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Comercio Y Dividendos

Comercio Y Dividendos

Modelo que maneja la atmósfera como un bien común y hace que los contaminadores paguen una tarifa que sea otorgada como un ingreso básico garantizado o como un subsidio orientado a los recursos para compensar de forma significativa mayores costos de energía. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Greening Community Institutions

Greening Community Institutions

Helping churches and other place-based, community-rooted nonprofits to upgrade energy systems and implement renewable power generation. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Community Solar

Community Solar

Allows people who don’t own their own roofs, or who don’t have the capital necessary to go green on their own, to pool resources and cooperatively own a green energy power plant with other members of their community. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance
Distritos De Inversión Energética (EID)

Distritos De Inversión Energética (EID)

Un modelo participativa basada en la zona que canaliza la inversión hacia proyectos de energía renovable que beneficien directamente a las comunidades marginadas de bajos ingresos y a las comunidades de color. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Public Green Power Purchasing

Public Green Power Purchasing

Moving the procurement of electric power for public institutions (like school boards and city governments) away from dirty energy with negative impacts on the planet and local communities. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance
Planificación Participativa

Planificación Participativa

Desarrollar las estructuras y procesos que aseguren que las comunidades afectadas por la producción de energía sucia tengan voz y voto en lo que parece el camino hacia la energía limpia. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance
Growing Justice: Transcending racism in the food system

Growing Justice: Transcending racism in the food system

by Michelle Stearn

Transforming our system into one rooted in provision means more than just creating new organizations that aim to do well for the community; it will require that we rewrite the beliefs, exchanges, and rules of our own interactions. read more
Race & Ethnicity
Two people discussing music and art

The Mousai House: A Cooperative Vision for a New Creative Economy

by Jennifer Bryant

Bryant’s exposition of The Mousai House gives a glimpse into a thriving local economy rooted in Washington D.C. that has blossomed despite struggle, displacement, and oppression, exemplifying a rich cooperative culture that transcends the current system. read more
Democratic Ownership Race & Ethnicity
A series of EU flags in front of a modern building.

Is another Europe possible?

by Joe Guinan, Thomas Hanna

Executive director of the Next System Project Joe Guinan, along with the Democracy Collaborative’s director of research Thomas Hanna write on the rising neoliberal characteristics of the EU, the unpopularity and the problems of this shift, and the possibility of another Europe. read more
Democracy & Governance