Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Judy Wicks

American Activist, Entrepreneur, Founder White Dog Cafe, Co-Founder Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

"The Eskimos don't believe in competition. They don't believe in envy. They believe in sharing."

"I'm helping to create an economic system that will respect and protect the earth—one which would replace corporate globalization with a global network of local living economies. Business is beautiful when it's a vehicle for serving the common good."

"Non-cooperation began for me by refusing to be part of the factory farm system. This motivated me to create an alternative system. What came first though was the moral obligation to non-cooperate with a system I saw as evil."