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‘Spaces to Ramble’: Why Cities Need More Central Parks

Good
May 7th, 2012

To provide New Yorkers with a space other than the city street—a space resembling nature—required massive effort and incredible forethought. During the park’s construction, “on any given day, there would be thousands of workers here, moving earth,”

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Sustainable Settings: Learning From The Land

Post Independent
May 3rd, 2012

Sustainable Settings, an entrepreneurial nonprofit, sells produce at the Aspen Farmers Market and raw milk from its new, solar-powered dairy to people who invest as shareholders in the Guernsey herd.

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Ethikus Offers A Groupon-Like Service To Find Ethical, Sustainable Businesses

Christian Science Monitor
May 2nd, 2012

New York City startup Ethikus provides vouchers for small businesses whose practices embody principles of sustainability.

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Birthing Justice: The Link to Humanity – Gift Economies

Other Worlds Yobo Member
May 1st, 2012

All of Coumba Toure’s work is aimed at keeping African values alive. As part of this, she is deeply involved in a women-led movement to keep the gift economy thriving. West African gifting is based on the interrelated values that all humanity is linked and that one’s well-being is only as strong as that of one’s neighbor. Pro?t and exchange are trumped by a commitment to care for community.

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George Lakey: Nonviolent Warrior

Peace news
April 30th, 2012

Co-founder of the ground-breaking radical community, the Movement for a New Society, which laid the basis for many of the facilitation and decision-making systems in common activist use today, George Lakey has spent much of the last 40 years training people – 1,500 people on five continents.

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Youth Employment Initiative Launched in South Africa

CSR Wire Yobo Member
May 4th, 2012

To address the challenges young people face in South Africa when entering the labor force or starting their own business, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the Caterpillar Foundation have launched EquipYouth, a program that will provide 720 local youth with a package of services that includes technical job and life skills training as well as post-training support.

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10 Quick and Easily Apps for Green Living

Taiga Company Yobo Member
May 3rd, 2012

With growing eco awareness sprouting more and more environmentally friendly options, those living a busy and sustainable lifestyle can take their green on the go.

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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?

Yes! Magazine Yobo Member
May 1st, 2012

When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.

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Climate Leadership From American Colleges and Universities

Huffington Post
April 30th, 2012

In 2007, a small group of visionary college and university presidents gathered to form the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Five years later they have achieved some remarkable results.

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Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

PJ Star
April 27th, 2012

For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.

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