By Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy
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.
By Solidarity Economy staff, New Internationalist
Collectively developing our capacity to self-govern and develop place-based solidarity economy movements is among the most urgent matters of our time.
By Mayssam Daaboul, Shareable
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.
By Richard Flyer, Shareable
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.
By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog
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.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
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.
By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org
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?”
By Morgan Florsheim, YES! magazine
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.
By John Pattison, Strong Towns
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?"
By Nithin Coca, Shareable
By keeping your spending local, you can also help your neighborhood, town or city recover from COVID-19 impacts more quickly.
By Pamela Haines, George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
But without a bold vision that’s inclusive and down-to-earth enough to make intuitive sense to the great majority of Americans, not even the best of strategies will be enough to carry the day.
By Lucia Monje-Jelfs, Sustainable Food Trust
So, if you’re planning on celebrating this Christmas – albeit unconventionally – here are some of the reasons why, now more than ever, independent businesses need your support.