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Community-based economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Community-based economics or just community economics encourages local substitution and a rejection of outside energy subsidy and coercion. Various specific programs for community economics and local currency, e.g. However, it is also increasingly a priority in urban economics, where moral purchasing and local purchasing are increasingly cogent concerns. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Community-based_economics   (120 words)

IV. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY Community-based economics and regional trade keep money circulating largely in the community and the region, rather than going to distant corporate headquarters as soon as a purchase is made. Humanizing economic relations is just one aspect of our broader objective: to shift toward a different way of life characterized by sustainability, regionalization, more harmonious balance between the natural ecosphere and the human-made technosphere, and revival of community life. Working people and the small business community are shouldering a disproportionate amount of the debt burden. www.gp.org /platform/2004/economics.html   (5558 words)

S/R 23: Community-Based Economics: Answers to Respondents Community-based economics is not a system, but rather a modality related to the quality of life. In some regions locally-oriented, community-based public enterprise would predominate while in other regions locally-oriented, community-based private enterprises would predominate. So, by this definition, primal communities that owned all things in common had not "instituted socialism," and merchants selling exotic spices during the time of the Roman Empire were not capitalists in the modern sense (they were engaging in private enterprise within the context of an economic system based on slave labor). www.greens.org /s-r/23/23-16.html   (1226 words)

Cooperative Economics The idea of community-based economic development has been generally considered by those in the field of development to involve the infusion of outside monetary and technical support. Fortunately, there are many examples of cooperative efforts that are community -owned and controlled--- where development decisions are made by local people and not simply well-intentioned outsiders or by "neo-colonial" interests. Local Cooperative Economics means just that--- an idea of local people cooperating with each other to provide for the essentials of living. home.earthlink.net /~rflyer/cooperativesub.html   (189 words)

S/R 21: Community-Based Economics (Welzer) Community-based economics implies that economic activity be local and humanly-scaled. I'll make the case that community-based economics constitutes an alternative to both capitalism and socialism; that it is very much in keeping with the Greens' valuation of diversity and decentralization; and that it has the potential to resonate with the public/electorate—and therefore should be highlighted in our organizing work and electoral campaigns. Economic relations must change, but at this point of historical crisis our overarching objective must be to consciously (albeit gradually) shift toward a different way of life—characterized by sustainability, a more harmonious balance between the natural ecosphere and the human-made technosphere, a recognition of limits, and a restoration of community. www.greens.org /s-r/21/21-04.html   (1621 words)

Vancouver Parecon Collective However, all who espouse community-based economics -- whether inclined to abolish or to retain markets and private enterprise to some degree -- are staunchly democratic, egalitarian, and pro-environment. Moreover, a democratic vote of a community does not provide its citizens with decision making power in proportion to the degree they are affected in cases where not all members of the community are equally affected by a particular economic choice. Saying that the ultimate power over all economic decisions resides in the community assembly where all have voice and one vote is not a good enough answer. users.resist.ca /~vancouverparecon/pareconenvironmentthree.html   (1824 words)

Community Based Learning Community-based learning is a teaching methodology and philosophy of reciprocal learning designed to put theory into practice by combining the elements of academic study with interactive community placements or research. Community-based learning has been recently offered at Smith as an option with the following majors: Classes for which Community Service Learning has been offered in the past include: www.smith.edu /sos/cbl.htm   (558 words)

Torah-Based Economics Owning valuable land is a privilege; landholders should pay rent to the community based on, and proportionate to, the value of land they hold. The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco has recently purchased two buildings next to its present downtown location for $28 million to alleviate pressure on other Jewish nonprofit agencies in that city which are facing expiring leases and "skyrocketing rents," according to the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California. It is both proper and imperative that the community recover for itself the value which the community as a whole, by its very existence, creates. www.progress.org /archive/torah01.htm   (990 words)

Conversation - #12 Oct/Nov 94 Community Policing that is controlled by the downtown establishment is not Community Policing....That's a semblance of Community Policing. The revolving loan fund would provide money for three kinds of businesses: existing businesses within that community that are being locked out of venture capital loans; start-up businesses; and businesses that want to create jobs for inner city youth. The second infrastructure that keeps money in the community is financial institutions that owe their existence and their perpetuation to the community itself. www.washingtonfreepress.org /12/Q&A.html   (1783 words)

The Economics of Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe Chapter 2 formulates a bio-economic model with the parks agency and the local community and their two land-uses to analyse wildlife-livestock conflict and welfare in a typical CAMPFIRE area. In the absence of extra economic incentives, the results are against devolution of conservation responsibilities to the local communities. If the local communities who live adjacent to the elephant see it as valueless nuisance then they cannot be trusted to be its good stewards. www.handels.gu.se /epc/archive/00003557   (506 words)

