Link to Source
Local Assets
Posts in this category are about Local Assets. When businesses – weather electrical utility or farm, bank or grocery store – are largely owned by employees, customers, local residents, and others with a direct relationship, they become increasingly accountable to the needs of the various communities they serve. Furthermore, when ownership is spread broadly within a region, benefits will also be shared broadly, helping to generate enduring Social Equity. The relationship between broad patterns of ownership and social equity is equally direct for other assets like home, land, and resources.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
PAKISTAN: Smoke-free Stoves A Godsend for Village Women
THATTA, Pakistan, Feb 25 (IPS) - Forty-something and unlettered, Sona Siddiqi never
imagined she would become the most sought-after woman in her
village of Ramzan Katiar.
Link to Source
Link to Source
(0)
(0)
(0)U.N. to pay Mongolian nomads to dispose of dead herds
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United Nations Development Program will pay cash to struggling Mongolian herders to clean up the remains of millions of livestock killed during the country's worst winter in decades, it said on Thursday.
Link to Source
Link to Source
Infrastructure Spending Expected to Rise in Stimulus Year Two
About one-third of the federal government's $787 billion economic stimulus has actually been spent over the last year. During the next year, much of the focus of the remainder will be on infrastructure projects.
Link to Source
