Cherokee Nation Citizen Works to Change the Face of Construction, Offer Affordable Housing Solution
I want to change the face of construction. A predominantly male-focused industry, there are plenty of opportunities for women.
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Review: Paradigms for Adaptation by Walter Haugen
Whether you’re looking for hands-on strategies, a deeper understanding of the big-picture frameworks underpinning those strategies, or thought-provoking reflections on the current state of the world and its likely future, this book has something for you.
Scaling up democratic ownership: Adapting the employee ownership model to build truly democratic businesses
Democratic forms of ownership, such as worker-owned businesses, worker co-operatives, and stakeholder co-operatives, decommodify ownership by linking it directly to those who participate in production.
In the Business of ‘Thriving’ with a Cambridge Pracademic
Visser issues a bold call to respond to our biggest societal and biospheric challenges and convert them into opportunities to ‘thrive’.
12 economic growth myths and how to counter them
It’s essential that we stabilise the global economy. More people understand this every year, but corporations and governments don’t, and so we continue to destroy nature for profit. They’ve built up a bank of myths around the necessity of perpetual growth. Here are 12 common ones, and how to respond to them.
How to build an ecological economy – Begin in the communities where we live
The problems afflicting our world sometimes seem intractable. We have the greatest leverage to make change in the places where we live. Let’s use it.
The Global Stakes of the U.S. Election: Debt, The Dollar, and Military Power
In this roundtable discussion, Nate is joined by financial analysts Luke Gromen and Michael Every to explore the precarious nature of current fiscal practices, the relationship between military power and economic stability, and the potential need for radical policy shifts worldwide.
What Ideas From the Paleolithic Are Still With Us in the Modern World?
An interview with renowned economic historian Michael Hudson on where our calendar comes from, his collaborations with the late intellectual David Graeber, and the long-lost practice of forgiving debt.
More on Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxis
Orthopraxis is correct action. It is doing things that are deemed good, either by a faith system or by practical application, achieving the most good in effect. The root of praxis and practical is the same. Praxis is practice. It is discipline. It is embodied act. It is work. Orthopraxis is doing the right work.
Billionaires Are Not Going to Save Us
Our politicians, news agencies, and larger population must stop paying homage to billionaires who will profit off our predicaments or politicians who will try to capitalize on any crisis. It’s time to see that projects of survival and solidarity among those struggling the most are our only true hope for a future that will otherwise be ever more perilous.
An Atlas for Urban Commons of the World
Stefan Gruber, a Carnegie Mellon professor of architecture and urbanism, sees cities as a prime site of struggle between capitalism and commons, and at the same time more accessible than most national or international policy venues.
Archiving Ancestral Knowledge to Co-Create New Economic Paradigms
Reclaming archiving is not just about organizing the past but unlocking potential for new knowledge and endless possibilities beyond colonial modalities of control.