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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 […]
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Why Capital Punishment?
Courtesy: ACLU
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Beyond GDP
Words: Local Futures, Mobilized Production: Mobilized
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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
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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).
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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.
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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
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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
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How to start a food cooperative
Resource: How to start a food cooperative Words: Mobilized News, Community Wealth.org, Local Futures Producer: Mobilized News
Activism
Sociocracy: Creating a World we Want
Sociocracy is an option to make democracy more democratic than what it is today. But sociocratic decision-making is not based on the majority will, nor on consensus, but on consent of everybody involved, in small […]
Commentary
Understanding Globalizations Rigged Game
There is a better way. Globalization, in theory, means the free flow of goods, money, and ideas around the world. In practice, its rules are set to benefit powerful nations like the United States. Over […]
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The Community Rights Movement
Does our current economic system truly serve us, or are we serving it? Is our environment merely a resource for exploitation, or a precious sphere of life that demands respect and protection? Imagine a world where communities decide their […]
SCIENCE
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Ecojustice Radio: Moms Across America
Moms Across America: Reclaiming Children’s Health and Feeding the World Well Seeds of Change: A Mother Organizing for a Toxicant-Free Future We have an epidemic of chronic illness and degenerative disease on this continent. According […]
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High schoolers build solar car that can go 70 miles an hour
Climate Connections is a 90-second daily (M – F) module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting listeners’ lives. The features report on what diverse people and organizations are […]
Arts
Global Village at the Ground Up Music Festival
Global Village heads back to Miami Beach for another program in our festival series featuring concert performances from the innovative and eclectic Ground Up Music Festival. This time it’s the nine-member world music ensemble Bokante. […]