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 Peter Barnes is an entrepreneur and
writer who has founded and led several successful companies. At
present he is a senior fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute in
Point Reyes Station, California.
Barnes grew up in New York City and
earned a B.A. in history from Harvard and an M.A. in government
from Georgetown. He
began his career as a reporter on The Lowell Sun(Massachusetts),
and was subsequently a Washington correspondent for Newsweek and
west coast correspondent for The New Republic.
In 1976 he co-founded a solar energy
company in San Francisco, and in 1983 he co-founded Working
Assets Money Fund. He
subsequently served as president of Working Assets Long Distance. In
1995 he was named Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year
for Northern California.
He has served on numerous boards of directors,
including the National Cooperative Bank, the California State
Assistance Fund for Energy, the California Solar Industry Association,
Businesses for Social
Responsibility,i the Rainbow Workers Cooperative,
Techmar, Redefining Progress, the Family Violence Prevention Fund,
Public Media Center, TV-Turnoff Network, the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse,
Greenpeace International, the California Tax Reform Association,
and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
His books include Pawns: The Plight of the Citizen-Soldier (Knopf,
1972), The People’s Land (Rodale, 1975), Who Owns
the Sky? (Island Press, 2001), and Capitalism 3.0: A
GuidetoReclaiming the Commons (Berrett-Koehler,
2006). His articles have appeared in The Economist,
the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, The
American Prospect, the Utne Reader, Yes!, Resurgence and
elsewhere.
In 1997 he founded the Mesa Refuge,
a writers’ retreat in northern California. He has two
sons, Zachary and Eli; a partner, Cornelia Durrant; and a dog,
Smokey.
Click
here to read Peter's speech on Capitalism,
the Commons, and Divine Right, presented at the E.F Schumacher
Society.
Click here to Download the full book, Capitalism
3.0.
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