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Turning Plastic from the Sea into Art

Explore maritime crafts that have existed in many coastal and island cultures around the world—using what the sea provides.

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How to Convert an Existing Business into a Worker-owned Cooperative

Follow these five stages.

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Eat & Drink

Goodbye Tipping, Hello Living Wage: The Changing Face of Progressive Restaurants

In cities like Oakland and Seattle, where the minimum wage is on the rise, restaurants are raising prices and rethinking tips as a way to level the playing field for workers.

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Growth is Not Enough: What Should Economies Be Aimed At?

Economist Kate Raworth explains why wealth cannot be achieved by national economies that are aimed only at growth.

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Reflect

The Choice Ahead: A Private Health Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer

If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth.

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How to Disrupt the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the dangers of an unbridled “military-industrial complex,” as he called it. Now it’s a military-industrial-congressional complex. After Citizens United, it’s less bridled than ever.

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The Promise of Public Banking in Seattle

John Repp and the Seattle Public Bank Coalition push for a public bank in Seattle that could help fund a green and sustainable economy.

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Bringing Back the Light: Restoring the Life to Canada’s Temperate Rainforests

This film explores the practice, the methods and the need for habitat restoration. We see a clear connection between healthy landscapes and healthy communities.

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Santa Cruz Shows America How to Punish Bank Felons

What if every county, city, and state in America followed Santa Cruz County’s example, and held the big banks accountable for their felonies?

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6 Lessons for the Left from Spain’s Democratic Revolution

Spain shows a third way is possible.