Sageboy

My friend Billy Parish, founder of the Energy Action Coalition, which went on to mobilize PowerShifts in DC and across the country, is publishing a book on building a meaningful career while having big impact.  Billy’s an Ashoka Fellow, and all around rad change-maker.  Check out the book–it won’t disappoint.

I’ll add his whole email to me below, but if you want to go straight to the book, it’s here: http://tinyurl.com/makinggood

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When I was 17, I read a book called Ishmael that changed the course of my life. It woke me up to the ecological crisis we faced, and I’ve been working on solutions ever since. Especially after having kids, the need to make money while also making change became more real than ever, and I found myself having the same conversation over and over again. “I want to work on [fill in the blank] — Where’s the job for that?” … And I didn’t have good answers.

I found an amazing guy, Dev Aujla, who was looking for answers to the same questions and had just written a short e-book called “Occupation: Change the World”. Over the last three years, we did hundreds of interviews, read over a hundred books, analyzed the best leadership development resources we could find and developed a process which we believe can help a lot of people build meaningful careers.

In a few weeks, our book Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World comes out. We recently found out that if we can get 11,000 copies pre-ordered before February 15th the book will debut on the NY Times Bestsellers list. We are actually well on our way with some large bulk purchases and it is within reach, but I need some help to get us the final mile.

The number one thing you can do to help right now is to pre-order the book here: http://tinyurl.com/makinggood

I would love your support, whether it is:

• Pre-ordering 1, 2, 10 or more books today (unfortunately, e-readers and amazon orders right now won’t count towards the bestseller lists, so if you can, please use this link);
• Introducing me to someone that could blog about Making Good;
• Joining our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter and talking about the book;
• Introducing me to an employer that may be able to bulk buy;
• Or by forwarding this message to ten people you know who are trying to figure it all out and asking them to pre-order. The book will actually really help.

Write me and let me know any other ideas you have. It’s going to take a movement of people that really believe in this opportunity to pass the tipping point, and I really need your help.

Billy’s email is billy@solarmosaic.com