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Traditional microfinance has not done enough to advance economic opportunities for the world's poorest communities. A major reason is that most microfinance institutions charge exorbitant interest...
View ArticleWhy You Should DIY
So you have a few survival skills. Â Maybe you have a pressure cooker and a grain mill. Â Maybe even a rifle for hunting. Â You're well on your way to being able to care for yourself and yours in most any...
View ArticleGlobal Green Solutions I: Going Green in Mongolia
This is a reprise/update of a diary I wrote on the weekend.I hope to write several of these diaries, highlighting efforts around the world to combine helping the poor and middle class with helping the...
View ArticleThe GOP tax plan: Leave no billionaire behind
Amid the endless (and endlessly confusing) Beltway chatter about the deal that supposedly will keep the U.S. economy from gunning it over the fiscal cliff on New Year’s Day, one thing has already...
View ArticleGlobal Green Solutions II: Tribal Renewable Energy in South Dakota
This is my second entry in this series (I pushed the first entry a few times and it is still on going).My first action alert was a loan, which means you will get your money back or re-loan it depending...
View ArticleHello, DKos. You've Met ALEC, But Have You Met ALICE?
Meet ALICE, The American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange, a non-corporate funded progressive group that provides "model bills" for free to state and national legislatures. Â ALEC, Meet ALICEThis...
View ArticleRight-Wing Propaganda Masquerades as a High School Economics Curriculum
The political right could not buy the Presidential election, but maybe they can still try to buy the next generation.On November 12, 2012, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist from Princeton and...
View ArticleHere's what I hear "It's going to cost your family twice as much to eat next...
I'm a fairly simple fellow. So to be frank, I don't much get into the DC gamesmanship. Generally bores the piss out of me. Blah blah, fiscal cliff, blah blah. Eleven dimensional chess blah blah. So and...
View ArticleThe family of Richard Myers needs our help
1:30 PM PT:From COwoman: Ok, I went to see Candy and I c an attest that she is where and who she says she is. She needs 635.00 by Friday or she is out no matter what. If she had two months rent payment...
View ArticleHunger in America: Eating on $100 a Month
Last time, I wrote about living on $25 a week if you are homeless, nearly homeless, or living without certain essential amenities like refrigeration or a working stove.This time, we'll look at a common...
View ArticleLooking for some help, not a handout
I've come to an interesting point in my life, and would beg your indulgence for a moment...First, let me say thanks for the great discourse here on DK. I've enjoyed a wonderful several years of reading...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: What the H*ll Is Crowdfunding? And Why is it Causing...
Today, instead of presenting a diary written by one of our regular or guest members, we are presenting an excerpt from a paper on "Crowdfunding" by Minsun Ji and Tony Robinson. Crowdfunding is the term...
View ArticleEmployee-Owned Business Incubator: Share Your Ideas/Dreams
The motivation behind my interest in developing this concept is the alarming rate at which income inequality continues to accelerate as a result of a concerted effort by corporatist business cartels to...
View ArticleNew Group! Intentional Community Research and Development
IC R&D will research and discuss all aspects of intentional communities: mission, strategy, goals, governance, finances, resources (land, housing, facilities, infrastructure, equipment,...
View ArticleDaily Kos Work Bank
Not "Job Bank," but "Work Bank."Did you read If I don't get a Job this week, I'm homeless in June, by Jim P? I did. It was just the latest in a series of diaries from people suffering through today's...
View ArticleKiva Loan Alert: some good loans running out of time LAST UPDATE 9 (2 out of...
FINAL UPDATE: only 2 out of 5 got funded. Sad that some really great loans expired. Details below.Kiva.org is a wonderful organization that links lenders like us, who can lend as little as $25, with...
View ArticleGlobal Green Solutions: Tribal Renewable Energy in America
I want to talk about global warming. I also want to talk about helping some of the poorest citizens of America keep warm in the winter. I want to talk about how we all can make the world better in a...
View ArticleThe most amazing Kiva Loan EVER
Possibly the best and most ambitious Kiva loan to date is trying to raise $50,000 to create a new clean energy loan program that will provide solar lighting, clean cook stoves, and water loans to over...
View ArticlePromoting cooperation, women's health, and environmental sustainability in...
People who know me know that I take on many projects. Sometimes with considerable success, sometimes getting nowhere. One of my main accomplishments was setting in motion the restoration (currently...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges to and within Uganda
I last wrote about this about 10 days ago. Already there has been progress, mostly at the level of building communication.People who know me know that I take on many projects. Sometimes with...
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