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Fighting Coal While Supporting Miners?
by John C. Bergposted Aug 03, 2012 - Can you fight austerity and climate change at the same time?
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Think Small: A New Housing Model
by Doug Pibelposted Jul 24, 2012 - Why go back to the way things were when we can create housing that embraces the best of tradition and the best of new thinking?
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A Student Debt Strike Force Takes Off
by Yates McKeeposted Jul 19, 2012 - Debt—and the shame that surrounds it—is the tie that binds the 99 percent. Can young people reimagine it as something productive, rather than a tool for profiteering?
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Visiting the Economies of the Future
by David Brancaccioposted Jul 16, 2012 - Journalist David Brancaccio takes us to the most innovative local economy hot spots in his PBS documentary, “Fixing the Future.”
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The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
by Peter Dreierposted Jul 12, 2012 - Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.
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A New Era of Worker Ownership?
by Gar Alperovitzposted Jul 11, 2012 - All over the country, people—like the workers of Chicago’s New Era Windows—are building worker-owned cooperatives that root jobs in the communities that need them.
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How the Student Loans Debate Got Religion
by Christa Hillstromposted Jul 06, 2012 - There’s a biblical precedent for forgiveness—of debt. Why churches are standing by students on one of the Bible’s most surprising social principles.
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In Praise of Vacant Lots
by Jay Walljasperposted Jul 05, 2012 - Jay Walljasper on why “profitable economic function” is sometimes less valuable than empty space.
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Growing Beyond Growth for True Democracy
by J.A. Myersonposted Jul 03, 2012 - When democracy is not determined by economic power, it is possible to imagine alternatives to “growth” and “austerity.”
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Trading in Democracy: Why Rights Are Still For Real People
by Robin Broad, John Cavanaghposted Jun 28, 2012 - International trade deals allow businesses to sue elected governments when corporate interests are threatened abroad. Here’s why you should care.
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One More Benefit of Local Food
by Shannon Hayesposted Jun 28, 2012 - A farmer sings the praises of having non-farmers close at hand.
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Building the New Economy: Ten Steps We Can Take Now
by James Gustave Spethposted Jun 18, 2012 - How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power.
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Why Is India Still Poor?
by Ashish Kothari, Aseem Shrivastavaposted Jun 18, 2012 - India’s development was supposed to be an economic success story. What we can learn from what actually happened.
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10 Ways To Love Where You Live
by Ross Chapinposted Jun 14, 2012 - How to build community here and now—because neighborhoods are more than houses in proximity.
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Homes That Survived the Crash
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jun 13, 2012 - While Wall Street players used home finance to make mega-profits for the 1 percent, local banks and community land trusts got people into decent, secure, affordable homes.
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