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NENA works to facilitate connections, showcase and promote innovative projects, build peer-to-peer learning and use collective strategies to create and advocate for change, so that we can build a strong movement of people demanding, creating and benefiting from a ‘new’ economy.
Latest New Economy News
Housing for Degrowth
October 14, 2018
The book Housing for Degrowth is the focus of 26 events in a European train tour of 11 countries from 26 October to 4 December. Co-editors Anitra Nelson and François Schneider will talk to students, degrowth activists, fellow academics — indeed anyone and everyone interested in housing and urban (de)growth in a range of cities. Read more...New Release! “Degrowth in the Suburbs”
October 12, 2018
New Release! Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, by Sam Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for ... Read more...
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
October 11, 2018
On September 29th, David Bollier—the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program Director—delivered a talk at The Land Institute’s annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas, titled "The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination.”
Read more...Towards an Economy of the Commons: An Evening with Michel Bauwens
October 9, 2018
Story by Russ Grayson
HERE'S THE QUESTION: can we build a new economy, a better economy that is different to that dominated by the profit-seeking private sector or the bureaucratic government sector?
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