Spring 2013
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How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy
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The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy
Co-ops鈥攋ust like people鈥攃an get more done together than anyone can do alone. They come in many forms, and are more common than you might imagine.
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The Economy: Under New Ownership
How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
Marjorie Kelly
Just the Facts
Just the Facts: What’s So Good About Co-ops?
Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.
Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business
The steelworkers deal that could turn the rust belt green.
Amy B. Dean
Credit Unions Put Your Money to Work鈥擱ight Where You Live
What if your bank鈥檚 first priority was to do good? Vancouver鈥檚 Vancity leads the way in putting dollars back into the community.
Colleen Kimmet
From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
Claudia Rowe
6 Ways to Fuel the Cooperative Takeover
From now on, the global mantra for filling market gaps is going to be, 鈥淭here鈥檚 a co-op for that.鈥� But co-ops need customers, money, and training. How do we shift from business as usual to the work of cooperation?
Sven Eberlein
Survival of the … Nicest? Check Out the Other Theory of Evolution
A new theory of human origins says cooperation鈥攏ot competition鈥攊s instinctive.
Eric Michael Johnson
How Workers Laid Off from a Chicago Factory Took It Over Themselves
When their boss tried to fire them, the workers of Republic Windows and Doors occupied the factory. Now they own it as a cooperative.
Laura Flanders
Don鈥檛 Like Your Health Insurance? Make Your Own
The Affordable Care Act hopes to drive expansion of health care co-ops.
Nina Rogozen
To Build a Community Economy, Start With Solidarity
How residents who can鈥檛 afford to buy in still get the benefits of co-op work and housing.
Abby Scher
Empowered by the Past: Red State Co-ops Go Green
A century ago, cooperatives electrified the poorest counties in the nation. Today, can they lead the way to a smarter, cleaner grid?
Brooke Jarvis
Solutions We Love
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Why Canada鈥檚 Indigenous Uprising Is About All of Us
When a new law paved the way for tar sands pipelines and other fossil fuel development on native lands, four women swore to be 鈥渋dle no more.鈥� The idea took off.
Sarah van Gelder
Why You Don鈥檛 Frack With John Lennon鈥檚 Farm
When fracking hits close to home, Mark Ruffalo, Debra Winger, Yoko Ono, and other big names find common ground with small towns.
Lisa Mullenneaux
California Teachers Divest Pension Fund from Assault Weapons
Just hours after Sandy Hook, the managers of the teachers鈥� pension fund sold off their stock in a manufacturer of semi-automatic rifles.
Chris Francis
People We Love
People We Love: Sarah Bergmann
Creating a pollination pathway for urban bees.
Fabien Tepper
From the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence
Beneath mainstream culture runs a current of domination, individualism, and exclusion that is harming our children. We assume this is normal鈥攂ut is it really?
Poka Laenui
The Page That Counts
The Page That Counts: Spring 2013
Miles flown by a bar-tailed godwit in the longest nonstop bird migration ever recorded: 7,200. Miles flown in the world鈥檚 longest nonstop, non-refueled helicopter flight: 2,213.
Culture Shift
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Yes! But How?
Love Your Books? 4 Ways to Share Them With Others
From mobile libraries to tiny libraries, how to get others to read the books you love.
Fabien Tepper & Signe Predmore
Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is a Seed
鈥淭he Seed Underground鈥� is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.
Abby Quillen
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
When author Florence Williams learned her breast milk contained chemicals like flame retardants, she started investigating what exactly is in a breast and how that body part connects us to our children, our past, and our surroundings.
Nadia Colburn
Film Review: Ken Burns鈥� Dust Bowl
The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.
Valerie Schloredt
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