Towards sustainable economies news/2008-2020

• Building resilience in between the cracks of the economy, noelito, Oct 23^[1]

People want a fairer, greener Britain after Covid, inquiry reveals, Sep 16^[2]

• How do community businesses that stepped up to COVID-19 hang togther? By becoming a Native-American-style patchwork quilt, Aug 15^[3]
• The SEED grows: after 2 years of a basic income experiment, the residents of Stockton, Cal., are on the uplift, Jul 15^[4]
• The mini-budget shows one thing: this government is still on the side of the rich, Christine Berry, Jul 8^[5]
• Just 6% of UK public 'want a return to pre-pandemic economy', Jun 28^[6]
• Top business leaders call on Boris Johnson to set out green recovery plan, Jun 1^[7]

References

• Universal Basic Everything by @TessyBritton, May 30^[1]

From TINA (there is no alternative) to TAPAS (there are plenty of alternatives!). Commons, and commoning, just keeps on bubbling up, May 27^[2]

• Doughnut Economics crushes Death Star Economics. But, suggests Jon Alexander, there should be more creative people power in it, May 26^[3]
• World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis, May 26^[4]
• The full impact of Finland’s UBI experiment is in - improving wellbeing, cognitive confidence, and a sense of personal control, May 5^[5]
• In the world’s first ‘Coronavirus elections’, South Korea voted for climate action. In the first national elections in the time of Covid-19, South Korea’s Democratic Party won in a landslide – after putting forward a bold Green New Deal plan in their manifesto. Apr 23^[6]
• Accessible local alternatives to Amazon Prime, Apr 23^[7]
• Amsterdam: to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy, Apr 8^[8]

References

• Covid-19 economic rescue plans must be green, say environmentalists, Mar 24^[1]
• Covid19 Emergency Is a Green One. The only emergence from the Covid19 Emergency is a green one: A message to European finance ministers to double down on European Green Deal as the economic response to the Corona-pandemic. By Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Hunter Lovins, Kate Raworth, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Club of Rome. Mar 20^[2]
• Ontario’s 2017 Basic Income experiment was branded a failure by opponents - but the opposite is true, Mar 6^[3]
• Launching the Civic Capital Movement by @DarkMatter_Labs, Jan 21^[4]
• “Funky around the edges, humanly fermented, alive”. How the Park Slope Food Coop makes a commons (and great produce), Jan 13^[5]
• Four ways the RSA is supporting the community banking movement to make an impact, RSA, Jan 6^[6]

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Iceland puts well-being ahead of GDP in budget, Dec 3, 2019^[1]

• A new economy is emerging from below. But we need to "change the rules" (and the system) to let it flourish, Nov 11, 2019^[2]
• A Macedonian bee-farmer - “half the honey for them, half for us” - shows us what “de-growth” might feel like, Sep 14, 2019^[3]
• The Amsterdam City Doughnut: Kate Raworth's model of a circular, carbon-neutral economy applied to the 'Dam, Jun 20^[4]
• Imagining a new social contract, May 22^[5]

References

• A new, collective business model for traditional crafts in Oaxaca, May 2^[1]
• Is there a zebra in your community woodland? Apr 24^[2]
• In an era of brutal cuts, one ordinary place has the imagination to fight back, Aditya Chakrabortty, Mar 6^[3]
• Good Work for Local Living Economies by @eldorn, Feb 18^[4]
• Putting banking back in the hands of the people, Jan 3^[5]
• Nesta's 'ShareTown' interactive shows what a cooperative, tech-enabled economy might look like, Jan 3

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• Empowering Canada's Indigenous communities through coworking, Nov 12^[1]
• Citizen-led Economic Transition – a four point framework for guiding action, Oct 27^[2]
• If our every click boosts the profits of Big Tech, how should the people and communities benefit? UBI? UBA? Small Tech? Oct 19^[3]
• Forget profit. It’s love and fun that drive innovation like Parkrun, Aug 29^[4]
• Sustainable social care, Aug 23^[5]
• How to test and deliver a Universal Basic Income, Aug 6^[6]
• How Costa Rica gets it right on sustainability and wellbeing, says Nobel-prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz, May 7^[7]
• How Cooperation Richmond is empowering marginalized communities to build an equitable economy, Mar 15

References

• Loconomics Gives Gig Workers an Alternative to Investor-Owned Platforms, Nov 29^[1]
• New Report Shines Light on Groundbreaking Catalan Cooperative, Nov 14^[2]
• Building resilience, Nov 10^[3]

A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work, Aditya Chakrabortty, Nov 1^[4]

• Overview of Current Basic Income Related Experiments, Oct 19^[5]
• UK's first report on Universal Basic Services published, Oct 11^[6]
• Degrowth Discussed in the Catalan Parliament, Oct 10^[7]
• How the Blockchain Could Transform the P2P Economy, Sep 8^[8]

References

• Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth, Jul 21^[1]
• How could we cope if capitalism failed? Ask 26 Greek factory workers, Aditya Chakrabortty, Jul 18^[2]
• This Massachusetts Town Shows What a Sustainable Economy Looks Like, Jul 12^[3]
• Talking about REconomy in Hungary, Jul 12^[4]
• The Italian Region Where Co-ops Produce a Third of Its GDP, Jul 5^[5]

