Musings on a soufflé dish or why capitalism has no space for love
By Inez Aponte, Growing Good Lives
That is why there is no room for love in capitalism. You cannot love a thing and at the same time be indifferent to its demise.
Tag: new economy
Gifts are a love language. But in the era of climate change, what are we really saying?
By Sandra Goldmark, Resilience.org
We need to build a truly healthy and sustainable economy, where “robust” growth is fueled not only by exchanging new stuff, but by gifts of care, gifts of service, gifts of experience and, occasionally, gifts of truly good stuff.
20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)
By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, 15/15\15
Degrowth carries within its own name an unmistakable message about its content (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem: the obsession with perpetual growth.
Black Farm Cooperatives: Tangible Solutions
By National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Staff, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Discussion about how cooperative farming and racial equity in federal food policy can create economic sustainability in Black communities.
A Pathway to Meaningful Work for Former Inmates
By Ebony Gustave, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The Compost Cooperative is a worker-owned food scraps pickup service that empowers those who have been incarcerated by providing fulfilling work that allows for agency and economic independence.
Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
People often ask, “So what do Transition Town groups do?” One answer to that question would be, “We take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.”
Work
By Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Uneven Earth
As Stefania Barca argues, we need to liberate ourselves from work, but also liberate work itself.
Embedding the economy with care
By Richard Swift, New Internationalist
What we urgently need is an economy that replaces the universal of profit with a universal of care, both for each other and the natural world which keeps us alive.
How we went from “makers” to “trash-makers” – and how to get back
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Why do we have so much stuff? Why is it so hard to find good stuff? And when our cheap stuff breaks, why is it so hard to fix it?
Degrowth and the Unmaking of Capitalism
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, Degrowth.de
How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?
By Beth Stratford, Open Democracy
So, let us reach a truce and build a mass movement to take on the real enemies of environmental justice. The stakes are too high to do anything else.
A False Promise
By Ian Gough, Great Transition Initiative
Universal basic income is a policy rather than a fundamental value or goal of collective action, unlike freedom, equality, well-being, or sustainability.