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Gar Alperovitz is the author of What Then Must We Do?, America Beyond Capitalism, and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, and an advocate for a new, community-sustaining economy.

Interview with David Barsamian of Alternative Radio

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Podcast: The Emerging New Economy

On May 7, the Baltimore Higher Education Alliance for Real Democracy and Red Emma’s  brought Gar Alperovitz to Baltimore’s 2640 Space  to discuss “the emerging new economy.”  Joining Gar were Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, who discussed the path-breaking legislation he co-sponsored making Maryland the first state in the country to legally recognize benefit corporations or “B-corps”, and the Institute for Policy Studies’ Daphne Wysham, who highlighted another Maryland initiative, the Genuine Progress Indicator, a new metric that presents a comprehensive alternative to one-dimensional economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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Worker Ownership and Union Membership in the United States, 1975-2011

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The New Economy: A State by State look

History is paradoxical: Our politics are stalemated, our economy stagnating. But precisely because of this, literally thousands of new social and economic initiatives suggest the possibility, over time, of literally rebuilding the system from the bottom up.

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Earth Day 2012: Environmental Movement at a Crossroads

Originally published by Alternet

April 20, 2012  | This Sunday marks the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day. I was privileged to be legislative director for Senator Gaylord Nelson, who had the vision in 1970 for Earth Day’s “national teach-in on the environment,” and who helped make that vision a reality. Over the past four decades, I have witnessed and cheered the growth and development of the modern environmental movement. Yet, even as the achievements of the movement are honored, we should also be honest: viewed with any serious attention to long and deep trends, the environment is in serious and ever-growing danger.
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