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Financing to Fight Food Deserts
Blog | by Krislyn Placide | June 20, 2012
Pennsylvania’s Food Fresh Financing Initiative aims to help level the nutritional playing field in low-income areas.
Making the Potluck a Success in Today’s World
Blog | by Dale S. Brown | February 7, 2012
Can we reinvent the potluck so it can work in today’s busy, ingredient-conscious world?
Giving Away Your "Declutter" to People Who Want It
Blog | by Dale S. Brown | May 28, 2012
Guest blogger Dale Brown offers tips on thoughtfully giving away things that you don’t need, rather than simply throwing them in the trash.
Donating Your “Declutter” to Charity
Blog | by Dale S. Brown | June 27, 2012
Many of us bring unwanted stuff to a drop-off box, donation center, or collection event. But how much of it is actually reused?
Freecycling: Don’t Throw It Away, Give It Away
Blog | by Dale S. Brown | August 13, 2012
How can you assure that your unwanted items get to people who would find them helpful? Try Freecycling.
Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy
Blog | by Lisa Mastny | January 31, 2012
A new report from Demos points out the problems with using GDP as the predominant benchmark of our economic and social progress.
Consumption, Gentrification, and You
Blog | by Josmar Torres | September 12, 2018
New Dream Youth Fellow Josmar Torres explains why gentrification is a perfect example of how consumption and capitalism can combine to undermine communities.
True Wealth: A Plenitude Economy
Blog | by New Dream | May 6, 2011
In Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, economist and New Dream board co-chair Juliet Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
Gale Student Resources in Context: How the American Dream Has Changed Over Time
Blog | June 23, 2016
According to a survey from the Center for a New American Dream, 78 percent of people considered personal freedom extremely important in their vision of the American Dream. At the opposite end, 23 percent considered achieving affluence as very important.
Survey Results II: Conscious Consumers and Activism
Blog | by Guest bloggers | June 11, 2009
How a Group of Kids Bagged the Disposable Bag in Boulder, Colorado
Blog | by Kate Bailey and Kate Nelson | March 17, 2016
What decades of education and outreach couldn’t accomplish, a group of high school students could.
Leading by Example: Lessons Learned from the Eugene CommunityShare Workshop
Blog | by Anna Awimbo | July 11, 2014
Oregon is full of people bringing their communities to life through the Sharing Economy.
What Is the American Dream? Dueling Dualities in the American Tradition
Blog | by James Gustave Speth | June 27, 2011
The story of the pursuit of happiness in America is a story of its close alliance with capitalism and consumerism. But is there another option?
