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CREATION ... Aidan Lundy works on a corporate product

Respected firm reborn as a craftsmen’s co-op

THERE is little to celebrate in the closure of a company that employs more than 30 people but a new co-operative aims to provide a silver lining to the cloud that was the closure of Tyrone Crystal in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
January 21 2011
Category: Miscellaneous

OASIS ... Volunteers enjoy a meal during a working weekend on the farm

Community farm roots for council support

A FORMER dairy farm on the outskirts of Swindon hopes that its recently acquired co-operative status will help to secure its long-term future.
January 13 2011
Category: Miscellaneous

Wangari Maathai holds a trophy awarded to her by the Kenya National Human Rights Commission

Planting trees gets to root of climate change

Nobel Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai has spent 30 years fighting for environmental and social justice in her native Kenya. As the founder of an international movement for sustainable development, she explains that, far from a single concern, climate change is intimately connected to global issues of poverty, conflict and injustice. 
June 24 2008
Category: Miscellaneous