Solidarity Economy Roads: Chapter 4
The emergence of solidarity in labor comes to coincide with the broader process of recuperation of the rich meaning and content inherent to work itself.
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Using the CSA Model for Jazz Performance
In western Massachuetts, where I live, Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares represents a creative mashup of the CSA farm model (community-supported agriculture) with concert production.
The German Edition of Our Book — Free, Fair and Alive — is Launched!
Our new framework – the Triad of Commoning — focuses on the commons in three interrelated aspects – the social, the political (peer governance), and the economic (provisioning).
The Road of Social Development and Solidarity with the Poor
The road from the reality of poverty to the solidarity economy is not opened by the poor alone in their efforts to address their needs and problems.
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
Funding Transformation
A healthy participatory democracy relies on forms of community development that support effective mobilisation at the local level and encourage advanced capacities for democratic decision making and critical thinking.
Introducing Degrowth into Economics
But by systematically presenting a degrowth theory from one particular perspective – an ecological economics perspective with anti-capitalist leanings – the book is a welcome addition to degrowth scholarship.
Commoners on the Rise in South East Europe
Here’s a fascinating sign that commoning is growing as a social and political form: new histories are being written to trace its recent evolution! The latest example is a new book released by The Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, Croatia, has recently published.
My Talk at the Celebration of the Life and Times of the Totnes Pound
That’s why the Totnes Pound was so powerful for me. It helped so many people to create memories of the future, lived moments of what a different, more hopeful, more delicious, more resilient future might actually be like.
US Capitalism Was Born in the Destruction of the Commons
The practice of commoning, and the idea that we might hold and manage land and assets together in common, holds a lot of appeal these days. To help us think forward as we do on this show, we have two world-renowned experts on commoning in the house.
Growthism: its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism.
The Promise of the Green New Deal
In my view, the most glaring omission in the GND is its lack of any challenge to consumerism and our current obsession with economic growth.
