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.
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How a Local Food System Builds Health and Community Wealth
Many communities in the U.S. ship food out鈥攁nd 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.
Building Protective Walls
Lisa Gale Garrigues offers some rants against
those tempted to cross borders.
Fighting the Cancer, Healing the Soul
The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic provides all-around care including alternative treatments for low-income women diagnosed with cancer.
Where FEMA feared to Tread
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
Recipe for a Cooked Election
In the 2004 election, more than 3 million
ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went,
but also provides an example of hopeful voting reform in New
Mexico.
Just the Facts
The costs of health care and prescriptions in
the U.S. are graphically compared against the rest of the
world. Why do U.S. drugs cost more?
Better Health Through Fairer Wealth
Being poor may be as great a risk factor in personal health as the consumption of cigarettes or junk food.
Has Canada Got the Cure?
The United States pays far more than Canada per capita for its health care services, yet Canadians get better care, according to various experts.
Health Care: It’s What Ails Us
Americans spend the most, get the least, and have no health care security. The solution is not that difficult.
How Likely Is Collapse?
Why is all this gloom and doom appearing in 猫咪社区? The first step toward a positive future at the individual, community, society, or global level is to address seriously the problem at hand and take meaningful action.
The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
The Great Turning invites us to lift our eyes from the cramped closet of short-term thinking and see the larger historical landscape.
Prescott, Arizona: EcoHood Ideas Take Root in Older Neighborhoods
The Lincoln-Dameron neighborhood in Prescott,
Arizona, encompasses roughly two blocks, including two
apartment buildings and 30 houses, the majority built in the
1930s. The neighborhood, which is built around the floodplain
of nearby Miller Creek, is home to six greywater systems, two
rainwater cisterns, five organic gardens, 25 heirloom fruit
trees, and (at last count) 57 chickens. Welome to Prescott's
"EcoHood".
Surviving Hard Times: It’s not for sissies
Hopi and Iroquois prophecies draw on long
cultural memories, offering practical approaches to surviving
hard times.
Portrait of a Perfect Economic Storm
Graphics showing climate change, financial
meltdown and peak oil
In Iraq, the First Priority Is to Be Human
They don't like the occupation or the militias, and they aren't signing up for any political or religious faction. Instead, these Iraqis want to live with their neighbors in peace.
Radio Soap Operas Teach Conflict Resolution
The work of peace building in South Africa and elsewhere is largely a rehumanizing process, calming fears by destroying dehumanizing stereotypes.
5 Steps to Create Justice for Undocumented Workers
These are not simple. Reduce the economic insecurities that are fueling the anti-immigrant backlash in the United States.
Democracy: the (Re)Claiming of Democracy
In danger of losing their vote and voice, Americans are demanding a return to the founding principles.
Why the Next 10 Years Will Be Nothing Like the Last 10 Years
On 猫咪社区! Magazine's 10th anniversary, we look at trends that are changing our culture, our relationship to the earth, and our sense of self.
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