Volume 1 provides an introduction to our approach. It includes our concept of "wholesale activities" in economic development, our 7B Checklist for identifying possible activities, and discusses 20 activities your community might consider. Its subtitle is "How You Can Use the Fertile Ground Approach and Our 7B Checklist to Improve the Economic Climate in Your Community. It should be available as a Kindle book from Amazon shortly [the URL will be here when we have it].