Description
A refrigerator magnet disguised as a civic field guide.
Part of The Civic Ledger series, this die-cut visual map explores a different question than its companion Antisocial Investments edition:
What kind of world are we helping build when we spend it?
Featuring a symbolic “Living Civic Garden,” this magnet highlights five food-related enterprises whose business models, ownership structures, and civic values illustrate alternative ways of organizing economic life. Through cooperative ownership, employee ownership, community investment, environmental stewardship, civic engagement, and independent enterprise, these organizations demonstrate that the marketplace can nurture more than profits alone.
Designed with illustrated archetypes, symbolic graphics, and color-coded shorthand systems, this compact visual guide transforms everyday consumer awareness into an invitation to cultivate healthier communities, stronger local economies, and a more resilient future.
Featured enterprises include:
* Dave’s Sweet Tooth — Civic Courage
* Equal Exchange — Cooperative Ownership
* Bob’s Red Mill — Employee Ownership
* Lundberg Family Farms — Sustainability & Stewardship
* Ocean Spray — Farmer Ownership
Rather than ranking corporations, this edition explores the values and structures that help communities flourish. Together, these organizations form a symbolic map of the “Living Civic Garden”—a vision of how ownership, participation, stewardship, and cooperation can create lasting social value.
Created as both a conversation piece and a symbolic artifact, this magnet is part of the expanding Civic Ledger universe exploring the civic, economic, and psychological systems embedded within modern consumer life.
Upcoming companion editions will explore:
* Hardware & Home Improvement Enterprises
* Drugstore & Wellness Companies
* Department Store & Retail Organizations
* Antisocial Investments & Corporate Power Maps
Every dollar is more than a transaction.
It is a signal.
A vote.
A seed.
Product features:
* Full-color matte finish for a clean, low-glare appearance
* Durable flexible vinyl construction with black magnetic backing
* Weather-resistant for indoor and outdoor use
* Works on refrigerators, lockers, whiteboards, tool cabinets, and other magnetic surfaces
* Available in multiple sizes
* Designed as a companion artifact to The Civic Ledger books and zines
Care instructions:
Wipe gently with a clean, dry microfiber cloth
Size Table: All measurements in the table refer to product dimensions (Imperial)
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Design by Deborah. Image created with Cavna, Genolve and/or Gemini.
THE CIVIC LEDGER
Antisocial & Prosocial Investments
Follow the Money. Scan the System.
Every purchase is a vote inside a system most people never see.
Antisocial Investments is an ongoing series of books, zines, magnets, and visual field guides exploring the hidden political, economic, and psychological systems embedded within everyday consumer life. From grocery stores and pharmacies to hardware chains and department retailers, these projects map how corporate profits are often reinvested into lobbying networks, labor suppression, climate obstruction, dark-money politics, media influence, and competing visions of democracy itself.
Alongside the “Follow the Money” editions, companion Prosocial Investments guides highlight corporations more publicly aligned with sustainability, labor protections, democratic institutions, and social responsibility — offering readers not only critique, but alternatives.
Part consumer-awareness project, part cultural critique, part collectible artifact, this series asks a simple but urgent question:
Where does our money go after we spend it?
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