Divesting with Every Purchase: Independent Business in the New Economy
Joe tells about the unifying nature of Main Street, bridging the “resource gap,” and more…
building resilient economies
Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around
Inequality and poverty are suddenly hot topics, not only in the United States but also across the globe.
What Does a Post-Growth Economy Look Like?
No respectable person in American politics dares to question the virtue of economic growth even though it is increasingly clear that life on Earth will collapse if current patterns of extraction and consumption continue. So what is the responsible path forward?
Good News For Communities Scared of Economic Decline
The promise of the anchor institution strategy to improve struggling communities has been successfully tested in inner city Philadelphia, Detroit, and Syracuse.
The Sharing Economy and Disaster Capitalism
Don’t you love it when the same publication carries conflicting reports about the economy, posted on the very same day?
Back-up currencies: the solution to our euro woes?
One currency seems not to be able to serve every human need alone.
Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition: Food, livelihoods and bridging race & class divides
Economic resilience is multivalent, and JP is full of people with great ideas for building it.
Pop-up Stores Build Local Economies Through Sharing
The idea behind pop-ups is to allow new businesses to test their products without having to invest in expensive long-term leases and infrastructure.
Changing the rules of the game to help build new local economies
The World Bank, IMF, local and national government etc. already set the rules of the game. These rules have mostly been rigged in favour of globalised corporations.
How to Start the Airbnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
FoodLab Detroit’s new Detroit Kitchen Connect program is experimenting with an innovative new model for kitchen incubation that drastically reduces the cost of operation…
24 Ways to Invest Locally – tips 5-8
4 more ways to strengthen your local economy.
Radical new collaborations for local economies
We’ve been working on the Trading Spaces concept for about a year. It’s exciting to be sharing a year’s worth of thinking about innovative ways of increasing collaborative activity on high streets (primary business streets) that doesn’t rely on local residents to be simply consumers –> but partners, makers and social investors as well.
