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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. So the problem that happened was that a lot of organizations were saying, "Well we don't have a standard way of pricing. We are not thinking about this alone.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

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There are coworking spaces being started up in Europe and even I think in -- I'm not sure if it has hit Africa yet, but I know that, especially all across U.S. One is that I see more people ending up in the situation of working on their own, working for themselves, and wanting to find an alternative to just cafes.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

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For instance, Stocksy United, a platform cooperative for photographers, videographers, and artists generally, has a fair wage distribution system for members. Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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