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The Social Commons: Our Five Pillars

Where We Started From Our journey began with the planning of a fall 2019 symposium exploring the relevance of the Social Commons as a framework...

Inclusive, Equitable Communities: Ensuring Human Rights

As we contend with the ravages of a global pandemic and plan our recovery, Canadians have discovered, as in other times of crisis, what...

Social Rights and Protections

The foundation laid for social rights and a social contract In the mid-20th century, after fifteen years of the Great Depression and the Second World...

Sustainable Eco-Systems: Economies Living in Harmony with Nature

How Do We Ensure Sustainable Eco-Systems? Living through the pandemic has exposed how precarious so much of our social and economic life really is.  It...

Creating a Human Needs Economy

The post-pandemic economy: More of the same? As the disruption of the pandemic nears its end, we begin to imagine post-pandemic life in all of...

Deepening Democracy: Strengthening Democracy and Civil Society

What Is Democracy’s Place in the Commons? Living through the pandemic has exposed how precarious so much of our social and economic life. It revealed...

more STORIES focused on the five pillars

A medical ‘right to repair’ can empower consumers — and save lives

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Imagine waiting weeks or months for your wheelchair’s battery or custom cushions to be replaced. This...

A new Treaty for a Sustainable and Just Future?

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net A High-Level Political Forum – described as one of the most important events of the ...

Why Canada must act urgently to give undocumented migrants legal status

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Since the Canadian government announced in December 2021 its intention to address the estimated 300,000 to...

Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Climate change is a huge, complicated problem. Therefore, many people have an understandable tendency to mentally...

How to start Participatory Budgeting in your city

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net Has your city been making cuts to schools, libraries, firefighters, and social services ...

Youth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in Hawaii

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate...

Envisioning democratic and ecological cities

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org f sustainability requires a sustainable democracy, then cities may be the places where democracy is most...

Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net Last week, the Rocky Mountian Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), Shareable, and a growing list of partners...

Extending the Sustainable Development Goals to 2050 — a road map

Click here to view original web page at www.nature.com The world should redouble its efforts on the SDGs, not abandon them. ...

A Shareable explainer: What is the Solidarity Economy?

Click here to view original web page at ccednet-rcdec.ca Note: this piece was originally published on Shareable. We stand at a historic moment—a crossroads in the...

Marxism, the Land, and the Global Working Class

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com When it comes to contemporary ecological and anti-colonial politics, there is perhaps no more central factor...

Ontario’s health-care system is in crisis. More privatization isn’t the answer

Click here to view original web page at www.tvo.org OPINION: Yes, we need more facilities, and we need specialized facilities that can efficiently process procedures....

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Key Ideas Despite the regional Escazú Agreement coming into force in 2021 to ensure the protection of...

Walking With Giants: How Economic Thought and Policy Evolves

Click here to view original web page at www.progressive-economics.ca Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow on the Future for Workers ...

How creating place-based bio-region solutions can change the world

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org In a world of onrushing crises, where the level of change required to meet them boggles...

Sufficiency and human thriving: towards an eco-social economy

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The only exit from the ‘polycrisis’ is a corridor of sufficiency between meeting need and avoiding...

Building a Community Economy Ecosystem? 15 key components that led to success of Manitoba ecosystem.

Click here to view original web page at ccednet-rcdec.ca How did CCEDNet Manitoba come to be? We spoke with Brendan, who served as Director of CCEDNet...

University encampments highlight critical issues on the right to protest

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The array of student encampments on university campuses in protest of Israel’s ongoing military operations in...

Climate change is a human rights issue

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In April, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a group of seniors...

Canadian governments must urgently collaborate to support refugee students

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Unprecedented global destabilization continues to force communities to migrate and seek sanctuary. The seemingly endless count...

Nation-states are destroying the world. Could a ‘bioregions’ legal framework be the answer?

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Panchi nadiya pawan ke jhonkeKoi sarhad na inhe rokeSarhadein insaano ke liye haiSocho tumne aur maine...

Ocean Action on Global Agenda Needed as Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ...

Historic Haida Nation agreement shows the world how to uphold Indigenous rights

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The recent agreement reached between the Haida Nation and the government of British Columbia — called...

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Key Ideas: Civil society and Indigenous rights groups are calling for greater public participation and transparency in...

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