The Privilege of Being Privileged
The Ford Foundation believes we have an obligation to strengthen capitalism. In fact we have a duty to transform it.
building resilient economies
Voting with Every Dollar We Spend: Business Models that Build Community Resilience
We can choose to support businesses that actually make our communities more resilient rather than extracting local wealth and resources.
National Co-op Month Kicks Off in October. Here’s Why it Matters
Can you imagine a world where all businesses are owned and directly controlled by the people who depend on them for employment or essential goods and services?
Why the Rich Should Reverse Inequality
All humanity is now wound together, our fate linked to our ability to respond to a planetary challenge bigger than anything we’ve ever faced before.
The Practical Guide to Starting a Legal Cafe is Now Available
In the guide you will learn how to get the basics of your Legal Cafe in place and how to create that unique Legal Cafe experience.
Slack Employment
It is a truth universally acknowledged that competitiveness is a good thing.
To Monopoly, Reasoned Argument is Lost Amongst Meaningless Cries of Sea Birds
We converse with each other, but to the monopolies, we are a noise – a sea bird colony at nesting time…
The Democratized Economy: Big Boxes, Urban Centers, and Placemaking
The Democratized Economy is an economy in which there are many small-scale owners of the means of production with local or regional influence.
The Great Transition Experiment: New Economy Alternatives
Money animates the institutions that shape every facet of our lives: political, economic, legal, occupational, social class, familial, and religious systems.
Keep it Local! The Complementary Currency Alternative
New alternative and complementary currencies are a growing worldwide trend, and many states in the US have created their own local curriencies.
State of the Soil
I’m just an earthworm. An earthworm in the soil of a restorative economy.
Inside The Green Economy: Promises And Pitfalls In 9 Theses
Global socio-ecological transformation will require passion and optimism, and will involve controversy and struggle.