WEAll Weekly Update – February 5

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 Economics of Biodiversity – Dasgupta Review

“It would seem then that, ultimately, we each have to serve as judge and jury for our own actions. And that cannot happen unless we develop an affection for Nature and its processes. As that affection can flourish only if we each develop an appreciation of Nature’s workings, the Review ends with a plea that our education systems should introduce Nature studies from the earliest stages of our lives, and revisit them in the years we spend in secondary and tertiary education. The conclusion we should draw from this is unmistakable: if we care about our common future and the common future of our descendants, we should all in part be naturalists.”

Crack the Crises – The Global Goals

“Join organisations from across the UK, advocating for a better future for people and planet, have come together in this new coalition. We want to bring people together to tackle these crises by taking individual actions, by supporting others and by asking decision-makers to act.”

The Little Book of Flourishing – The Flourishing Institute

“Resilient children are made, not born. Children become resilient as a result of the levels of stress and nurturing that they experience early on in life. If our early experiences are dysfunctional they will lead to changes in the way we respond and behave. The healthier the relationships a child has, the more likely he or she will be able to recover from trauma and thrive.”

Achieving an Economy of Wellbeing in Europe – Healthy Europe

“All Policies for a Healthy Europe is calling on the EU and its Member States to step up to the challenge and grasp the opportunity offered by the pandemic to effectively move beyond GDP as the main indicator for economic and all other policies”

Quarterly of the European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies – Opinion Piece from Katherine Trebeck “The Wellbeing Economy Agenda”

“Why go back to an economy that treats many of our most essential workers so badly and which implicitly tolerates such inequalities? The economic systems of some countries generate insecurity, despair and loneliness, which spurs desperate searches for ways to cope, whether at the pill box or the ballot box.”

Job Openings & Opportunities

• Senior Manager, Thriving Cities Initiative (Copenhagen, North America or Durban) – C40 Cities
• Share a story: Who’s a great example of social change where money, power and accountability are with the people they’re meant to serve?
• Research Project: The Governance of Food Systems in Cities: Assessing Risks and Gaps for a Sustainable Transition in the Decade of Action
• Startup Team Call for Applications: Flourishing Business Canvas Project
• Research Project: Building a ‘Wellbeing Economy’: developing a capability-based approach to capturing the complexity of social justice on a healthy planet

What to Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUuJfuFttWc&list=PLRdZmkwPnpyahGTdMKy1wpXLhBUfZty3n&index=17&t=5s

• Crisis of Understanding? Paradigm shifts, priority changes and future of the state – OPSI feat. Katherine Trebeck
• Building Back Better: Reform and Renewal after COVID – feat. Katherine Trebeck
• How Soon Is NOW? A Conversation with filmmaker Claudia Rinke
• Working Practices – Katherine Trebeck
• South Feminist Futures Festival
• The Wellbeing Economy #1 – Hosted by Pakhuis de Zwijger

Listen Up

• Debunking the myth of Homo Economicus – Upstream Podcast via Shareable
• Pitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision – FEASTA
• Is Capitalism Racist? – Podcast from Open Democarcy
• The Wellbeing Economy Lessons for the Future Policy Lab Podcast
• Discover WEAll Youth and the Wellbeing Economy
• Katherine Trebeck on BBC Scotland (2:36)

Upcoming Events

• February 11: Economy of Wellbeing: A New Holistic Approach to achieve the Agenda 2030 goals – Ministry of Social Affairs & Health, Finland
• Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
• Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab
• February 10: From Organizations as Machines to Living Organisms – Dr. Claudia Gross
• February 10: Sacred Civics: What would it mean to build seven generation cities? – Cities@Tufts
• February 11: Understanding Systemic Racism: “Ambedkarite Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Practice”
• February 11: Reinventing Research for Society – THRIVE Institute
• February 17: Organizing for Food Sovereignty in Boston: A Personal History – Cities@Tufts
• February 24: Slower by Design, Not Disaster – Peter A. Victor
• February 25: Understanding Systemic Racism: “The Role of the Radical Writer”
• March 10: Exploring Invisible Women Syndrome – Cities@Tufts
• May 19 & 20: Impact Summit – FutureX

WEAll Originals  

Blogs:

• A ‘Market for Values’ as an instrument for human and ecological wellbeing – Marco Senatore
• WEAll Weekly Update – January 29
• Economics for the People – Republished AEON Piece by Dirk Philipsen
• Village in the City – Building micro-local community around the world – a WEAll ‘Wellbeing Economy Correspondents’ Blog
• WEAll Weekly Update – January 22
• Wellbeing Economy Messaging Guide Event Recap
• What might social media look like in a Wellbeing Economy?
• The 2021 Wellbeing Economy Reading List

Publications:

• 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