Vegetables and Fruits (Heirloom Varieties, Community-Based Stewardship). Vol. 1, SRB 98-05 Information was based on current research and the author's experience in growing all of the featured plants in her central California garden. The volume consists of 40 chapters on technological components and environmental, economic, and policy aspects of sustainable systems in both temperate and tropical zones, which were based on presentations from a 1988 international conference. Considered are how to quantify diversity, relationships of diversity to agroecosystem functions, and diversity's role in stabilizing the "agricultural hierarchy" (from the microplot or field level, to farm level, and ultimately to regional and global levels). www.nal.usda.gov /afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/srb9805.htm   (14123 words)

The Green Party of Canada - Community-Based Economics The Green Party of Canada - Community-Based Economics Provide more education on nutrition, food economics, healthy diets and lifestyles to schools, community centers and the local media. Commit to build the capacity of the community to provide all needed childcare and treat it with the importance it deserves. eglaw.greenparty.ca /platform2004/en/keyvalues.php?p=183   (699 words)

Perkins.html Feminist ecological economics, thus, provides both a theoretical grounding and a wealth of practical experience in how social change and community building takes place, and why it is necessary for women's well-being and for ecological/economic sustainability. Pietila's economics, centred around household or community provision of basic needs, would reflect the importance of women's work and reduce ecological destruction and material throughput without commodifying or monetizing these elements regarded as "externalities" in the current economic system. Second, feminist ecological economics places the community context in which households are situated at a more fundamental level of importance than the "external", production-oriented economy. www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /jshackel/iaffe/papers/Perkins.html   (5881 words)

Safe Trade Asia handicrafts fair trade store Both are also implicitly related to Community-Based Economics, as local trade in local goods with no reliance on alien organisms presents no ecological risk to its genomes, soil, or watersheds. Other safe trade reforms seek to advance sustainability by reducing reliance on energy subsidies and oil-based transport, and (indirectly) improves equity in economic affairs - that is, it promotes a safer political economy which is more respectful of life in general. Advocates point to the costs of emergency measures such as burning over one million cows suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease in the UK, smoke from which they calculated (based on dioxin levels) was to be expected to kill several hundred Britons from cancers in this generation. www.asia-handicrafts.com /fair-trade/safe-trade.htm   (772 words)

The Green Party of Canada - Decentralization Allow charities to create tax receipts for volunteer time, based on the provincial minimum wage. Volunteers, charities and not-for-profit organizations already make a huge contribution to Canada’s economic, social and natural environment, but this sector has been long neglected by government. The Green Party will invest $500 million per year in a "National Volunteering Initiatives" program to supplement funding for organizations that excel in serving the public interest so that they may increase their activities. eglaw.greenparty.ca /platform2004/en/keyvalues.php?p=182   (377 words)

Learn more about Appropriate technology in the online encyclopedia. It has adapted tools of nearby Mennonite communities to direct use in developing nations. The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada has a Centre for Appropriate Technology. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ap/appropriate_technology.html   (299 words)

undergraduteprogramme In addition to the special activities organized by the student – societies previously identified, students of Economics are also expected to participate actively in the community life of the University wide student body. Clearly, the current state of events presents the Department with a set of challenges in re-establishing its position in the upper tier of the global knowledge community in Economics. The average mark for the programme is based on grades score in all the courses taken including project. www.ui.edu.ng /deptofeconomics.htm   (4580 words)

The 1996 Platform of the Maine Green Party With community-based economics, diversity with strong community identity, gainful and meaningful employment, citizens will be truly engaged in the life and governance issues affecting them. Our 20/20 vision is focused on a peaceful and prosperous community life characterized by value-based grass roots democracy, environmental and economic sustainability, fulfilling and gainful work and leisure, and interdependence of individuals and their environment. Affirmative action advocates fair and impartial treatment for everyone while making an extra effort to identify and assist disadvantaged persons in securing employment, pursuing education, and utilizing community services. www.mainegreens.org /electoral/party/platform1996   (1204 words)

Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Park Forest Economics Justice Sermon Instead of community-based economics, we turned to greed economics. It doesn't look like a place where relatively wealthy people have no real wealth; where their "wealth" is based on spending habits, consumption, and looking like we're comfortable - living paycheck to paycheck, one small disaster from serious ruin. Professor Thandeka, in her book Learning to be White, argues that one of the reasons that we cannot fulfill Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of equality is that we do not understand the economic and class roots of this need to fulfill ourselves through consumption. members.aol.com /uuccpfil/sermons/economicsasif1.html   (1902 words)

