Awakening to a new economics
Retrofit Balsall Heath (RBH) is a bold, resident-led movement reshaping our neighbourhood in Birmingham from the ground up. Born from grassroots determination and built on the combined deep local knowledge … Continue reading Retrofit Balsall Heath – Passionate Community powered retrofit!
On 20th September I left home before sunrise to travel 400 miles to London. Then I marched with complete strangers and listened to an array of passionate speakers, some of whom … Continue reading ‘The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.’
Phil Callaghan is the Church Community Development Manager at Trussell (formerly known as the Trussell Trust). He is responsible for Trussell’s partnering with churches – the vision being to end hunger … Continue reading Wednesday 19th Nov 7 PM – Phil Callaghan Community Development Manager at Trussell
A post script to my blog, Total Disbelief, one year on. To our joy, and without needing a petition, after all, Parish Buying, the churches’ bulk-buying scheme has nowterminated its dealings with Total Energies and adopted … Continue reading Total Joy
In an age where so much of what we create is destined to be discarded, the idea of designing for disassembly offers the possibility of a quiet revolution. It’s a … Continue reading Weaving Futures – Further Reflections from the Sustainable Fashion Forum
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism argues that the capitalist system has been replaced by a new, even more exploitative economic order he calls technofeudalism. The book has generated significant … Continue reading Book review: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
One of the key arguments for continued economic growth is the oft repeated Neoliberal Mantra, ‘A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats.’ In other words constant, continual, perpetual, relentless, rapacious, Economic … Continue reading A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats -But Some Are More Lifted Than Others
BLOG: In an age when an individual can be richer than entire countries, Mike Zeidler, one of the Centre for Thriving Places’s co-founders and Board member invites us to reimagine … Continue reading What does the Rich List really measure?Â
Joy in Enough 