Gar Alperovitz Speaks on the Possibility for Systemic Social Change. This is the first in a series of videos, available here.
On March 6, 2010, Gar Alperovitz spoke at the annual meeting of the Community Land Trust of the Southern Berkshires, an event co-sponsored by the E. F. Schumacher Society. Continue watching here »
Cleveland launches effort to recycled housing through
“deconstruction” initiative.
In Cleveland, 10,000 abandoned and stripped homes need to be torn down. City leaders, supported by the Cleveland Foundation, are building a deconstruction industry that aims to provide jobs, reuse materials, and help stabilize neighborhoods.
C-W.org's Gar Alperovitz discusses his latest book, Unjust Deserts. (coauthored by Lew Daly of Demos)
In the 60-minute video, Alperovitz talks at Politics & Prose about issues of wealth and inequality in our nation's economy
Video Archives:
Manufactured Housing Co-ops Achieve Scale
Manufactured Home Parks: Real Assets Real Communities, a 12-minute video by Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund, highlights efforts by manufactured housing residents to own the land their homes sit on by forming resident-owned cooperatives.
Pioneer Human Services Video
Produced in 2006, this 14-minute video describes the work of Pioneer
Human Services, one of America's leading social enterprises. Founded
in Seattle in 1962, Pioneer employs 700 people in its businesses,
most of who come from its target population of ex-offenders and
former drug abusers. Its annual budget of $55 million is funded
nearly entirely through Pioneer's business income. For more information, see Pioneer's website at: www.pioneerhumanservices.com.
Gar Alperovitz talks with members of La Montanita Co-op in New Mexico (October 2008).
In this 30-minute video, filmed by Jim Kavanaugh, Alperovitz talks with food co-op members in Santa Fe, New Mexico about themes in his latest book Just Deserts (coauthored by Lew Daly of Demos).