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Six Ways the US Is Building a People-Powered Economy

Alternative business models such as worker-owned cooperatives are gaining ground, proving that a more just and sustainable future is possible.

Sarah van Gelder | Jan 27, 2015

Racial Justice | Wealth and inequality | Sustainable food and farming

What White People Can Do for Food Justice

Creator of Master Cooks Corps train-the-trainer program Chef Nadine Nelson says White people in the food movement should ask themselves: What are you doing to hold yourself accountable to people of color?

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Jan 24, 2015

Hopscotch. By D. Sharon Pruitt / Flickr.

Mental health

A Baltimore Public School Teacher Explains Why It Pays to Put Kids in Control

What do Shakespeare鈥檚 plays tell us about how to run classrooms in an unequal society?

Andy Lee Roth | Jan 17, 2015

How to Hack City Money: Let 16 Year Olds Vote on Budgets, Get Banks to Invest Locally

In California and Ohio, two city governments are entrusting their citizens with budgeting and rewarding banks for valuing local communities.

Shannan Lenke Stoll | Jan 17, 2015

400,000 Harry Potter Fans鈥攁nd J.K. Rowling鈥擩ust Won a Deal to Get Child Labor Out of Chocolate

Harry Potter stood up for his world's most vulnerable people. Now, legions of real-world kids are too鈥攂y demanding Fair Trade certification for products sold in their hero's name.

Leigh Finke | Jan 14, 2015

Local economies | Citizens United

Vermonters Lobby for Public Bank鈥擜nd Win Millions for Local Investment Instead

Advocates didn鈥檛 get the public bank they wanted. But the compromise they reached in the end was still a rare and significant win over Wall Street banks.

Alexis Goldstein | Jan 8, 2015

Emanuel McCray photo courtesy of United Workers

Local economies | Jobs | Citizens United

Laid-Off Baltimore Workers Beat Disney in Court鈥擜nd Ask All the Right Questions About Urban Development

By some estimates, the city of Baltimore has sunk more than $1.5 billion into its Inner Harbor. Workers and residents want their share too.

Christina Arrison | Jan 7, 2015

Cooperatives | Local economies | Citizens United

Owning Together Is the New Sharing

Companies and startups are aspiring toward an economy, and an Internet, that is more fully ours with the use of cooperatives, "commons-based peer production," and cryptocurrencies.

Nathan Schneider | Dec 31, 2014

Black Lives Matter Boy photo by Sarah-Ji

10 Ways Human Rights and Democracy Won in 2014 (Yeah, You Heard That Right)

Let鈥檚 be honest: It was a brutal year for human rights. But we still have victories worth celebrating.

Sarah van Gelder | Dec 29, 2014

Woman selling vegetables by Shutterstock

The New Economy Comes of Age: 7 Steps Toward Shared Prosperity

Democratic ownership, localized food production, and a shift to renewables are key principles in this growing movement to re-envision our economy.

Fran Korten | Dec 11, 2014

Sustainable food and farming

An Insurance Policy for Climate Change? How Seed Banks Are Protecting the Future of Food

鈥淲hile not every traditional variety tastes great or looks great, its genetics may be invaluable 50 or 100 years from now when the climate is different.鈥�

Richard Schiffman | Dec 10, 2014

Meet the Lobstermen Arrested for Blocking a Coal Freighter鈥攁nd the DA Who Kept Them Out of Jail

Last spring, these men were in a small white lobster boat anchored to block the path of an oncoming freighter hauling 40,000 tons of coal. They didn't expect the district attorney to support them.

Natasha Donovan | Dec 3, 2014

Citizens United

The Battle in Seattle, 15 Years On: How an Unsung Hero Kept the Movements United

A lead organizer of the protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999 remembers Tyree Scott, a quiet presence in the labor movement who urged unity when it mattered most.

Jonathan Rosenblum | Dec 2, 2014

Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems

New energy is transforming our cities into hotbeds of democracy and progressive innovation.

Sarah van Gelder | Nov 20, 2014

Urban Comeback: How Cities Are Leading Us Into the Future

At a time when nations are gridlocked and corrupted by special interests, cities are taking on poverty, social isolation, and the climate crisis.

Sarah van Gelder | Nov 19, 2014

Renewable energy

These 14 Teenage Inventors Built a Glove That Translates Sign Language鈥攁nd Other Tech Solutions

What these kids came up with will leave you wondering what adults are even doing anymore.

Lindsey Weedston | Nov 12, 2014

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston’s Poorest Neighborhoods

From kitchens that buy and sell locally grown food, to a waste co-op that will return compost to the land, new enterprises are building an integrated food network. It's about local people keeping the wealth of their land at home.

Penn Loh | Nov 8, 2014

Clean elections | Citizens United

North Dakota Has a Unique Law Protecting Locally Owned Pharmacies鈥擝ut This Ballot Measure Could Wipe It Out

In the far north of the Great Plains, you have to be a pharmacist to own a pharmacy. Next week, voters could overturn that rule鈥攑utting the state's thriving independent drugstores at risk.

Mary Hansen | Nov 1, 2014

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