Join us Wednesday, May 26 at 1pm ET for a special NEXT Economy LIVE featuring award-winning journalist, Alec MacGillis on his new book, Fulfillment.

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ASBC-SVC invite you to join us for a special NEXT Economy LIVE episode Wednesday, May 26, 1-2pm ET featuring award-winning journalist, Alec MacGillis ([link removed]) in conversation with Jeffrey Hollender (CEO, ASBC; Co-Founder, Seventh Generation) on his new book, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America ([link removed]) .

[link removed] New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, FULFILLMENT investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.

"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times

In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while forcing them to engage in repetitive and sometimes dangerous assembly line labor. Eighty-three years later, the market capitalization of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dollars, while the value of the Ford Motor Company hovers around thirty billion. We have, it seems, entered the age of one-click America—and as the coronavirus makes Americans more dependent on online shopping, its sway will only intensify.

Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.

Ranging across the country, MacGillis tells the stories of those who’ve thrived and struggled to thrive in this rapidly changing environment. In Seattle, high-paid workers in new office towers displace a historic black neighborhood. In suburban Virginia, homeowners try to protect their neighborhood from the environmental impact of a new data center. Meanwhile, in El Paso, small office supply firms seek to weather Amazon’s takeover of government procurement, and in Baltimore a warehouse supplants a fabled steel plant. Fulfillment also shows how Amazon has become a force in Washington, D.C., ushering readers through a revolving door for lobbyists and government contractors and into CEO Jeff Bezos’s lavish Kalorama mansion.

With empathy and breadth, MacGillis demonstrates the hidden human costs of the other inequality—not the growing gap between rich and poor, but the gap between the country’s winning and losing regions. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate, its dark, pitiless magic, its remaking of America with every click.

You can learn more and purchase your copy of FULFILLMENT ahead of the conversation here ([link removed]) .

Register now: Willing and Losing in One-Click America ([link removed])

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Upcoming Events
May 26 - Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America - A Conversation with Alec MacGillis ([link removed])
Award-winning journalist, Alec MacGillis will join a conversation with Jeffrey Hollender (CEO, ASBC, Co-Founder, Seventh Generation) about his new book, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.

June 2 - The Circular Economy and Circularity: Unpacking Furniture and Beyond ([link removed])
L. Christina Cobb (UrbisEco ([link removed]) )
Simonil Rustomji (mebl | Transforming Furniture ([link removed]) )
Tone Søndergaard (Circular City Week New York ([link removed]) , Danish Cleantech Hub New York ([link removed]) )

December 8-10 - ASBC-SVC 2021 Winter Conference ([link removed])
An in-person convening for business leaders, impact investors, policy makers, and more taking place in Paradise Point, San Diego, CA.

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