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Portland Fast Food Workers Don’t Just Want a Raise—They Want a Union Too

Employees at Burgerville, a Pacific Northwest restaurant chain, are unionizing and demanding benefits. Even without their employer’s recognition, their union offers an alternative model for organizing low-wage workers.

Tamara Kneese | Apr 29, 2016

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What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change

Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils.

Sally Neas | Apr 29, 2016

The Pragmatic Impacts of Sanders’ Big Dreams

Even with Tuesday’s campaign setbacks, Bernie Sanders’ pledge to make the country more equitable and sustainable is more realistic than some people are letting on.

Sarah van Gelder | Apr 27, 2016

Cooperatives

How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values

As cooperative culture spreads into the tech world, Loomio is part of a new wave of entrepreneurs figuring out how to finance a more democratic, values-centered online economy.

Nathan Schneider | Apr 26, 2016

Humanizing Heroin Addiction: Photos of the Real Lives of Users

Can more balanced representations of drug users spark discussions on how to solve North America’s heroin epidemic?

Aaron Goodman | Apr 25, 2016

This Earth Day, Listen Up: Mother Earth Is Calling Us Back

Those of us who succumbed to the false promises of Western consumerism at great cost to the planet and to ourselves are Earth’s prodigal children now returning home.

David Korten | Apr 20, 2016

We Can Have a Living Earth Economy—But It Won’t Be Easy

Humanity has been acting like a willful child, demanding everything and leaving messes everywhere. It is time for our species to take the step to maturity, to acknowledge that care and cooperation are key to happiness—and even survival.

David Korten | Apr 19, 2016