What if the economy existed to help people and communities flourish within the limits of our living planet?
What if success was measured not simply by growth, consumption, and profit, but by wellbeing, resilience, participation, ecological health, and the strength of our relationships?
Around Australia and across the world, people are already working to make this vision a reality.
Researchers, entrepreneurs, community organisers, cooperatives, artists, policymakers, educators, local governments, activists, and everyday citizens are exploring practical alternatives to "business as usual" and creating new ways of organising our economies and communities.
The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) exists to connect these people, ideas, and initiatives.
And now, through the launch of the NENAsphere, it's easier than ever to become part of the movement.
What is the NENAsphere?
The NENAsphere is NENA's new online membership and community platform.
More than a membership portal, it's a shared space where people from across Australia's new economy movement can connect, collaborate, learn, and take action together.
Whether you're deeply involved in creating change or just beginning to explore new economy ideas, the NENAsphere provides opportunities to engage in ways that suit your interests, experience, and availability.
It's a place to find your people, discover new ideas, share your work, and contribute to building a more democratic, localised, and regenerative future.
Why Become a Member?
Membership gives you access to a growing ecosystem of people and projects working towards positive economic transformation.
As a member, you'll be able to:
🌱 Join Member-Led Hubs
Connect with others exploring topics such as:
- Systems Change
- Localisation
- Degrowth
- Regenerative Business
- Storytelling
- Good Governance & Democracy
- Ecological Economics
- Research
- Human Habitats
- And more
Hubs provide spaces for discussion, collaboration, resource sharing, events, and collective learning.
🤝 Connect with a National Network
Meet researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, community organisers, artists, policymakers, students, and changemakers from across Australia.
NENA has always been a place where diverse perspectives come together. The NENAsphere makes those connections easier than ever.
📚 Access Exclusive Resources
Members receive access to a growing library of resources, recordings, guides, and learning opportunities.
This includes access to NENA's Building a New Economy course featuring leading thinkers and practitioners from across the new economy movement.
🎙️ Participate in Projects and Initiatives
Many of NENA's activities are driven by members.
Whether it's contributing to the Voices of the New Economy podcast, helping organise events, supporting research projects, joining working groups, or collaborating on community initiatives, there are many ways to get involved.
🌟 Step Into Leadership
NENA is a member-owned cooperative.
Members can take on leadership roles through hub convening, project teams, governance groups, working groups, and strategic initiatives.
If you've ever wanted to play a more active role in shaping Australia's new economy movement, NENA provides pathways to do exactly that.
More Than a Network
NENA is not built around a single ideology, solution, or economic model.
Instead, we bring together people from diverse traditions including ecological economics, wellbeing economics, localisation, cooperative enterprise, regenerative development, systems thinking, community wealth building, degrowth, First Nations perspectives, and many others.
We believe that creating a new economy requires collaboration across sectors, disciplines, communities, and worldviews.
The NENAsphere provides a home for those conversations.
Help Shape the Future
One of the things that makes NENA unique is that members don't simply consume content—they help create the organisation itself.
As a member-owned cooperative, NENA is governed by its members. Through our governance groups, hubs, projects, and events, members play an active role in determining priorities, shaping strategy, and directing resources.
Your membership helps strengthen the infrastructure needed to support new economy initiatives across Australia while ensuring that NENA remains community-led and democratically governed.
Join Us
The challenges facing our society and planet are complex, but so too are the opportunities.
Across Australia, people are already experimenting with new ways of producing, sharing, governing, caring, and living together.
The future is not something that happens to us.
It is something we create together.
If you're looking for a community of people committed to building a fairer, more democratic, localised, and regenerative economy, we'd love to welcome you to the NENAsphere.
Join the NENAsphere today and become part of Australia's member-led movement for a new economy.