‘Community Development Solutions’
The Power of Enough – a teleclass with Vicki Robin
MONEY, HAPPINESS & ENOUGH Announcing the new Fall Teleclasses with Vicki Robin Greetings! Vicki Robin here, coauthor of the bestseller Your Money or Your Life, inviting you to join me for my 5-week teleclass: How Much is Enough? Of Anything? And How do we Know? The teleclass starts on September 13, 5:15-6:30 PM PST and we'll cover [...]
Help Prevent Foreclosures and Stabilize the Economy
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is a law which currently covers only some loans. FACT: Only 6% of subprime mortgage lending consisted of loans covered by the CRA. FACT: The other 94% of subprime mortgage lending was not covered by the CRA. FACT: Federal regulators are considering expanding CRA to cover more lenders in the [...]
SolFest XIV Promises to be the Best Ever!
SolFest XIV Promises to be the Best Ever! Come See Keynote Speakers Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & Arianna Huffington Click here to Order Tickets today. The Solar Living Institute announces a spectacular line-up for SolFest 2010 and our first year in the new Ukiah Redwood Empire Fairgrounds location, now featuring festival camping. [...]
PV Growth in the US
PV Growth in the US A recent report titled "US Photovoltaic Market Analysis" reports that the US PV industry registered phenomenal growth in 2009 despite the recession. It also states that the industry is expected to add around 0.87 G W of annual PV installations in 2010. To meet the growing demand, SEI is offering PV workshops in more [...]
ITUC OnLine: Spotlight on Marissa Begonia (J4DW/Unite/TUC – United Kingdom )
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ITUC OnLine 106/020810 Spotlight on Marissa Begonia (J4DW/Unite/TUC – United Kingdom ) Domestic work: “The worst torture is not seeing your own children” Brussels , 2 August 2010 (ITUC OnLine):The adoption of an international Convention on Domestic Work and accompanying recommendation was [...]
Grameen Bank Monthly Update, June 2010
GRAMEEN BANK HEAD OFFICE MIRPUR-2, DHAKA-1216 Statement No: 1 Issue No : 366, Issue Date : July 07, 2010 Grameen Bank Monthly Update in US$ : June, 2010 Sl. No. Particulars Million US$ 1.0 Cumulative Amount Disbursed Since Inception 9,432.90 2.0 Cumulative Amount Repaid Since Inception 8,357.20 3.0 Amount Disbursed this Month [...]
Homeowners’ Rebellion: “Produce The Note” Defense Picks Up Steam
Ellen Brown August 13, 2010 www.webofdebt.com/articles In a Newsweek article a year ago called "Too Big to Jail: Why Prosecutors Won’t Hit Wall Street Hard in the Subprime Scandal," Michael Hirsch wrote that we were unlikely to see trials and convictions today like those seen in the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, because fraud and [...]
UN Adopts Water as a Human Right!
UN resolution on right to water passes overwhelmingly. 124 yes, 42 abstentions, 0 no! On July 28, 2010, the United Nations G eneral Assembly overwhelmingly agreed to a resolution declaring the human right to “safe and clean drinking water and sanitation.” The resolution, presented by the Bolivian government, had 124 countries vote in its [...]
For Immediate Release: Low-income Communities and the Great Recession: Federation Report Finds CDCUs Still Growing Despite Economy
Low-income Communities and the Great Recession Federation Report Finds CDCUs Still Growing Despite Economy (July 21, 2010 - New York , NY ) A new study released by the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) examines the impact of the financial crisis on credit unions that specialize in serving low-income [...]
Providing a ‘guaranteed income’ to the poor: an idea whose time has finally come?
"A quiet revolution is taking place based on the realization that you cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots," the book says. "And giving 'boots' to people with little money does not make them lazy or reluctant to work; rather, just the opposite happens. A small guaranteed income provides a foundation that enables people [...]
