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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Keep Your Elegy, #CloseTheCamps and 4th of July Anti-Imperialist Reading List!
This week we’re talking about bold plans for just transition, countering dominant narratives and reclaiming freedom locally and globally.
New Economy Roundup: Seeding the Conversation – Poverty, Reparations, Healthcare, POC Farmers, and Public Banking
'This week we’re talking about presidents and poverty, the next generation of land stewards, international public banks and a new network of...
New Economy Roundup: A Roundup of Seeds – Sown, Grown, #NowWeOwn
This week we’re talking about sowing the seeds of a new system in California, Ghana, Minnesota, the ocean off of Connecticut, Indonesia, Tunisia, and beyond.
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Resources from our Network
Divest-Invest Clean Fifteen: A Total Portfolio Approach to Fossil-Free Climate Solutions
This publication presents the “Clean 15,” the first fossil-free model portfolio developed by the Clean Portfolio Project.
The Pluralist Commonwealth
In this video, produced by Democracy Collaborative staff working with Softbox Films, Gar Alperovitz sketches the major institutions of a systemic alternative based in plural forms of democratic ownership, oriented around community at various scales—what he has called “The Pluralist Commonwealth.”
What do we really know about worker co-operatives?
This piece of research by Professor Virginie Pérotin of Leeds University Business School looks at two decades’ worth of international data on worker owned co-operatives.
Caring Economy Fast Facts Sheets
The Caring Economy Campaign's Fast Fact Sheets are an invaluable resource for making the case for the visibility and value of the work of care in our economic system.
Energy Democracy Strategy Deck
Which kinds of renewable energy production really build community power? Rather than prescribe a single vision of what "energy democracy" might mean, this resource lets you explore and remix the basic elements of an inclusive and sustainable energy system, grounded in the agency of communities to shape their own ecological and economic futures.
Free The Land: Shirley Sherrod and Black Land Struggles in the South
In 1969 Shirley Sherrod co-founded a collective farm in Lee County, Georgia. At 6,000 acres, it was the largest tract of black-owned land in the United States. What happened to the New Communities land trust they planned? Let's just say they were way, way ahead of their time but their time just might be coming back
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An Eventful Week in Philadelphia: Grantee Gathering & Annual Meeting
This week, NEC is starting off the second half of 2015 on stronger grounding than ever with our Annual Meeting and first ever Grantee Gathering in Philadelphia.
A Community Renaissance in Greensboro
While the residents in Northeast Greensboro just wanted to get grocery store, they are doing something much bigger and more important.
Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe
Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.
Fighting Inequality and Climate Change Through Localizing Economies
We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.
Reclaiming Our Commons: Egleston Community Orchard
Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.
Embracing A Long Term Agenda For a New Economy
By working together, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.
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