‘Community Development Solutions’
News on local, regional efforts by communities, NGOs, local businesses, banks, governments, to become more self-reliant and less dependent on global financial casinos, big banks and Wall Street. Covers local currencies, farmers markets, co-housing, Transition Towns movements, new bioregional urban re-developments and small communities.
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National Healthy Communities Conference (2nd Annual) | Monday, November 7, 2011 | WATCH LIVE!
Healthy Communities Conference: Building Systems to Integrate Community Development and Health Monday, November 7, 2011Co-Sponsored By:The Pew Charitable Trusts Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoAs the connections between health and community development become increasingly apparent, foundations, [...]
QE4: Forgive Student Debt
We fully support this proposal by lawyer Ellen Brown, our esteemed Advisory Board member . We would add that GDP must also be corrected so that at last, “Education” is no longer categorized under “Consumption” , but acknowledged as the basic investment all societies make in their future, and included in a Asset Account for this and [...]
A petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate and President Barack Obama
"Forgiving the student loan debt of all Americans will have an immediate stimulative effect on our economy. With the stroke of the President's pen, millions of Americans would suddenly have hundreds, or in some cases, thousands of extra dollars in their pockets each and every month with which to spend on ailing sectors of the economy. As [...]
Nov 5th NYC/31st Annual Schumacher Lectures
The Thirty-first Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures will be held Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 10am-5pm.Speakers are Gar Alperovitz, Juliet Schor, and a Special Panel "Voices of Today's Youth: Occupy Wall Street and the Call for a New Economy."The location is the Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th Street, New York City (between [...]
Energy Poverty Seen as History at IEA for $48 Billion a Year
Energy Poverty Seen as History at IEA for $48 Billion a Year 2011-10-10 10:45:00.0 GMTBy Simon Clark and Lananh Nguyen Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The world’s entire population can have electricity and cleaner stoves by 2030 if $48 billion is invested each year, the International Energy Agency said in its first estimate of the cost to end [...]
Postal Service An Invaluable Contributor To Economic Development
POSTAL SERVICE AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTOR TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UN New York, Oct 7 2011 4:05PM In an era of rapid technological advancements, the post remains a vital communication element that links people and businesses and contributes to their economic development worldwide, the United Nations global postal agency says.The post is [...]
Announcing Program Additions and Entrepreneur Showcase
WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that Tom Steyer, Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman and signer of the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge, and Matt Flannery, Co-Founder and CEO of Kiva, are participating in our program.They will be joining Wes Jackson, Vandana Shiva, and Paul Muller (Full Belly Farm) for a plenary roundtable discussion on [...]
Ecocities Emerging – October 2011 Issue
Greetings,Welcome to the October 2011 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series."Why are we here?" It's a question often posed philosophically. Posed practically, the answer is pretty straightforward - we're here because our planet supports conditions for life, [...]
Karma Kitchen and the Gift Economy
Karma Kitchen and the gift economy Sep 27, 2011 01:00 pm | katieteagueLast May I had the pleasure and fun of spending a couple of days with Bill Miller, Nipun Mehta, Pancho Ramos-Stierle and the gang of ServiceSpace (formerly CharityFocus). Put simply, ServiceSpace – a wondrous web of people, technologies, ideas and actions – is an [...]
