Posted by Kevin Danaher in End Dirty Energy, Featured, World News & Events on 8th November, 2011 | No Comments
The Occupy demonstrations have raised a central issue that we must confront: how does capital get invested and who is controlling the process? The new video “The Story of Broke” by Annie Leonard addresses this issue in a powerful and convincing way.
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade, Featured, For Our Members, Global Exchange News & Events on 21st September, 2011 | No Comments
Get a behind-the-scenes look at why Global Exchange staffers love what they do!
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events on 5th July, 2011 | No Comments
A barn-raising in the heart of Detroit? That’s certainly what it felt like as activists from across the region gathered in Highland Parkto construct a 2000-square-foot hoop house.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events on 20th June, 2011 | No Comments
The next post by Global Exchange’s G.E.L.T. (Green Economy Leadership Training) program participant Kate Powers. Today, they tackle the huge task of gutting an abandoned house.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Midwest Green Economy on 16th June, 2011 | No Comments
Written by GELT Participant – Dan Tompkins It was an afternoon in summer. Me, this guy James, and a girl named Marion walked down the middle of the road. We were in a rough area. It’s called Highland Park. The three of us were working with GELT, a project of Global Exchange, an international human »
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events on 14th June, 2011 | No Comments
Kate Powers continues sharing her experiences as a participant in Global Exchange’s Leadership Training program. Today she shares some of the sobering feedback her group received from community neighbors.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events on 11th June, 2011 | No Comments
Kate Powers shares her experiences as a participant in Global Exchange’s Leadership Training program. Read what she and others are doing to address a major problem in post-industrial cities– abandoned, rundown houses.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Uncategorized on 10th June, 2011 | No Comments
Written by Cory Connolly, aka, “the Finisher” Why is it that the green economy, in many ways, remains intangible? Why must those who are passionate about people and the environment choose between doing what they want and between living comfortably? What does a green economy look like in the country’s most devastated communities?
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Featured on 1st June, 2011 | No Comments
A city that once pioneered a new economy for a new America is now passing on its legacy to 21st century entrepreneurs sculpting it’s rebirth from the ashes. The spirit is still here, it actually never left. Hiding in the halls of historic automotive buildings and creeping into a declining, but indigenous, market place. Highland »
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 17th May, 2011 | No Comments
In 2 weeks, the Global Exchange Michigan team will embark on our second Green Economy Leadership Training (GELT) program. GELT is a 9 week training program that brings together residents from the community of Detroit & Highland Park together with youth from communities throughout Michigan and the U.S. for technical trainings in the green economy and community organizing.
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