Wealthiest One Percent, Come Home!
By Chuck Collins, TedX Jamaica Plain
Chuck Collins believes that extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including those with great wealth.
By Chuck Collins, TedX Jamaica Plain
Chuck Collins believes that extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including those with great wealth.
By Michael Shuman, Post Carbon Institute
Whether or not you live in Vermont this new handbook presents 28 specific tools for promoting local investment, and presents examples of people, initiatives, and programs in Vermont carrying out each of them.
By Laura Flanders, YES! magazine
The banking system makes it tough for local businesses to get their hands on startup money. But creative entrepreneurs are finding solutions.
By Noel Ortega, Ben Roberts, Resilience.org
Noel on putting new economy ideas and principles into practice, a new model for Econ 101, and more.
By Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Developing an investment paradigm for the future that’s rooted in local business and healthy food, first with Michael Shuman, and Slow Money with Carol Peppe Hewitt.
By Chris Martenson, Michael Shuman, Peak Prosperity
How do we find hope and meaning in a world where the powerful look out for themselves first, second, and always?
By Michael Shuman, Donella Meadows Institute
A recording of Michael Shuman's talk to kick of New Economy Week.
By Michael Shuman, Resilience.org
Move your money from Wall Street to main street with these tips from Michael Shuman.
By Michael Shuman, Resilience.org
4 tips on how to work with others to build your local economy. From our series to celebrate New Economy Week.
By Logan Yonavjak, nextbillion.net
Like most facets of our lives, including food, clothing, and jobs, our investments are becoming increasingly abstracted from our day-to-day reality. Very few people have the opportunity to invest in what they can immediately see, feel, touch or taste. The location of our investment dollars is increasingly “elsewhere,” and the sheer velocity with which money moves is mindboggling.
By Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute
What we really need is to invest our capital (both financial and sweat) in community-owned, distributed, and small-scale renewable energy. Why? Because we must fundamentally remake the energy economy as if nature, people, and the future actually mattered.
By Carl Etnier, Equal Time Radio
Vermonter Susan Clark has co-authored the new book, Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home, Eric Becker is Chief Investment Officer at Clean Yield Asset Management in Norwich, on how to invest your money in local businesses, and how local businesses can attract local investment, and VBSR's Scott Buckingham previewed next week's VBSR conference.