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The Post-corporate World
by David Kortenposted Mar 31, 1999
- Over the nearly 600 years since the onset of the Commercial Revolution, we have as a species learned a great deal about the making of money and we have created powerful institutions and technologies dedicated to its accumulation. But in our quest for money, we forgot how to live.
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Appalachian Kitchens: and other stories of the
economies of place
by June Holleyposted Mar 31, 1999
- Football fans in Wisconsin, Appalachian chefs, Mexico City's poor, Finnish villagers, and west coast fishers -- all are creating economies unique to their cultures and eco-systems
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Indigenous Voices
by Berito Kuwar U'waposted Mar 31, 1999
- Banking on Earth, Light, Water by Berito Kuwar U'wa of the U'wa People -- Buddhist Self-Reliance by Tuenjai Deetes -- Eco-Justice in the Niger Delta by Oronto Douglas
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Ownership Matters
by Ted Howardposted Mar 31, 1999
- When workers own a bank, when a town provides high-tech infrastructure, when non[rofits go into business - these are enterprises that sustain communities and empower employees.
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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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