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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Climate Justice Now, New Media for a New Economy, a People’s WPA
This week we’re talking about the escalating climate emergencies across the country, the CDC eviction moratorium, and a radical new show on public television. Plus, an Indigenous-led food exchange network in Costa Rica, a Works Progress Administration for the people, funding for arts co-ops, today’s Worker Cooperative Conference, and more.
New Economy Roundup: Public Medicine for the Public Good, Just Recovery in the Gulf, NBA Strikes
This week we’re talking about calls to reclaim public medicine for public health, the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, peer-to-peer lending, the upcoming Worker Co-op Conference, a new fund to support Black self-determination in the South, this week’s NBA and WNBA strikes in defense of Black lives, and more.
New Economy Roundup: #MakeBillionairesPay, Feminist Economic Recovery, & Beautiful Solutions
This week we’re talking about legislation to make the ultra-wealthy pay for COVID-19 relief, growing people’s budget movements, plans for a feminist economic recovery, a new anti-facist platform co-op in Brazil, and more. Plus, Beautiful Solutions: a Toolbox for Liberation is available for pre-order!
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Resources from our Network
Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders
Policies for Shareable Cities is the first policy handbook of its kind. It includes over 30 recommended policies for how cities should regulate the true sharing economy in the areas of food, work, housing, and transportation.
Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders
Policies for Shareable Cities is the first policy handbook of its kind. It includes over 30 recommended policies for how cities should regulate the true sharing economy in the areas of food, work, housing, and transportation.
Affordable Space: How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It
As the cost of leasing commercial space soars in many U.S. cities, a new report from ILSR examines what's behind the skyrocketing rents and explores six broad policy strategies that elected officials and community leaders are proposing to keep commercial space appropriate, accessible, and affordable for independent businesses.
Steps to Developing a Cooperative
This document describes the activities needed to develop a worker cooperative, based on the Center for Family Life's 4 stages of development.
CEANYC Resources Page
National and NYC based resources on the solidarity economy containing reports, audio recordings and podcasts, books, articles, films, how to guides, and relevant national and local groups.
Beautiful Solutions Gallery
The Beautiful Solutions Gallery and Lab is an interactive space for sharing the stories, solutions and big ideas needed to build new institutional power and point the way toward a just, resilient, and democratic future.
Developed by Beautiful Solutions in partnership with This Changes Everything, this is an open-ended project that will continue to evolve based on the ideas you submit to the Lab, and the ongoing contributions of the thinkers and practitioners on the forefront of building alternatives.
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CommonBound 2018 Photos & Recap
Photos and quotes from CommonBound 2018
Announcing New Economies Reporting Project’s 2018 Climate Solutions Fellows!
Meet the New Economies Reporting Project’s 2018 Climate Solutions Fellows!
5 Reasons to Come To CommonBound
Why should you come to NEC’s biennial conference, CommonBound!
Four New Members!
A warm welcome to NEC’s four newest members:
New Economies Reporting Project: Recap Of Our First Year!
Check out how our inaugural New Economies Reporting Project (NERP) cohort went!
CommonBound 2018 Registration is Open!
It’s finally happening—registration for CommonBound 2018 is open!
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