From corner bakeries to one of Spain’s largest companies, worker-owned co-ops around the world are providing an alternative model to business as usual. Annie talked with worker-owners of the Evergreen Cooperatives, which are transforming an economically distressed neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio – and changing lives at the same time….
posted by Not a city renowned for a robust and engaged political community, seeing this video made me proud to be from LA.
I’m a total sucker for videos of people using their bodies to make shapes and words for aerial photography. Never gets old.
Check it out:
If you’re feeling particularly inspired, check out Resolutions Week and get involved with people all across the country who are getting together this summer to take a stand against the disastrous Citizens United decision.
Hat tip to Good Magazine for the post.
posted by Over at The Story of Stuff shop, we get all sorts of fabulous, fun, and inspiring emails. We love it not only because we like hearing from you, but also because it calls to our immediate attention just how many of us there are taking on these issues.
Your emails, blog and FB comments, often serve as sparkly, internet reminders that all across the globe there are tons of people hard at work to make this world more healthy, sustainable, and just. Yay!
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Our friends over at Free Range (the good people who help us make all our movies) just redid their website and included some really neat “historical documents” from the making of one of our movies that I thought I’d share.
Just a little behind the scenes peek into how much work goes into getting Annie off the page and onto the screen!
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An awesome video from the good folks over at the Post Carbon Institute about the history of fossil fuels and what could, and hopefully will be, our future!
posted by Post written by Monica Wilson at GAIA, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
The U.S. could create 1.5 million jobs through recycling. Right now, public funds for expensive, dirty “waste-to-energy” incinerators hold back job growth – and Congress is about to make it worse.
The U.S. could add nearly 1.5 million jobs if it adopted a 75% national recycling rate. Wow, that’s a lot of jobs! Instead of propping up the dinosaur economy highlighted in The Story of Broke, we can be investing in more jobs and a healthier future by keeping the stuff we use in our economy, instead of dumping or burning it….
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Post written by Rosa González from Green For All
Every year, enough untreated sewage escapes into our waterways to completely cover the state of Pennsylvania in sludge an inch thick. Yuck.
So what if there were a way to fix that – while putting over 1.8 million people to work and adding more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to the economy? As you’ve guessed: there is.
Green for All, in partnership with Economic Policy Institute, American Rivers, and Pacific Institute, recently released a new report: “Water Works: Rebuilding Infrastructure, Creating Jobs, Greening the Environment.” The report looks at what would happen if we invested in America’s water infrastructure – and finds that an investment of $188.4 billion spread equally over the next five years would generate $265.6 billion in economic activity and create close to 1.9 million jobs.
With the side benefit of keeping sewage out of our streams….
posted by In this inspiring little video produced by our friends at the Dogwood Alliance, you’ll see 10-year-old Cole and three of his friends travel from North Carolina to the KFC headquarters in Louisville, KY to deliver over 6000 hand-drawn postcards from youth across the South asking the company to green their packaging.
As Cole put it: ” We just want them to use a little more post-consumer recycled fiber and we’re happy. We’re just trying to save the environment.”
Right on, Cole!
PS. Keep an eye out for our upcoming The Good Stuff podcast, where Annie interviews Cole about his great work saving North Carolina’s forests and taking on fast-food giants!
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From their website occupydesign.org:
Occupy Design is a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement. The project’s goal is to create freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. The project places an emphasis on producing infographics and icons to improve the communication of the movement’s messages and the data surrounding them across the world.
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