Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice
If someone wants to build a post growth business, we have to be able to say: “Here’s the handbook, here’s the business templates, and here’s the supportive community. Now go forth!”
social enterprises
Share Catch Chile’s waste reduction bus – how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
The New Movement Connecting Social Enterprises across Brussels
The city is a hotbed for radical social enterprises, citizens’ initiatives and grassroots activism, each seeking to build alternative business models for a more sustainable and participatory future.
Yes, There is an Alternative. These People have Shown How to ‘Take Back Control’
Spread across Britain today are people and places united by a common condition: they are largely powerless. Their economies have been emptied out, their services cut to the bone, their incomes under threat.
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia’s Mountaintop Coal Mines Into Farms
Southern West Virginia nonprofit Coalfield Development runs Refresh, Reclaim, and a family of three other social enterprises. In an environment where finding secure employment is hard, Coalfield offers low-income residents a two- to two-and-a-half-year contract to undergo training in sustainable construction, solar technology, and artisan-based entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship in the Social and Solidarity Economy
Co-operatives have been described as freshwater fish in a saltwater environment. In the 1930s, the co-operative sector in many countries was very powerful but it was destroyed by fascist and communist regimes. What was it that the authoritarians found so threatening in co-operation?
A Conversation with RSF Social Finance CEO Don Shaffer
"People get buried in a blizzard of financial terms that obfuscates—makes opaque—what is going on, furthers the paradigm of, “We’ll just take care of you. Here are the reports—full of jargon and charts and analytics that are virtually meaningless to you."
7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by.
Julie Brown on Food and Fairness
What would a fair food system look like?
Cloth as Currency: How Goonj is creating a Parallel Cashless Economy
Clothing, a basic human right has been relegated to the status of disaster relief material,” says Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj.
Thinking Outside of the Box
In the North of Paris, the Carton plein association collects, cleans and sells discarded boxes. People in precarious situations recycle, deliver by bike and help move – gaining professional and life skills in the process.
These Friends from High School Bought an Abandoned Factory. Now They’re Distilling Artisanal Whiskeys
“If we can put this building back to work, we can put any building in Indianapolis to work,” says Taft. “And if we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.”