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“Martin describes the evolution of his ideas and practices withrefreshing candor and humility. He is a role model for me, mystudents, and anyone interested in building a values-based,sustainable business.”—John Vogel, Adjunct Professor, TuckSchool of Business at Dartmouth
“Martin Melaver’s beautiful retelling of his family and business
experience provides valuable professional managementdirections for realizing ethically based business practices that
are crucial to our society’s health. General readers will alsobe inspired by the author’s advice, personal journey, andapproaches to the challenges he’s taken on.”
 —Michael Singer,artist/designer 
 
LIVING ABOVE THE STORE
Building a Business That Creates Value, InspiresChange, and Restores Land and Community
Martin MelaverForeword by Ray Anderson
Pub Date:May 2009
$27.95 US, $34.95 CAN • HC97816035808546x9•320 pages • Charts and diagrams
Ethical Business
•National Media•Author Tour 
How a business can redefine, then find, success.
The economic crash of late 2008 is just the latest evidence of the truth that many haveknown for so long: that too much of our modern economy is based on a house of cards. Weneed businesses that not only factor their impact on people and places into their equations forsuccess but also strive to restore the communities and environments in which they operate.How can this be done?In
Living Above the Store 
,Martin Melaver provides a roadmap for creating such a business. It’snot only a “howto” but a “why to” that challenges business as usual to change.
Living Above the Store 
brings us into the storyof Melaver, Inc., a third-generation, 70-year-oldfamily real estate business, as it evolves toward becoming a thought and product leader in sus-tainable business practices. Itis partbusiness management theoryand partcase study, wheresustainable principles meet sustainable practices, always grounded in day-to-day practice.
Living Above the Store 
demonstrates how to:•Adopt a business model that provides for economic success while contributing tosociety and the environment•Shape a business culturethat is restorativeto a workforce byhelping employeesrealizetheir highest potential•Leverage an ethos within a business that “ripples outward” to foster restoration of both land and community •Embrace a notion of limits to growth•Reframe ideas about competition, proprietary knowledge, and business success
Living Above the Store 
is for readers who care about issues of community and sustainability as well as for those who want to learn more about how a socially responsible business can firstredefine, and then find, success.
 
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