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What if you asked Americans in largely "red," or Republican districts and largely "blue," or Democratic districts, very specific questions about what government should do—about taxes, reproductive rights, foreign affairs, and the like, and 96 percent of the time they agreed?

The land trust movement in the United States has gained notoriety over the past 20 years mainly for its role in environmental conservation. Known as land conservancies, these non-profit organizations, such as the Nature Conservancy, acquire development rights or land in fee simple, in order to conserve natural resources by protecting land from development.

GEO Collective member John Lawrence says, "I know this article is off topic. But, it puts the effort to build a more egalitarian sustainable economy in perspective."

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Certain eyesores are becoming increasingly common in Albany Park, an immigrant neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side. Boarded-up houses stand next to newly-renovated condominiums whose high rents push out former residents. Overcrowded classrooms provide less and less ESL, music, cultural, and physical education. Difficult jobs at all hours of the day don't pay overtime or give benefits.

ILSR is seeking a Research Associate for our Community-Scaled Economy Initiative. This is a full-time position based in our Portland, Maine, office.

Before the formal opening of the conference, Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JPNET), a Transition initiative in Boston that is also part of the Institute for Policy Studies, led a new economy tour of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood.  After reading and hearing about man

Conversations about income inequality are becoming more and more mainstream, but what about conversations about class identity? While Occupy Wall Street gave us the paradigm of the one versus the ninety-nine percent, rarely was there any discussion of the diversity of economic experience within that ninety-nine percent. Why is this conversation missing and how is it essential to movement building?

Immigrant Worker Owned Cooperatives: A User's Manual by

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DATELINE: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, July 14, 2014

The Center for Global Justice/Centro para la Justicia Global, a bi-lingual think-tank in this popular vacation town, will hold a conference titled "Moving Beyond Capitalism" July 29 to August 4.

As I suspect most of you know, a few days ago the Business Insider posted an article stating that, in the near future, Zingerman’s would be

Hardly a month goes by without another scare story about aspects of our health and care services.

The P2P Foundation is a full supporting partner of the Cooperativa Integral Catalana, or CIC. We feel that they’re doing essential work in prototyping pre-figurative models of peer production, governance and property.