Reclaiming Our Commons: Egleston Community Orchard

Reclaiming Our Commons: Egleston Community Orchard

‘This post was originally published at neweconomyweek.org.How can we support neighborhoods, cities, towns, and regions as the fertile ground for the kind of economy we need? How do we understand our relationship to the places we live?Reclaiming our Commons...
Embracing A Long Term Agenda For a New Economy

Embracing A Long Term Agenda For a New Economy

‘This post was originally published at neweconomyweek.org.On a crisp autumn day in 2012, I joined a group of pastors and community leaders from the Illinois-Indiana Regional Organizing Network (IIRON) at a church on the south side of Chicago. We talked about the...
Looking Back To Our Future

Looking Back To Our Future

‘This post was originally published at neweconomyweek.org.Climate change, shifting demographics, and sobering economic realities for a growing number of Americans have sparked increased awareness of the need to re-examine how working class people and communities...
Shorter Work-Time Can Help In the Transition

Shorter Work-Time Can Help In the Transition

‘This post was originally published at neweconomyweek.org.In the not-too distant future we can expect to see a rapid increase in structural unemployment as a result of increasing substitution of technology—including sophisticated robots—for human...
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