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How to Create 18 Million Jobs Part 2 — provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible but “normal” or “natural” pace might push that date to 2018.

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How to Create 18 Million Jobs provided by The Real News Network; Robert Pollin explains that reaching 4% unemployment by 2012 is possible.

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The Grassroots Economy in 2018 provided by P2P Foundation; What our economy could look like over the next decade, a change from economies of scale to economies of groups. It values collaboration more than negotiation, and bottom-up rather than top-down processes.

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Move Your Money provided by MoveYourMoney.info; introduces the compelling movement to move individual bank accounts from the “too big to fail” institutions into community banks and credit unions

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Harmonic Humanity provided by HarmonicHumanity.org; Real Change and Harmonic Humanity offer great examples of using the principles of ethical markets to address local community challenges such as homelessness.

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Piano Player Stairs provided by Thefuntheory.com; To save energy, to improve health, to promote our innate creativity, something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better.

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What Happens When Schools Care provided by The Real Food Channel and Healing Quest; Is it possible that the problems so many children and schools have these days are food related? Could it be that simple? The trend today is to manage children and young people: drug them, psychoanalyze them, treat them as potential criminals. But, studies and alternative programs show positive response to managing their food instead. What’s your school district feeding the children in its care?

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Ellen Brown – Financial meltdown: Why it happened, How it can be reversed provided by Democracy for America; Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, explains the roots of the current economic crisis and a way out. Brown’s articles are regularly posted at www.ethicalmarkets.com. Her presentation begins about 11 1/2 minutes into the video. Worth the wait!

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Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America provided KilowattOurs.org; This award-winning film is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmental challenges: energy. This often amusing and always inspiring story shows how you can conserve energy, use renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment. The full 56-minute version of the film is available on DVD from www.KilowattOurs.org. (12 min)

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Navajo Green provided by LivingOnEarth; shows effort and enthusiasm to bring green jobs to Navajo communities by adopting green job legislation, complimenting a way of life valued by many indigenous peoples.

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Towards A Sustainable Future provided by the Auroville Centre for Scientific Research; documentary showing how international township of Auroville in southern India transformed from barren land to lush forest through trial, error and success in alternative technologies.

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Cool Jobs – Solar Installers provided by Workforce Solutions Capital Area and coolaustinjobs.com

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The Organic Opportunity provided by Chris Bedford Films; Chris Bedford tells the story of Woodbury County, Iowa, first in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development by offering tax rebates to farmers transitioning to organic agriculture, mandating purchase of locally grown organic food by county institutions and offering no-cost loans and free building lots to farmers relocating to the county to farm organically. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.

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Common good banks™ are a democratic, community-based system that puts people and planet first by having depositors decide where in the community to invest profits while offering micro-loans, FDIC-secured banking and other community-centered services. For the past seven years, hundreds of people around the world have worked to design this new system to support and empower ordinary people everywhere to put an end to war, poverty, hunger, unemployment and global warming. This is not just another bank with a social mission, this is a social mission with a bank.

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BerkShares Local Currency on BBC provided by the E.F. Schumacher Society and the BBC; BerkShares local currency supports the community, economy, ecology, and sustainability of the southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. Launched by the E. F. Schumacher Society, BerkShares create consumer awareness about the consequences of spending practices, supports local businesses, facilitates the development of import replacing industries, and serves as a model for other regions.

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Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy” provided by Chris Bedford Films and the Schumacher Society; Sincere appreciation goes to Chris Bedford who made this film as a labor of love, telling the story of rebuilding a local economy using strategies from community land trusts to the nation’s most successful local currency – Berkshares. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.

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Catherine Sneed: the Green Project - provided by the Schumacher Society, Cathrine Sneed’s work shows that bringing people out of jails and off the streets into the garden can be transformative in both the human and natural realms. (7 min) provided by Global Footprint Network, How many Earths would it take to support your lifestyle? The Global Footprint Network is pleased to announce a new video and Footprint Calculator for the U.S., two tools to help Americans see how their living habits relate to their use of the planet’s resources.

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