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What communities can do

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  • develop Community Currencies
  • encourage business swaps
  • encourage e-work, telework clubs and teleconferencing facilities
  • encourage Free stuff or the gift economy, sharing and simple living
  • microfinance initiatives
  • promote fair trade
  • set up credit unions
  • slow money initiatives
  • support cooperatives and social enterprise
  • support initiatives to make the wider economy more sustainable such as basic income and ways of redefining progress
  • sustain the custom of potlatch
  • sustainability awards
  • waste exchange schemes

Alternatives to mainstream economic concepts

Green movements, but also thinkers from other areas, are opposed to the focus put on economics. The need for terminology has created familiar ideas such as carrying-capacity, and ecological footprint. W

Degrowth

Degrowth is considered an essential economic strategy responding to the limits-to-growth dilemma. Degrowth thinkers and activists advocate for the downscaling of production and consumption—the contraction of economies—arguing that overconsumption lies at the root of long term environmental issues and social inequalities. Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being. Rather, 'degrowthists' aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community. W

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Ecological economics

Ecological economics/eco-economics refers to both a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of academic research that aims to address the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems over time and space. It is distinguished from environmental economics, which is the mainstream economic analysis of the environment, by its treatment of the economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem and its emphasis upon preserving natural capital. W

Post growth

Post-growth can be distinguished from similar movements (such as degrowth, steady state economics, post-materialism) in that it focuses on acknowledging, supporting and building on the sustainable initiatives, systems and products that are already in place. Post growth advocates try to encourage, connect and further develop these existing ideas and actions. In this way, "post growth" does not specify the answer to the limits-to-growth challenge, as “steady state economics” and “degrowth” do, but rather seek to understand and address this challenge from a complex systems perspective that is constantly evolving. With this holistic complex systems approach, post growth deals with all aspects of self and society (such as psychology, human nature, human evolution, cultures, social systems and economies) and the interrelation of all of these aspects. Accordingly, the post growth concept also advocates solutions that are appropriate with regards to place, time, resource and cultural factors. Therefore, post growth initiatives take shape in very different ways under different circumstances.

Post growth can be considered an asset-based approach to community development, applied not only to community development but across a wide range of categories and in response to limits-to-growth challenges, as it seeks to build on the cultural and technological assets that already exist and are facilitating the emergence of post growth futures. W

Quotes 1

TAPAS – “There are plenty of alternatives!” David Bollier, To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing [1]

Basic income

An unconditional basic income (also called basic income, basic income guarantee, universal basic income, universal demogrant, or citizen’s income) is a form of social security system in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public institution, in addition to any income received from elsewhere. W

Resources

  • Future, Street School Economics, includes "Actions that can be taken by Communities" and "Draft Manifesto for Economic Justice"
  • Internet of Ownership Directory, a resource for the emerging online democratic economy, and to advance platform cooperativism
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Deki, Established in 2008, Deki helps individuals in developing countries to lift themselves and their families out of poverty through creating a sustainable future. This is achieved through connecting them directly with lenders through microfinance. A registered charity, Deki takes no commission on loans and relies on donations to grow its global network of field partners and lenders.

Book reviews

Book Review: 'Ours to Hack and to Own', Jan 30 2017 @Shareable

Citizens data initiative

The Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy has more than 15,000 cooperatives, which contribute over one-third of the region’s GDP. [2]

Networks

Mutual Aid Network

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"Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich." Paul Hawken [3]

Video

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Occupy Economics, November 2011

GrowthBusters Hooked on Growth Trailer Fall 2011

ISM - Inspired by Slow Money, May 2010

Econ 4 - Introduction

News and comment

2017

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Towards sustainable economies US: Why AnyShare is the First 'Complete' Cooperative in the US, Mar 21 [4]

“Basic Income should be seen as a democratic right”, Mar 21 [5]

Couchsurfing Founder's New Approach to Pay Contributors and Promoters of Upcoming Book, Mar 8 [6]

Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-economy, Mar 6 [7]

Basic income isn’t just a nice idea. It's a birthright, Mar 4 [8]

Making as Reconnecting: Crafts In The Next Economy, Feb 27 [9]

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Towards sustainable economies UK: Kidoop: A Childcare Co-op App Takes Shape in the UK, Feb 15 [10]

“Basic Income and the New Universalism” by @mokka, Feb 9 [11]

The Mutual Aid Network Takes a Ground-Up Approach to Create a Collaborative Economy, Feb 8 [12]

