Systems Change
Through
Local Economies
September 24-26, 2021
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We are a platform and a growing network of activist organizations, policy makers, businesses, and individuals, working on deep, regenerative systems change. More specifically, we focus in three integrated areas:
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Articles
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- Economy
- Environment
- Arts
- Society
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- Economy
- Environment
- Arts
- Society
Nine Ways to Create a Local, Regenerative Economy
We need to address the failures of capitalism and its ineffective reforms head-on by creating decentralized and cooperative local economies, emphasizing local production with local resources, to meet local needs, and to build local wealth.
Economic Degrowth: The Solution to Climate Breakdown
Certainly, global warming will negatively effect certain resources and thus reduce economic growth—but, ironically, few economists will admit that degrowth may be the only solution to solve climate change.
Local food and global food security
Local food systems provide a truly sustainable alternative to unwieldy and environmentally damaging global food chains.
Films
From economic democracy to ecology, equality and sacred activism, you will find talks, interviews and clips from some of the brightest minds and open hearts of the systems change movement.
Podcasts
- Roar Bjonnes
- December 15, 2020
It’s Time for Economic Democracy
The best selling French economist Thomas Piketty has documented in well researched detail how inequality is increasing in the world today. His solution? A global wealth tax on the rich. But is that enough to create a more just and equitable economy? In this podcast, Roar Bjonnes suggests that tax reforms are not enough and that what we need instead is economic systems change through economic democracy.
Eight Design Principles for a Local Economy
Shopping locally, growing some of our own fruits and vegetables, these are all very important habits to cultivate if we want to create deeper systems change. But individual changes are not enough in order to stem the tide of economic destruction against nature and the local economy. In this podcast, Roar Bjonnes outlines the eight design principles we need to implement a truly local economy.
Beyond Green Capitalism: Economic Systems Change for the Next Seven Generations
Corporate capitalism is addicted to making money and therefore has a very short planning cycle–hardly longer than its next quarterly profit fix. A truly green, regenerative economy will have to plan long term. To do that, we need deeper economic changes. In this episode, Roar Bjonnes talks about the two most important systems changes needed to create an eco-economy of the future.
Arts for Systems Change
Creative Inspiration for Global Transformation
For centuries, writers, artists and musicians have been visionaries, supporting human societies to question, shift and evolve in the changing tides of our social and political histories.
Be part of a collective collaboration in visioning the systemic changes we want to bring.
