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• Taking the co-operative approach

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 597
  FT.com / Companies / Industrial Goods - Clansman’s staff take co-operative approach . A thriving engineering company, Clansman Dynamics, is the latest Scottish venture to become an employee-owned business. Founded in 1994 by Dick Philbrick, Clansman makes robotic handling equipment for forges, foundries, ...
  1 day ago

• Libertarian Living: Move Your Money

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 446
  Arianna Huffington has a web site called, Move Your Money, to get people to shift their money to smaller banks, something I´ve been advocating on this blog for a while.“For starters, you could move your money to a small bank. To do so, click on the button that says Find A Bank. But there are [...]
  3 days ago

• 720,000 tonnes of coal annually smuggled in Jharkhand

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Ranchi, Jan 2 (IANS) Illegal coal mining is rampant in Jharkhand, with around 720,000 tonnes of the mineral being smuggled every year and causing a massive revenue loss of up to Rs.600 crore, an official said Saturday.Around 18,000 people are involved in the illeggal mining activities, transporting the coal on cycles, ...
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• Rural Electric Cooperative Completes $240 Million Wind Farm in 4 Months

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 611
  A North Dakota rural electric cooperative made history on New Year’s Eve, in completing the nation’s largest wind project to be entirely owned by a consumer cooperative. The $240 million, 115.5 MW wind farm was begun in August and completed a mere four months later; three and a half hours before midnight on ...
  4 days ago

• Malaysians move to reduce sugar content in beverages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Kuala Lumpur, Jan 1 (IANS) Famous for their sweet tooth and reeling under sugar shortage, Malaysians are embarking on a campaign to reduce sugar content in food and beverages.The health ministry is to meet with 60 representatives of the food and beverage industry to coax them to reduce the sugar content in their ...
  4 days ago

• Profile of a Quiltmaker from a small village in Northern Thailand

  
  Calypso Island Chronicles — Authority: 115
  I met Som, a middle aged lady from the village of Baan Na Tong in Northern Thailand, who labors many hours a day to make some very exquisite and colorful quilts. It takes her up to 60 hours to make just one piece. Located about 32 kilometers from the city of Phrae, Baan Na Tong is a very beautiful village surrounded ...
  1 week ago

• A Reply To Jacob Richter - Part 3

  
  Boffy's Blog — Authority: 119
  The National Question ”I of course oppose nationalism, but nationalist sentiments amongst workers could be used in the short term as a two-edged sword.” The problem with two-edged swords is that they can cut you from either side. Of course, as I have written myself, in relation to Proletarian Military ...
  2 weeks ago

• IT Park owned by workers

  
  Srijan Foundation — Authority: 111
  Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-new-story-from-militant-labours-own-country-it-park-owned-by-workers/556731/0 — School drop-outs who once crushed stones at granite quarries have now become the directors of a Rs 600-crore info-tech park in Kerala. Apart from the directors, 943 manual workers are also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care?

  
  Boffy's Blog — Authority: 119
  Following the previous series, in which entrepreneur Gerry Robinson looked at the parlous state of the NHS, the BBC is now running another series in which he looks into the issue of dementia care homes - Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care? . I’ve watched two programmes so far. The first thing that strikes me ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do you want the good news or the bad news?

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 116
  Good news is sometimes harder to take than bad news. We know what to do with bad news: like Eeyore , we slump into a tired I told you it would all go horribly wrong mentality. Good news tends to demand action - those good exam results, a job offer, or a potential partnership all push you towards the next challenge. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Creative Ideas for Surviving Tough Economic Times

  
  Local Energy News — Authority: 99
  Mayor David Coss of Santa Fe and the nonprofit Creative Santa Fe are holding a forum to solicit ideas from the community on job creation and economic development. Heres the letter I just sent from Local Energy ...I hope you like it! Hi Kris and the Creative Team, Here are my ideas for creating jobs and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fort Campbell Federal Credit Union announces $1 Million member giveback

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 448
  Fort Campbell Federal Credit Union has just announced that it will be giving $1 million back to its members in patronage dividends this year. “We have given over $6 million back to members of the credit union over the past 5 years alone and we’re so proud to be able to continue this tradition”, says Stewart ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Albany grocery coop meeting tonight ... and other NA events.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 487
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  4 weeks ago

• Workshop Details

  
  Nunnery Bike Workshop — Authority: 92
  5pm-9pm every Monday 1 Phillip St Waterloo (cnr Cope St) WHAT DO WE DO? The Nunnery Community Bike Workshop collects abandoned bikes and parts to create working bikes to put back into the community. These bikes are put together by you, the community, with help from others who come. It is also a place to fix up ...
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• UTOPIAN CAPITALISM

  
  A Green State of Mind — Authority: 99
  The ideal of the free market obscures the reality of an economic system that perpetuates a strict division between worker and owner that also perpetuates systemic inequality. The nature of capitalism may have the appearance of an economic system used to express the freedom of the individual, but it is also a system ...
  4 weeks ago

• UTOPIAN CAPITALISM

  
  Green Party New York — Authority: 112
  The ideal of the free market obscures the reality of an economic system that perpetuates a strict division between worker and owner that also perpetuates systemic inequality. The nature of capitalism may have the appearance of an economic system used ...
  4 weeks ago

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