Twitter shareholders voice benefits of a co-operative, Feb 3 [13]

Podcast: Can a Bank be an Agent of Radical Social and Environmental Change? Jan 27 [14]

What the P2P Foundation did in 2016, Jan 18 [15]

Here's How Fab Market is Creating a Sustainable Marketplace, Jan 17 [16]

The Platform Cooperativism Consortium's Big Plans for 2017, Jan 10 [17]

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What is the Commons Transition? Jan 6 [18]

2016

What's Next for the #BuyTwitter Campaign, Dec 22 [19]

Lessons on Creating an Equitable and Sustainable Economy, Nov 17 [20]

What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out. Nov 14 [21]

10 Ways to Accelerate the Peer-to-Peer and Commons Economy, Aug 1 [22]

This is the most efficient economy in the world, Jul 19 [23]

From basket weavers to salt farmers: the women leading a renewables revolution, Jul 9 [24]

The Italian Region Where Co-ops Produce a Third of Its GDP, Jul 5 [25]

Why Switzerland’s Universal Basic Income referendum matters, even though it failed, Jun 5 [26]

Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe, May 27 [27]

The Commons Collaborative Economy explodes in Barcelona, Apr 18 [28]

Circular Economy 2.0, Mar 4 [29]

La'Zooz: The Decentralized, Crypto-Alternative to Uber, January 26 [30]

2015

Sharing the future, November 30 [31]

Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics, October 28 [32]

For the Uncommons conference in Berlin on October 23, Michel Bauwens recently distilled his years of thinking about digital collaboration into a short text, “Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics.” The document describes the key pillars of “a mode of production and value creation that is free, fair and sustainable.”

Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism's Death Grip on Daily Life, October 21 [33]

The LEF – REconomy’s ‘Killer App’? September [34]

A basic guaranteed income in the context of Maslow..., July 15 [35]

The emergence of sophisticated p2p-based solidarity economic networks, Michel Bauwens, March 4 [36]

2014

Basic income paid to the poor can transform lives, December 18 [37]

Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it, October 1, by Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at University of Melbourne [38]

2013

Universal Basic Income: A brief overview of a support for intelligent economies, quality of life and a caring society, April 17 [39]

2012

'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation, March 9 [40]

2011

The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less? [41] November 28

Austria: Call for an EU-wide Unconditional Basic Income. European Citizens’ Initiative to Be Launched, [42] November 8

Iran's economic reforms usher in a de facto Citizen's Income, [43] Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 1, 2011

2010

"Better than Growth" released by Australian Conservation Foundation, [44] June 11

2009

Mongolia to introduce national basic income, [45] December 3

"I’ve been arguing for several years that a savings account is the only proven method of carbon sequestration." [46] May 4

Japan and South Korea launch Green New Deals, [47] January 9. 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.

2008

Reducing consumption key to a sustainable future, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, November 11. 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. [48]

'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy, says UN, [49] October 12

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, [50] September 24

News sources

Makeshift Magazine, Showcases Ingenuity in Unlikely Places around the World

Events

2016

Aug 22 -28 MAN Up 2nd International Skillshare Summit

See also

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Basic income, Consumer cooperative, Degrowth, Ecological economics, Grameen Bank, Mondragon Corporation, Post growth, Social finance, Solidarity economy Mondragon Corporation

External links

Creative commons

Basic Income Earth Network, network of academics and activists interested in the idea of a universal basic income, i.e. a guaranteed minimum income based solely on citizenship and not on work requirement or charity. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the world. Their website defines a basic income as "an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement." W

Center for the advancement of the steady state economy, CASSE

New Economy Working Group

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OuiShare A French-based non-for-profit aiming to connect efforts within the Sharing or Collaborative Economy to create a global network of collaborators. Having started in France in 2012, they have spread to Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. W

Real Economy Lab, interactive platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of the new economy movement can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action

Other

Econ4

Grassroots Economic Organizing

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Mutual Aid Networks

The Preservation Institute

Slow Money, movement to organize investors and donors to steer new sources of capital to small food enterprises, organic farms, and local food systems. Slow Money takes its name from the Slow Food movement.[2] Slow Money aims to develop the relationship between capital markets and place, including social capital and soil fertility.[3] Slow Money is supporting the grass-roots mobilization of investors through network building, convening, publishing, and incubating intermediary strategies and structures of funding. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Boulder, Colorado W


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