New Economy Working Group

America has plenty of cash, but it’s in the wrong pockets.

The most powerful master is the one who rules unseen and unmentioned.

The story of a community’s effort to ban gold mining in El Salvador involves environmental martyrs, powerful economic interests, and a DC-based tribunal that can trump democracy.

Anti-poverty crusaders like Bono call critical attention to what’s wrong with the world. But what if we also showed who’s doing it right?

Local opposition to a proposed road in Trinidad brings new understanding of “progress,” and what it means to be rooted.

Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation’s largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures.

The Philippines is well poised to be a leader in food democracy in saying no to food vulnerability and in reinvigorating rooted farms.

In response to a reader’s comment, Noel Ortega looks at the recent successes of the US Uncut movement.

With the citizen-backed blockage of a proposed aluminum smelter, is Trinidad and Tobago changing course toward a rooted future?

An increasing GDP may demonstrate growth in gross transactions, but it may not indicate that the majority of us are better-off.

As aggression mounts with the rise of food prices worldwide, small-scale farms rooted in local markets could avert international disaster – and lead the way to “food democracy.”

How about a big campaign to shift consumption back to “brown rice”?

In an increasingly vulnerable world, we’re searching for rooted communities–and what we can learn from them.

Some say that organic farming means going “backwards.” These farmers think otherwise.

Rice farmers in the Philippines go chemical free, community strong.

How the 2008 financial crash redefined what it means to be economically vulnerable.

More and more people, communities, and nations are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to a volatile global economy.

In a world increasingly vulnerable to external shocks, we’re searching for rooted communities–and what we can learn from them.