Towards sustainable economies US
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News
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Earth
The Economic Consequences of Ignoring Climate Change, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025) - The California Doughnut finds that California is overshooting planetary boundaries on 89% of ecological indicators, and falling short of delivering basic needs for all people on all social indicators, caldec.org (Dec 31, 2024) — The average ecological overshoot is 283%, whilst the average social shortfall is 34%
- Happy News: Driving Change in Colorado, realjfriday.substack.com (Nov 15, 2024) — A Colorado Driver's Cooperative next in a movement of locally owned services, Jessica Friday
- Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education, thenews.coop (May 12, 2026) — In 1946, national legislation formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives
- Santa Marta Process Begins: Tuvalu and Ireland to Host Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in 2027 in the Pacific, fossilfueltreaty.org (Apr 29, 2026) — The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, concluded today marking a historic breakthrough in building international cooperation for the phase out of coal, oil and gas extraction and production. This step fundamentally shifts power toward a growing coalition of courageous nations engaged in a new international process to manage an equitable phase out of fossil fuels
- We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps, Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis, theguardian.com (Feb 12, 2026) — Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp
Networks
[edit | edit source]- Data Commons Cooperative, membership is made up of mission-driven organizations that are organizing toward a more just and equitable economy.
- Grassroots Economic Organizing
Video
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more video:
Green Jobs Day of Action in Washington DC, on youtube
How to's
[edit | edit source]- How to Start A Worker Co-op, July 27, 2011, Shareable
Legal resources
[edit | edit source]Research
[edit | edit source]- Y Combinator Research, study of basic income in the United States
Other resources
[edit | edit source]- The Cleveland Model community-wealth.org
- Educate and Empower: Tools For Building Community Wealth, democracycollaborative.org
- REconomy Project: Building Resilient Local Economies, transitionus.org
Social inclusion
[edit | edit source]- People’s Policy Project, think tank founded in 2017, publishing ideas and analysis that assist in the development of an economic system that serves the many, not the few. added 17:11, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
- Strike Fast Food, Low Pay Is Not OK
- We Are Visible, empowering the homeless via social media
News
- Unequal Access to Nature Fuels America’s Health Crisis, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 23, 2026)
- How Two Teens in Niagara Falls Are Confronting Pollution and a Mental Health Crisis, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 04, 2026) — Finding hope and resilience in a city burdened with environmental pollution and generational trauma.
- Community land trusts: Building a different kind of wealth, thenews.coop (Feb 03, 2026) — How the model is protecting US neighbourhoods from property speculation and gentrification
- How City Leaders in New York Plan to Help Co-Op Buildings Reduce Emissions, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025)
- Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 03, 2025) — A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan. Ryan Krugman
- How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?, peoplespolicyproject.org (Mar 19, 2025)
Sustainable livelihood
[edit | edit source]- Caring Economy Campaign
- Resilience Circles are small groups where people come together to increase their personal security through learning, mutual aid, social action, and community support.
News and comment
- Mar 26, 2019 The benefit workers want most is less work...@quartzatwork
- Feb 17, 2105 Can We Earn a Living on a Living Planet?..On the Commons
News archive
[edit | edit source]- How grocery co-ops across New England thrived despite the pandemic, Shareable (Mar 02, 2022)
- Guaranteed Income Increases Employment, Improves Financial and Physical Health, Mar 3, 2021...Press release, stocktondemonstration.org
- Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project. Jan 5, 2021...@shareable
- Accessible local alternatives to Amazon Prime, Apr 23, 2020...@shareable
- "Funky around the edges, humanly fermented, alive". How the Park Slope Food Coop makes a commons (and great produce), Jan 13, 2020...thealternative.org.uk
- Grassroots democracies form North American coalition, Oct 23, 2019...Shareable
- Cooperative bookstore launches in Hamtramck, Michigan, Jul 26, 2019...Shareable
- Basic income experiments: Silicon Valley's Y Combinator Research has completed a feasibility study in Oakland, California, and is now finalizing the design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that is to involved 3,000 participants in two US states, Oct 19, 2017...@BasicincomeOrg
- Niki Okuk on Cooperative Economics in African-American Communities, Sep 20, 2017...@Shareable
- Bay Area Nonprofit Project Equity Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Apr 17, 2017...@Shareable
- Austin Council Votes to Boost Worker Cooperatives, Apr 18, 2017...nextcity.org
- Why AnyShare is the First 'Complete' Cooperative in the US, Mar 21, 2017...shareable.net
- This Co-op Gives Formerly Incarcerated People Jobs and Community, Feb 1, 2017...@Shareable
- Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe. Oct 15, 2014...resilience.org/
- It Takes an Ecosystem: The Rise of Worker Cooperatives in the US, Jul 16, 2014...@shareable
See also: Green New Deal
local information can be found, or shared, via our many USA location pages
External links
- Humanity Forward, non-profit organization created by Andrew Yang W, dedicated to promoting the ideas he campaigned on during his run for President in the 2020 election, such as UBI and data privacy. The non-profit will also seek to engage and activate new voters while supporting like-minded down-ballot candidates, following the model of the pro-Bernie Sanders 501(c)4 Our Revolution. Yang also announced that the organization would give away $500,000 in UBI to the residents of a (currently unspecified) town in New York to demonstrate the benefits of UBI. W added 14:12, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- The Democracy Collaborative added 10:51, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
- Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
- Democracy at Work Institute
- Green for All, an organization whose stated goal is to build a green economy while simultaneously lifting citizens out of poverty. W
- New Economy Coalition
- U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG)
- Community-Wealth.org
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation, US non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports community development corporations in 30 urban areas and dozens of rural areas in the United States. LISC's development strategy, launched in 2007, is called Building Sustainable Communities (BSC). LISC's programs are designed to meet BSC's five goals:
- Expanding Investment in Housing and Other Real Estate
- Increasing Family Income and Wealth
- Stimulating Economic Development
- Improving Access to Quality Education
- Supporting Healthy Environments and Lifestyles W
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| Cite as | Philralph (2017–2026). "Towards sustainable economies US". Appropedia. Retrieved June 4, 2026. |