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Making a living while making a difference

by Melissa Everett (1995)

About this book

Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It's about greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, innovative nonprofit work, and reinventing government. It's really about putting the pieces together with creativity and hope.

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
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