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Cooperatives and Sustainability

Cooperatives and Sustainability

In my July newsletter I featured three working cooperatives that all share the goal of sustainability. Writing the newsletter brought up more questions than answers: What is …

 

Green Adventure #5 – Is North Carolina Greener than Oregon?

Green Adventure #5 – Is North Carolina Greener than Oregon?

Shawn photographs a Celebrity Dairy goat cheese farm, a Piedmont Biofuels factory, and Pittsboro’s local currency in North Carolina and finds the state is going …

 

Local Currencies Provide an Ecological and Economic Balance

Local Currencies Provide an Ecological and Economic Balance

It really doesn’t make any kind of ecological or economical sense to import food or goods that can be created locally, yet that is exactly …