Monday's Reading List (an idea borrowed from fatmanatee)
Poor Neighborhoods Key to Future Income: Researchers have found that being raised in poor neighborhoods plays a major role in explaining why African American children from middle-income families are far more likely than white children to slip down the income ladder as adults.
Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity: Most of us take for granted that those rectangular green slips of paper we keep in our wallets are inviolable: the physical embodiment of value. But alternative forms of money have a long history and appear to be growing in popularity.
Strategies & Models - Cooperatives: Cooperatives are an established community wealth-building strategy that can be found in many economic sectors, including banking (credit unions), agriculture, electricity generation and transmission, telecommunications, housing, and child care. In every case, cooperatives operate on the basis of the core democratic principle of “one person, one vote.” The top 100 U.S. co-ops alone have more than $150 billion in sales each year. Areas of recent growth include natural food groceries, purchasing cooperatives, and worker cooperatives.
The Altervative Economy Grows as Stocks Shrink: When you need an item but dont have money, or dont want to spend money, you can resort to the oldest type of economy bartering or trading.
Creating Local Food Options in an Urban Setting: How one woman channeled her discovery about the perils of an industrial food system into creating local options for healthy, sustainably produced food in her own Chicago neighborhood.
Network Members Work for Better Healthcare: Julie Silverman enjoys the type of health care that sounds incredibly deluxe in today’s managedcare world
Project - Redesign Your Farmer’s Market: How can better design ensure that food grown by local farmers is delivered and distributed to urban residents?
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