WEAll Weekly Update – June 18

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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

Why the good society needs a wellbeing economy

“Masawa recently joined Wellbeing Economy Alliance with the goal of helping to make the shift to an economic paradigm that puts health, wellbeing, and participation at the forefront.”

Launch of Feminist Pocketbook for Human Rights Defenders

“The pocketbook is a result of years of collaboration with partner organisations in Africa and around the world and aims to give the readers hands-on tools and a resource that will help them reflect upon and adopt feminist principles and practices in their human rights work.”

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.”

Job Openings & Opportunities

• Good Business Lab – various positions
• Open Call for Submissions – Stories for lIfe
• Senior or Principal (International Sustainable Transport Policy)
• 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

What to Watch

• Enhancing Post-Pandemic Sustainability and Resilience: Paving the Way for Systemic Change
• 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

• Reasons To Be Cheerful Podcast feat. Katherine Trebeck
• Leadership Moves with Mallika Dutt
• 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 24: Policy Influencers Event
• 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
• Decolonising Economics Events

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