Lessons from Love Canal: toxic expertise and environmental justice
Who remembers Love Canal? Many of us don’t. But it is important for us, collectively, to remember.
Act: Inspiration
Democratising capital at scale: cooperative enterprise and beyond
Faced with spiralling social, economic and environmental problems, many people are turning to economic democracy for solutions. But what shape should this democracy take?
208 Arrested Protesting Climate Chaos and Big Oil at Chevron Refinery
Two thousand eight hundred high-spirited and sunflower-carrying demonstrators—numbers estimated by the Richmond Police Department (RPD)—converged in front of the main gate to Chevron’s refinery in Richmond Saturday to demand that the oil giant address ongoing health and safety concerns, stop processing extreme crude like tar sands, and cease its political and taxation manipulations.
Citizen Placemaker: Mary Lou Carolan Brings the Library Out Onto the Lawn
It was such a simple thing to do, and it really aligned with what PPS has been saying: just do it, don’t think of the money.
Fixing Food and Farming with a True-Cost Economy
A paradigm shift is underway in our nation’s approach to food and agriculture.
Like Shopping at Local Businesses? Now You Can Invest in Them, Too
Community Sourced Capital is a newly formed lender that aims to apply the crowd-sourcing model to encourage the growth of locally owned businesses.
The End of the Suburbs
If you’re looking for one book that explains the transformation taking place in our cities, towns and neighborhoods it is Leigh Gallagher’s new book The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving.
How Fruit Trees Are Growing Communities
A global grass roots movement has identified a very effective ingredient for building community: Fruit.
Farming on the suburban edge
When most of us think of a typical farm, we probably imagine sprawling fields in an idyllic countryside, but many farmers have made a go of it in unexpected, underutilized, and challenging locations, sometimes within or on just outside of urban centers.
Slow Money Entrepreneur of the Year Focuses on Food Justice
Over the past five years, Revision has helped more than 240 low-income families in southwest Denver to grow food in their yards by providing needed resources and technical assistance.
Earth, Wood and Sun – Natural Building, Local Style
Natural builder Chris Foraker gives a tour of work-in-progress at Aprovecho Center, Oregon.
Copy-and-Paste Towns
I am a huge supporter of economic gardening – the idea that the economy and jobs are things we should grow locally, rather than economic hunting – searching for jobs and bringing them here.
