WEAll Weekly Update – April 16

As part of our work to amplify the important work in the Wellbeing Economy movement, these WEAll Weekly Update blogs will share some of the latest and greatest updates from our membership and beyond. Please use the comment box to share any relevant updates from this week and keep the conversation going!

Weekly Reads

The public health case for a Green New Deal – Med Act

“The report identifies the root causes of interconnected climate, social and health injustice, and outlines the case for five key policy demands: decarbonising the UK economy; creating green jobs for all; combating air pollution to ensure healthy air; providing quality homes for all; and delivering food and land justice.”

Were Economists Prepared for the Pandemic?– Rethinking Economics

“Increasingly, it is economists that governments turn to when responding to  these crises, but do their economics courses do enough to prepare them for this vital  role?” 

Goliath and Goliath: Asset Management and Ownership in the UK Economy

“This briefing – which introduces Common Wealth’s programme of work on the future of the sector – explores the implications of this rise and concentration in assets and, by extension, economic power, setting out key questions for policymakers, particularly with respect to this industry’s growing role in our response to global challenges, from ensuring a strong and fair Covid-19 recovery to tackling the climate crisis.”

Pathways out of Capitalism: Building Forward, New and Radical

“Anti-capitalist organising must be rooted in a commitment to see the world for what it is but at the same time push forward with unrelenting hope that another world, a better one, is possible.”

Better Business Act

“We’re joining the coalition because we believe that now is the right time to raise the bar for British business across the board, it’s time for broader accountability to be a legal requirement for the many, not just a moral imperative for the few.” – Arlo Brady, Freuds

The Principles of Environmental Justice

“Environmental Justice demands that public policy be based on mutual respect and justice for all peoples, free from any form of discrimination or bias.”

Community Currencies as Crisis Response: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Kenya

“This paper presents the results of what may be the world’s first randomized control trial on community currencies. In 2020, Grassroots Economics’ Community Inclusion Currency (CIC) model was adopted by the Kenya Red Cross as a humanitarian response to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

The Wellbeing Transition – Eloi Laurent

“The purpose is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity”

Inclusive and sustainable economies: leaving no one behind (executive summary)

“There is a social gradient in health: the lower an individual’s socioeconomic position, as defined by their job, qualifications, income, wealth, and where they live, the worse their health. It has been estimated that, between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2018, over a third of deaths in England were attributable to socioeconomic inequality. Such avoidable inequalities are unjust, and there is both a moral and economic argument for acting at scale to reduce health inequalities.”

Good Lives for All in Greater Manchester

Nothing we describe in this vision for the city-region is impractical or unachievable. Good things might be already happening somewhere, but they need to be happening everywhere.

Job Openings & Opportunities

• Various Positions – School of International Futures
• Political adviser and APPG co-ordinator – Green Alliance
• Certificate in Creating Wellbeing
• Professor of Wellbeing Economy – University of Glasgow
• Editorial assistant – Open Democracy
• 2021 Photographic Challenge – Systems Change Alliance
• Associate Academic Officer — Sustainable and Equitable Post-Covid Recovery – United Nations Univeristy
• What’s your vision for the future? – Submit your story!

What to Watch

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• WEAllTalk March 2021 – Amanda Janoo – Fostering a femxle-led transformation of economic thinking.
• Global Challenge – Local Leadership To Achieve Collective Action on Climate Change-Seminar with Amanda Janoo, Ayo Fatunde and Dirk Phillipsen
• Decolonizing the mind with Ngugi wa Thiong’o
• WEAll Talk: Exploring the intersection of biological and socioeconomic issues in the time of Covid-19 – Liepollo Lebohang Pheko
• Wellbeing Economy Petition Launch – CUSP UK
• Hunger for Justice S2 E2: Rich Earth, Red Earth & The Fight For Land Justice in the Phillippines via Possible Futures
• Woman Power Conference with WEAll Ambassador Liepollo
• WEAll Policy Design Guide Launch Event Recording
• Webinar: Lifestyle change & system change are two sides of the same coin – UNEP EGR
• TEDxGRC Possible Futures | Panel 3: PLURIVERSALITY & REGENERATION
• The Economy of Wellbeing: A New Holistic Approach to achieve the Agenda 2030 goals
• Peter Victor: Slower by design not disaster. managing without growth

Listen Up

• The Economics of Arrival with Katherine Trebeck
• Tyson Yunkaporta: Untold World
• Did We Go too Far?
• PB or not PB: Participatory Budgeting To Give Citizens Control
• Power of the Streets
• Robin Wall Kimmerer in Conversation with Robert Macfarlan‪e‬
• Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo 
• Decolonising Design Thinking– The Conversation Factory
• Health, justice and the environment – the core issues– FEASTA

Upcoming Events

• April 21: WEAll Policy Design Guidebook: Overview Event @ 10:00 Boston
• April 21: WEAll Policy Design Guidebook: Overview Event @ 17:00 Boston
• April 12: Towards a Wellbeing Economy – Our New Economy (ONE)
• April 13: Promoting Economic Pluralism Coffee Club
• April 13: Improved Business Purchasing Practices as a way to Address Human Rights – What Role For EU policies?
• April 14: Banking on the community, investing locally for resilience
• April 15: The Road to Economic Recovery: What’s Next for Care and Climate?
• April 19: NowWhat?! Opening Ceremonies
• April 22: Towards a well-being economy that serves people and nature – EEB
• April 22: Exploring Urban Systems Innovation – Systems Innovation
• April 22: Rethink Economics @TUBerlin: Kick-Off

• April 23: Feminist Friday’s – Women in Migratioin Network
• April 27 & 28: SEWF 2021
• May 6: WEAll Policymakers Event
• May 11: Women at the forefront of the Wellbeing Economy
• May 19-20: Tech & Racial Equity Conference: Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
• May 17- 21: #ClimateExp0 Conference
• May 19 & 20: Impact Summit – FutureX
• Systems Innovation Event Series
• Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
• Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab

WEAll Originals  

Blogs:

• Guest Blog: Ross Cameron from Remade Network
• UK petition demands a shift to a Wellbeing Economy
• Ever Given consumerism a second thought?
• Faces of the Wellbeing Economy: Francesco Temperini, Rome, on multi-dimensional wellbeing analysis
• Policies for Economic Revolution: Some Ideas from the Womxn of 36×36
• Event Recap: WEAll Policy Design Guide launch
• Meet Jimmy Paul: WEAll Scotland’s New Director
• Love you: Public policy for intergenerational wellbeing
• Visions of a Wellbeing Economy: Tanzania
• New report calls for radical budget redesign to deliver children’s wellbeing
• The environmental impacts of corporate advertising

Publications:

• Children’s Wellbeing Budget by Dr. Katherine Trebeck
• WEAll Policy Design Guidebook
• Stories For Life
• Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide– Positive Money, PIRC, NEON, and WEAll
• Measuring Wellbeing, Rutger Hoekstra
• Business in the Wellbeing Economy, Olga Koretskaya & Gus Grosenbaugh

From the Archives

• 10 Principles to Build Back Better
• Rebuilding to a US Wellbeing Economy
• What is a Wellbeing Economy?
• The Business of Wellbeing Guide