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The Key to Global Prosperity: Worker Ownership

The Guardian   
January 9th, 2012

The Key to Global Prosperity: Worker Ownership

Shared ownership helps to diversify rather than concentrate wealth and roots the value it generates in communities.

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One Year Later: Former AFSC Program Thrives in Mozambique

AFSC    Yobo Member
January 4th, 2012

One Year Later: Former AFSC Program Thrives in Mozambique

Chickens, stoves and literacy meant success for the first year of a new organization in Mozambique supported by AFSC.

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Students Say “Occupy Your Plate”, Plan to Converge at Retreat to Grow Food Cooperatives

COFED    Yobo Member
January 3rd, 2012

Students Say “Occupy Your Plate”, Plan to Converge at Retreat to Grow Food Cooperatives

CoFED, the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, is gearing up for their second national event to train students to run successful sustainable food businesses on campuses nationwide.

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Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

YouTube    Video
December 28th, 2011

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

There is a different way to move forward when considering how the world’s economic health can be attained for the betterment of all. Consider a Plenitude Economy!

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Ecocide Law would be ‘Game Changer’ for Environment

Positive News   
December 23rd, 2011

Ecocide Law would be ‘Game Changer’ for Environment

“This is a real game changer,” says Polly Higgins, “it will shift the rules in a way that we can barely begin to imagine.”

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Specialized Retail Store Inspires Hobby Beekeepers In Urban Areas

PSFK   
January 5th, 2012

Specialized Retail Store Inspires Hobby Beekeepers In Urban Areas

Bee Thinking is a retail store in Portland, Oregon USA that specializes in offering products and services relating to beekeeping. It claims to be the world’s first beekeeping supplier that concentrates on “foundationless top bar hives and Warre hives.”

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Patagonia Registers as California’s First Benefit Corporation

B Corp   
January 4th, 2012

Patagonia Registers as California’s First Benefit Corporation

Founder Yvon Chouinard Leads Largest Group of Businesses
to Register on First Effective Date.

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15,000 Square Foot Urban Farm Goes Portable

Visual News   
January 2nd, 2012

15,000 Square Foot Urban Farm Goes Portable

Amidst the towering skyscrapers and busting New York City traffic is a mobile, 15,000 square foot urban farm, called Riverpark Farm.

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Nipun Mehta: An Economy to Feed Your Soul

Yes! Magazine    Yobo Member
December 27th, 2011

Nipun Mehta: An Economy to Feed Your Soul

“In practice, there is no grand chasm to cross. Just do the small act of kindness for the person in front of you, right now.”

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“Haitian Peasant Women as Poto Mitan, Central Pillar”: An interview with Iderle Brénus Gerbier

Other Worlds Are Possible    Yobo Member
December 22nd, 2011

“Haitian Peasant Women as Poto Mitan, Central Pillar”: An interview with Iderle Brénus Gerbier

Iderle Gerbier Brénus has worked with many Haitian peasant organizations in support of women rights’ and food sovereignty.

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