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After two plant shutdowns and two successful occupations, workers at the New Era Windows and Doors factory have transformed it to a worker's coop. Read more »

Trading Spaces is an integration strategy that challenges the idea that commercial local retail businesses and social projects should continue to seek sustainability separately. Instead, business and innovative social projects can view each other as mutually dependent rather than mutually exclusive or competitive. Read more »

Here's a roundup of collaborative consumption sites that can help you make it through the holidays with your checkbook and sanity intact. Read more »

I involuntarily love and admire the work of memoirist Richard Rodriquez, especially when I disagree with him. He has a beautiful, elliptical, elegiac essay in the November issue of Harper's magazine that is, naturally, available only in print. Read more »