Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
September - October 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The cooperative business model has boomed in the aftermath of the pandemic. Worker cooperatives allow employees to run and own a business, giving them more control as well as a share of profits. Co-ops not only have a...
28 August 2021
British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Tofino, a popular tourist destination in Clayoquot Sound, a region on the west coast of Vancouver Island, attracts about 600,000 annual visitors. The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and other Nuu-chah-nulth nations have cr...
12 August 2021
Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Small towns in Ohio are turning to a developer to revitalize their main streets in order to bring residents and businesses back. Small Nation is the brainchild of a local developer who put his struggling town back on ...
30 July 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After the 2008 economic recession hit, Carla Walker-Miller shifted her energy services business model to not only supply electrical equipment but also implement energy efficiency programs for communities of color in D...
6 July 2021
Montana, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Faced with the effects of climate change, in Montana, some farmers are turning towards organic or regenerative practices, a form of farming that includes thing like crop rotation, and using fewer pesticides. It’s a sw...
29 June 2021
Gurgaon, India
Text
800-1500 Words
In 71 cities around the world, users of the My Safetipin mobile app can decide whether to visit a particular neighborhood or plan a travel route based on how safe others deem those places. While the 100,000 or so user...
27 June 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Black, urban farmers have formed a grassroots "ecosystem" to grow and distribute fresh, affordable produce in St. Louis neighborhoods where food insecurity and gun violence go hand in hand. Heru Urban Farming is a sta...
22 June 2021
Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Off the coast of Australia, the energy company Chevron is experimenting with new quarantine management techniques to ensure that any plants and pests don’t hitchhike to new places, which can devastate the global food ...
Mongabay
Marissa Carruthers
22 June 2021
Cambodia
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Cambodia 2.5 million people use stoves fueled by forest biomass; charcoal and wood. The emissions caused by using biomass are extremely harmful not only to people but also to the environment. The emissions caused b...
10 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Video
Under 3 Minutes
The food-supply business is known for exploitative pay and poor working conditions. But Brooklyn Packers, a Black-owned cooperative launched in 2016, pays its owner-workers and vendors fair wages and is founded on tra...
3 June 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
ChiFresh Chicago is owned and run by formerly incarcerated women of color. The business' five owner-workers responded to the pandemic's effect on food insecurity, in neighborhoods that already had high rates of that p...
1 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Homecare aides traditionally receive low wages in an industry with high turnover and great stress during the pandemic. Women of color typically care for their companies' elderly or disabled clients. Cooperative Homeca...
Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT)
Giedrė Čiužaitė
1 June 2021
Lithuania
Text
1500-3000 Words
Employment intermediaries from VšĮ SOPA act as workforce development counselors and recruiters for both employers and people with disabilities. By preparing people for jobs that fit their abilities, and then aiding in...
NPR
Katia Riddle
29 May 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
The boom in green-energy spending and government grants fuels the work of Leaders Before Legends, a Portland startup that lines up well-paying jobs installing solar panels and the like. The jobs go to people formerly ...
28 May 2021
Somerset, Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A ski company and oil and gas executive were able to work out a deal to turn the Elk Creek Mine into a power plant that puts out 24 million kilowatt hours a year and prevents hundreds of billions of methane each year ...
26 May 2021
United States
Video
Over 15 Minutes
In service industries that traditionally pay and treat workers poorly, worker-owned cooperatives serve as a humane alternative. Worker-owners at eight co-ops in four states describe the difference their jobs make in t...
25 May 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The app Too Good to Go helps restaurants and other shops prevent food waste by selling their extra food to people for a cheaper price. So far, more than 700,000 people in the United States have downloaded the app and ...
25 May 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
A startup in California called Crop Swap LA is converting unused front yards into community gardens that can grow crops like kale, rainbow chard, and tomatoes as a way to feed neighbors. Community members can pay for ...
18 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
“UNDSCVRD SF," funded by the SOMA Community Stabilization Fund and produced by the nonprofit Kultivate Labs, is a night market held once a month from July to November that features a range of Filipino vendors. There ...
18 May 2021
Italy
Text
800-1500 Words
Albergo Etico prepares people with disabilities for work in the hotel industry, using training based on the Montessori method. The "download" method helps people learn job skills at their own pace, translating lessons...
17 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Francisco-based New Resource Bank was launched with environmental sustainability lending as its niche. But it pursued easier profits for a time, risking its survival and mission until a new CEO turned its fortunes...
14 May 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An initiative to bring solar power to public housing in D.C. is helping residents of Jubilee Housing. Community solar, which shares the electricity generated amongst multiple households, makes solar energy an affordab...
11 May 2021
Louisiana, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
After oil and gas platforms reach the end of their working lives, some are being turned into artificial reefs that can create new ecosystems in the ocean. Since the 1980s, 550 platforms have been reefed in the Gulf of...
8 May 2021
Buffalo, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Erie County, New York, residents are receiving a free drink along with their Covid vaccine as part of a program that aims to encourage those who have been on the fence about getting vaccinated. Although it is not b...
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