Environmental Justice

Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:47:50 -0400

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

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:39:52 -0400

By Lauren Kozol

Community Stability & Climate Change

Ethan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:32:16 -0400

Toronto's community currency suggests possibilities for building community economic security in the face of the destabilizing effects of global climate change.

Who Gains From the Green Economy?

Ethan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:43:29 -0400

Green economics and racial justice

Ecopalooza Green Events Network

EcoLarry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:23:21 -0400

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.

Cooperative Forest Conservation

Ethan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:26:15 -0500

Forest conservation is being promoted in India through the creation of commuity-controlled forestry "cooperative societies." By Suresh Khatta.