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Helen Mead summarizes what Fair Trade means to farmers and their families in the developing world where… many workers face harsh living conditions, low pay and exploitation. They do not have access to even basic medical care or an education for themselves or their children. The global Fair Trade movement helps to remedy this by…

The 2020 elections have already started.  In their bid for office, candidates and their surrogates have spent hours of air time and columns of print on income inequality, climate change and social division. These issues are not new to the readers of The Noah Project.  We’ve been talking about them, among ourselves, for years. In…

Yahoo! News brings you a list of 10 Health Documentaries you can stream to get a healthy start for the new year.  “Forks Over Knives” – The 2011 title discusses researchers Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s findings about obesity and diabetes. The film highlights the benefits of rejecting animal-based and processed foods in your…

Food Tank, “The Think Tank for Food,” celebrates the results of a study conducted by the European Parliament’s Independent Research Service.  Calling it a year-end gift to organic advocates, they note: …the European Parliament’s Independent Research Service, titled “Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture,” has concluded that eating organic food improves early…

When Argentina sank into economic crisis 15 years ago, worker-owned businesses helped keep food on the table for millions of poor families.  But even though the country’s fortunes have improved, cooperatives continue to play an important role.

Pete Dolack at The Daily Times writes an extensive review of Peter Ranis’ latest book, Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy.  He notes that: As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, and a world beyond capitalism becomes a possibility contemplated by increasing numbers of people, finding a path forward becomes an ever more urgent task.…

Cooperatives, which are owned and democratically controlled by workers, often provide economic opportunity for the formerly incarcerated, the long-term unemployed and immigrants. In certain industries like commercial cleaning or taxi service, worker-ownership can prevent exploitative or hostile work environments. At TightShift, which provides moving, landscaping, and cleaning services, every member has equal say in the…