WEAll Weekly Update – June 4

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

Half-Earth or Whole-Earth? Green or transformative recovery? Where are the voices from the Global South?

“To succeed we need the Global North to shed its remnant colonialism and to acknowledge the central role of the Global South, both in the specific arena of conservation and in the wider paradigms of planetary wellbeing”

Climate Litigation as Climate Activism: What Works?

“In this briefing we examine this wave of post-Paris legal mobilisation. We discuss the who, why, how and what for, of this new wave of activity that has not been quietened by increased multilevel commitments to take steps to manage the climate crisis.”

Five key dimensions of post-growth business: Putting the pieces together – Jennifer Hinton

“The intention of developing this five-dimensions framework is to offer a more coherent and concrete theoretical basis for ongoing discussions about which types of business are compatible, or incompatible, with post-growth pathways.”

Can we legitimately say something? – Rabia Abrar

“Since my day job revolves around promoting the creation of a Wellbeing Economy, I could legitimately say something about this situation [events in the Occupied Palestinian Territories] if I can show how it is relevant to that. Let’s see…”

The Importance of Resource Security for Poverty Eradication – Global Footprint Network

“72% of the world population live in countries faced with a precarious situation. These countries both (1) run a biological resource deficit (where demand for biological resources exceeds regeneration) and (2) generate less than world-average income, limiting their ability to purchase resources from elsewhere.”

Public Banks and COVID-19

“Five overarching and promising lessons stand out: public banks have the potential to respond rapidly; to fulfill their public purpose mandates; to act boldly; to mobilize their existing institutional capacity; and to build on ‘public-public’ solidarity. In short, public banks are helping us navigate the tidal wave of Covid-19 at the same time as private
lenders are turning away.”

WEAll Publication: Health and the Environment

WEAll Scotland Report: Business and a Wellbeing Economy

How to achieve a ‘health renaissance’ – Social Europe

“First and foremost, recognise the health-environment nexus as the core of planetary health and evolve from cost-benefit analysis to recognition of ‘co-benefits’”

Una politica ambientale-sanitaria per il Rinascimento della sanità globale

Rethinking Values and Well-being – Dirk Philipsen

“Today, we can retell the stories above in greater detail, and with more knowledge and understanding. Yet the debate remains the same: how to think about the benefits and costs of growth-based progress? Or, even more simply: what constitutes a good life?”

Well-Being Economics – Paul Dalzi and Trudi Cameron

“This article provides an overview of well-being economics, with particular attention to public health”

Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech by Kean Birch, DT Cochrane, Callum Ward

We analyse the transformation of personal data into an asset in order to explore how personal data is accounted for, governed, and valued by Big Tech firms and other political-economic actors (e.g., investors). 

House of Commons Finance Bill

Job Openings & Opportunities

• DEAL Buiness & Enterprise Lead
• The Ellen MacArthur Foundation – various positions
• The Landecker Democracy Fellowship
• The Great Recovery
• The Scottish DeGrowth Commission Open Call
• Campaign Officer on Fiscal Policy– European Youth Forum
• Submit a story – GenWriters Club
• Bounce Beyond Call for Self-Nominations
• Future Rising Fellowships
• Happier Lives Insitute– Various Positions

What to Watch

• Justice Now Talks – tackling Europe’s colonial past
• Fiscal Policy, Debt and Politics: Lessons from Latin America
• Donata Schoeller Plenary Session – Gendlin Symposium 2021
• What is Ecological Economics – Dan O’Neil
• Covid 19 from an Intersectional Gendered Perspective – Looking Beyond the Obvious – with Liepollo Pheko
• Seeding Change (Cambio de siembra) I Economía positiva with Ana Gómez

Listen Up

• Alternativ økonom with Amanda Janoo
• Is there life after the growth imperative?
• Global Engagement Initiative
• The Useful and Kind Podcast – Mental Helath
• Decolonization in Palestine – The Red Nation
• Gopal Dayaneni on the Exploitation of Soil and Story
• Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions

Upcoming Events

• June 2-4: Conference – Women, Solidarity, and Ecology
• June 7: World Environment Day 2021 International Expert Virtual Roundtable on Sustainable Growth
• June 7: Mission Economy: A moonshot guide to changing capitalism
• June 8: Stories for Life Event
• June 8: Conferência – O Caminho Para Uma Economia Do Bem-Estar
• June 8: Ethical Finance 2021
• June 5-27: Ancient Wisdom Training
• June 15: Postgrowth and Degrowth: The (Im)possibility of Green Growth and its Alternatives
• June 20 : World Localization Day – Local Futures
• June 24: Master Talk Series: Good finance for the new normal: The future of social finance in the UK
• June 24: Research Jam with NENA
• June 24: What Do Trade and Manufacturing Have to Do with Racial Justice?
• June 23-25: Ouishare Fest
• July 5: Economy for the Common Good
• Systems Innovation Event Series
• Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
• Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab

WEAll Originals  

Blogs:

• How the Philippines is Using ‘Community Pantries’ to Address Socioeconomic Inequalities Amid the Pandemic
• Five Pathways Towards Health-Environment Policy in a Wellbeing Economy
• [Report] Business and a Wellbeing Economy: Creating Thriving Businesses and a Thriving Scotland
• Two sides of the same coin: New Zealand’s 2021 ‘recovery’ and ‘wellbeing’ Budget

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