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Pathways to Democratic Business: What Two Co-op Networks Can Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Here, I focus on two of the book’s US case studies: Industrial Commons , a textile manufacturing network based in North Carolina; and Obran , a worker co-op holding company based in Baltimore that has gained national prominence. But the manufacturing decline hit many regions outside the Rust Belt, including western North Carolina.

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What Did California Miss with Its Recent Slashing of a Key Solar Incentive?

NonProfit Quarterly

Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. Customer-owned energy generation also reduces utilities’ potential to invest in more profit-generating infrastructure, like long-distance transmission power lines. This frame is what the fossil fuel industry is using to gut NEM programs across the country.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e. These circularity principles can be applied across sectors.

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Why Artisans Are Building an Alternative to Etsy

NonProfit Quarterly

Long before the rise of the platform economy, artisans were already regarded as self-employed and outside the protection of national labor laws. When these items started to be manufactured in factories, those jobs were often relegated to women, who were paid far less than men. They raised transaction fees from 3.5

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

AI models are mirrors that are manufactured to produce certain kinds of reflections of human intelligence. 10 SV: I think when you see that those narratives are being pushed most aggressively by the people who are profiting the most from the AI boom, that should be the first red flag that you examine with a critical eye.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Oil was replaced by textiles, which were then replaced by retail and heavy manufacturing. 9 Today, manufacturing is the top industry in the South employing Black men—for Black women, it’s the healthcare industry. 12 As GeorgiaTrend described it back in 2018, “Y’allywood is No. 1 at the box office.