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A New Deal for Appalachia’s Forests: Growing Biofuels?
by Mark Andrew Boyerposted May 31, 2013 - The mine-ravaged communities of Eastern Kentucky have been increasingly abandoned by the coal economy. Could growing biofuels jump-start a new local jobs market—and renew the land in the process?
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From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
by Claudia Roweposted Apr 23, 2013 - How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
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To Build a Community Economy, Start With Solidarity
by Abby Scherposted Apr 03, 2013 - How residents who can’t afford to buy in still get the benefits of co-op work and housing.
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6 Ways to Fuel the Cooperative Takeover
by Sven Eberleinposted Mar 20, 2013 - From now on, the global mantra for filling market gaps is going to be, “There’s a co-op for that.” But co-ops need customers, money, and training. How do we shift from business as usual to the work of cooperation?
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Credit Unions Put Your Money to Work—Right Where You Live
by Colleen Kimmetposted Mar 20, 2013 - What if your bank’s first priority was to do good? Vancouver’s Vancity leads the way in putting dollars back into the community.
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Just the Facts: What's So Good About Co-ops?
posted Feb 20, 2013 - Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.
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Green Housing: In Buffalo, It's Not Just for Rich People Anymore
by Mark Andrew Boyerposted Feb 15, 2013 - Can we build sustainable housing that's affordable, too? The city of Buffalo did, and created a community jobs pipeline in the process. Here's what can happen when neighborhoods take the lead.
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At Oakland’s Abandoned Army Base, a Jobs Plan Brings Hope to Locals
by Mark Andrew Boyerposted Oct 22, 2012 - A new $1 billion plan to turn a vacant base into a shipping and logistics center will create thousands of jobs for the Oakland residents who need them most.
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Time for Some Good Jobs Guarantees
by Brooke Jarvisposted Sep 21, 2012 - Corporations often take big helpings of public funds, saying that they’ll provide jobs in return. But how can communities make sure they deliver?
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Video: Looking Poverty in the Eyes
posted Sep 20, 2012 - The Line—the place people on the bottom are trying to get to and the people on the top are trying to stay above.
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Disaster by Design? What’s Wrong with the “Thrive” Movement
by John Robbinsposted Aug 21, 2012 - A popular new film claims that a secret elite create our most troubling problems to advance a “global domination agenda.” Why Amy Goodman, Vandana Shiva, and other progressives are calling it “dangerously misguided.”
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The Downsides of Upselling: 4 Tips from the Farm
by Shannon Hayesposted Aug 15, 2012 - Shannon Hayes on keeping a human face on her capitalist ventures and learning to say “enough” when the market calls.
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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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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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