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Three Moves for a Bigger, Stronger Worker-Owned Economy

While worker-owned co-ops provide a significant chunk of employment in several European countries, in the United States we still have a ways to go. Fortunately, opportunities for growth are everywhere.

Alison Lingane | Oct 16, 2014

Jobs

Economists Who Say the Planet Has Infinite Resources Are Today’s Flat Earth Society

The attempt to solve our ecological and social crises through economic growth is a fool’s task, because both crises have a common cause: an infinite-planet, perpetual-growth economy has met the limits of a finite planet.

Eric Zencey | Oct 15, 2014

Day 2 of New Economy Week: Expanding How We Think About What’s Possible

Oct 15, 2014

My Cousin Was Shot Dead by a Police Officer. Here’s What It Means for the New Economy Movement

Many opportunities exist for collaboration between the movements for racial justice and for an economy that works for everyone.

Anand Jahi | Oct 15, 2014

Day 1 of New Economy Week: The New Economy Isn’t New

Those who have suffered the most at the hands of an unfair economy are also the most experienced at imagining and building alternative futures.

Oct 14, 2014

Cooperatives | Local economies

What Housing Organizers in Buffalo Learned from the ’70s

Why did some of the cooperative institutions built in the ’70s—especially food co-ops—get to scale and thrive in subsequent decades, while others faded away?

Aaron Bartley | Oct 14, 2014

McDonald’s workers on strike in July 2013 in St. Louis

Cooperatives | Local economies

With an Economy that Worked for All, Mike Brown Would Still Be Alive

“Our full humanity is expressed only when we have the capacity and the opportunity to be productive, to do for ourselves, meeting our needs in our communities.”

Ed Whitfield | Oct 14, 2014

Cooperatives | Local economies

Want to Build an Economy that Works for Everybody? Next Week, We’re All About It

Next Monday, YES! and the New Economy Coalition kick off New Economy Week—five days of national conversation about the ideas, strategies, and projects that make up the movement.

Mary Hansen | Oct 11, 2014

Photo by Brittni Gee Photography / Flickr.

Why I’m Staying In My Hometown (Even Though Everybody Knows What I Was Like as a Kid)

Brought on by the sound of a screaming child, I reflect on my past, my community, and how we can become our true selves without fleeing our roots.

Oct 8, 2014

Kenny Ausubel at the 2014 Festival of Faiths. Photo by Center for Interfaith Relations / Flickr.

Renewable energy

“Nature Deficit Disorder” Is Making Us Sick—But These “Bioneers” Believe They Have the Cure

In this interview, the founder of the Bioneers conference talks about what he’s learned in 25 years of bringing thinkers together.

Ruairì McKiernan | Oct 7, 2014

Naomi Klein Tells YES!: People’s Climate March Is a “Glimpse of the Movement We Need”

Naomi Klein’s powerful new book explains why not only can the climate movement win—but it’s our best chance at overturning some of history’s greatest injustices.

Sarah van Gelder | Oct 4, 2014

Photo by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center / Flickr.

Sustainable food and farming

Small-Scale Traditional Farming Is the Only Way to Avoid Food Crisis, UN Researcher Says

New scientific research increasingly shows how “agroecology” offers environmentally sustainable methods that can meet the rapidly growing demand for food.

Nafeez Ahmed | Oct 4, 2014

Jennifer "Tootie" Jones visits the beef cattle she raises at Swift Level Farm in West Virginia

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

West Virginia Cattle Farmers Build the Local Food Economy They Need to Thrive

The farmers working to build West Virginia’s local meat economy know that their fate relies on the success of the entire local meat ecosystem.

Erin L. McCoy | Oct 2, 2014

Mental health

Three Projects that Block Violence Against Women By Bringing Communities Together

These projects show how everyday people can address violence in our own communities by breaking through the silence to interrupt abuse.

Victoria Law | Oct 1, 2014

The Board of Island Employee Cooperative. Photo by Island Employee Cooperative / Facebook.

Cooperatives | Local economies | Jobs

Workers in Maine Buy Out Their Jobs, Set an Example for the Nation

For the new worker-owners of the Island Employee Cooperative, the transformation into a co-op will create profound changes in their lives.

Brian Van Slyke, Noemi Giszpenc, Rob Brown | Oct 1, 2014

The Incredible Hulk wants YOU to divest from fossil fuels. Photo by marvelousRoland / Flickr.

Divestment | Climate

Incredible Hulk and Former Goldman Sachs Guy Are Among the Many Pulling $50 Billion Out of Fossil Fuels

“Divest from fossil fuels and invest in a clean energy future. Move your money out of the problem and into solutions.”

Chuck Collins | Sep 26, 2014

Climate

Young Climate Marchers: Support From Boomers Makes Us Feel Less Alone

“It makes me feel happy and inspired that we have people of all generations who are thinking that more drastic, extraordinary actions are necessary.”

Kristin Moe | Sep 25, 2014

Tayla and Strawberry. Photo by the author.

My Chicken Became a Cat—And Taught Me to Imagine a Happier, Healthier World

If there is one key to making it in a family farm—or in any business that thwarts the trend toward relentless greed and destruction of the planet—it is the ability to believe.

Shannon Hayes | Sep 23, 2014

Climate

Largest Climate March in History Connects Crisis to Corporations

The enormous event will provide support to world leaders who will be asking for climate action at this week’s United Nations summit.

Matt Surrusco | Sep 22, 2014

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