References

• Plan unveiled for London to become a world-leading circular economy, Jun 19^[1]
• How to Set Up a Community Co-op, May 17^[2]
• Is it Possible to Have a Better, Democratic Co-op Without Elections? May 8^[3]
• The 'Malaga Charter' is a Statement of Purpose for a New, Equitable Economy, May 4^[4]
• How a Cooperative in Indonesia is Bridging the Digital Divide, May 4^[5]

References

• 6 Ideas on How Millions of Users Can Own and Govern Twitter, Apr 19^[1]
• From Platform to Open Cooperativism, Apr 19^[2]
• What Quebec Can Teach Us About Creating a More Equitable Economy, Apr 11^[3]
• Barcelona has always been a centre of radicalism. Now the City’s €1bn spending power is being used to build a more democratic economy. Apr 10^[4]
• Twitter Shareholders to Vote on Proposal to Study User Ownership, Apr 10^[5]
• “Universal Basic Assets” by @mgorbis, Apr 4,^[6] Universal Basic Assets: Manifesto and Action Plan by Marina Gorbis

References

• Why AnyShare is the First 'Complete' Cooperative in the US, Mar 21^[1]
• “Basic Income should be seen as a democratic right”, Mar 21^[2]
• Couchsurfing Founder's New Approach to Pay Contributors and Promoters of Upcoming Book, Mar 8^[3]
• Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-economy, Mar 6^[4]
• Basic income isn’t just a nice idea. It's a birthright, Mar 4^[5]

References

• Making as Reconnecting: Crafts In The Next Economy, Feb 27^[1]
• Kidoop: A Childcare Co-op App Takes Shape in the UK, Feb 15^[2]
• “Basic Income and the New Universalism” by @mokka, Feb 9^[3]
• New presidential candidate promises universal basic income, Feb 8^[4]
• The Mutual Aid Network Takes a Ground-Up Approach to Create a Collaborative Economy, Feb 8^[5]
• Twitter shareholders voice benefits of a co-operative, Feb 3^[6]

References

• Podcast: Can a Bank be an Agent of Radical Social and Environmental Change? Jan 27^[1]
• Here's How Fab Market is Creating a Sustainable Marketplace, Jan 17^[2]
• The Platform Cooperativism Consortium's Big Plans for 2017, Jan 10^[3]
• Nevermind Guaranteed Income, we want the cow, Jan 2^[4]

References

• What's Next for the #BuyTwitter Campaign, Dec 22, 2016^[1]
• Lessons on Creating an Equitable and Sustainable Economy, Nov 17, 2016^[2]
• What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out. Nov 14, 2016^[3]
• The world's largest experiment in giving people free money launches in October — here's how it'll work, Sep 26, 2016^[4]
• A Shareable Explainer: What is a Platform Co-op? Aug 16, 2016^[5]
• This is the most efficient economy in the world, Jul 19, 2016^[6]

References

• Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can, Jul 15, 2016^[1]
• From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution, Jul 9, 2016^[2]
• The Italian Region Where Co-ops Produce a Third of Its GDP, Jul 5, 2016^[3]
• Why Switzerland’s Universal Basic Income referendum matters, even though it failed, Jun 5^[4]
• Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe, May 27^[5]
• Circular Economy 2.0, Mar 4^[6]
• La'Zooz: The Decentralized, Crypto-Alternative to Uber, January 26^[7]

References

• Sharing the future, November 30, 2015...^[1]
• Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism's Death Grip on Daily Life, October 21, 2015...^[2]
• The LEF – REconomy’s ‘Killer App’? September^[3]
• A basic guaranteed income in the context of Maslow..., July 15, 2015...^[4]
• The emergence of sophisticated p2p-based solidarity economic networks, Michel Bauwens, March 4, 2015...^[5]
• Basic income paid to the poor can transform lives, December 18, 2014...^[6]
• Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it, October 1, 2014..., by Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at University of Melbourne^[7]
• A Worker Cooperative That Proves Alternative Economic Systems Aren’t Only For The Privileged, Apr 14, 2014...^[8]

References

Universal Basic Income: A brief overview of a support for intelligent economies, quality of life and a caring society, April 17, 2013^[1]

• 'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation, March 9, 2012...^[2]
• The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less?^[3] November 28, 2011.
• Austria: Call for an EU-wide Unconditional Basic Income. European Citizens’ Initiative to Be Launched,^[4] November 8, 2011.
• Iran's economic reforms usher in a de facto Citizen's Income,^[5] Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 1, 2011
• "Better than Growth" released by Australian Conservation Foundation,^[6] June 11, 2010.

References

• Mongolia to introduce national basic income,^[1] December 3, 2009
• "I’ve been arguing for several years that a savings account is the only proven method of carbon sequestration."^[2] May 4, 2009
• Japan and South Korea launch Green New Deals,^[3] January 9, 2009. South Korea's 36 projects include the creation of green transport networks, the provision of two million energy-saving 'green homes' and the clean-up of the country's four main rivers.

Reducing consumption key to a sustainable future, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, November 11, 2008. Based on then ground-breaking modelling, the forecasts of global ecological and economic collapse by mid-century contained in the controversial 1972 book; The Limits to Growth, are still ‘on-track’ according to new CSIRO research.^[4]

• 'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy, says UN,^[5] October 12, 2008.
• Green Jobs Initiative report generally optimistic, but says too few green jobs are being created for the most vulnerable: the 1.3 billion working poor (43 per cent of the global workforce) in the world with earnings too low to lift them and their dependants above the poverty threshold of US$2 per person, per day, or for the estimated 500 million youth who will be seeking work over the next 10 years,^[6] September 24, 2008.

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