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A new report by the United Kingdom (UK) Women's Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that sustained (...) 
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Alt-Market.com - supporting local economies, barter networks, farmers initiatives, and alternative currencies backed by tangible commodities.
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Where refugee solidarity & the alternative economy converge: the anarchist refugee centres of Athens
Beyond the bureaucracy of the Eurocrats, or the catastrophic mismanagement by the EU of the refugee 'crisis', or the xenophobic rants of the tabloid press, there is another Europe - the real Europe - a continent of Europeans who are compassionate and for whom social justice is not a political slogan but something that is…
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Panelists: Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation), Primavera De Filippi (CNRS / Harvard), Gregory Meredith (Synereo), Jason Potts (RMIT) Moderated by Constance Choi...
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Let us imagine ... Ideas from the London Open Office for the future of finance. http://robinhoodcoop.org
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The Citizens Media® Impact Economy Summit October 5-9, 2015 in Whistler, BC, Canada. Come Impact Economics with a group of forward thinking innovators from around the world! Register now…
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This award winning author explains how science fiction and fantasy writers can stand up to the corporate system.
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Agents of Alternatives – Re-designing Our Realities is an independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making, socialising, thinking and working.
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Intentional communities have a reputation for collapsing. However over the last 150 years visionaries seeking an alternative to capitalism and the nuclear family have acquired a few skills in the art of living together, consensus decision-making and so on.
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In early January I passed out a leaflet to my colleagues at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Boston, which brought together more than 11,000 economists and social scientists. The leaflet pointed out the profession’s failure to predict the 2008 financial crisis and challenged economics professors to incorporate new ideas into their teachings. As a self-proclaimed Marxist-feminist-anti-racist-ecological economist and economics professor, I was glad to take this opportunity to protest the lack of pluralism in the profession as well as the weaknesses of mainstream neoclassical economic theory, especially in the currently dominant free-market form.
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Social Credit is a doctrine, a series of principles expressed for the first time by Major and engineer C. H. Douglas in 1918. The implementation of these principles would make the social and economic organism effectively reach its proper end, which is the service of human needs. Social Credit would neither create the goods nor the needs, but it would eliminate any artificial obstacle between the two of them, between production and consumption, between the wheat in elevators and the bread on the table. The obstacle today — at least in the developed countries — is purely of financial order, a money obstacle. Now, the financial system neither proceeds from God nor nature. Established by men, it can be adjusted to serve men and no more to cause them problems.
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Western economies have long been organized like pyramids, with a few large producers at the top and millions of passive consumers below.
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Since the beginning of the Greek financial crisis, both the Right and the Left have advanced a narrow set of narratives, policy possibilities, and even pol
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Athens Biennale 2015-2017 "OMONOIA" Synapse 1: Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011 Session I: Alternative Economies Commons & Urban welfare: Lu...
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Athens Biennale 2015-2017 "OMONOIA" Synapse 1: Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011 Session I: Alternative Economies Commons & Urban welfare: Lu...
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Barcelona Officials Plan Alternative Currency The New American The Bank of Spain, the Spanish central bank that has now been subordinated to the controversial European Central Bank (ECB), blasted the idea as “impossible in addition to being...
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David will consider what it would take to conceive and build a flourishing and fair future economy.
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Three things are happening right NOW that are creating a sense of urgency at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Sometimes, it's hard to see that they are happening, so we thought some visuals might help...
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Gar Alperovitz discusses the types of solutions the Next System Project plans to promote and the efforts already underway that it seeks to amplify.
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I recently encountered a brilliant new essay by German writer Ina Praetorius that revisits the feminist theme of “care work,” re-casting it onto a much larger philosophical canvas.
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As a result of attending a meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in July 2010, I was encouraged to write an article for Cybernetics and Human Knowing. This article, entitled A Cybernetic Approach to Economics, (cut and paste version at the end of this introduction exists) was published in December 2010. At the 'Continental Dialog meeting hosted by the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) in June 2011, Roberto Peccei and Heitor Gurgolino de Souza encouraged me to write an outline of the first step in the modeling project proposed in the paper.
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Essentially, TFE claims that new largely monitored non-repayable debt-free money could be created electronically by special transparent, and credible funding mechanisms, or Facilitation Banks (and/or by governments to some extent) This could notably fund in full, or in part environmental, and socio-economic projects of high ethical value. This would help to speed things up unlike repayable loans....though possibly interest free ones could also be created electronically when necessary. Ofcourse, such funding could be used to deal with projects that have little, or indeed, no commercial viability...and yet, more importantly, they may have great social, and environmental value.
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"It also just reduces barriers to a wide variety of things that we think create more sustainable local economies, like solar energy projects, community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs, worker...
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