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The Y2k Opportunity
by Alisa Gravitzposted Mar 31, 1999
- Maybe next time, with the help of planning for Y2K, communities will be ready with sustainable solutions to tomorrow’s crises.
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Readers' Forum
posted Mar 31, 1999
- I’m reminded of something Gandhi said – if we’re going to change the world, we have to start with the children.
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Community Money
by Richard Douthwaiteposted Mar 31, 1999
- While the European community is creating one big currency, communities in Ireland, Scotland, and elsewhere in Europe are turning to local currencies as a means to regain control of their economic futures.
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Who Shall Inherit the Sky?
by Peter Barnesposted Mar 31, 1999
- The Kyoto accords on global warming set the stage for an historic choice. We can give away yet another global commons or claim the sky as a trust benefiting all the people of today and of the future
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Citizens Economics
by Sarah van Gelderposted Mar 31, 1999
- Gar Alperovitz is an historian and political economist, president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, and a PFN board member. He is interviewed here by YES! editor Sarah van Gelder.
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YES! But How? :: Car Sharing
by Doug Pibelposted Nov 02, 1998 - Troubled by the difficulties of a clean and green existence? Whipsawed by confusion because you want to live sustainably but you just don't know how? Don't worry...Ask Doug and Annie.
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Just Say YES!
by Fran Kortenposted Nov 02, 1998
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Book Review: How Wal-Mart is Destroying America: and What You Can do About It by Bill Quinn
by Doug Pibelposted Nov 02, 1998 - Book Review: How Wal-Mart is Destroying America: and What You Can Do About It, by Bill Quinn
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Book Review - Do They Hear You When You Cry? by Fauziya Kassindja with Layli Miller Bashir
by Tracy Rysavyposted Nov 02, 1998 - At age 17, Fauziya Kassindja had a good life--loving parents who flouted village tradition by educating their daughters; two brothers and four older sisters who doted on her; a close-knit community of friends; and, by Togo standards, an upper class existence.
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Book Review: The Ownership Solution by Jeff Gates
by Gar Alperovitzposted Nov 02, 1998 - Something very important has been quietly building up in the American economy over the last few decades--something which could have portentous implications for the new century: Workers in very, very serious numbers are beginning to own the firms in which they work.
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Urban Courage
by Linda Wolfposted Nov 02, 1998
- Former gang members from one of Mexico City’s poorest and toughest suburbs are teaching teens and adults about self-reliance and sustainable living
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Education Issue Introduction
by Sarah Ruth van Gelderposted Nov 02, 1998 - Show the kids and yourself that you still believe in the future.
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Beyond Ecophobia
by David Sobelposted Nov 02, 1998
- If we want children to flourish, says educator David Sobel, we need to give them time to connect with nature and love the Earth before we ask them to save it
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You Can't Say, "You Can't Play"
by Tracy Rysavyposted Nov 02, 1998
- Veteran teacher Vivian Gussin Paley witnessed a peculiar phenomenon in her kindergarten classroom year after year--without fail, a caste system developed within each group of students.
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Smoke Signals
by N. Bird Runningwaterposted Nov 02, 1998
- After years of misrepresentation in the media, Native American filmmakers are taking control of their own stories, including in a new breakthrough film produced, directed, and written by Native Americans
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