title>
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Thomas Croft, author of the Cosimo book Up From Wall Street: The Responsible Investment Alternative, talked recently wirh Leo W. Gerard, president of United Steelworkers International, about responsible investing and the challenges of these tough economic times. From the interview at Huffington Post:
So, what it means in terms of the economy is that the country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2010/01/06/%e2%80%98up-from-wall-street%e2%80%99-author-thomas-croft-talks-to-huffington-post/</link>
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		<title>‘Earth Fever’: the prescription for a global change of attitude</title>
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The other day, 56 newspapers around the world published the same editorial on the climate crisis: an unprecendented event for potentially an unprecedented global emergency.
The editorial &#8212; drafted by editors at the Guardian &#8212; says, among other things:
Many of us, particularly in the developed world, will have to change our lifestyles. The era of flights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2009/12/10/%e2%80%98earth-fever%e2%80%99-the-prescription-for-a-global-change-of-attitude/</link>
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		<title>notes from the push for universal health care&#8230; a century ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in The New Yorker this week about the century-long drive to bring universal health care to American citizens opens with this:
“At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance,” the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December. December of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cosimobooks.com/2009/12/10/notes-from-the-push-for-universal-health-care-a-century-ago/</link>
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