Can We Build a Movement for Structural Economic Change? We Must
It would appear that new economy activists and community economic development still live in largely separate worlds.
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The Beer that Innoculates against Philip Green
Craft beer as economic development? Absolutely. Read on.
Progressive Philanthropy Needs to Spur System Change
The people developing a new parallel economy – sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity, as in Greece and Spain – are neither politicians, CEOs or credentialed experts.
Money Without Exploitation
Writing for Roar magazine back in 2014, Jerome Roos pointed out that money is a social relation, not a real thing.
Mutualized Solutions for the Precariat
Large companies have long sought to boost profits by converting their employees into “independent contractors,” allowing them to avoid paying benefits.
How Transition Palo Alto Brings Sharing and Community to Silicon Valley
Transition Palo Alto is part of the worldwide Transition network working to build local resilience and connections. Based in Silicon Valley, the community is a great example of a growing, engaged and active Transition project.
Participatory Economics and the Next System
What kind of “next system” would support the economics of sustainable and equitable cooperation?
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?
It’s not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry. Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas—which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs—the industry is rapidly crumbling.
Emergence of a New Economics
There is an argument that the emergence of a new economics based on human dignity and sustainability is a phenomenon that emerged from the environmental crisis and the modern corruption of bankers and financial markets.
The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona
Always known as a vivid and creative city, Barcelona is taking the lead as an exemplary change agent on the European stage. Its DIY vigor and urgent form of citizen-level democracy are palpable, contagious, and best of all, effective.
Lessons from Syriza’s Failure: Build a New Economy and Polity
Last year SYRIZA, the left coalition party elected to lead the Greek government and face down its creditors and European overlords, lost its high-stakes confrontation with neoliberalism.
Worker Co-ops Rebuild the Rockaways
Three years after Casco watched the streets of his neighborhood of Far Rockaway disappear under water, he was on his way to becoming a worker-owner of Peninsula Custom Prints, a screen-printing cooperative.
