About the Author

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 the West Coast correspondent for The New Republic.

In 1976 he cofounded a worker-owned solar energy company in San Francisco, and in 1983 he cofounded Working Assets Money Fund. He subsequently served as president of Working Assets Long Distance. In 1995 has was named Socially Responsible ...

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