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Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of Democratic Collaborative, suggests that we are in a moment when transformation to make our economy and communities more democratic, just, and sustainable.
\nHe cites examples of cooperative businesses, credit unions and local institutions creating fair wages and sustainable communities as templates for creating better futures for Americans.
\nAlperovitz states that “I’m with the Pope”, pointing out that Pope Francis has urged Americans to make our economic system more equitable and to protect our environment for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,216],"tags":[307,306,310,308,309,311],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-home-cool-green-schools-com","tag-democratic-collaborative","tag-gar-alperovitz","tag-institute-for-policy-studies","tag-new-economy","tag-people-and-planet-first","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.coolgreenschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}