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Community Land Trusts
by Susan Witt, Merrian Fullerposted May 09, 2005
- CLT's take land out of the speculative market and hold it for farmland, conservation or as sites for housing or businesses.
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Community Benefit Agreements
by Laura Josephposted May 09, 2005
- Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) developed "community benefits agreements" to specify benefits to be provided to neighborhoods affected by a particular development.
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Cities For All: An Interview with Angela Glover Blackwell
by Sarah van Gelderposted May 09, 2005 - Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national organization working for economic and social equity. Her work has centered on revitalizing low-income communities and communities of color and public-interest law. She recently co-authored Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (2002, WW Norton & Co).
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Indicator: Students Target Coke
by Krista Canmenzindposted May 05, 2005
- USAS campaign protests Coca Cola human rights violations at Colombian bottling plants
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Unocal Settling Suits in Burma
by Lisa Kundratposted May 05, 2005
- Unocal agrees to settle lawsuits in connection with the company's construction of an oil pipeline.
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U.S. to Become Net Food Importer
by Doug Pibelposted May 05, 2005
- Figures released at the end of 2004 by the Department of Agriculture showed that in 2005, for the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. will have no trade surplus in food.
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Hybrids as Job Perk
by Katharine Mieszkowskiposted May 05, 2005
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South Korea Pioneers Solar and Tidal Energy
by Rik Langedoenposted May 05, 2005
- South Korea builds world's biggest solar power plant and tidal energy power plant
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Power Plants Agree to Slash Pollution
by Carolyn McConnellposted May 05, 2005
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Mayors Call for abolition of Nuclear Weapons
by Monika Azymurskaposted May 05, 2005
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Voters Raise Minimum Wage
by Carolyn McConnellposted May 05, 2005
- Florida and Nevada will require minimum wage to rise automatically with inflation.
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Yes Men Strike Again
by Darrin burgessposted May 05, 2005
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Communities Create Their Own Stores
by Megan Tadyposted May 05, 2005
- Not just local, but community-owned stores are starting up in Ely, Nevada, Middlebury Vermont, Swanville, Minnesota and more.
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Uruguay Rejects Water Privatization
by Lisa Gale Garriguesposted May 05, 2005
- Through a national referendum, Uraguay had become the first country to outlaw water privatization by direct democracy and to declare water a “constitutional right.”
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In Search of the Beautiful
American
by Fran Kortenposted May 05, 2005
- I still believe that we are capable of moving beyond the simplicity of “good people and bad people,” and that we can overcome our racism and arrogance to work with others of all colors and cultures to make a better world for everyone. And I’m still basing my life on that belief.
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