EPA-Tools Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place "For a summary of the publication click on this PDF link". From Your Community to a Green Community A Two Day Workshop on becoming a Green Community - March 15-16, 2001, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV Summary of Land-Use Change Models Available for Community Use www.epa.gov /ecocommunity/tools.htm   (155 words)

East Nashville Green Party Homepage We must have a community controlled education system that effectively teaches our children academic skills, ecological wisdom, social responsibility and personal growth. We must develop new economic activities and institutions that will allow us to use our new technologies in ways that are humane, freeing, ecological and accountable and responsive to communities. We must have a decentralized democratic society with our political, economic and social institutions locating power on the smallest scale (closest to home) that is efficient and practical. www.engp.org   (819 words)

Community-Based Sustainable Economics The corporate market system is based on a competitive struggle to exploit people and nature for profit. Large businesses whose ownership is outside the community, or whose profits are transferred outside the community, should be required to invest in these local corporations. Too often communities are treated as mere sources of labor and materials, and as dumping grounds for toxic waste. www.cagreens.org /pl98/economy.htm   (2047 words)

Synthesis/Regeneration: Community Based Economics: A Real Alternative to Eco-socialism?@ HighBeam Research Today, many Green "populists" are for "community-based economics." What does that mean? Community Based Economics: A Real Alternative to Eco-socialism? According to its supporters, such as myself, community-based socialism (CBS) would have room for small businesses (though none for corporations), and would be based primarily on small workers' cooperatives. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:71200501&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (159 words)

North Carolina State University - Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources - Research - Forest Resource Economics & Management , stand-level optimization, business management, supply-demand modeling, integrated assessment, non-market valuation, sustainable development, welfare economics, community-based management, deforestation and development issues in the tropics, and public policy. The Department of Forestry's Forest Resource Economics, Management, and Policy Programs have the breadth, depth, and flexibility to allow graduate students to build strong graduate programs tailored to individual academic and career interests. Given the breadth of these studies, a strong graduate program in forest resource management and economics requires strengths not only within the Forestry Department but also in the supporting economics, statistics, and operations research disciplines. www.cfr.ncsu.edu /for/research/economic.html   (256 words)

1996 California Voter Information: Green Party Community-based economics to bring vitality to regional areas by decentralizing ownership and control of the economy Politics must reflect this reality, and political structures and processes must be based upon this concept if humanity is to survive. Social justice based on honoring diversity, self-determination and self-definition of all people primary96.ss.ca.gov /e/party/green1.html   (182 words)

The Arlington Courthouse Greens - The Ten Key Values Community Based Economics: We support the strengthening of local communities by encouraging economic self-reliance in all ways practical. We call for the return of local decision-making so individuals and communities may act in their own best interests. Grassroots Democracy: Citizens have the right and responsibility to participate in the environmental, political, and economic decisions that affect their lives. arlingtongreens.org /keyvals.html   (531 words)

Ten Key Values Of The Green Party Because the Earth community is imperiled and the current political system has proved ineffective, Green politics has arisen worldwide through Green parties and kindred grassroots movements. The Green Party of California stands on two legs: one in electoral work (initiatives, referenda and candidates), and one in community projects and grassroots social-change movements that are compatible with the Green vision. Through political application of these values, we seek to repair and create bonds of community that have been weakened or destroyed by economic, political and social dynamics. www.denisemunrorobb.com /tenkey.html   (1705 words)

10keys Community-based Economics: To develop self-sufficiency and sustainable small-scale economies that help communities and to move beyond the narrow concepts of jobs and cash to meaningful work and other types of economies. To join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice, and the health of the planet. Personal and Global Responsibility: To encourage individuals to act to improve their personal well-being and, at the same time, to enhance ecological balance and social harmony. www.susankingweb.com /10keys.htm   (274 words)

Institute for Community Economics The Institute for Community Economics (ICE) is a national community development organization promoting economic justice through community land trusts (CLTs) and community investment. describes the Loan Fund ICE has operated since 1979 to help meet the capital needs of community land trusts and other community-based organizations engaged in permanently affordable housing efforts. ICE is also a certified Community Development Financial Institution with a $13 million loan fund which provides financing to CLTs and other non-profit groups. www.iceclt.org   (214 words)

GO GREEN 115: Rich Whitney for Illinois House, 115th District Greens seek a new economics based upon the natural limits of the Earth, which meets the basic needs of everyone on the planet, under democratic, localized community control. Greens believe in direct participation by all people in the environmental, political, and economic decisions that affect their lives. Power and responsibility must be restored to local communities within an overall framework of ecologically sound and socially just values and lifestyles. www.gogreen115.org /key   (325 words)

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