Book Review: Living Above the Store

by Elizabeth Barrette on May 4, 2009

Living Above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community–How One Family Business Transformed Itself … Using Sustainable Management Practices by Martin Melaver.  Chelsea Green, 2009.  Hardback, 317 pages.  ISBN: 978-1-60358-085-4.  Three stars.

             This book examines the business sphere as it has been in the past, as it is today, and as it could be in the future.  It pays careful attention to values as well as economic principles.  It makes compelling arguments for why businesses need to consider the land and the community, not just cash flow.

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