Tag Archive: The commons

The Pollution Dividend

The American Prospect, November 16, 2001

THE ALASKA Permanent Fund hasn’t attracted much attention in the Lower 48—but it should.  For citizens of all states are about to inherit another gift of nature worth trillions of dollars.  And hardly anyone is talking about it.

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What ever happened to the National Cooperative Bank?

Self-distributed, 1986

WHEN the National Cooperative Bank was created by Congress in 1978, it was the object of some modest hopes.  With offices thoughout the country, it would be a source of capital for new and sometimes risky cooperatives that were shunned by conventional lenders.  A decade later, is a go-go…

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