YES! WINTER 2015, ISSUE 72 :: yesmagazine.org [Download PDF] URBAN FARMING, ONE VACANT LOT AT A TIME By Penn Loh Tony Hernandez remembers playing as a child on the vacant lots in the Dudley Street neighborhood of Boston. In the 1980s, white flight and disinvestment had so devastated this neighborhood that more than 20 percentContinue reading URBAN FARMING, ONE VACANT LOT AT A TIME [repost from YES!]
Wellspring Collaborative article [repost]
Wellspring Collaborative’s worker-owned upholstery business provides entry-level jobs to underemployed inner-city By Laura Newberry | laura.newberry@masslive.com SPRINGFIELD – When Carlos Perez moved from Puerto Rico to Waterbury, Conn. in April 2012, his main priority was finding good work. Perez could barely speak English and soon found that the language barrier would be an impediment toContinue reading Wellspring Collaborative article [repost]
Aaron Tanaka featured as a “Main Street Job Creator”
UEP Visiting Practitioner Aaron Tanaka is featured in this YES! Magazine article on “8 Main Street Job Creators Who Are Rebooting the Economy—Starting with Those Who Need It Most“. Below is the excerpt profiling Aaron and his work with Boston Workers Alliance, Center for Economic Democracy, and the Boston’s Youth Participatory Budgeting process. *****REPOST***** AaronContinue reading Aaron Tanaka featured as a “Main Street Job Creator”
YES! Magazine publishes article on Boston’s Emerging Food Economy
YES! Magazine has just published “Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston’s Poorest Neighborhoods“. This is an article adapted from the piece that Glynn Lloyd and I wrote last fall in this blog.
Report Back: Commonbound Conference in Boston June 6-8
The New Economics Coalition held their national conference Commonbound at Northeastern University June 6-8, 2014. I had the opportunity to participate in several panels. Check out the conference site, with some video of plenary sessions. On Friday June 6, I gave a presentation at the Research Workshop on New Economy on “Emerging Solidarity Economy InitiativesContinue reading Report Back: Commonbound Conference in Boston June 6-8
Race and New Economy article in Yes! Magazine
Yes! Magazine just published an updated version of the article I wrote last October, “What is the Color of the New Economy?“. Check out “What’s the Role of Race in the New Economy Movement?” at http://www.yesmagazine.org/commonomics/race-and-the-new-economy.
How Co-ops Helped Produce Foot Soldiers for Civil Rights [repost]
REPOST from COLORLINES – Interview with Jessica Gordon Nembhard about her new book on African American Cooperatives by Carla Murphy, Monday, March 10 2014 Southern pews and pulpits weren’t the only source of people power during the long civil rights movement. So, too, were cooperative economic enterprises. These worker or consumer-owned alternatives to U.S. capitalismContinue reading How Co-ops Helped Produce Foot Soldiers for Civil Rights [repost]
Building a More Sustainable, Just, and Democratic Community Food Economy
I had the privilege of making a short presentation at the 2nd annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at Northeastern University. My talk was based largely on the article “The Emerging Just and Sustainable Food System in Boston“. Check out the prezi presentation below or here. Thanks to the conference hostsContinue reading Building a More Sustainable, Just, and Democratic Community Food Economy
The Emerging Just and Sustainable Food Economy in Boston
Innovations for Building Community Wealth and Health and Re-Localizing the Food System By Penn Loh and Glynn Lloyd The current conventional system of food production and distribution – how food comes to most of us every day — is more fragile than most people think. In fact it is less sustainable and less safe thanContinue reading The Emerging Just and Sustainable Food Economy in Boston
Dudley Resident Gardens: Summer 2013 Survey Results
On two hot days in mid-July 2013, two dozen youth went out into the streets of the Dudley neighborhood in Roxbury to survey “backyard” gardens and interview gardeners. The youth, from Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) and The Food Project, were working with the support of the Practical Visionaries Workshop (PVW) to document how muchContinue reading Dudley Resident Gardens: Summer 2013 Survey Results