Author: Matthew Thompson
The Greater Ohio Policy Center released an independent analysis of an innovative model for neighborhood recovery being piloted in a Cleveland neighborhood, finding promising results for this block-by-block holistic approach…
Put your passion for social enterprise to work overseas. Students for Social Impact placements provide the opportunity for talented students to contribute to life-changing social enterprises in Canada or the…
Originally published by axiomnews.com With news like that of the heightened risk of inflation and even more jobs on the line as Target announces its plans to pull out of…
Our world is based on nested dependencies (see work by Bob Doppelt, Peter Senge as well as Bob Willard). The environment is all-encompassing with society being nested in the environment…
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba and the Canadian CED Network have partnered to launch The View From Here 2015: Manitobans Call for a Renewed Poverty Reduction Plan….
About 60% of people in North America will be making Valentine’s Day purchases this year, totaling about $20 billion. In most communities, great gifts are available from independent restaurants, florists,…
Charles Montgomery has travelled around the world to better understand what it means to have a Happy City, how we can build it by focusing on what makes us truly…
Originally published by canoe.ca Ribbon cutting at the grand opening of the Community Carrot co-op grocery store in Halifax, December 11, 2014.(Global Voices photo) Paul Cranidge lives in an urban…
For Alex Wood, Senior Director, Policy and Markets at Sustainable Prosperity, the concept of new economies is directly aligned with that of green economies. Currently, Alex is working on the…
Key elements of new economies include: Resourcefulness: Utilising unused resources, seeing opportunity in what was traditionally considered waste; Disruption: breaking down the old and creating better brighter solutions; Increased citizen…
It’s important to be clear about the language we’re using. Certainly there are new economic arrangements being formed in various places and at various scales, and those innovations are important…
Last year was a busy one for CCEDNet. Here is an overview of some of our accomplishments. 2014 Highlights • Website traffic has almost doubled in the last two years,…