New Report On How Communities Are Building Wealth

Policies for Community Wealth Building: Leveraging State and Local Resources By The Democracy Collaborative The Democracy Collaborative For more than a decade,?The Democracy Collaborative?has been tracking state and local policies that provide a supporting environment for the expansion of ... Read more

CommonBound: A Revolution Needing a Spirit

I landed at "CommonBound: Moving Together Toward a New Economy" in Boston, Massachusetts with the dilemma of having to critically report on a movement in which I've wanted involve myself for years. The conference was organized by the New Economy Coalition, a nonprofit with its own small full-time staff ... Read more

Enthusiasm High for a New Economy for Baltimore

With growing recognition that the economy fails to serve the interests of most people, alternative institutions and processes based on economic democracy are beginning to pop up everywhere. This movement points to what is called by some as “the New Economy.” Throughout the country people are ... Read more

Economy conference hits Baltimore

Paul Jay, CEO of The Real News Network introduced the conference graciously hosting and televising the event in his town hall space A large crowd was very engaged listening intently to the opening plenary comprised of Margaret Flowers (co-director, It’s Our Economy), Diane Bell Mc-Koy (President& CEO. ... Read more

Foundations for a new, democratized economy for Baltimore to be discussed at conference

On May 16 -17, local community members, policymakers, activists, and experts from around the country will gather for the Baltimore Economic Democracy Conference, “Building Our New Economy Together.” The two-day event will focus on finding policy alternatives ... Read more

Which State Best Supports Its Locally Grown Foods?

The push for more people to buy and eat locally produced foods keeps growing, but which states are actually practicing what they preach? For the third consecutive year, Strolling of the Heifers answers that question with its 2014 Locavore Index. The rankings take the per-capita number of ... Read more

Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert: A Conversation on Economic Visions

Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert have been at the forefront of efforts to design and build an economy beyond capitalism for decades - efforts that have become even more relevant in our age of economic and ecological crises. Albert’s Participatory Economics (Parecon), ... Read more