Mondrag贸n Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
Mondrag贸n Cooperative Corporation: Look who makes the profits.
Economy
Put Your Money Where Your Life Is
Americans want to invest locally. What's stopping them?
Small Banks, Radical Vision
Local banks can change the world, one investment at a time.
The New Deal Happened Because the Grassroots Made it Happen
Roosevelt didn鈥檛 come up with all those progressive programs on his own.
Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works
It begins with small farms working with natural cycles and ends with fresh food and stronger communities.
Van Jones: Beyond the Politics of Confrontation
Meet the man who鈥檚 convincing the country, and the new President, that the next economy needs to be green and just. Interview by Sarah van Gelder.
No Foreclosures Here
With the housing crisis nationwide driving struggling families from their homes, Boston鈥檚 creative Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative shows how communities can hold their ground.
What to Do with Your Money During Tough Times
First rule: Don鈥�'t panic. How to weather an economic storm and help make the transition to a less crisis-prone future.
Mexico’s Grassroots Answer to NAFTA
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules鈥攆air ones.
Just the Facts: Foreign Aid vs. Military Spending
The U.S. spends piles of money on foreign aid, right? See how the spending actually stacks up.
7 Cool Companies
7 of the best current models for changing who owns, controls and benefits from business. Profits can flow to workers, consumers or the community - not just outside investors. And these businesses succeed.
Venezuela’s Co-op Boom
The boom of cooperatives in Venezuela is promoting employment and social justice at a grassroots level.
Horizontalidad: Where Everyone Leads
Horizontalidad: bringing direct democracy to Argentina's citizens while reducing unemployment and stimulating worker involvement.
Cuba’s Cure
By investing in health care that is holistic and focuses on prevention, Cuba has created one of the most effective systems in the world. Cuban doctors are engaged in missions throughout poor parts of the world, exchanging medical know-how for positive diplomatic relations.
Democracy Rising
Latin America's marginalized are mobilizing and changing the face of their nations' politics. From increasing national oil profits to rethinking regional trade plans, they are empowering themselves and lessening their dependence on the U.S.
Who’s Afraid of Economic Rights?
Invisible Rights: We'll protect your right to vote. But not to eat. Economic human rights are in the Universal Declaration, but not in the U.S.
Judy Wicks: In Business for Life
Judy Wicks learned how to build community, run a legendary restaurant, and start a national movement for just and sustainable business--all without leaving home.
How a Local Food System Builds Health and Community Wealth
Many communities in the U.S. ship food out鈥攁nd ship the same food back in. What's the value of keeping it at home?
How Commerce Consumed the Commons
In a world where everything's for sale, we've forgotten that much of value happens outside the stream of commerce. Here's how we forgot--and how we're reclaiming the commons.
Buy Local to Multiply Your Money
Buying local products at local businesses
creates a ripple effect as those businesses and employees in
turn spend your money locally. In contrast corporate chains
send most of your money out of town.
Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
Oakland discovers that green-collar jobs can revitalize its economy and sets out on the path to becoming a 'global green city.'
Creating Real Prosperity
Poor people are themselves creating the real job growth in much of the Global South through microcredit institutions and people's movements.
Independence from the Corporate Global Economy
Our current economy is failing us, but there are alternatives. The roots of small-scale, local economies are in place. We can make them grow.
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm
Graphics showing climate change, financial
meltdown and peak oil
Java Justice
A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com
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