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Change

Sharing Vouchers: Simple Way to Share Anything

Imagine going to a café or other business and easily connecting with people sharing goods or services. That’s the idea behind Sharing Vouchers.

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Change

‘It Can Be Done’: New Report Details Path to 100% Renewables by 2050

Greenpeace says world leaders must not let the fossil fuel industry stand in the way of the necessary—and attainable—transition to a clean and safe energy future.

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Change

Inspired by Oregon, California to Take Major Step for Democracy: Automatic Registration

While many GOP-led states restrict voter access, California and Oregon are on the vanguard of strengthening democracy through automatic registration.

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Change

Fund the World You Want to Live In: Interest-Free Loans Make More Than ‘Business Sense’

Neighbors are helping crowdfund the dreams of local entrepreneurs, giving community businesses the chance to expand with interest-free loans.

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Change

Labor Day 2028: How to Finance Basic Minimum Income for All

Many people have advocated a basic minimum income, the question was how to finance it. Robert Reich gives us an answer. Happy Labor Day.

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Change

“Don’t Owe. Won’t Pay.” Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong

With the nation’s household debt burden at $11.85 trillion, even the most modest challenges to its legitimacy have revolutionary implications.

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Eat & Drink

A Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change

An opportunity for civically and politically minded chefs to become effective leaders for food-system change.

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Reflect

What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement

From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there’s a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.

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Reflect

One Poem That Saved a Forest

How the friendship between a poet and a timber baron kept a grove of California redwoods from clear-cutting.

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Change

Seattle Led the Minimum Wage Revolution. Can It Do the Same With Rent Control?

New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.