Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi’s affordable housing activism was featured in the LA Times. From the article: “Part of what we will need to turn things around in this world is to have people become really dedicated and affectionate...
Post Carbon Fellows Richard Heinberg and Janelle Orsi are cited in this Q&A article with Leslie MacKenzie, a co-founder of Transition Longfellow. From the article: Q: You blogged that, in 2010, you heard a talk by Richard Heinberg of the...
Post Carbon Fellows Janelle Orsi and Michael Shuman will be main stage speakers at ComCap 17. Across this country in small towns to metropolitan city centers, localizing our money to strengthen communities has become a rallying cry for food...
What would it take for you to pull your retirement savings out of Wall Street and invest it in things that enrich your local community? Could you invest your IRA or 401(k) in, say, a local farm, solar cooperative,...
In this episode of Next Economy Now, Erin Axelrod, a Partner at LIFT Economy, interviews Janelle Orsi, founder of The Sustainable Economies Law Center. Orsi is an attorney living and working in Oakland, California. Her law and mediation practice...
Imagine that a group of people works hard to fill their neighborhood with urban farms, bike lanes, parks, murals, community services, and education programs. Next, imagine that those same people are forced to move away. Ouch, that bites. Sadly,...
Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi’s work on fixing the share economy with worker cooperatives was featured in this article in the Sydney Morning Herald. From the article: Workers are being urged to form co-operatives they collectively own to protect their entitlements...
Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi was quoted in this article looking at the intersection between technology and Co-ops. From the article: Advocates hope that the old platforms will be “deleted” as users embrace new, more equitable ones. Janelle Orsi,...
Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi talks with Pamela Brown and Micky Metts on the Laura Flanders show. Note: The interview begins at 12:00 minutes.
Post Carbon Fellow Janelle Orsi features in this article about apprenticeships as a route into the legal profession. From the article: When Yassi Eskandari-Qajar graduated from UC Berkeley in 2011, she was prepared to go to law school. Prepared,...