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Published on January 22, 2021
As part of our work to amplify the important work in the Wellbeing Economy movement, these WEAll Weekly Update blogs will share some of the latest and greatest updates from our membership and beyond. Please use the comment box to share any relevant updates from this week and keep the conversation going!
Weekly Reads
Decoupling Debunked – European Environmental Bureau
“Not only is there no empirical evidence supporting the existence of a decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures on anywhere near the scale needed to deal with environmental breakdown, but also, and perhaps more importantly, such decoupling appears unlikely to happen in the future”
Growth without economic growth – European Environment Agency
“It is unlikely that a long-lasting, absolute decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressures and impacts can be achieved at the global scale; therefore, societies need to rethink what is meant by growth and progress and their meaning for global sustainability.”
If Not Now, When? – The Social Renewal Advisory Board Report
“We have a crisis of inequality in this nation that we cannot continue to tolerate. A crisis where sticking plasters fail to address negative outcomes. A crisis of performance in a system that reacts to negative outcomes rather than preventing them happening in the first place. Moves towards a wellbeing economy should be the central goal of every government.”
The Tragedy of Growth– David Barmes, Fran Boait| Positive Money
“We must transform the structures of our economy such that they no longer require GDP growth to temporarily fend off financial, economic, and social crises. If growth is low or negative, these structures – referred to as ‘growth imperatives’ – generate multiple undesirable crises. Rising unemployment, deepening inequality and debt crises are just a few of the common consequences of insufficient growth in our current economic system.”
Transforming Towards Life-Centered Economics: How Business, Government, and Civil Society Can Build A Better World – Sandra Waddock
“This slim volume is not just as thorough and concise a summary of the need to transform our financial system as you will find anywhere. It also clearly envisions how the creation of collaborative value, sustainable stewardship, and an “enough-not-more” mantra can drive a transformational change that will benefit the all as well as the one.”
Job Openings & Opportunities
- Research Project: Building a ‘Wellbeing Economy’: developing a capability-based approach to capturing the complexity of social justice on a healthy planet
- Campaigner (North Sea transition advocacy) – Platform London
- Associate Partner– Change Lab
- Managing Director– Roosevelt Institute
- International PR Coordinator– Economy for the Common Good
What to Watch
- The Wellbeing Economy #1 – Hosted by Pakhuis de Zwijger
- WEAll Talk: Yannick Beaudoin “Embracing diversity and participation to reimagine the purpose of the economic system: The beginning of WEAll CAN story
- The Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide – NEON, Positive Money, PIRC and WEAll
- Why Inclusion Matters – Green Economy Coalition
- WEAll Business in a Wellbeing Economy Webinar, Olga Koretskaya & Gus Grosenbaugh
Listen Up
- Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
- Stories that broke the economy and the stories that can fix it – NEF
- The Wellbeing Economy Lessons for the Future Policy Lab Podcast
- Discover WEAll Youth and the Wellbeing Economy
- Katherine Trebeck on BBC Scotland (2:36)
- Economic Narratives & Systems Innovation, FEASTA & EHFF
WEAll Originals
Blogs:
- Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide Event Recap
- What might social media look like in a Wellbeing Economy?
- The 2021 Wellbeing Economy Reading List
- Using green technology to foster technology transfers in Africa
- WEAll Weekly Update – January 15
- WEAll Citizens Narrative Series Event Recaps
Publications:
- Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide– Positive Money, PIRC, NEON and WEAll.
- Measuring Wellbeing, Rutger Hoekstra
- Business in the Wellbeing Economy, Olga Koretskaya & Gus Grosenbaugh
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