Left Out in the Coal
An activist mobilizes hundreds of residents in an effort to shut down a coal plant… Read More
Housing Is Where the Heart Is
A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing… Read More
Composters Dreaming, Investors Scheming
Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship… Read More
Graying of the Fleet
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk… Read More
Everything You Wanted to Know About Private Equity
The hottest phrase on the campaign trail right now is “private equity”. Mitt Romney made his hundreds of millions as head of Bain Capital, a major private equity firm and insists the company has created jobs and improved the efficiency of the American economy. President Obama just as strongly insists that Bain and other private equity … Read More