Back in 1987, a tiny corner restaurant opened on slanted West State Street in Athens, Ohio. It was different from the other eateries in Athens in one very important way: the cooks, dishwashers, servers and hostesses weren’t just hired help at Casa Nueva, they owned it as members of the Worker-Owned Restaurant Corporation. Were they […]
Big Stone Lake: A Vision for the Future
The CUP is Half-Full in the Big Stone Lake Area No, CUP is not a typo. It is a philosophy and a vital partnership on the western border of Minnesota that started when people from nine communities across the area got together to discuss their future at a Blandin Community Investment Partnership (BCIP) meeting. It […]
Tuscaloosa CSA
Coker, Alabama In the Deep South, folks are pretty independent-minded, according to Jean Mills of Coker, a town on the western edge of Alabama just outside of Tuscaloosa. So when she and partner Carol Eichelberger enlisted neighbors and friends to come together and be part of their farm community, it was something of a revolutionary […]
Empowering an Energy Revolution
A powerful new vision for a more sustainable world based upon energy effıciency, conservation, renewable energy and sustainable living is energizing the Midwest. The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) combines this vision of its forward-thinking founders with the swelling ranks of mostly rural landowners to create the world’s largest and longest-running Renewable Energy and Sustainable […]
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