Business Beyond Shared Value

Business Beyond Shared Value

By Eduardo Sasso, Resilience.org

After more than two centuries of applauding industrialization and the growthism that has gone with it, it’s no news that we’ve currently surpassed human and planetary boundaries. And these, in turn, are calling into question the well-established mind-maps that have enabled us to get where we are at today. Allegedly designed to overcome old harms, one of such mind-maps is found in the now-famous Creating Shared Value (CSV) paradigm and its different variants.

  • January 17, 2020
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The JX Ranch

By Courtney White, Resilience.org

  • January 17, 2020

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The Urban Drivers of Economic Growth

By Federico Savini, Degrowth.de

Planning scholars have for years studied and criticized the mechanisms of urban land transformation that drive national economic growth. Urbanization is not the consequence of economic growth but the actual driver of it. The enlargement of cities, their number of jobs, estates and infrastructures, is a driving force behind growth.

  • January 17, 2020
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By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Impeachment and the pending Senate trial are understandably sucking most of the oxygen out of Capital City. Senate committee chairs are still deciding if hearings are feasible once the trial starts. Rules are that Senators must sit in their seats for the entire time.

  • January 17, 2020
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Anticipating Collapse

By Damaris Zehner, Integrity of Life

Collapse can’t happen soon enough, as far as I’m concerned. By collapse, I mean the breakdown of the complexities of our current society. It's not that I long for the feral world, red in tooth and claw, portrayed in collapse fiction, although I know there are those who fantasize about mastering a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

  • January 16, 2020
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What Will It Take to Move the Local Food Revolution Forward?

By Michael Foley, Resilience.org

More local food is appearing in grocery stores and restaurants and even schools, thanks to a growing number of “food hubs”; but it is a drop in the bucket still, compared to the food that is trucked in from afar.  What do we need to turn this around?   At least four things, each with practical and policy implications. 

  • January 16, 2020
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Have Establishment Democrats Found Their Answer to the Green New Deal?

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have released a detailed “memo” as a prequel to climate legislation they will be introducing under the torturous title of The Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act (CLEAN Future Act or Act).

  • January 16, 2020
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Grassroots Aid Workers Bring Help and Healing Across the Border

By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project

For her part, Zavala is determined to do all she can to ensure that in this camp where she operates, everything possible is being done to assure these traumatized families a measure of dignity and a fair shot at a new life. She says, “In a time where asylum-seekers are being denied the fundamental right to humane and dignified treatment and access to the services they urgently need, we have pledged a strong commitment to fighting for them.”

  • January 16, 2020
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Sustainability in a Small Place: the Spanish Basque Country as a 21st Century model

By Bruce Rich, Open Democracy

Over several decades Euskadi has transformed itself into one of the most internationally competitive, socially inclusive, environmentally progressive economies in the world. It is a polity that welcomes economic globalization as an opportunity, while reaffirming local community and cultural identity.

  • January 16, 2020
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The Commons and Climate Change

By David Bollier, David Bollier blog

There is much to be said about the relationship of commons to climate change, but let me offer this short glimpse into the clash of worldviews that must be negotiated. Whatever the outcome in ongoing arguments with capitalist climate-deniers, our best recourse will be to build and fortify our many commons as a failsafe against the earthly reckoning that is coming.

  • January 15, 2020

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Why I Spent Christmas on the Moon

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

I returned from my time there with some thoughts, some reflections, which I hope will prove useful in the battles that lie ahead, in the ongoing uphill push to wrestle our future back from insane men who feel it is OK to dash headlong into creating the conditions in which we no longer have one. And a future that could be so, so beautiful.

  • January 8, 2020
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Repent – Another World is Possible

By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog

To repent is to feel such direct sorrow at what you have caused that you turn your life around. You are not passingly sorry. You are sorry for the rest of your days, and come to cherish this sorrow as it reminds you to care about the lives you touch. You may stumble, but you correct course as soon as you are a half a degree off.

  • January 2, 2020

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Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice

By John Foran, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Priya Anna Kurian, Debashish Munshi, Zed Books

Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.

    • January 3, 2020
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    Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

    Chelsea Green

    There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it’s common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.

    • November 22, 2019

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    The Limits of Capitalism

    By Laurie Adkin, Socialist Project/The Bullet

    What we have set in motion now, in the capitalocene, is likely beyond technological solutions, notwithstanding Promethean male fantasies of Mars colonies and planetary geological engineering. What we have set in motion is now, at least in part, beyond human control. That is, no re-engineering of social relationships and modes of production will reverse the biological and physical processes that have been unleashed.

    • January 14, 2020
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    Reclaiming Capital

    By Patrick Noble, Feasta

    It may come as a surprise to most, that my answer for the times is capitalism. What is capitalism? – it is the ethics of a society, whose aim is to maintain its capital – that is, spiritual, pleasurable and human assets, combined with that which maintains all those things – the undiminished vigour of life – in soil, sea, biomass and biodiversity.

    • January 14, 2020
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    How Getting Rid of ‘Shit Jobs’ and the Metric of Productivity can Combat Climate change

    By Simon Mair, The Conversation

    Work can be “shit” or it can be good. Sociologists and psychologists have developed various frameworks to explain what makes a job good or bad. And we’ve identified a few common factors. A good job is socially useful, it provides material security, it is varied and creative, and it offers us a degree of autonomy. A shit job does nothing for society, fails to help us meet our material needs, is repetitive, and offers little autonomy.

    • January 10, 2020
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    Community Newspaper Becomes Reader-Owned Cooperative

    By Nithin Coca, Shareable

    Reader-owners will, collaboratively, determine the future of the publication. It is uncharted territory, but one that readers, staff and editors are all eager to begin.

    • January 9, 2020
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    The Just Transition, Economic Democracy, and the Green New Deal

    By Evan Casper-Futterman, Jason Spicer, Cooperation Jackson

    Two recent books takeup the challenges of radical social and institutional transformation to make a GND maximally effective. One outlines the requirements for a maximally participatory democracy, but raises questions about its ideological valences; the other outlines a multilayered effort in one US city, leaving us with questions about organizational capacity to pull off the GND. Inasmuch as these works draw mainly on non-US examples, they magnify the challenges that remain here.

    • January 8, 2020
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    Corporations in the Crosshairs: From Reform to Redesign

    By Allen White, Great Transition Initiative

    Transnational corporations, the engines of global capitalism, have become the target of efforts to create an economic system both socially just and environmentally sustainable. The unprecedented power and impact of these leviathans on society and ecology raises critical questions: What is corporate purpose? To whom should corporations be held accountable? And how, in fact, can that be accomplished?

    • January 8, 2020
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