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This downturn marks the end of an unsustainable economy. There is an alternative… Meet the activists, visionaries, and upstarts building something new: an economy that puts people first and works within the carrying capacity of the Earth.
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Table of Contents Issue 50 Summer 2009 |
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 THEME GUIDE: The New Economy |
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: The New Economy Starts Now by Sarah van Gelder |
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New Visions Solving today’s big problems will take more than a quick fix. These authors offer clarity about the roots of our problems and visions of a better way. |
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| Why This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet—not the other way around. By David Korten  David Korten reads from his latest book, Agenda for a New Economy:: HOW YOU'RE MAKING IT THROUGH: Our readers share their strategies for surviving and thriving in hard economic times. |
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 Age-Old Wisdom for the New EconomyIndigenous peoples have learned a few things about making it through hard times. Rebecca Adamson discusses what traditional economies did to foster abundance, sharing, and harmony with Mother Earth. An interview by Sarah van Gelder |
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 31 Ways to Jump Start the Local EconomyBuild a secure, sustainable economy beginning at home and in your community. By Sarah van Gelder  Poster available for free download. Also available to buy: just $3 |
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Thrift and Shift… A different recipe is needed—with fresh priorities: let's make things that last and shift to a new, green economic engine that provides well-being for all. By Alisa Gravitz :: JUST THE FACTS: Why we can’t go back to the old economy |
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World & Community New models that foster justice and real prosperity, and sustain the Earth’s living systems. How can we bring these models to life and put them to work? |
| People Power Pushed the New Deal Roosevelt didn’t come up with all those progressive programs on his own. By Sarah Anderson |
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Money from Nothing Think your money comes from the U.S. Mint? Think again. By James Robertson :: How Banks Create Money Out of Thin Air |
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 Dollars with Good Sense: DIY CashThree ways ordinary people are printing their own money without breaking the law. By Judith Schwartz |
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The Power of One Stories of people who find their courage, open their hearts, and discover what it means to be human in today’s world. |
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Worker Co-ops Green and just jobs you can own. :: SOUTH BRONX: Worker co-op turns trash into treasure :: MONDRAGÓN: Look who makes the profits :: CLEVELAND: Rust-belt to recovery  |
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Breaking Open Humor, story-telling, and the arts—taking you into unexpected spaces where business-as-usual breaks open into new possibilities. |
 Wendell Berry’s 17 Rules for CommunitiesCommon sense and neighborliness: what a thriving economy is made of. ** THIS POSTER IS EXCLUSIVE TO PRINT VERSION** |
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Reinflate the Old Economy? Get Real! What the old economy didn’t do for us—and what a sustainable economy could do.  |
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 Vandana Shiva on Gandhi for Today’s WorldSome say terrorism makes Gandhi irrelevant. Vandana Shiva, farmer, seed saver, and global justice activist, says we need him more than ever. Interview by David Barsamian Read an excerpt from Vandana Shiva's new book, Soil Not Oil |
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 Sherman Alexie, How Dare You Tell the Truth?A young, native writer’s ambush interview with Sherman Alexie throws her into a whirlpool of unanswerable questions about tribal loyalty, silence, and healing. By Heather Purser  A conversation with Sherman Alexie |
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