WEAll Weekly Update – July 2

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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

An EU renewed sustainable finance strategy– Open Letter from Change Finance

“Financial flows must be diverted from unsustainable to sustainable activities and that investments in fossil fuel production and infrastructure must be halted immediately. It is also quite clear that this must be done at a rapid pace”

Silver-spoon oligarchs: how America’s 50 largest inherited wealth dynasties accelerate inequality– Report from inequality.org

“The U.S. continues to suffer from the extreme and growing wealth and power of inherited-wealth family dynasties – and the growth of their extreme wealth accelerated during the pandemic”

What we learned at the Stories for Life Virtual Gathering – Green Economy Coalition

“What do stories and story-telling have to do with the daunting challenges we face in the coming century? Turns out, quite a lot.”

IUTC Global Rights Index 2021

European Commission report on alternative indicators to GDP

 

Job Openings & Opportunities

• International Projects Coordinator – 2050 Climate Group [Scotland]
• Senior Organiser, Social Justice; Programme Support Officer; Board positions – NEON
• Programme Manager, Community Wealth Building – North Ayrshire Council [Scotland]
• Good Business Lab – various positions
• Open Call for Submissions – Stories for lIfe
• Senior or Principal (International Sustainable Transport Policy)
• Research Fellow Rethinking Public Value

What to Watch

• IUTC Global Rights Index – 10 worst countries 2021
• Imagining a Post-Capitalist World with Tim Jackson – Majority Report
• Is industrial policy the key to building back better? – UNCTADO event

Listen Up

• Reasons To Be Cheerful Podcast feat. Katherine Trebeck
• Leadership Moves with Mallika Dutt

Upcoming Events

• July 7: Governance of the Platform Economy: a Virtual Fishbowl Conversation
• July 13: Economy for the Common Good
• July 13: Economy for the Common Good
• July 14: Resourcing Reparations: Investing in Collective HealingResourcing Reparations: Investing in Collective Healing
• July 21: Caring for Every Body: Organising Towards Disability JusticeCaring for Every Body: Organising Towards Disability Justice
• July 23: Advancing Wellbeing by Transcending the Barriers of Whiteness
• July 28: Co-creating methods to downscale the Doughnut: Share your thoughts!
• July 29: The Economics of Queerness
• Systems Innovation Event Series
• Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
• Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab
• Decolonising Economics Events

WEAll Originals  

Blogs:

• WEAll Can: new wellbeing economy hub launches for Canada and sovereign Indigenous nations
• “The battle for better” in policy making – WEAll authors in dialogue with Lorenzo Fioramonti
• Ecological Economics Event Recap

Publications:

• Five Pathways Towards Health-Environment Policy in a Wellbeing Economy, Eloi Laurent, Fabio Battaglia, Amanda Janoo, Alessandro Galli, Giorgia Dalla Libera Marchiori, Raluca Munteanu, Claire Sommer
• WEAll Medium Publication
• 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