Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
“There is a gap between the sustainable economy and the economy focused on economic justice. They seldom meet.” The core of a Neighborhood Economics conference is highlighting promising and potentially replicable solutions that are working to repair the economy in one neighborhood, solutions could be replicated in other city. At our national conferences, we highlight […]
There is a movement growing across the country to establish the legal personhood of a river as a way to check the power of corporate personhood. If a river has legal standing to sue its polluters, a town or county could, for example, stop fracking in their community, or halt a pipeline the people living […]
These last couple of weeks have been a climate nightmare for many as we continue to deal with the effects of global warming. We saw wildfires in Maui destroy the entire city of Lahaina, parts of Canada continuing to suffer from fires, tropical storms hitting Southern California, excessive heat warnings in an unprecedented number of […]