It’s time for tool libraries to go global
Tool libraries have the potential to simultaneously decrease material usage and increase access to material goods, both of which are needed if we are to create a more equitable and ecological society.
building resilient local economies
How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
The time is ripe for close engagement with what it will mean for adaptation to be locally led.
Philadelphia Passes Public Banking Law
From It’s A Wonderful Life, we can see the advantages of community and cooperative banking where the people, and not corporate bosses, are in charge.
Where ‘levelling up’ funds go doesn’t matter. They aren’t supposed to work
One centralised Parliament is much easier for the likes of Rupert Murdoch to influence than a plethora of local authorities at a scale small enough for people to actually meet up and discuss their needs in person.
Why we need the solidarity economy
Collectively developing our capacity to self-govern and develop place-based solidarity economy movements is among the most urgent matters of our time.
For Lebanon, the path to renewal runs through the Commons
A resurgence of the Commons activities that once made Lebanon thrive, coupled with the implementation of cosmo-localism, may be the key to restoring the country’s social and economic health.
Sri Lanka’s untold story of resilience: Sarvodaya’s pathway can work anywhere
The way forward seems to involve re-forming and re-localizing the economic system to create resiliency from the grassroots up, focusing on common needs, rather than having someone else’s idea of “what’s good for us” being imposed from the top down.
Holy Sh*t, Overshoot! Don’t Dither; Do
July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature.
Overlorded…
In fact, the only thing we must do is survive this mess. And the best way to do that is to jettison the whole thing and build the lives we need.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 79 Stacy Mitchell
Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
A Night Market Creates Opportunity for Black Communities
The co-founders at the Nashville Black Market know it takes a community to cultivate change; that it’s less about what they alone can do and more about how they can empower the people around them.
A New Vision for Economic Ecosystems: Interview with Dave Kresta (Part 2)
If you follow those steps, find a group of people, start dreaming together, start educating yourselves, start listening and identifying gaps in the community and assets in the community, then I think you’re at that point where you can actually start thinking seriously about, “Okay, which of these Community Economic Development toolkit strategies do we want to take on first?”