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1,000 Votes Give Maui Historic Victory Banning GMO Farming
Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences raised a historic $7.9 million to defeat the GMO ban – but the public voted by a slim margin to approve it in Hawaii's most expensive ever campaign.
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It's the Inequality, Stupid: Achieving Doughnut Economics to Solve Climate Change
There is a safe and just, sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries – and we need to find our way into this doughnut, quickly, by tackling today's vast resource inequalities.
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The Comeback of the Commons: Uniting People, Resources and Economies
Commoning forms the basis for a kind of economics run by neither state nor market but rather by community relationships in which everyone has a personal stake in a shared property or project.
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Green Tuesday: Oregon and Alaska Legalize Growing and Selling Marijuana
The marijuana legalization train has left the station.
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Workers Nationwide Win City and State Minimum Wage Hikes
Ballot measures on minimum-wage hikes and paid sick days succeeded, but things just got grimmer for unions and healthcare expansion.
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Voters Ban Fracking from Ohio to California to Texas
Residents overwhelmingly asserted their rights to clean air, water and local self-governance by banning fracking and frack wastewater injection wells in two U.S. cities and one county.
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Citizens Vote To Amend Constitution and End Corporate Personhood In Five States
Voters in Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida elected a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
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Elections Are Over – Now Here Are 10 Ways to Democratize the Economy
Take control of local budgets and financing, businesses, community land development, energy production and more.
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Why The Climate Fix and the Economic Reboot Will Happen Together
Four years in the making, this Political Economy Research Institute study shows the level of U.S. investment to achieve necessary carbon cut targets and generate 2.7 million new jobs.
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On Election Tuesday, Climate Becomes Priority Issue for Black and Hispanic Voters
According to 2014 data, more than 40 percent of nonwhite Americans believe global warming should be a “top priority” for government – while the number for whites barely tops 20 percent.