‘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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The Optimistic Futurist: Surplus food helps feed those in need
The Optimistic Futurist: Surplus food helps feed those in need Sunday, October 02, 2011 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend | 0 Comments By Francis Koster Each day in America, one in seven households either does not have enough to eat or does not know where next week’s food [...]
Crowdfund Investing: A Zero-Cost Initiative to Create Jobs
We at Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) applaud this creative initiative. There is a solution to the nation’s poor growth and anemic state of job creation. However, it requires updating Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations regarding general solicitation and accreditation so average Americans can choose to invest in local [...]
Federation, NYC Community Development Credit Unions, Launch Affordable Small-dollar Loans with Savings Component
Federation, NYC Community Development Credit Unions, Launch Affordable Small-dollar Loans with Savings Component "Borrow & Save" to Help New Yorkers Avoid Predatory Lenders & Build Wealth (September 19, 2011 - New York, NY) For many working poor in New York City, and across the country, bridging the gap between generally [...]
Invite to OACC 32
You are invited to The 32nd Annual Convening of the Ozark Area Community Congress… OACC 32 – September 30 – Oct. 2, 2011 Ananda Kanan International Retreat Center, Willow Springs, MOzarks Hi David, All those who love and care about the Ozarks are invited to gather together once again to celebrate, appreciate, and learn from this [...]
Things We Can Do In Tough Times
September 6, 2011 Greetings! I hope you have had a great Labor Day Weekend! Thank you for taking a few minutes to read this e-mail newsletter, the first that I have done in two years since leaving the Maui Small Business Development Center. I have been spending more time with fewer businesses. But I have still been thinking about the Big [...]
North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil
Ellen Brown, http:/WebofDebt.com/articles, August 31, 2011 North Dakota has had the nation's lowest unemployment ever since the economy tanked. What's its secret? In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The North Dakota Miracle,” Catherine Rampell writes: Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North [...]
Babcock Foundation Report on CDFI Growth and Sustainability
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation in Winston-Salem, NC, recently commissioned and published Community Development Financial Institutions: A Study on Growth and Sustainability, featuring input from the leaders of more than a dozen local, regional and national CDFIs working in the Southeast. The report considers the Aspen Institute’s [...]
The emerging cooperative counter-economy in the U.S.
From P2P Foundation Mira Luna writes in Shareable: “While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Tired of asking for change from the top down, they are taking their [...]
Schakowsky Announces Bill to Create 2.2 Million Jobs
“Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act” Estimated to Lower Unemployment Rate by 1.3% CHICAGO, IL (August 10, 2011) – Today Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of President Obama’s 18-member Fiscal Commission, announced she will introduce the Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act, a cost-effective plan to put over 2 [...]
It’s hot out! So are Solar Jobs!
Hot temperatures are setting records across the USA this summer. "The heat wave that initially spanned most of the country east of the Rockies and is still gripping big portions of the nation's south central region helped make July the fourth-hottest July on record in the USA," NOAA researchers reported. "The hottest were in 2003, 1936 and [...]
