Tuesday night, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif., hosted Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus for the release of his new book, A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions (PublicAffairs). More than 500 people packed the event, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in conjunction with the University's Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise and Participatory Democracy.
Pictured: (l.-r.) Heather Bullock, director of the Blum Center; Andrea Jung, CEO of Grameen America; Muhammad Yunus; George Blumenthal, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Casey Coonerty Protti, owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz. Photo: Steve Kurtz