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place-based (local) economics

New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area

Co-Soap Hopes Its Unique Business Model Will Spark Economic Growth and Justice.
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Doing Green Jobs Right

An article in The Nation magazine tells how Boston's Green Justice Coalition is creating "a model to connect the struggle for environmental justice with the fight for living-wage jobs, helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of community-labor coalitions across the country."
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Notes from the New Cooperative South

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/453

(Editor's note: This is the start of a new series by Erin Rice. Erin is a cooperative educator living in Louisiana. She will report on grassroots economic activities in the south, analyze conditions, and sometimes editorialize. Erin can be reached at 413-522-3319 or erinjrice@gmail.com. She is always looking for new tips and leads.)

Report 1, March 10, 2010

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Building a Community Co-op Grocery

People in a small North Dakota town are working to buy their local grocery store and turn it into a community-owned cooperative.
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Global Pressures May Spark Rural Economic Revolution

Rising costs of oil may give local economies a competitive advantage...
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Co-op As Alternative to "Take a Leak" Economics

A brainstorm on strategies for local economic development
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Possibilties for Cooperative Energy Generation

A new report from the Insitute for Local Self-Reliance explores democratic routes to energy independence.
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