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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Appalachian Artisan Economies, Community Broadband and German Co-Housing
This week we’re talking about the Eastern Kentucky town that’s thriving, Community Broadband bills in Congress, and a small Italian towns effort to build a “circular economy.”
New Economy Roundup: Net Neutrality Appeal, Barcelona Goes Open-Source, Best Social Justice Conferences of 2018
This week we’re talking about the Net Neutrality appeal; why Finland has more coop members than citizens; and the best social justice conferences of 2018!
New Economy Roundup: 2018 Agenda for Change, Tiny Houses to Halt Pipelines, Fake News Curriculum
Happy new year! We’re kicking off 2018 by talking about the tiny home village in the way of the Trans Mountain Pipeline; building financially healthy neighborhoods; and a just transition framework for disaster recovery.
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Resources from our Network
Local Catch Seafood Finder
LocalCatch.org is a community-of-practice from across North America that are committed to providing local, healthful, low-impact seafood via community supported fisheries and direct marketing arrangements in order to support healthy fisheries and the communities that depend on them. This map helps connect consumers to these seafood providers.
Local Catch Seafood Finder
LocalCatch.org is a community-of-practice from across North America that are committed to providing local, healthful, low-impact seafood via community supported fisheries and direct marketing arrangements in order to support healthy fisheries and the communities that depend on them. This map helps connect consumers to these seafood providers.
Key Studies: Why Local Matters
A growing body of research is proving something that many people already know: locally owned businesses create communities that are more prosperous, connected, and generally better off across a wide range of metrics. This is a roundup of the findings that are putting numbers to the harms of bigness and the benefits of local ownership.
NYC Worker Cooperative Development Initiative Course Syllabus: Implementers
This document is the syllabus for the Center for Family Life's 6-session "Implementers" training on worker cooperative development for other community-based organizations. This syllabus generally follows the "Planners" training.
After Paris: Climate Change or System Change?
This paper, released in the wake of the 2015 Paris climate talks, argues that globalization, the deregulation of trade and finance through free trade treaties, is the driving force behind climate change. As a result, the climate problem can only be tackled effectively if governments stop subsidizing globalization, and pursue localization instead.
Acts of Collective Imagination: Notes From the Chief Policy Wonk at America’s Department of Arts and Culture
What if we gave everyone a universal basic income, and studied the adverse impacts of development before razing neighborhoods? The policy agenda of a national network you didn’t know existed. (From New Economy Week 2015)
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