WEAll Weekly Update – May 6

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!

Listen Up

• Extreme Listening with Deeyah Khan | A Bit of Optimism (Podcast): Episode 11.
• Eat the Rich– Invisibilia
• On Healing the Planet and Ourselves from the Ground Up with Erin McMorrow and Della Z Duncan
• Upstream Podcast: What is…. Feminism for the 99%? – What Next Summit
• The Five Ways to Happy Workplaces
• The Economics of Arrival with Katherine Trebeck

Weekly Reads

Towards a wellbeing economy that serves people and nature – European Environmental Bureau

This report, “provides a blueprint for the transition to a wellbeing economy which is built on three main pillars which can be referred to as the three Ds: the dismantling of exploitative structures, democratising economic governance and degrowing the economy.”

A review of the evidence on developing and supporting policy and practice networks – Carnegie UK

“There are many reasons that people choose to develop networks as an approach to achieving a goal. We were interested in building our understanding of the evidence on the effectiveness of networks as a vehicle for policy and practice change.”

A counterintuitive response to the environmental crisis – Systems Innovation Paris Hub

“To successfully change a system, we first need to understand its functioning. And to understand a system’s functioning we need to be able to observe its structure”

Build Back Fairer – Fair Trade Advocacy Office

“The current crisis has shown us not only how interdependent we all are but also how the destruction of nature, the deforestation as well as the climate and health crises are all interrelated, and share the exploitation of people and planet as a common root cause.”

How to Define and Build a Regenerative Business– Sustainable Brands

“Business needs to build regenerative systems that restore, renew, and heal, leaving nature and society better off and more resilient than we found them.”

Let’s not get back to normal – it wasn’t so nice– Scope NI

“Katherine Trebeck, Senior Strategic Advisor for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance argues the case for radical, lasting change.”

Introducing the Library of Economic Possibility

“The Ideaspace publishes weekly interviews and essays with authors, artists, designers, economists, researchers, venture capitalists, political activists, and others working on the frontiers of value and self-interest. “

A Future World: 10 things you can do to change everything and combat the climate crisis

“On Earth Day, the writers behind new book Planet on Fire set down a manifesto for ecological breakdown – this is what we can do right now, and how”

The importance of resource security for poverty eradication – Mathis Wackernagel, Laurel Hanscom, Priyangi Jayasinghe, David Lin, Adeline Murthy, Evan Neill & Peter Raven 

“We analysed the unequal exposure of national economies to biocapacity constraints. We found that a growing number of people live in countries with both biocapacity deficits and below-average income. Low income thwarts these economies’ ability to compete for needed resources on the global market.”

From a Harmless Bet to Russian Roulette – Katherine Trebeck and Dirk Philipsen

Shall we continue to follow past wealth creation and place faith in inventiveness based on markets and monetary valuations? Or shall we take a broader perspective that acknowledges the enormous costs of wealth production and values life beyond the marketplace? 

Systems Design Toolkit

Systemic Design Toolkit helps you co-create interventions to tackle organisational and societal complexity.

Job Openings & Opportunities

• Recruiting now: WEAll COP26 Music Event Producer
• Share your Climate Stories – 350.org
• UK Fellowship with Acumen Academy
• Project Manager Sustainable Consumption and Society – Hot or Cool
• Policy and Practice Officer – EuroHealthNet
• Scared Economics Online Course
• SOAS Feminist Economist Network Writing Opportunity
• Cities and Regions Lead – DEAL
• The U&K International Summer School 2021

What to Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOPnDcxvcgM

• Seeding Change (Cambio de siembra) I Economía positiva with Ana Gómez
• The Economy of Wellbeing: A Holistic Approach to Achieve the Agenda 2030 Goals – with Amanda Janoo
• Powerful Communities: Wealth & Wellbeing conference – with Katherine Trebeck
• A Feminist Lens on Migration & Trade: Women Reframe the Policy Debate in a COVID World.
• How Do We Design Policies for a Wellbeing Economy? – World Happiness Fest
• 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

Upcoming Events

• May 8 & 9: Future of Work Global Dialogue
• May 11: WEAll Talk: “Structurally speaking, what are we creating?”
• May 11: Women at the forefront of the Wellbeing Economy
• May 11: Weaving Systemic Alternatives from the Global South/Tejiendo Alternativas Sistémicas del Sur Global
• May 13: Work-Life Conflict and Mental Health – Swedish Organisation for Global Health
• May 15: Systems Change Alliance Summit- Beyond the Great Reset
• May 18: WEAll Spokesperson Training for Policy Design Guidebook
• 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
• May 26 & 27: European Social Economy Summit
• June 2: Video Screening & Q&A: ‘Ecological Economics’
• June 2-4: Conference – Women, Solidarity, and Ecology
• June 5-27: Ancient Wisdom Training
• June 20 : World Localization Day – Local Futures
• June 23-25: Ouishare Fest
• Systems Innovation Event Series
• Next Economy MBA “Meet the Instructors” – LIFT Economy
• Regeneration Pollination “Speed Networking” Events – the Global Regeneration CoLab

WEAll Originals  

Blogs:

• Recruiting now: WEAll COP26 Music Event Producer
• WEAll, the 2021 UK Budget, and the Aoteraroa New Zealand WEAll hub
• Homo Economicus – Upstream Podcast
• Fashion Revolution Week – A series of thoughts on fast fashion
• WEAll California Narratives Event Recap
• I was born on a waxing moon – a poem by Sarah Gamrani

Publications:

• 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