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Published on June 10, 2021
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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
What we learned at the Stories for Life Virtual Gathering – Green Economy Coalition
“What do stories and story-telling have to do with the daunting challenges we face in the coming century? Turns out, quite a lot.”
10 Real-life Prototypes for a Common Good Economy
“Our new publication shows 10 international prototypes that illustrate how transformative change can happen on different levels:”
Guest column: Time for Canadians to redefine economic success
“What if we set our gaze on building an economy that delivered for more people, did so on a healthy planet and measured it all in a way that actually means something to people?”
Pay Equity Analysis Is a Critical Step to Advancing Racial Equity in Corporate America
“Corporate America has an opportunity and a responsibility to end these inequitable cycles. It begins with performing an audit to identify where racial wage gaps exist, then being transparent to help drive accountability, and finally doing the work to close the gaps”
Half-Earth or Whole-Earth? Green or transformative recovery? Where are the voices from the Global South?
“To succeed we need the Global North to shed its remnant colonialism and to acknowledge the central role of the Global South, both in the specific arena of conservation and in the wider paradigms of planetary wellbeing”
Climate Litigation as Climate Activism: What Works?
“In this briefing we examine this wave of post-Paris legal mobilisation. We discuss the who, why, how and what for, of this new wave of activity that has not been quietened by increased multilevel commitments to take steps to manage the climate crisis.”
Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together – Jennifer Hinton
“The intention of developing this five-dimensions framework is to offer a more coherent and concrete theoretical basis for ongoing discussions about which types of business are compatible, or incompatible, with post-growth pathways.”
Can we legitimately say something? – Rabia Abrar
“Since my day job revolves around promoting the creation of a Wellbeing Economy, I could legitimately say something about this situation [events in the Occupied Palestinian Territories] if I can show how it is relevant to that. Let’s see…”
The Importance of Resource Security for Poverty Eradication – Global Footprint Network
“72% of the world population live in countries faced with a precarious situation. These countries both (1) run a biological resource deficit (where demand for biological resources exceeds regeneration) and (2) generate less than world-average income, limiting their ability to purchase resources from elsewhere.”
Public Banks and COVID-19
“Five overarching and promising lessons stand out: public banks have the potential to respond rapidly; to fulfill their public purpose mandates; to act boldly; to mobilize their existing institutional capacity; and to build on ‘public-public’ solidarity. In short, public banks are helping us navigate the tidal wave of Covid-19 at the same time as private
lenders are turning away.”
WEAll Publication: Health and the Environment
WEAll Scotland Report: Business and a Wellbeing Economy
How to achieve a ‘health renaissance’ – Social Europe
“First and foremost, recognise the health-environment nexus as the core of planetary health and evolve from cost-benefit analysis to recognition of ‘co-benefits’”
Job Openings & Opportunities
- Research Fellow Rethinking Public Value
- ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2021 – Changemaker for a Wellbeing Economy
- DEAL Buiness & Enterprise Lead
- The Ellen MacArthur Foundation – various positions
- The Landecker Democracy Fellowship
- The Great Recovery
- The Scottish DeGrowth Commission Open Call
- Campaign Officer on Fiscal Policy– European Youth Forum
- Submit a story – GenWriters Club
- Bounce Beyond Call for Self-Nominations
- Future Rising Fellowships
What to Watch
- Ecological Economics Q&A
- Health Index: A Hypothetical Index to Assess the Health of a Society w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Justice Now Talks – tackling Europe’s colonial past
- Fiscal Policy, Debt and Politics: Lessons from Latin America
- What is Ecological Economics – Dan O’Neil
- Covid 19 from an Intersectional Gendered Perspective – Looking Beyond the Obvious – with Liepollo Pheko
Listen Up
- Amanda Janoo – 4th Industrial Revolution – An economy that works for us
- Alternativ økonom with Amanda Janoo
- Is there life after the growth imperative?
- Global Engagement Initiative
- The Useful and Kind Podcast – Mental Helath
- Decolonization in Palestine – The Red Nation
Upcoming Events
- June 11: Offers and Needs Market for World Localisation Day 2021
- June 11: Towards Zero Pollution: Measuring Citizens’ Health. and Wellbeing
- June 15: Postgrowth and Degrowth: The (Im)possibility of Green Growth and its Alternatives
- June 15-16: UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
- June 15: Postgrowth and Degrowth with Katherine Trebeck
- June 17: Remaking the Economy: Envisioning a Restorative Future of Work
- June 18: Health and Environment Policy in a Wellbeing Economy
- June 20 : World Localization Day – Local Futures
- June 24: Master Talk Series: Good finance for the new normal: The future of social finance in the UK
- June 24: Research Jam with NENA
- June 24: What Do Trade and Manufacturing Have to Do with Racial Justice?
- June 23-25: Ouishare Fest
- July 13: Economy for the Common Good
- Systems Innovation Event Series
- Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
- Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab
WEAll Originals
Blogs:
- Ecological Economics Event Recap
- Economic Growth without GDP Growth
- How the Philippines is Using ‘Community Pantries’ to Address Socioeconomic Inequalities Amid the Pandemic
- Five Pathways Towards Health-Environment Policy in a Wellbeing Economy
- [Report] Business and a Wellbeing Economy: Creating Thriving Businesses and a Thriving Scotland
- Two sides of the same coin: New Zealand’s 2021 ‘recovery’ and ‘wellbeing’ Budget
Publications:
- Five Pathways Towards Health-Environment Policy in a Wellbeing Economy, Eloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Amanda Janoo, Alessandro Galli, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori, Raluca Munteanu, Claire Sommer
- WEAll Medium Publication
- Children’s Wellbeing Budget by Dr. Katherine Trebeck
- WEAll Policy Design Guidebook
- Stories For Life
- Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide– Positive Money, PIRC, NEON, and WEAll
- Measuring Wellbeing, Rutger Hoekstra
- Business in the Wellbeing Economy, Olga Koretskaya & Gus Grosenbaugh
From the Archives
- 10 Principles to Build Back Better
- Rebuilding to a US Wellbeing Economy
- What is a Wellbeing Economy?
- The Business of Wellbeing Guide
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