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Worldwide Advances on the Ecological Front according to the Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Sunday, May 13, 2018, In : Re-embodiments politics

Here are a few examples of the many new directions, experiments, and models of the wellbeing economy already happening around the world.

The ability to communicate in real time with everyone empowers millions of people at virtually no cost and makes social organizing easier than ever before. Peer-to-peer networking has become a reality, whether sharing information, data, software, goods, services, car rides, accommodation, lending and/or political strategies.
Renewable energy allows for decentr...

'The Paris Climate-Change Spectacular'

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Monday, July 27, 2015, In : Activism

ETC Group
09 July 2015

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December will feature all the tightly choreographed production values of a Hollywood blockbuster. The cast will be huge: presidents and prime ministers at center stage, supported by thousands of extras, including protesters, riot police, and busloads of media. The script may still be under wraps, but the plot has already leaked: This time, in sharp contrast to the failed negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, the plane...