Design
Month: February 2024
Activism
The Hidden Truth: Why Environmental and Labor Laws Don’t Work
Source: Thomas Linzey, CDER: Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights PM Press: On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States Production: Mobilized News
Activism
Greenland’s Green Tax: A Win for All
Source: Positive News, Mobilized Research Production: Mobilized
Flip the Script
The New Era of Materials and Resource Co-Creation
Words and Source: Rethink X, James Arbib, Tony Seba Production: Mobilized
Activism
Flip the Script
Defeating Heart Disease: The Power of Prevention
Source: Dr. Michael Ozner, Leading Preventative Cardiologist Author of “The Miami Mediterannean Diet,” The Complete Miami Mediterranean Diet “Heart Attacks are not worth dying for.” Production: Mobilized
Flip the Script
Defeating Heart Disease The Power of Prevention
Source: Dr. Michael Ozner, Leading Preventative Cardiologist, Author of “The Miami Mediterannean Diet,” The Complete Miami Mediterranean Diet “Heart Attacks are not worth dying for.” Production: Mobilized
Design
ENERGY & TRANSPORTATION
FOOD
Activism
Activism
Activism
How to resist major corporations while enabling healthier local economies?
A network of over 250 social movements, civil society organizations (CSOs), trade unions and communities Fighting Monopoly Power: How States and Cities Can Beat Back Corporate Control and Build Thriving Communities, Big Box Toolkit Investigating […]
Activism
Why Capital Punishment?
Courtesy: ACLU
Activism
How to use non electric energy where you are
One strategy being pursued to address the climate crisis has been to shift from fossil fuels to electric power as the energy source for common activities. But electric power has environmental costs, too, even when […]
Activism
How to go Carbon Neutral in your Community
“Going Carbon Neutral” campaigns not only push for reduced energy usage and carbon emissions, they also strengthen community. The small town of Ashton Hayes in the UK launched the concept by conducting an audit […]
FINANCE
Community Barter Groups
Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars, put together by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Barter markets: sustaining people and nature in the Andes Panamédica Cooperativa de Salud […]
Activism
How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.
Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level […]
FINANCE
Creating Community businesses to serve the community’s needs
52 Alivehoods Raising Dough, Community-Supported Industry Upskilling for a Post-Growth Future Together Two Fold: A Community-Supported Bakery this article on the Vikalp Sangam website Words: Mobilized News, Local Futures, Communities Production: Mobilized News
COMMUNITIES
How your community can reclaim their electric grid?
Words: Mobilized News, Local Futures, The American Public Power Association Production: Mobilized News The American Public Power Association’s guide Public Power for Your Community, which includes case studies (US).
COMMUNITIES
Thinking Globally, Take Action Locally
Words: Local Futures, Mobilized News Production: Mobilized News How to Start a Buy Local Campaign Building “Buy Local” Campaigns that Shift Culture and Spending.
Activism
News Dissector Danny Schechter on The Need for a new media system
“A well informed public is the most powerful natural resource of all.”
COMMUNITIES
How to create or join a community shared resources network
Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive Local Sharing with your neighbors
COMMUNITIES
How to create a worker owned Cooperative
Words: Mobilized News, Local Futures, Producers: Resources: How to set up a worker-owned cooperative Toolbox How to convert a business to a worker-owned cooperative
COMMUNITIES
How to start a food cooperative
Resource: How to start a food cooperative Words: Mobilized News, Community Wealth.org, Local Futures Producer: Mobilized News