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Repairing broken economies

Repairing Broken Economies - Local Futures

Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: to the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him devotedly around Reparatur-und […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Consumerism, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, economics, jobs, new economy, pollution, sustainability

The Flower of Transformation

The Flowers of Transformation, blog by Ashish Kothari

With growing news of war and conflict, ecological and climate catastrophe, stark inequalities, health crises related to both poverty and affluence, the authoritarianism of governments, and the increasing stranglehold of mega-corporations in all aspects of our lives, it is understandable […]

Filed Under: Community, Democracy, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: climate change, community, corporate control, corporations, democracy, economics, globalization, localization, new economy, trade agreements

Comparative resilience: 8 principles for post-Covid reconstruction

This past weekend, a bright Georgetown undergraduate asked me how I squared my passion for localization with the theory of comparative advantage. For economics newbies, he was referring to David Ricardo’s argument that every community should find one product to […]

Filed Under: Community, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, New economy Tagged With: corporations, economics, globalization, livelihoods, localization, new economy

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment

This blog is also available in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish. If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization, New economy Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, economics, farming, globalization, industrial agriculture, local food, localization, trade agreements

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements – from the Leave camp’s now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release £350 million a week for the […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization, New economy Tagged With: climate change, community, consumerism, corporate control, democracy, economic growth, globalization, localization, new economy, trade agreements, well-being

Ten Years After the Crash: more of the same, or a new beginning?

The year 2008 was a momentous one. The ‘anniversary’ headlines are of course all about the financial crash. As Nick Mathiason in The Guardian put it at the time: “It was the year the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that ran the […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Economics of Happiness Conferences, New economy Tagged With: degrowth, economic growth, economics, Economics of Happiness, GDP, globalization, happiness, new economy, well-being

The Commons, Short and Sweet

I am always trying to figure out how to explain the idea of the commons to newcomers who find it hard to grasp.  Here is a fairly short overview, which I think gets to the nub of things. The commons […]

Filed Under: Community, New economy Tagged With: commons, community, culture, democracy, economics, livelihoods, localization, new economy

Bulldoze the Business School

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or […]

Filed Under: Education, Livelihoods and jobs, Local finance, New economy Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, economics, jobs, new economy, sustainability

Local Finance Made Simple

The nature of money is to abstract value. That is its role. It stands in place of an actual good or service. If I fail to have the basket of potatoes you are seeking in exchange for the wool from […]

Filed Under: Community, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Local finance, New economy Tagged With: community, degrowth, development, economic growth, economics, new economy

CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit for Change

In Britain, these days, all the essential endeavors that are supposed to promote general wellbeing and what is known as “civilization” are, it is widely agreed, in crisis: health and social services; housing; education; energy; transport; and of course, though […]

Filed Under: Education, Environment, Food and Farming, Health, Livelihoods and jobs, New economy, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: agriculture, brexit, climate change, community, democracy, economics, farming, localization, new economy, sustainability

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