DO IT: NEW BUSINESS MODELS
How to resist major corporations while enabling healthier local economies?
A network of over 250 social movements, civil society organizations (CSOs), trade unions and communities Fighting Monopoly Power: How States and Cities Can Beat Back Corporate Control and Build Thriving Communities, Big Box Toolkit Investigating […]
Community Barter Groups
Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars, put together by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Barter markets: sustaining people and nature in the Andes Panamédica Cooperativa de Salud […]
How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.
Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level […]
Beyond GDP
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Creating Community businesses to serve the community’s needs
52 Alivehoods Raising Dough, Community-Supported Industry Upskilling for a Post-Growth Future Together Two Fold: A Community-Supported Bakery this article on the Vikalp Sangam website Words: Mobilized News, Local Futures, Communities Production: Mobilized News
Thinking Globally, Take Action Locally
Words: Local Futures, Mobilized News Production: Mobilized News How to Start a Buy Local Campaign Building “Buy Local” Campaigns that Shift Culture and Spending.
How to create or join a community shared resources network
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How to create a worker owned Cooperative
Words: Mobilized News, Local Futures, Producers: Resources: How to set up a worker-owned cooperative Toolbox How to convert a business to a worker-owned cooperative