Category: What’s New
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,…
Building Resilient Community Conference invites explorations of how various ‘dark horses’ in the broad North Atlantic – including minorities, small towns, peripheries, aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice…
Thrive Calgary introduces new learning community in January If more people have access to community economic development learning opportunities, more community economic development action will emerge in Calgary. That’s the…
One of the challenges of trying to keep track of community economic development (CED) in a country like Canada is that there is so much going on in disparate places…