Judy Wicks: In Business for Life
Judy Wicks learned how to build community, run a legendary restaurant, and start a national movement for just and sustainable business--all without leaving home.
Economy
How a Local Food System Builds Health and Community Wealth
Many communities in the U.S. ship food out—and ship the same food back in. What's the value of keeping it at home?
How Commerce Consumed the Commons
In a world where everything's for sale, we've forgotten that much of value happens outside the stream of commerce. Here's how we forgot--and how we're reclaiming the commons.
Buy Local to Multiply Your Money
Buying local products at local businesses
creates a ripple effect as those businesses and employees in
turn spend your money locally. In contrast corporate chains
send most of your money out of town.
Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
Oakland discovers that green-collar jobs can revitalize its economy and sets out on the path to becoming a 'global green city.'
Creating Real Prosperity
Poor people are themselves creating the real job growth in much of the Global South through microcredit institutions and people's movements.
Independence from the Corporate Global Economy
Our current economy is failing us, but there are alternatives. The roots of small-scale, local economies are in place. We can make them grow.
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm
Graphics showing climate change, financial
meltdown and peak oil
Java Justice
A Jewish Ugandan coffee farmer partners with Christian and Muslim neighbors to produce jobs, understanding, and a great coffee. Thanksgivingcoffee.com
Retirement Crisis, Real or Imagined? Moral and Economic Questions on Social Security
Social security privatization, the collapse of
private pensions, low rates of savings -- what should we
do?
Of, By and For Seniors: Japanese Seniors Co-operatives
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
Two Crises, One Solution
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
A Life Lived Whole
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
Cheese, Bread, and Thou
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
The Demand for the Common Good
What happens when economic growth produces more “illth” than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life—the commons?
A Conspiracy of Hope
Many thought the global movement against unfair trade started in Seattle 1999. But going back over 200 years, people have reached across borders to end the slave trade, shame a brutal colonial regime, and bring respite to laborers of the industrial revolution.
Keeping the Balance
An indigenous people at the tip of South
America reclaims health, culture, and the vitality of the
land.
Earth Democracy: An Interview with Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a physicist and an organic farmer, an instigator of India’s historic “tree-huggers” movement, and a renowned author. She speaks internationally on the perils of globalization, while mobilizing fellow citizens to reclaim their rights to life itself.
Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty
Nordic welfare society, Finland, Martha
Organization,
Starting Over
Solidarity solutions in Argentina, barter clubs
as a solution, Brukman Factory takeover, author Lisa Gale
Garrigues, worker-owned cooperatives as a solution to Argentina
crisis. YES!
Breaking Down Buildings, Building Up a Neighborhood
The suicide economy is all too ready to cast off used material, disadvantaged people, and troubled neighborhoods. These living economy entrepreneurs are turning throwaways into gold.
From the Earth, Up
Appalachian Sustainable Development, ASD, sustainable forestry and wood products program, sustainable farms.
Economies For Life
While the ruling elites occupy themselves with
seeking to restore faith in the pathological institutions on
which their power and privilege were built, the rest of us can
embrace this moment of economic failure as an historic
opportunity. Through our individual and collective choices, we
can grow into being the economic institutions, relationships,
and culture of a just, sustainable, and compassionate world of
living economies that work for all.
Pieces of the Puzzle
How Burlington became one of America's most sustainable communities.
What To Do When Corporations Rule the World
What to do when Corporations Rule the World, an
interview with David Korten by Sarah van Gelder. Authors
converse about threats to democracy and the environment posed
by corporate globalization.
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