Environmental Justice
Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision
By Yvonne Poirier
Editors' note: Yvon Poirier is an editor of the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, from which this article is copied. The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-Operative Union was the subject of both the spring and summer issues of GEO (#s 12 and 13) in 1994. Seikatsu has grown since then to include 290,000 households. It is notable for its combination of worker and consumer co-ops, its insistence on high food quality, and for its direct involvement in local politics in the Tokyo area. Yvon comments that the current conservative government is doing all it can to undermine co-ops and other similar sectors.
Taking Back the South Bronx: Opening Day at a Green Worker Co-op
By Lauren Kozol
Community Stability & Climate Change
Toronto's community currency suggests possibilities for building community economic security in the face of the destabilizing effects of global climate change.
Community Currencies & Barter Networks | Environmental Justice | Trade & Exchange | Canada | Gleanings
Who Gains From the Green Economy?
Green economics and racial justice
Economic Justice | Environmental Justice | green economy | Immigrant Justice | Racial Justice | Workplace Democracy | United States | Gleanings
Ecopalooza Green Events Network
Ecopalooza is a web portal and event calendar for the promotion of green living expos, fairs, festivals, conferences, workshops and other sustainability events throughout North America. Ecopalooza website is a project of Ecopalooza Green Events Network, which also sponsors occasional green events in the Redwood North Coast bioregion of Northern California. The primary focus of Ecopalooza's networking activity is is on the bioregional, plant-based diet and youth aspects of the sustainability revolution.
Conferences, Events & Gatherings | Environmental Justice | green economy | Mutual Aid | Support Organizations | Conference & Event Reports
Cooperative Forest Conservation
Forest conservation is being promoted in India through the creation of commuity-controlled forestry "cooperative societies." By Suresh Khatta.
Ecological Processes | Environmental Justice | Asia (Southeast) | Gleanings
