‘Community Development Solutions’
News on local, regional efforts by communities, NGOs, local businesses, banks, governments, to become more self-reliant and less dependent on global financial casinos, big banks and Wall Street. Covers local currencies, farmers markets, co-housing, Transition Towns movements, new bioregional urban re-developments and small communities.
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Neal Peirce on the National Popular Vote, Mark Pisano on the Transition
The ‘National Popular Vote’ — Time At Last? NEAL PEIRCE / JAN 14 2012 © 2012 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — Newspapers, the airwaves and the blogosphere are already delivering 24-7 news and speculation focused on the 2012 presidential campaign. But in the end, will we get the president the most Americans favor? Read [...]
Occupy the Neighborhood: How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain
An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their title records are in hopeless disarray. Meanwhile, foreclosed and abandoned homes are blighting neighborhoods. Straightening out the records and [...]
To Save Post Offices, Turn Them Into Public Banks
I didn't get any mail today, or the day before. I'm not the only one lacking in pen pals: From 2006 to 2010, mail volume declined by 20 percent, and it's going to keep dropping. We're doing a lot more of our correspondence online these days, and that decline in business is putting the U.S. Postal Service - a government enterprise that would rank [...]
A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods
A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods A Main Street Fix for Wall Street's Failures is a report of the New Economy Working Group produced in collaboration with the New Economy Network; it is an outcome of a series of conversations focused on building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate in the U.S. John Cavanagh and [...]
Upcoming Healthy Economy and Environment Conference
MEDIA ADVISORY HEALTHY ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE LOOKS TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK STATE Event Features NYS Environmental Excellence Awards, Keynote By Remains Lighting Founder David Calligeros, NYS Businesses and More Ethical Markets Media is glad to be a media partner with the Healthy Economy and Environment Conference. [...]
When and Why Foundations Should Blur the Line Between Profit-making and Charity
A recent New York Times article on program-related investing highlighted the $10 million equity stake the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took in Liquidia Technologies. Some in the foundation world are concerned that the investment blurred the line between profit-making and charity. We and our Braintrust advisor Stephen Viederman say [...]
Fannie And Freddie: The Elephants In The Room
FANNIE AND FREDDIE: THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM by Sarah Stranahan, New Economy Network and Ethical Markets Advisory Board House Republicans recently introduced eight separate bills to limit and disempower the two big Government Service Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Republicans in the House argue that failure to destroy the [...]
Mike Ragogna Mike Ragogna Radio Personality on Solar Powered KRUU-FM, Music Biz Vet GET UPDATES FROM Mike Ragogna myLocal Heroes: An Interview With Fairfield’s Scott Morris
Out of a little known corner in Iowa, tucked away in the peculiar and extraordinary town of Fairfield, comes this story of a new kind of community empowerment program that could hold the key to a more transparent, more life-supporting, more humanitarian money supply and system of incentives. Since 2009, a core of social entrepreneurs has been [...]
PBI Newsletter, 1111 – The PA Project, PBI National Conference
The Pennsylvania Project - We Have Liftoff! Mike KrausskraussPB080946 Board Member Public Banking Institute Founder and Chair The Pennsylvania Project The Pennsylvania Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit and non-partisan Pennsylvania public corporation. We are filing for IRS 501c4 status. This means contributions are not tax deductible, [...]
How Occupy Wall Street Really Got Started
With our thanks to Ben Bingham and in recognition of our TRANSFORMING FINANCE 2.0 meeting here November 18-20th, Editor: Hazel Henderson How Occupy Wall Street Really Got Started Meet the international activists who lit the fuse for the populist protest movement that's sweeping the world. By Andy Kroll | Mon Oct. 17, 2011 2:00 AM [...]
